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After 10 races with Tuttle Motorsports and Vis Viva, former Lucas Oil champ Alan Bradshaw and team owner Dexter Tuttle have decided to part ways, citing "chemistry issues" between Bradshaw and car chief Tony Shortall.

Two-time defending IHRA Funny Car champion Dale Creasy Jr. is convinced he has things headed in the right direction. After a steering problem led to a first-round disqualification at the recent Motor City Nationals, the Beecher, Ill. resident is looking forward to getting back in the groove.

Mike Ashley will abandon his driving aspirations in both Funny Car and Pro Modified for the remainder of the 2008 season to devote his time exclusively to his growing Lend-America mortgage business.

The owners of Houston Raceway Park have been hard at work completely resurfacing and expanding the pro pit area in an effort to update and improve the racing facility. Up next, the track surface itself will be smoothed to perfection using the latest state-of-the-art equipment available.

The first half of the JEGS ProMod Challenge has been an exciting one with four different event winners, three first-time victors, nine individual track records, 10 of the top 20 quickest runs of all-time, and a couple of memorable smash-ups. And with every driver in the JEGS top 10 capable…

In 2006, Funny Car newcomer Jeff Diehl arrived at Maryland International Raceway for the President’s Cup Nationals hoping to qualify and earn enough money to race at the IHRA World Finals. He left town with his first career national event victory.

Chicago's own Tony Schumacher blasted to a 4.499 in Sunday's final round at Route 66 Raceway to score his 45th career Top Fuel victory and creep ever closer to Joe Amato's record count of 52 wins in the class. The five-time and reigning series champion joined Tony Pedregon, Kurt Johnson,…

Two-time Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon has celebrated 42 victories in his career. He's also recorded 39 runner-up finishes, which aren't nearly as much fun, as he describes in his latest Champions Blog. Click here for more.

The remaining rounds of the fourth annual ADRL Pizza Hut Summer Drags in Martin, Mich., will be contested Sunday despite the fact the Christmas Tree was hit by lightning last night and is inoperable.

History was made Saturday evening at Route 66 Raceway in Chicago when Melanie Troxel became the first female to qualify No. 1 in the Funny Car class. Troxel waited out a three-hour rain delay to supplant Ashley Force from the top position in the final qualifying session with a run…

Bubba Stanton ran a career-best 3.80-second pass at 196.59 mph Friday night to earn the provisional No. 1 qualifying spot in the Pro Extreme class at the fourth annual ADRL Pizza Hut Summer Drags in Martin, Mich.

 Ashley Force has the inside track for another first after a big Friday night in Chicago. Just five weeks after becoming the first female Funny Car winner, the daughter of 14-time champion John Force could become the first female to qualify No. 1 in the category her father has dominated…

Funny Car points leader Tim Wilkerson tagged the right-side retaining wall almost immediately after launching his Levi, Ray, and Shoup Chevrolet Impala SS in Friday's first round of qualifying at Route 66 Raceway near Chicago.

Andrea Pedregon, the wife of current Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon, counts her blessings for having great friends like Bob and Terry Tasca. Read all about the special bond between the two famous Funny Car families in the Lukovich Sister's latest blog.

The first two races of the 2008 season did not go as Bruce Litton would have liked, but the Motor City Nationals in Michigan produced a big win for the Lucas Oil team that put Litton right back on track heading into the President's Cup IHRA Nationals, June 13-15, in…

A field of more than 500 cars, the largest in show history, will attempt to grab their 15 minutes of fame when SPEED shoots an episode of Pinks All Out this Saturday at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

 After sustaining close to career-ending injuries in a crash in Dallas last September, 14-time drag racing champion John Force returned to the winner's circle for the 126th time this past Sunday by beating points leader Tim Wilkerson at Heartland Park Topeka. Force talked about his most recent win this Wednesday…

 John Force isn't the only drag racer from the bustling Los Angeles suburb of Yorba Linda that's having some success on the strip this year. Pro Mod veteran Kirk Kuhns is quietly putting together a solid season in the JEGS ProMod Challenge, keeping a sure foothold in the JEGS top…

 Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon has claimed 27 victories in his career, and just like the NHRA series itself, Pedregon's wins have spanned the country. From his native Los Angeles to the New York suburbs, down to the Deep South and across to California's renowned Sonoma Valley -- Pedregon has…

When Ron Krisher won this past weekend in Topeka, Kan., he became the eighth different winner of the first nine races in the ultra-competitive Pro Stock class. He also broke a winless streak that dated back 111 events.