Cover photo: Anthony Bronge (near lane) and Paul Romine at the DRO AA/FC Challenge at Cedar Falls. (Scott Bessee photo)

DRO AA/FC Challenge at Cedar Falls, Iowa

NHDRO at Indianapolis

FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro, Finland

VOLUME XIX,  NUMBER 7 - JULY   2017

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Nightfire Nationals on DRO Facebook this weekend

Our Nostalgia Editor, Brian Losness, will be manning the DRO Facebook page this weekend with photos and videos from the Nightfire Nationals at ...   more

[08/10/17]

RACE  REPORTS

Victory NSS at Cedar Falls, Iowa

The third race of the Victory NSS Points Series took place at the Cedar Falls Motorsports Park Night of Fire event on July 15-16. The Victory racers were greeted with beautiful weather ... more

[08/03/17]

NHRA pros at Sonoma, CA

It was a good day for the young guns in drag racing as (from left) Tanner Gray, J.R. Todd, Steve Torrence, and LE Tonglet raise their trophies.  (Mike Burghardt photo) ... more

[07/31/17]

Dragstalgia at England’s Santa Pod Raceway

The annual gathering of geezers at Santa Pod appeared to be bigger than in previous years judging from the queues to get through the gates and the full car parks and camping fields, which, in ... more

[06/28/17]

NHDRO at Louisville, Kentucky

NHDRO, America’s fastest growing motorcycle drag racing series, made its only eighth-mile appearance of 2017 on the wall-to-wall concrete of Ohio Valley Dragway, just outside of ... more

[07/25/17]

DRO AA/FC Challenge at Cedar Falls, Iowa

The DRO AA/FC Challenge presented by Hemi Parts King at Iowa’s Cedar Fall Motorsports Park was the second of seven races that make up the 2017 series.  At the ... more

[07/24/17]

FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro, Finland

Third stop on the FIA European Championship tour, the FHRA Nitro Na-tionals was a curious affair in 2017, with a slew of classes seeing track record numbers suggesting that once the dust and ...  more

[07/20/17]

PDRA at Indianapolis

Bubba Stanton qualified No. 1 with a 3.546 at 214.21 mph in the new screw-blown ’69 Camaro he recently acquired with the help of Young Racing. With a bye in the first round, he got past Tommy D’Aprile but the car got loose in the third round, moving ... more

[07/19/17]

Fox Hunt at Boise, Idaho

For the past forty years the management team of the family-owned Firebird Raceway in Eagle, Idaho, has facilitated an event first brought to the forefront by promoter extraordinary Bill Doner. more

[07/14/17]

Victory Nostalgia Super Stocks at Eddyville, Iowa

Race 2 of the Victory NSS points series had the classic Super Stocks helping to headline the Eddyville Nostalgia Nationals on June 9-10. more

[07/13/17]

NHRA pros at Joliet, Illinois

Steve Torrence took another step toward towards securing the No. 1 starting spot for the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship when he beat close friend and three-time champion Antron Brown in the final round. more

[07/13/17]

C O L U M N S

Random observations

Until this week I’ve been convinced that the entries or lack thereof in NHRA’s legacy professional classes of Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock represented a looming crisis for the NHRA. Because the NHRA won’t change the economics of nitro racing, then economics will ultimately decide the numbers of entries in the legacy pro classes. Short of the NHRA re-inventing the classes to make them affordable or drastically increasing ... more

[06/21/17]

A ‘Strange Challenge’ can be fun

We, as in Editor Jeff Burk and myself, are adding a “STRANGE Challenge” to our DRO AA/FC Challenge series at the Cedar Falls Motorsports Park’s Night of Fire event on July 14-15.  more

[07/13/17]

Eddyville Raceway Park

During the mid ‘60s eighth-mile drag strips started flourishing all around the Mississippi River valley. Since Tri State Dragway at Kahoka, MO, and Pleasant Grove at Springfield, IL, were the first two 660-foot strips in the area, we always thought the expansion was a huge complement to  our efforts. more

 

[07/13/17]

Getting Nostalgic

As the summer months drag on (no…well, maybe pun intended) it is the first few weeks of summer and the temperature is going up it seems like every day here in the beautiful Treasure Valley of Idaho, and in just about one month it will be time for the next two-for in nostalgia drag racing.  more

[07/13/17]

Well, that didn’t last long…

NOTE: As you should know, Aaron Polburn was a former president of the IHRA.

