Known as the biggest funny car race in the world, the Funny Car Chaos Classic was founded by Chris Graves, who as a kid loved funny cars. He later created one of the coolest drag racing series on the ...
The NHRA Funny Car class was dominated by Don "The Snake" Prudhomme (four championships) in the 1970s, Kenny Bernstein (four championships) in the 1980s and John Force in the 1990s (nine titles) and ...
We hate to admit this, but the reason for the "win on Sunday sell on Monday" saying is that race cars usually have nothing in common with their road-going cousins. It's happened everywhere, from the ...
Austin Coil—drag racing crew chief extraordinaire and a friend for more than 50 years—is a lucid and spry 80 years of age. I’m 78. We talk about a lot of things in occasional phone calls, but as one ...
The Hot Rodfather made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. Alexis DeJoria, a six-time NHRA Funny Car winner and driver of the Bandero Premium Tequila Chevy Camaro, will join John Force Racing as it ...
“This car we started running in 2019,” Alex says of the unsponsored “Hot 4 Teacher” Top Fuel Funny Car. “I raced Nostalgia Funny Car for about 10 years before that.” And in case you’re wondering, Alex ...
Del Worsham is the new king of the funny car category, having set a new record in his Toyota Camry-lookalike dragster. Del smashed the record three times in a row at Funny Car Chaos at Texas Motorplex ...
It was only fitting that the two leading active NHRA Funny Car drivers would line up against each other for the distinction of winning the class’ historic 1,000th race. Matt Hagan grabbed his 56th ...
Q: Greg I‘ve always loved those few but fast Jeep funny cars that raced in the mid-1960s. I remember the names “Destroyer” and “Secret Weapon,” but would love to hear your memories of these Jeeps that ...