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“Big Jim” & Arend Return to Action this Weekend
Jim Dunn is ready to get back to drag racing. The Jim Dunn Racing team and the Grime Boss Nitro Funny Car return to action at the 2014 Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd, MN this weekend. Jim Dunn underwent surgery for colon cancer last month. Early detection of the cancer and a successful operation has allowed him to return to ...
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JFR Completes NHRA Western Sweep
John Force earned his third win of the season by racing to the Funny Car title at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways.
Force defeated former teammate Gary Densham in the final round for his 141st career win. Force registered a run of 4.173 seconds at 302.48 mph in his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang to ...
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Rupert Clinches IHRA Championship
Despite having the conclusion to their final scheduled event of 2014 rained out - California's Jason Rupert has clinched the IHRA's Nitro Funny Car season Championship.
Rupert locked up the 2014 IHRA Nitro Funny Car World Championship during Friday's action at Pittsburgh when Mark Sanders, the closest driver to him in points, failed to qualify for the race.
By qualifying in the ...
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Courtney Conquers Sonoma
Courtney Force took home the Wally from the No. 1 qualifying spot at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals when she dismissed competitors Peter Russo, Bob Tasca III, Matt Hagan and 16-time Champion John Force to score her fifth career win. With that she became the winningest female driver in Funny Car history with the win. She took that title from her ...
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Thin Air Domination for JFR
[caption id="attachment_1094" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (Robert Hight defeated John Force in the all JFR Funny Car final at Bandimere Raceway)[/caption]
John Force Racing dominated Funny Car racing during the Mopar Mile High NHRA Nationals. JFR had two Funny Cars in the final round as Funny Car No. 2 qualifier Robert Hight outran a tire smoking No. 1 qualifier John Force in ...
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Bowen Scores at IHRA Cordova
[caption id="attachment_1088" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Shawn Bowen won his first IHRA Race in Nitro Funny Car[/caption]
IHRA's Summer Nationals at Cordova Dragway Park saw Shawn Bowen win a thrilling conclusion over Jason Rupert in Nitro Funny Car - his first with the IHRA Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series.
Bowen's victory over Rupert in the finals proved to one of the most exciting six ...
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Coming Camaro Conspiracy
In what well may turnout to be one of the bigger drag racing news stories to come for 2015 - there will be a major new Nitro (Nostalgia) Funny Car consortium joining competition next season based from Canada.
Edmonton's Ryan Hodgson, who first made his 6.9 indexed class Funny Car debut during the 2013 season will be graduating to the nitro-burning ...
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Independent’s Day @ Cayuga
A four car mix of independent level NHRA Professional Nitro Funny Cars were the main attraction for Cayuga Dragway's 5th Annual Canadian Nitro Nationals. While participating within some exhibition pairings on Saturday evening -- non of the feature cars (driven by Jeff Diehl, Terry Haddock, Dale Creasy and Jack Wyatt) delivered anything near to track record performances – but that ...
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“Iceman” Owns Edmonton
British Columbia's Tim Nemeth, who has emerged as arguably Canada's premier Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car racer, once again proved a point by winning at the IHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals.
The Chilliwack-based racer took the event's Funny Car title for the second year in a row; beating hometown favourite and previous 3X event winner, Tim Boychuk in the final.
After first trading the ...
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Force Racks up #140!
It took eight tries but Funny car legend John Force added another race track and NHRA national to his winning collection. Force raced to victory at the 8th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals securing his unprecedented 140th Funny Car win and moving into the No. 2 position on the Mello Yello Funny Car point standings.
“This win today was special ...