Race cars develop in fits and spurts. Only rarely can an innovation be traced back to one specific person, although often it's whoever first won with a new idea that gets credit for it. The modern ...

Technological Advancements Major technological innovations have played a crucial role in the evolution of both Funny Cars and dragsters. Dragsters, or Top Fuel dragsters, have benefitted from ...

Funny Cars are taking over the world-or so it would seem judging by the crowd at the nearly rained out 52nd March Meet drags at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. It was 2010 but looked like, say, 1973 judging ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Funny car racer John Force loses traction off the starting line against Bob Tasca III during the third elimination round of the ...

Tony Stewart compares Top Fuel dragster to Alcohol Dragster. He says he’s a caretaker of wife Leah Pruett’s 11,000-horsepower ride. The versatile motorsport veteran has no preference in race cars in ...

The history of funny cars dates back to the 1960s, and while it's not possible to pinpoint exactly who coined the phrase and why, many experts in the drag racing field agree the name originates from ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — Austin Prock is making waves in the NHRA world this season. The former Top Fuel driver has switched over to Funny Cars and is currently leading the points standings, filling in ...

Ron Capps is a superstar in the motorsports niche called drag racing. His 74 Funny Car win tally is second only to another NHRA superstar, John Force. To those who don’t know much about drag racing, ...

A catastrophic engine explosion in a National Hot Rod Association Funny Car is a serious matter. We’ve seen two such explosions in the last month. John Force, the greatest driver in NHRA history and a ...

John Force is officially retiring. The winningest driver in NHRA Funny Car history announced Thursday that he was stepping ...

Funny Car driver Austin Prock said he’s trying to treat this weekend’s NHRA Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway like any other race weekend. But it’s anything but a normal race weekend for the first ...