NHRA Rookie of the Year contender Ida Zetterström made some solidly impressive runs in qualifying this weekend at the Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex, landing in the top half of the packed Top Fuel field. But the JCM/VP Racing Fuels/Edelbrock/COMP Cams/Dodge Top Fuel Dragster team did not have enough to hold off their JCM…
Eight-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Tony Schumacher’s late-season push in the Okuma/JCM Racing dragster continued Sunday afternoon at the Texas NHRA FallNationals, where he charged to a semifinal finish. The most recent winner on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series tour, Schumacher went into the weekend ranked sixth in the Top Fuel points…
Josh Hart’s bid to move up the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Top Fuel points standings fell short today at the 39th annual NHRA Texas Fall Nationals. Hart, who qualified No. 11, dropped his first round match-up with Texan Billy Torrence at Texas Motorplex. Hart rolled off the trailer on Friday and posted the fourth quickest…
In a tense first-round battle between two NHRA Top Fuel championship contenders, three-time world champion Antron Brown lost a close match to fellow Toyota driver Justin Ashley Sunday afternoon at the Texas NHRA FallNationals. Brown in his Matco ‘Tools for the Cause’ Toyota dragster laid down respectable numbers at both ends of the Texas Motorplex…
Shawn Langdon was the No. 4 qualifier at the Texas NHRA FallNationals. During the first qualifying session Friday afternoon, Langdon made a 3.727-second run at 328.61 mph. Although the Kalitta Air Careers team made four good qualifying attempts, the team’s first was its best. Langdon defeated Jasmine Salinas and then faced Justin Ashley in the…
Matt Hagan, the reigning NHRA Funny Car World Champion, fought through a tough field Sunday to capture his 52nd NHRA career victory at the wheel of his Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Johnson Horsepowered Garage Dodge//SRT Hellcat in the NHRA Texas FallNationals, while TSR teammate Tony Stewart exited in a first-round loss in the Top Fuel…
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Bartone Bros. Racing and driver Sean Bellemeur swept the Texas NHRA Fall Nationals Stampede of Speed at the Texas Motorplex this weekend. . NHRA Lucas Oil Top Alcohol Funny Car National Champions – Friday JEGS Allstars Winners – Saturday WALLY National Win – Sunday HAT TRICK SWEEP! On Friday, driver Sean Bellemeur accepted his fourth…
Racing in weather more representative of July than October, Funny Car point leader Austin Prock moved a step closer to his first Mission Foods championship Sunday even though a bizarre incident took his AAA Chevrolet Camaro SS out of contention in the semifinal round of the 39th annual Texas Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex….
For the 179th time in his long, storied, and still very much alive career, Greg Anderson wheeled his way to a Pro Stock final. At this weekend’s NHRA Texas FallNationals, the most winning driver in the history of Pro Stock had the car to beat with his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro, and he paired it with…
