Straight-line speed matters—but braking, balance, and corner exit are what decide the race when the road turns back on itself ...

With 810 hp and a lot more torque, the Mustang cancels the 500-lb weight advantage of its rival, and beats the M4 badly in ...

We work with Stroud Safety to make a couple of Fox Body Mustang project cars compliant with NHRA safety rules. The sport of drag racing changed dramatically in 1951 when Wally Parks resigned his ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

An ice storm that swept across parts of the South earlier this week did more than glaze highways and snap tree limbs. In a rural race shop, the weight of accumulating ice brought down a roof onto a ...

What defines a street car? Or even a race car, for that matter? During our HOT ROD Drag Week those lines are often more than a bit blurry. For a car to survive Drag Week, it must race all out for five ...

Bill Lininger, 74, of St. Marys, purchased this 1948 Fiat Altered drag-racing car in October 2016. It was built by drag-racing legends Joe and Bob Walden of Santa Fe Springs, California. ST. MARYS – ...

During the 1960s, drag racing competitions sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) reached unprecedented levels of popularity, so American manufacturers introduced a series of ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

The Chevrolet C8 Corvette ZR1 may be touted as the most extreme production version ever built, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to mishaps. In fact, one Corvette ZR1 recently spun out and slammed ...

Drag strips are typically quarter-mile long strips of tarmac, in which car enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies alike will drive flat-out in order to see who can cover the distance in the shortest ...