Robert Hight, Spencer Massey, Larry Morgan and Andrew Hines were winners of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The race is the fifth of six events in the Countdown to 1, NHRA’s championship playoffs.
Jamie McMurray, odd-man out in Jack Roush's compliance move to fielding a maximum of four teams in 2010, crept home the winner in a green-white-checker finish that only made it three-quarters-of-a-lap before a wild crash brought out a caution flag making McMurray the winner.
Northwest NHRA racing may have closed out the season but regional drivers are still fanned out across the Western United States hunting for championships.
Mike Edwards, who earned his 21st No. 1 effort of his career with a track record performance of 6.623 at 207.75 in his A.R.T. Pontiac GXP, needs to lead the second place driver by at least 151 points following eliminations to secure the title.
With a push from teammate Aric Almirola, Kyle Busch surged past Todd Bodine in the final quarter-mile of Saturday's Mountain Dew 250 fueld by Fred's at Talladega Superspeedway to win his sixth race of the season and the 15th of his career.
Jeg Coughlin has driven his Jegs.com Chevrolet Cobalt to back-to-back victories in Vegas, winning last October's event and the one earlier this year in April.
Brandon Bernstein is currently fifth in NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel points standings. Besides the recent victory in Richmond, the Budweiser/Lucas Oil team has four runner-up finishes on their scorecard this year.
Carl Edwards (No. 99 SUBWAY Ford): “A year ago, I didn't want to go there at all because I knew the potential for losing points. But right now, I know the potential for Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin and those guys to lose points. So…
The historic track turned to a symbolic and meaningful ceremony to prepare for welcoming thousands of race fans to this weekend's events.
Ron Capps trails first place Robert Hight by 43 points heading into this weekend's event in Las Vegas with just two national events to go in the 2009 chase for the NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car championship.
The NASCAR Nationwide Series may have a weekend off but there is still plenty of work for teams to do in preparation for Texas in two weeks and the debut of a new car for 2010.
Todd Bodine is heading for a fifth consecutive superspeedway victory at the 2.66-mile Alabama facility, including a third straight at Talladega. Bodine has won two of the three contested NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at Talladega
Jason Meyers finished fourth at Lone Star Speedway last weekend to earn his series leading 53rd Top-10 finish of the season. For the native of Clovis, California it was his second consecutive fourth-place finish at the blazing fast half-mile in East Texas.
In Funny Car, a female driver is trying to make history and become the first of her gender to win a world championship crown in the wildly unpredictable category which her father, John Force, has dominated for most of two decades. In order to do…
In a green-white-checkered-flag finish that ended under caution with John Andretti wrecked at the finish line, Denny Hamlin pulled away from Jimmie Johnson over the final two laps of the Tums Fast Relief 500.
Tony Schumacher leads Larry Dixon by a mere 47 points heading to the 9th Annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals to be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The victory was Joey Saldana’s third consecutive in the state of Texas and was the fifth win of his career in the Lone Star State.
ABRA Unlimited Hydroplanes will race in the Middle East during the month of November and the action will be available on the series' website via a live audio and video stream.
Brad Keselowski picked up an extra $75,000 from Nationwide as part of its Dash 4 Cash program. He won a $25,000 bonus for winning the race and $50,000 for scoring the most points in the four Dash 4 Cash races.
Driving the No. 1 Red Horse Racing Toyota for the first time this season, at a venue the Danville, Va., driver considers his home track, Timothy Peters collected his first victory in 64 starts in NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series.
While battling the impacts of a terrible cold, it dawned on me that the Inland Empire should be part of the national racing landscape. We have great facilities, loyal fans and motels and space to accomodate a large gathering for such an event–the question is…
The driver of the current edition of the No. 42 is Juan Pablo Montoya, from Bogota, Colombia, a country that has produced exactly one NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.
Fred Rahmer, who was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame earlier this year, will join 20-time World of Outlaws champion Steve Kinser and Jac Haudenschild as fellow Hall of Famers in the field on Saturday night at the blazing fast half-mile.
It’s a pretty safe bet to say that the 42 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers on the track who are not named Jimmie Johnson probably feel the times they are currently living in are pretty interesting, although their descriptive term of choice might be a…
Donny Schatz and Jason Meyers are separated by just 18 markers heading into the inaugural $12,000 to-win WoO Fest at Lone Star Speedway in Kilgore, Texas on Saturday, October 24, as Schatz chases his fourth consecutive title, while Meyers looks for his first.
Motorsports correspondent Doug Pace keeps up with motorsports news and notes from around the region.
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