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New Advanced Partnership
During this week's PRI show at Indianapolis - a new partnership has been announced for Funny Car driver Courtney Force
John Force Racing and Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, serving both professional installer and do-it-yourself customers, announced a major sponsorship agreement today to include major primary sponsorship of Courtney Force’s Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny ...
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More Super Cool from Jim Dunn Racing!
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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JFR Dominates 2016 Traxxas Nitro Shooutout
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 ...
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Wilkerson – on time – with Rebuild
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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Jim Dunn’s Lemonade Car!
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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Capps Assumes NHRA Points Podium
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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Finally! New 6th Generation Camaro Funny Car!
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.
“I started my ...
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Exercise your Right!
To vote that is!….
As part of NHRA’s 50th Anniversary of Funny Car celebration, fans will have the opportunity to vote for the cars they believe are the most important in the class’ history.
After hundreds of suggestions from fans, an expert panel of drag racing historians and journalists narrowed the final list to 20, based on the cars’ influence and success ...
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Tasca’s Track Forward
New England-based Tasca Racing is excited to announce they will be competing in four NHRA events starting with the Charlotte Four-Wide Nationals in April and then Topeka, Epping, and Chicago.
With regard to the upcoming races, Bob Tasca III says, “I’m thrilled to have NewAutoParts.com back as the primary sponsor for the Four-Wide Event. We also have three other primary sponsors ...
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“Wilk” is a Winner!
Tim Wilkerson earned his 19th career victory and first in Phoenix at the 2016 CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals in the Levi, Ray & Shoup Ford Shelby Mustang. This is Wilkerson’s first win since the Summit Racing NHRA Southern Nationals in May of 2015. It is also the earliest in the season Wilkerson has ever won a race.
“For my crew ...
