The 1960s were a transformative period for sdrag racing, a time when the sport was still in its raw, unrefined form, far removed from the corporate-driven spectacle it is today. This era marked the ...

You can measure how wild 1960s drag racing really was by looking at the cars that forced officials to rewrite the rulebook. The 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt did exactly that, turning a mild-mannered ...

Dom Toretto may live his life a quarter mile at a time, but you know who doesn't? Drivers in the NHRA's Top Fuel and Funny Car classes. Organized drag racing has been around since at least the late ...

During the 1960s, drag racing competitions sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) reached unprecedented levels of popularity, so American manufacturers introduced a series of ...

Before there were specific drag-racing tires, drivers and engineers had to make do with what they had, leading to some pretty creative - but flawed - solutions.

In 1952, the brilliant Rod & Custom magazine writer Roger Huntington did some math to figure out the quickest possible quarter-mile time drag racers would ever achieve: Just 9.1 seconds at 166 mph. He ...