In the high-octane world of drag racing, Funny Cars and dragsters reign supreme, captivating audiences with their speed and power. While both vehicles are built for the quarter-mile sprint, they ...

Known as the biggest funny car race in the world, the Funny Car Chaos Classic was founded by Chris Graves, who as a kid loved funny cars. He later created one of the coolest drag racing series on the ...

The Mustang wasn't the only revolutionary newborn of early 1964. First came Chrysler's 426 Hemi, whose shocking Daytona 500 domination inspired Ford's "90-Day Wonder," the SOHC 427. A month later, ...

For a decade now, Toyota’s NHRA Funny Car has been based on the Camry. Even with a TRD edition, though, it just isn’t the sportiest car out there. Apparently, Toyota Motorsports North America has ...

Normally, an explosion like this would destroy a funny car body, preventing it from being used again, but this car's design ...

The Hot Rodfather made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. Alexis DeJoria, a six-time NHRA Funny Car winner and driver of the Bandero Premium Tequila Chevy Camaro, will join John Force Racing as it ...

The Texas Motorplex in Ennis will host the Funny Car Chaos season opener for the third year in a row. Races get underway at the drag racing track March 16-18. A funny car has single piece of carbon ...

The last Funny Car rookie to come into the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs and bring home a title was Cruz Pedregon in 1992. That year, Pedregon dethroned then-two-time champion Force and ...

Austin Coil—drag racing crew chief extraordinaire and a friend for more than 50 years—is a lucid and spry 80 years of age. I’m 78. We talk about a lot of things in occasional phone calls, but as one ...

A catastrophic engine explosion in a National Hot Rod Association Funny Car is a serious matter. We’ve seen two such explosions in the last month. John Force, the greatest driver in NHRA history and a ...

BRAINERD — Austin Prock may be a Funny Car rookie, but he’s not racing like one. The 29-year-old made his Funny Car debut this season replacing teammate Robert Hight, who is taking the 2024 season off ...