Dan Wilkerson is unhurt, as Brittany Force's new speed record wasn't the only fireworks during NHRA qualifying at Sonoma ...

A gainst Cruz Pedregon in the first round of eliminations at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Denso Sonoma Nationals ...

Autoweek asked Ron Capps' crew chief and long-time tuner Dean "Guido" Antonelli what makes an NHRA Funny Car explode. Turns out, the combination of gallons of nitromethane pumping through a ...

The 32-car Funny Car Chaos field was broken up into four eight-car fields (A, B, C, and D). Eliminations started at 5 p.m., and racing continued under the lights until it was time to crown the ...

The first Funny Cars didn’t all have a flip-top body or a tube chassis like the modern version that characterizes the category, they did use a supercharged engine that ran on nitromethane.

Those aspects didn’t exist in the early years of Funny Car racing, so if the goal is to retain the vintage vibe of that time period, I give today’s nostalgia drag racing a solid D-. This is ...

Toyota is changing its NHRA Funny Car entries from Camry to GR Supra bodies in 2022. Kalitta Motorsports driver and 2018 series champion J.R. Todd assisted in the development of the new car and ...

Two of the three funny car Jeeps I remember well were built by the Godfather of Jeep funny cars, namely Ed Lenarth, from Long Beach, California, who also drove his creations when necessary.

Some consider a Funny Car to be supercharged, with a tube chassis and fiberglass flip top body, but by then they were known as funny cars—and not for the reasons they were supercharged with tube ...

Wheels A (Barely) Controlled Explosion, and 330 M.P.H. Before You Can Blink An inside look at the engines that propel the funny cars of drag racing from zero to you-can’t-be-serious in four seconds.

He'd been a crew chief before, guiding rival team Don Schumacher and driver Gary Scelzi to a Funny Car title in 2005. That caught the attention of Force, whose team has won 18 of the past 22 titles.

We have to be honest, we think all race cars are kind of funny looking. And when we say funny, we mean totally awesome. But really, why is there a particular class of drag cars called funny cars ...