F E A T U R E S
50 Years of the Gatornationals Part 9: 2011-2014
If you started your Gainesville trip by going to the Ale House on Thursday night of the 2011 race, then you got to see Bobby Lagana stun the ... more
[03/05/19]
50 Years of the Gatornationals Part 8, 2006-2010
David Grubnic defeated Melanie Troxel to win Top Fuel in 2006. ... more
[02/26/19]
C O L U M N S
Wondering and more about the new season
There were just a combined 31 nitro-burning Top Fuel and Funny Car teams at Pomona for the opening race of the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello drag racing season ... more
[02/15/19]
Are announcer and racer race descriptions confusing spectators and crew?
I was thinking the other night at a race where they had a really large crowd, maybe 3,000 people, and before the Big Show of jets and funny cars there was ... more
[08/15/18]
Arizona National Redux!
In the year 1956, the fledgling NHRA Nationals were completed near Phoenix, AZ, at an airstrip just west of town close to a burg called Pixlie. The track ... more
[03/13/19]
He’s got some explaining to do
I received a lot of phone calls after the announcement was made that I entered a partnership agreement with businessmen JJ Koehler and Doug Stringer ... more
[10/24/18]
Duo Duel in Top Fuel
At the NHRA Arizona Nationals, on February 17, 2019, the last race of the day in the Mickey Thompson Tires Top Fuel Harley class featured a match-up ... more
[03/12/19]
Movie Review: Return to Macon County (aka Making Money!)
I pity the Hollywood director who manages to catch lightning in a bottle, only to be asked to repeat the same feat almost immediately, with a script ... more
[03/12/19]
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Capp wins Moser Sportsman Shootout at Dallas
Jim Rod Capp drove his Super Gas ’10 Corvette to the win in the NHRA Moser Sportsman Shootout this weekend during the South ... more [04/10/19]
NEWS & ANALYSIS
Looking at NHRA’s 2017 Tax Return
As regular readers of DRO are aware, for several years we have re-printed portions of the NHRA’s annual income tax returns along with ... more [02/12/19]
RACE REPORTS
Funny Car chaos at Denton, Texas
The season opener of the 2019 Best of Texas BBQ Sauce Funny Car Chaos Championship Tour presented by Red Line Shirt Club kicked ... more
[04/04/19]
Factory Stock Showdown at 50th Gatornationals
At the first Gatornationals in 1970 the premier NHRA doorslammer class was Pro Stock. It was a class added to the NHRA show for ... more
[03/29/19]
Sweet 16 2.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park
Drag racing legend has it that in the year 2018 Donald “Duck” Long, as a racing promoter, offered up $101,000 of his cash to the best ... more
[03/27/19]
March Meet 2019
The Naked City, a TV police drama from the late 1950’s featured the tagline: “There are eight million stories in the naked city”. The same ... more
[03/20/19]
NHRA Pro Mod at Gainesville, Florida
During the 50th running of the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals, the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod class presented by J&A Service began its ... more
[03/20/19]
Top Fuel Harleys at Gainesville, Florida
During the 50th running of the NHRA Amalie Oil Gatornationals, the Mickey Thompson Tires Top Fuel Harleys showed up in force to bring ... more
[03/19/19]
NMRA at Bradenton, Florida
After a long off-season, racers headed south to burn rubber and take names at the 25th Annual Nitto Tire Spring Break Shootout held at the historic ... more
[03/06/18]
ANDRA Westernationals
The stage has been set for an epic ANDRA Grand Final at the Perth Motorplex next month following the conclusion of the Westernationals – the penultimate ... more
[03/04/19]
NHRA pros at Phoenix
Rain on Friday shortened the qualifying to only one day and the cool temperatures on race day made for challenging conditions at the ... more
[02/26/19]
Lights Out 10
On Sunday, February 17, Lights Out 10 wrapped up and another page in the history of Duck-X Productions was completed. This Duck ... more
[02/22/19]
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[04/10/19]
Look out Houston, here come ...
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[04/09/19]
Sweet 16 no myth: Records …
Once again the quickest and fastest race track in America has presented ...
[04/08/19]
Payne vows to keep dragstrip in ...
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[03/19/19]
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