In January 2021, the McLaren 765LT became the quickest production car on the quarter-mile, thanks to a 9.3-second run. That's an impressive benchmark for a road-legal car, but it's extremely slow ...

If you're a fan of altered drag racing, you probably already know who Mitch King is. If you don't, here's your chance to meet him and his nitro altered rig, the "Bone Bucket." Mitch just made a ...

The original Fuel Altereds were the insane "exhibition" cars that plundered several NHRA eliminators at national events. And the drivers were the nitro cowboys who rode these wild beasts. There are ...

For Lyle Greenberg, gunning his nitro-fuel-altered dragster down the racing strip is a feeling unlike any other. And at 66, it’s that feeling that keeps him coming back.

Drag-racing thrill-seeker Alex Laughlin talks fearless Travis Pastrana to experience nitro for real. Nitro-in-name-only Pastrana will get a major jolt in the Top Fuel dragster Monday morning at zMAX ...

It's not as if Dave and Linda Hough missed the memo back in 1973 that officially rendered Fuel Altereds obsolete. Mr. and Mrs. Hough (pronounced "huff") were in the room when NHRA division director ...

Top Fuel dragsters are without argument the fastest accelerating manned vehicles on Earth, boasting engines that are absolute marvels of engineering. Each V8 displaces 500 cubic inches, about the same ...

Now through Saturday, July 26, the IHRA's Outlaw Nitro Series brings 17 classes of the best drag racing around to Michigan, highlighted by Top Fuel Dragsters and Nitro Funny Cars running on Friday and ...

The heyday for the National Hot Rod Association's (NHRA) Top Gas dragster class was 1961 to 1971. Unlike their nitro-huffing counterparts in Top Fuel, Top Gas cars used regular old pump gas.

Jul. 9—ASBURY, Mo. — A special weekend is in store for drag racing fans on July 15-16 at Mo-Kan Dragway as the venue celebrates its 60th-year anniversary by delivering a unique experience for all of ...

Casey Sapio For The Arizona Daily Star Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011 Even earplugs couldn't muffle the roar of top fuel dragsters and screaming fans during the Arizona Nitro Jam at Southwestern ...