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Wilkerson – on time – with Rebuild
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Tim Wilkerson will have his new Levi, Ray & Shoup Ford Shelby Mustang back in action at the 2016 NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio this weekend. And as the saying goes, it could not have come at a better time.
At the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tim Wilkerson qualified thirteenth with a 4.236/266.16 run. He struggled ...
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“TJ” Keeps DSR Streak Going
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Don Schumacher's DSR Racing team continued their domination of NHRA's 2016 fuel FC class with yet another all team final round during the NHRA's Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol. It was the fifth consecutive and the seventh time in 11 events that a DSR Racing Mopar Dodge Charger landed in the winner’s circle this season!
This time it was Tommy Johnson ...
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Jim Dunn’s Lemonade Car!
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Jim Dunn Racing Rolls Out a New Funny Car with another Major Brand
Traditionally, when Jim Dunn Racing rolls out a yellow Funny Car it’s promoting the popular Mooneyes brand. At the upcoming Norwalk, Ohio and Joliet, Illinois NHRA national events however, Jim Dunn will be bringing out a yellow Funny Car with a brand who’s namesake founder is older than ...
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“Happy Hour” in Maryland
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Tim Boychuk collected another IHRA Ironman during that organization's annual President's Cup Nationals last weekend held at Maryland International Raceway.
The Edmonton-based independent racer wheeled his Happy Hour Racing/NitroMoose.ca Chevy Camaro to a convincing title - using both tuneup consistency and driving prowess to score the win.
With the victory, Boychuk became the third different winning driver within the IHRA's AMSOIL Nitro ...
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Capps Assumes NHRA Points Podium
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Don Schumacher's Mopar-bodied fuel FC team continued their mastery of NHRA racing with a fourth consecutive event all DSR team final round.
California's Ron Capps picked up his second consecutive victory and third of the season with a 3.954 at 316.90 in his NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T by defeating Jack Beckman’s 7.894 at 85.05 in his Infinite Hero Dodge ...
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DSR Gauntlet Keeps Swinging!
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The ninth race of 24 in the 2016 season of NHRA Drag Racing saw two Mopar-powered Dodge entries in a final-round for the Funny Car title when Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) driver Ron Capps faced his teammate and fellow Mopar Dodge Charger R/T pilot Tommy Johnson Jr..
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Hagan’s “Record Romp”
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The NHRA Kansas Nationals weekend was one for the history books in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and one Matt Hagan will not soon forget.
After setting the national elapsed time and speed records on Friday night at Heartland Park Topeka with a 3.862-second pass at 335.57 mph, the fastest a Funny Car has ever traveled in 1,000 feet ...
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Winless Streak Booted Away!
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A 19-race winless streak came to an end during NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway for Matt Hagan and the Rocky Boots Venator Camo/Mopar Funny Car team.
The 19th event title of Hagan's Funny Car career that includes two world championships came in dominant fashion under the guidance of veteran crew chief Dickie Venables and assistant Michael Knudsen ...
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Finally! New 6th Generation Camaro Funny Car!
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Chevrolet and 16-time NHRA champion John Force introduced the all-new 2016 Camaro SS Funny Car that he’ll race this weekend at the NHRA Kansas Nationals, in Topeka, Kan.
The new Funny Car body is the first based on the sixth-generation Camaro SS. Force’s teammates Courtney Force and Robert Hight will introduce new Camaro SS Funny Cars later this season.
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Courtney “Cuts to the top” in NHRA Funny Car
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Courtney Force, driving the Traxxas Chevrolet Camaro SS, won the NHRA SpringNationals at Royal Purple Raceway for her first Funny Car victory since St. Louis on Sept. 28, 2014.
Force, who earned her eighth career Funny Car win in her 101st event, is now tied with race runner-up Tim Wilkerson for first in points through six rounds of the 2016 NHRA ...
