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 ...

The main point of the Golden Age of American Muscle was to produce cars that could blow the doors off of other cars. Detroit didn't crank out fast cars just so they would be driven responsibly, and ...

BROWNSBURG, Ind. — Don Schumacher is known for many things in the world of drag racing. A competitor, a businessman, a safety pioneer, and a winner are among them. Schumacher, who had been going ...

The sport of drag racing changed dramatically in 1951 when Wally Parks resigned his position as editor of HOT ROD magazine to pursue drag racing full-time, founding the National Hot Rod Association ...

A Motorsports Hall of Famer and multiple world-speed record holder is helping quell the devastating wildfires burning in the foothills of Los Angeles, California — one air tanker drop at a time.