Outdoor entertainment is always risky in March, even somewhere envied for year-round motorsports. With big risks come big rewards—or expensive, even disastrous, disappointments. Famoso Raceway's ...

The very first electronically timed ¼-mile drag-racing run in history was made at the Ramona airport in 1949, said veteran drag racer Ron Johnson, who lives in Escondido. “Wally Parks, president of ...

Casey Sapio For The Arizona Daily Star Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011 Even earplugs couldn't muffle the roar of top fuel dragsters and screaming fans during the Arizona Nitro Jam at Southwestern ...

As history continues repeating itself, the Goodguys Pomona Nitro Nationals was no exception. In fact, the Goodguys VRA may be the prime example. With 15 nostalgia-bodied fuel Funny Cars and 17 ...

Chris Karamesines is 80 years old, and at his age, you are probably thinking the thing he’s passing is a kidney stone. Well, not so fast. Karamesines hopped into his nitromethane-burning Top Fuel ...

Ray Groves likes his old dragster just fine, thank you. “A lot of people give me a hard time about that car being so old,” said the 50-year-old Evans man, who has been driving his 225-inch dragster ...

Years ago, when Yorkville businessman Phil Burkart Jr. was working his way up the professional drag racing ladder, one major National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) "stepping stone" was the time he spent ...

Night drag racing, once a weekly staple for speed-crazed Southern California hot-rod enthusiasts, returns this week after an absence of nearly 20 years. As a milestone celebration, the National Hot ...

MARTIN -- New York’s Bobby Lagana Jr. ran the top speed of the night at 313.95 miles per hour to win the Top Fuel Dragster division Friday in the IHRA Northern Nitro Jam at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park ...

Such temporal ambiguities are the norm at a Goodguys vintage drag race. Everything looks old-fashioned, but underneath hides a lot of today's tech. And the racing is as real as ever. Goodguys Vintage ...