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Epic Finale to 50th Season Funny Car Celebration
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Tommy Johnson Jr. and the Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car, funded by Terry Chandler, won the final race of the 2016 season - defeating the quickest field of Funny Cars in NHRA history.
[caption id="attachment_2349" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (With his final round win - Tommy Johnson Jr finished a career high 2nd in final World Championship points)[/caption]
Johnson and the crew led ...
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More Super Cool from Jim Dunn Racing!
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Fans of Jim Dunn Racing attending next week's NHRA Auto Club Finals, and those watching on Fox Sports broadcast coverage, will see a unique design on the team’s nitro Funny Car this weekend. Graphics on the side of the Mooneyes Funny Car body are derived from the famous Mooneyes dragster of the 60’s. The design features the Dragmaster Chassis with ...
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All JFR FC Final at LV!
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John Force raced in his 246th final round and he picked up his 147th win during the penultimate NHRA national event of the 2016 season - the Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Force won for the second time in the Countdown to the Championship and outran his daughter Courtney Force in the 47th all JFR Funny ...
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A California Classic Conclusion
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The 2016 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Drag Racing Series concluded it's season with a fantastic edition 25th Anniversary celebration California Hot Rod Reunion event at fabled Famosa - located just north of Bakersfield.
That event featured a record setting and dramatically attended nostalgia Funny Car program which highlighted the event's activities.
The event's overall champion was Jason Rupert of Yorba Linda, CA., ...
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DSR now “Four for Four” Atop NHRA FC Standings!
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Don Schumacher's totally formidable 4-car nitro FC racing team continues it's absolute season domination with NHRA's Funny Car class racing....
Pennzoil/Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car driver Matt Hagan claimed his fourth win of the season at the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals on Sunday, defeating teammate Ron Capps in an all-Mopar final at Texas Motorplex near Dallas. Hagan moved ...
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DSR Funny Cars Dominate Playoffs Round #3
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The third race of NHRA's Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship concluded with yet another victory for Mopar in the eighth all-Mopar final round of the season and second in a row.
When it was all said and done, Tommy Johnson Jr., driver of the Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T, was celebrating in the Dodge NHRA Nationals winner's circle ...
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Yet Another All Mopar Fuel FC Finale!
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Team Mopar was a powerful force this weekend at the NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park near St. Louis. In the end, an all-Mopar Funny Car final round concluded with Jack Beckman and the Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R/T getting the nod over Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) teammate Tommy Johnson Jr. and his Make-A-Wish branded Charger. The victory launched ...
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Big Points Vault for John Force!
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John Force made the most the first Countdown race of 2016 picking up his 146th career win and moving from the No. 8 to No. 3 position in the Mello Yello point standings.
Force outran Dave Richards, Tim Wilkerson, Ron Capps and then Tommy Johnson Jr to pick up his first win at the Carolina NHRA Nationals. From the winner’s circle ...
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“Post to Post” Win for Hagan!
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The 62nd annual U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis included an enormous victory for Team Mopar over the Labor Day weekend ahead of the Countdown to the Championship. Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) driver Matt Hagan, in the Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T, crushed the competition with his fierce HEMI® to claim the Funny Car title at the ...
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JFR Dominates 2016 Traxxas Nitro Shooutout
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Courtney Force wrote her name into the Funny Car history books once again becoming the first female to win a Funny Car specialty race today at the 5th annual Traxxas Nitro Shootout at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Force racing in her first specialty race final round barely outran teammate and now three-time runner-up Robert Hight in an all-Chevrolet Camaro ...
