Top Fuel dragsters are without argument the fastest accelerating manned vehicles on Earth, boasting engines that are absolute marvels of engineering. Each V8 displaces 500 cubic inches, about the same ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --NASCAR legend Tony Stewart plans to compete for Elite Motorsports against his wife, Leah Pruett, in the Top Fuel drag racing series in 2026, he announced Thursday. The move comes just ...

There may be some of you who are surprised to hear that the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) oversees a drag racing series along with more well-known motorsports like Formula One and ...

With an NHRA-best 1,460 elimination round triumphs and a handful of sport-wide performance records that might stand for ...

Dom Toretto may live his life a quarter mile at a time, but you know who doesn't? Drivers in the NHRA's Top Fuel and Funny Car classes. Organized drag racing has been around since at least the late ...

Pacific Northwest drag-racing legend Jerry Ruth, the self-proclaimed "King" and 1973 Top Fuel champion, passed away July 1 at age 87. Ruth dominated the region’s nitro ranks from 1964 to 1972, earning ...

It’s coming: Tony Stewart can feel it, the entire NHRA Nation can feel it and the world of all forms of motorsports can feel it. “It” is Stewart knocking on the door of earning his first-ever NHRA Top ...

The two men sit, one hand on the butterfly steering wheel, the other on the brake handle. To their left are tens of thousands of fans. Immediately in front of them, a nitro-burning, snarling Chrysler ...

At its core, gasoline, whether made for regular road use or the race track, is just a mix of hydrocarbons combusted in an engine. The primary differences lie in additives, octane levels, and how the ...