Austin Coil—drag racing crew chief extraordinaire and a friend for more than 50 years—is a lucid and spry 80 years of age.

Carlsbad’s Ron Capps has been voted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. The drag racer is a three-time Funny Car world champion and owns the second-most Funny Car wins — 77 — in National Hot ...

‘Only thing we didn’t leave with was the change under the bleachers,’ Hagan says.

Funny Car made its first-ever appearance at the 1966 World Finals in Tulsa, with Eddie Schartman picking up the victory.

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 ...

Four-time Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan won the 1,000th Funny Car race in NHRA history on Sunday at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, defeating three-time world champion Ron Capps in the final ...

Alexis DeJoria has proven to have one of the quickest cars in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Funny Car class with six top-eight qualifying results in the first 10 events. She's currently 11th in ...

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 ...

Tony Stewart beats Justin Ashley for his first Top Fuel victory of the season at Pomona. Matt Hagan captures the 1,000th ...

“This car we started running in 2019,” Alex says of the unsponsored “Hot 4 Teacher” Top Fuel Funny Car. “I raced Nostalgia Funny Car for about 10 years before that.” And in case you’re wondering, Alex ...

Every season is different in the NHRA, especially in Funny Car where there’s been only one back-to-back champion — Ron Capps in 2021 and 2022 — since the legendary John Force won 10 straight between ...

The mid-engine C8 Chevy Corvette was a landmark technological revolution in the nearly seven-decade history of America’s favorite sports car. This jet engine-powered funny-car dragster, based on a ...