Posted on January 25th, 2012 • by Bill Cawthon
SAE International’s best-selling We Were The Ramchargers is now available in audio CD-ROM format. Narrator Dave McClelland, “The Voice of the NHRA,” brings Dave Rockwell’s book to life with inside details on all elements of the Ramchargers story. Rockwell and McClelland go behind the scenes with the group of Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012 • by Bill Cawthon
Pro Stock driver Richie Stevens, sitting in for Team Mopar’s Allen Johnson, who is recovering from surgery, set an unofficial Pro Stock record when he drove the Mopar Dodge Avenger in a 6.466-second, 212.51 mph run last week. The current official NHRA Pro Stock record is 6.477-seconds. Stevens made the run at Bradenton Motorsports Park [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2012 • by Bill Cawthon
Matt Hagan, who won the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car Championship in his Mopar-powered DieHard Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car will be honored on Saturday, January 8, when he is officially named to the First Team of the American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) All-America Auto Racing Team. The [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
FUNNY CAR: It all came down to one race: Matt Hagan in the DieHard Dodge Charger, the points leader in the NHRA Funny Car Countdown to the Championship, against Cruz Pedregon in the Snap-On Solara in the semifinals of the Automobile CLub of Southern California NHRA finals in Pomona, California. If Hagan won, the Championship [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Allen Johnson and Vincent Nobile made it through tough track conditions and iffy weather to reach today’s Pro Stock elimination rounds at the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals. V. Gaines had the speed but was 0.011 seconds short of the time to make it into the 16-car field. The Pro Stock Championship has [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Matt Hagan will be going for all the marbles today in the final rounds of the 47th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, the last event in the 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing season. He has a 12-point lead over Jack Beckman in the Countdown to the Championship that will be determined by [...]
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