Nowadays, professional drag racing is all about top-fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, but back in the classic era, it was production vehicles launching off the line. The cars were souped up for the ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car ... making drag racing a profession. That is without making the leap up to Top Fuel or Funny Car ...

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme won three straight events in the traditional season-opener in the Funny Car class from ... but an opportunity to make NHRA drag-racing history. The driver of the ...

Beckman won Funny Car race No. 299 for John Force Racing at Pomona in the NHRA Auto Club Finals in November. He beat teammate Austin Prock in the final round. Either way, John Force Racing was ...

The 67-year-old Lee, who earned his nitro ... a Top Alcohol Funny Car champion turned Funny Car racer turned crew chief. Lee likened him to drag-racing legend Don Garlits. Curiously, Lee’s ...

POMONA — The next time a John Force Racing driver wins an NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car race, it will be the 300th for the team. John Force has 157 career Funny Car wins.