 

To the surprise of no one (except Chris Lencheski), Chris Lencheski was shown the IHRA door along with two of his cohorts. That's what happens when you set a new world record for... more

[06/01/17]

Pridemore Racing Tops in Top Fuel

Winning two races in barely two weeks, the Jason Pridemore Top Fuel Harley team out of Ohio is on fire going into the month of July during the summer of 2017. This family affair Top Fuel team known as Gunslinger Racing came out guns ablaze, entered two races this season and has won them both. more

 

 

[07/13/17]

The Mother Road

I'm still de-compressing from another awesome trip to Route 66 Raceway. Aside from 'everything being GREAT', it's just a cool name for a dragstrip. And you see, I have been fascinated with the lore and legend of the ... more

[07/13/17]

F E A T U R E S

Fire Cracker Nationals at Albuquerque, NM

The FIRECRACKER NATIONALS at Albuquerque Dragway in New Mexico featured the WFA (Western Fuel Altereds) along with ‘Outlaw Door Slammers’; AA/FC Funny Cars; Big $$$ Brackets; and ... more

[07/13/17]

Detroit Dragway Reunion at Milan, Michigan

The 8th Annual Detroit Dragway Reunion was held on Saturday, June 10, at Milan Dragway and it was one for the history books. The Nitro Funny Cars, the cacklefest, record-setting Nostalgia Funny Car passes, Run What Ya Brung cars, huge bracket count -- they ... more

[06/19/17]

Nitro night plus Jr. Dragsters at Barona, CA

Tucked away in the hills of Barona, Calif., is the beautiful Barona eight-mile Drag Strip. Its located on the Barona Indian Reservation. Once again Del Worsham showed what a special racer he is by attempting to run a nitro show on a very untested race facility. It may not have ... more

[06/15/17]

Pictorial:  Eagle Field Drags

The annual Eagle Field Drags was held on the old airport runway in Firebaugh, Calif., on May 19-20. Cars raced on the eighth mile, but who cares who won – it was time to see old friends, make new ones, and look at those fabulous cars! more

[06/14/17]

E T  D R A G R A C I N G

Sportsman Racing at Sonoma, CA

Don Keen launches in Super Stock. He made it through four rounds before red-lighting against Justin Lamb.  In the final results from Sonoma Raceway and ... more

[08/02/17]

NHRA LODRS at Woodburn, Oregon

Defending Lucas Oil World Champion Joey Severance and Jimmy DeFrank took home Wally trophies from the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Northwest Division Les Schwab Tires Challenge at Woodburn Dragstrip. more

[07/18/17]

NHRA Sportsmen at Norwalk, Ohio

Jeff Strickland and Nick Folk both doubled up, winning in two different classes, and Jackie Fricke and Andy Bohl won in Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car respectively at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals June 25 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. more

[06/28/17]

IHRA Summit Super Series at San Antonio, Texas

Saturday evening, June 24, it was back to Summit Super Series Bracket Racing on the eighth mile at San Antonio Raceway. This was the sixth round of points racing on the drag strip located just east of San Antonio.

 

Coming to the midway portion of the Summit Series season, points races are already beginning to... more

[06/26/17]

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The FIRECRACKER NATIONALS at Albuquerque Dragway in New Mexico featured the WFA (Western Fuel Altereds) along with ‘Outlaw Door Slammers’; AA/FC Funny Cars; Big $$$ Brackets; and ... more

Tucked away in the hills of Barona, Calif., is the beautiful Barona eight-mile Drag Strip. Its located on the Barona Indian Reservation. Once again Del Worsham showed what a special racer he is by attempting to run a nitro show on a very untested race facility. It may not have ... more

The annual Eagle Field Drags was held on the old airport runway in Firebaugh, Calif., on May 19-20. Cars raced on the eighth mile, but who cares who won – it was time to see old friends, make new ones, and look at those fabulous cars! more

Defending Lucas Oil World Champion Joey Severance and Jimmy DeFrank took home Wally trophies from the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Northwest Division Les Schwab Tires Challenge at Woodburn Dragstrip. more

Jeff Strickland and Nick Folk both doubled up, winning in two different classes, and Jackie Fricke and Andy Bohl won in Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car respectively at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals June 25 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. more

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