Thousands of racing fans gathered at Lead Foot City in Brooksville on Saturday, Jan. 17, to celebrate the 94th birthday of drag racing legend Don Garlits. Known as “Big Daddy,” Garlits is widely ...

Top Fuel dragsters make around 11,000 horsepower, and the insane part is they’re basically always seconds away from blowing up. The weird part is the engine isn’t really “cooled” like a normal car - ...

At 31 years of age, Ida Zetterstrom has been involved in motorsports in one way or another since she was eight - first in Europe racing Junior Dragsters and helping her father fix race engines, then ...

This year's NBA front-office rankings have a familiar feel at the top. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Jason Miller / Getty, Boston Globe. Zach Beeker / Getty Images This article ...

With a scrappy mentality and the PBR logo on his machine, “The People’s Champ” is racing’s most beloved underdog. Scott Palmer stood in victory lane in Columbus last July, doused in foamy beer, ...

POMONA — It took Doug Kalitta 26 years to win his first NHRA championship. But it only took two years for him to score his second Top Fuel title. The 61-year-old from Ann Arbor, Michigan, did not even ...

Ron Capps admittedly did things backward. What’s important, though, is Maddi Gordon has a full-time Top Fuel dragster ride in the NHRA’s Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, starting in 2026, with Ron ...

There’s nothing quite like seeing a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car in person. Your chest rattles from the ground-pounding power of a supercharged V-8 that can hardly contain the pressure of ...

Eight-cylinder engines, specifically V8s, are synonymous with performance vehicles and big luxury cruisers. Front-wheel drive contrarily, is mostly associated with economical, affordable, ...

Dom Toretto may live his life a quarter mile at a time, but you know who doesn't? Drivers in the NHRA's Top Fuel and Funny Car classes. Organized drag racing has been around since at least the late ...

There's a fairly common phrase in motorsports, certainly in drag racing: "There's no replacement for displacement." Let's say you wanted to take it to the extreme. What if boring and stroking your ...