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

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

Top Fuel’s Doug Kalitta won for the first time this season at Sonoma Raceway, defeating Antron Brown in the final round of ...

Top Fuel’s Shawn Langdon moved past Tony Stewart into the points lead on Sunday at Pacific Raceways, defeating Brittany Force ...

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.

Ron Capps, the 2016 NHRA Funny Car champion, makes it three DSR drivers in the top four for the decade. Capps was runner-up two times, including 2012 when he finished just two points back of Jack ...

Funny Cars have around 8,000 horsepower and are designed to do one thing well: go very, very fast in a straight line. By contrast, a Trophy Truck rides on 39-inch tires and has at least two feet ...

Two Fridays ago, I posted the "World's Top 10 Sexy/Funny Beer Ads." Since many of you apparently enjoyed that, I thought I'd re-post some similar ads from the wild and woolly world of car advertising.

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 ...

So while the Funny Car name is directly linked to the funny-looking, altered-wheelbase Dodges and Plymouths, the Funny Car archetype is linked directly to the 554 fuel coupe and that night in ...

Dave Densmore, Force Racing: The funny car actually developed outside the framework of organized racing. They were late-model muscle cars. They weren't integrated into the NHRA until about 1969.