Long before corporate sponsorships and wind-tunnel aerodynamics, drag racing was raw, dangerous, and fiercely personal. The quarter mile became a proving ground where unknown mechanics turned beat-up ...

The newest thing in drag racing is the oldest thing in drag racing, literally. More than six decades since dry lakes competitors and postwar street racers discovered the illicit pleasures of abandoned ...

Organized drag racing celebrates its 70th birthday on July 2, 2020. On that day in 1950 the first "official" drag race took place at an out-of-commission Army airbase in Santa Ana, California. Soon ...