Those first three iterations managed near-total domination of the brave new Funny Car racing world in the 1966 and 1967. That phenomenon spawned a stampede to Logghe for cars powered by all manner ...

That happened a couple of weekends back for a local drag-racing team. Mike Little, who has been involved in drag racing for more than 30 years, keeps plugging away with his passion.

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. -- He was strong and determined, wearing a name that exemplified the tough and unforgiving attitude drag racing demands from its winners. Scott Kalitta lost his life in a top-end ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Funny Car driver Ron Capps of Carlsbad finally won his first race of 2023. The 2-time defending World Champion of Funny Car drag racing also jumped into the NHRA Funny Car ...

When his nitromethane-powered drag racing machine takes off from a dead stop in the starting line (called the water box), Capps experiences 4.5 to 5 g's, close to the amount astronauts feel when ...

Doug Nash, an innovator in drag racing that built on his Ford connections to create the wild Bronco Buster flip-top Funny Car, then developed the Doug Nash five-speed and other transmissions, died ...

The first Funny Cars didn’t all have a flip-top body or a tube chassis like the modern version that characterizes the category, they did use a supercharged engine that ran on nitromethane.