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

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Drag racer “Fast Eddie” Schartman knocked over the first domino 60 years ago at the 1966 Tulsa Finals in Roy Steffey’s S/XS ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Ron Capps secured his first Funny Car victory in over a year last weekend at the NHRA national event in Bristol, Tennessee. The win marks Carlsbad native's eighth triumph at the Bristol ...