Mopar announced it will launch a new Pro Stock Dodge Avenger today. It will compete in the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. Those attending the 2009 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show will among the first to check out the new drag racing car. The new Avenger will be shown at Booth # [...]
Mopar/J&J Racing NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock driver Allen Johnson saw his race day cut short at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals as he lost to Jeg Coughlin in the first round. However, Mopar ruled the day; The final run was all-Mopar HEMI-powered as Larry Morgan emerged victorious, beating Rickie Jones.
Johnson posted his Mopar-fueled Dodge [...]
Jim Daniels, a dentist from Bristol, Pennsylvania, set a new NRHA class record and clinched the Dutch Classic event at Maple Grove Raceway in Mohnton, Pennsylvania.
In his 1968 Dodge Dart, Daniels beat David Barton of Robesonia, Pennsylvania with a run of 8.284 seconds at 159.53 mph. Ironically, Daniels could have walked the quarter-mile and still [...]
Dick Towers, drag racing historian and proprietor of Match-Race-Madness.com, passed away on Friday, October 23, 2009.
Called the grandfather of Drag Racing Preservation, Towers amassed an impressive collection of photographs and documents that have become a visual record of the sport. His website, www.match-race-madness.com, includes a huge library of historic Super Stock, F/X and Pro Stock [...]
“Big Daddy” Don Garlits is making a comeback to NHRA competition for the first time since 2003, driving his Dodge Challenger Drag Pak into the heat of NHRA Stock eliminations at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals on Labor Day weekend. His historic first run in the Drag Pak will be on Wednesday, September 2, in A/Stock Automatic qualifying at O’Reilly [...]
New from SAE International, Dave Rockwell’s We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing’s Legendary Team is the exclusive story behind the Ramchargers, a group of young Chrysler engineers who became one of the most influential drag racing teams in history.
Rockwell, a member of the original team, follows the Ramchargers from the 1950s to the 1970s, [...]
Cars at Carlisle has announced its agenda for the All-Chrysler Nationals for 2009. Two reunions will take place, one for the M-code Dart and Cudas with factory 440 engines, and one for the A12 Road Runner and Super Bee. There will also be invitational displays, including one for survivors, and a recreated 1969 dealership. There [...]
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