At the same time, muscle cars were built as drag cars to give racers track-ready rides straight from the factory. Nowadays, professional drag racing is all about top-fuel dragsters and Funny Cars ...

During the 1960s and '70s, traction-enhancing preparations began to take place on the strip itself, with racers and organizers applying layers of rosin – pine tree resin. Rosin is a sticky ...

Take A Closer Look At The Substance Used To Increase Traction On Drag Strips During the 1960s and '70s, traction-enhancing preparations began to take place on the strip itself, with racers and ...

The field is set for Saturday's drag racing run-off that will determine the King of the Track at Brainerd International Raceway. Every year, BIR's Bracket Drag Racing Series features the Summit ...

Pebble Beach's race track ended in tragedy, when driver Ernie McAfee crashed a Ferrari into a tree and died instantly. A race in Pebble Beach never happened again.

Track champions were crowned at the end of the season in each of the 14 classes featured during the six-race O'Reilly Auto Parts/Snap-On Tools Bracket Drag Racing Series at BIR.

In a 22-page white paper, the association lays out the benefits of a track — from revving Long Island's economy to providing family-friendly fun to reducing illegal street racing. "It's past ...

The "no-prep" part refers to the fact that the race surface is not prepared ahead of time like it is in most forms of drag racing. In this regard, the no-prep track resembles an actual street. In ...

Cato described the drag strip as a "theme park," with easy parking for RVs and a bridge to walk over to get to the track. "It's about 1.5 miles from Walmart and 1.5 miles from the casino," said Cato.

Enter David Hicken. Hicken operates the Callahan Speedway where go-carts race on a dirt track. He now has the OK from Nassau County to build a drag strip in a field adjacent to the track.