DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Ahead of the PlayNHRA Virginia Nationals that will kick off at noon on Friday at Virginia Motorsports Park, 8News got an inside look at racing with Lyle Barnett, an NHRA ...

Pro Mod veteran and 2023 World Series of Pro Mod champion Spencer Hyde is in and Blake Alexander is out of the Jim Head Head Racing NHRA Funny Car seat for 2025. Hyde, 33, will be making the move to a ...

Four-time and reigning NHRA Top Fuel Antron Brown is taking on a new drag racing challenge. The 48-year-old Brown, who has 64 career win in the Top Fuel class and 16 in Pro Stock Motorcycle, will be ...

Nicknamed The Batmobile, Brad Makinen's '41 Willys Americar is perhaps the most notable diesel drag racing vehicle to hit the scene in quite some time. With its smoothed, stretched, and radically ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...

Following a full season spent chasing records, championships, and big-money wins across the sport’s most competitive series, Pro Modified stars from the U.S., Canada, and beyond are once again heading ...

What is a street car? That appears to be a simple inquiry, but the answer can get quite spicy depending on the crowd you hang around. HOT ROD went looking for an answer in 1992 with its Fastest Street ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

The main point of the Golden Age of American Muscle was to produce cars that could blow the doors off of other cars. Detroit didn't crank out fast cars just so they would be driven responsibly, and ...