Articles in the ‘Drag Racing’ Category

As followers of drag racing know, the sport has been economically troubled in recent years, and some have even worried that the NHRA won’t exist much longer in its current form. While such predictions may be a little alarmist, there’s no denying that the sport is in a state of flux. [...]

When O. Bruton Smith, the American drag racing mogul, built a new dragstrip in New Hampshire that had four side-by-side tracks intended for use at the same time, many in the NHRA said he was crazy. The sport-wide standard is to have only two cars racing at one time, and although [...]