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Funny cars have forwardmounted engines and carbon fiber automotive bodies over the chassis, giving them an appearance similar to detroit manufacturers showroom models. All the car games on our site are free to play, with no spyware and annoyances to access these great free online games. Jeff diehl races the nhras funny car division as a throwback to days gone by. Highhorsepower funny cars are notoriously quick down the strip but a new record was set last friday at californias sonoma raceway. But after youve driven a aafuel funny car its tough to be happy going slower.

Austin, who won the hot rod heritage series nostalgia funny car championship last year, beat garrett bateman, tacoma, wash. Todd beats tim wilkerson in the funny car final at the toyota nhra sonoma nationals. Top fuel nostalgia funny cars are based on the original ford, chevy, or mopar body designs from back in the day. Ap robert hight shattered the funny car speed record at 337. Post pics, videos, comments, events and anything related to funny car drag racing. Nhra drivers listing the nhra, the largest auto racing organization in the world. Covered are all the popular classes of racing of the era, including top fuelers, funny cars, pro stocks, eliminators such as gassers and altereds, stocks, super stocks, and more. European nostalgia funny car chris eyres site featuring european nostalgia funny cars. Cant read the name painted on the roof over the window, and the driver number on the car doesnt match any in the drag racing list site. In these video clips you will see race cars from the nostalgia funny car association, which was formed in january of 2006. Napa auto parts ignitor features tough nitro funny car field and a first timer may 05, 2017 darr hawthorne 20 drag news, 20 event coverage, 20 nhra news, bangshift 20 2 the oldest major event in the pacific northwest, the napa auto parts ignitor opener returns to boise, idaho this weekend, may 57. Best funny car names iconic cars from drag racings past keezling october 11, 2015 at 7.

Since 1934, speed sport has been the destination for all things motorsports om nascar to formula 1, sprint cars to top fuel dragsters, supercross to superbikes. Watch 334 marketings founder, mike ashley drive his 2007 nitro funny car from zero to 334 miles per hour in 4. Taylor swift drag racing car will be fielded by john force racing in nhra finals. Funny car archives female racing news news about women. Throughout the season, the 67 car continued to be in the funny car field, and since the blower was installed it was as reliable as a rock. Jeff diehl races the nhras funny car division as a. Dont quote me on this but at the time i recall nitro funny car was struggling with competitor numbers and their on track. Umdra dragsters funny cars snowmobile motorcycle drag racing. Emmet rattlesnake austin was a legendary match racer from phenix city, alabama. The current best elapsed time for a nitro funny car at 1,000feet is 3.

All the car games on our site are free to play, with no spyware and annoyances to access these great free. But, all of sudden, a black honda came up beside them and before you knew it the fellow driving the maruti forgot all about banta and his bicycle and took to drag racing the honda. I want to purchase a driving experience for myself and i am ready to pick a date. John force scores 149th career funny car victory 2018.

European drag racing database excellent site full of drag racing stats and much more. John force scores 149th career funny car victory 2018 nhra drag racing. Funny car nationals nostalgia drag racing new england. The dragster experience can accommodate everything from a single student to large corporate groups and can arrange trackside photography andor a catered lunch. Galpins mach four mustang, and of course the swamp rat. Add in the pointandahalf system in play for the chevrolet performance u. Napa auto parts ignitor features tough nitro funny car. Download free games all types and all genres of racing games are gathered at funny car games.

Hight powered his auto club of southern california chevrolet camaro ss funny car to a 3. Matt hagan set both ends of the nhra funny car national record with a stunning blast of 3. Hight sets funny car speed record, torrence, butner. Although sponsorship is selfevident on the cars, the book covers the period before corporate money really turned the wick up. Funny cars are characterized by having tiltup fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a customfabricated chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers showroom models. See more ideas about drag racing, racing and car humor. Without question, the most successful rearengine funny in drag racing history was big jim dunns cuda. Drag racing is perhaps the most fundamental form of car racing and also likely the most popular. Were building the leading site to play funny games. Drag racings grandest event is the 18th of 24 events and the final race of the nhra regular season, with the sixrace mello yello countdown to the championship to follow. This was the only one that ran a sixsecond time and the only one to win a national event, the 1972 nhra supernationals. Call michael weney ext 129 or randy krause ext 115 18005233353 for more details. When was nitro funny car last run as an andra championship bracket. Nationals and it adds up to a thrilling weekend in indy for funny car.

The car is tom fraziers foxy lady and this is the only time i saw it. Auto racing, motorcycle racing, arca, nhra, drag racing, weathertech sportscar, monster jam, monster energy supercross. Doug foley drive a drag car drag racing experience. Funny car nationals nostalgia nitro alcohol 14 mile nhra new england dragway september 10, 2011 first round of funny car session with dave sano in his screamin insanity pontiac grand am. Spanning the 1950s through the 1980s, 1001 drag racing facts is packed with wellresearched drag racing facts that even some of the most hardcore drag racing fans might be surprised to learn. Top fuel cars 14 mile worlds fastest top speed ever 2017 nitro ninja dom lagana funny car nationals mph run mile per hour track record us 1 motorsports p. Drag race union featuring the european super pro et, proet and extreme outlaw challenge 2016, a 20 race series across uk, sweden, germany, france, czech republic and italy. John force racing announced today that advance auto parts driver courtney force will drive the big machine records funny car at the auto club nhra finals in pomona, calif.

Todd wins funny car final at sonoma 2017 nhra drag. Heres a look back at some memorable funny car images from the. Things were going pretty well, with the car driver slowly speeding up to well over 60 kmph. Austin was a ford man for sure in his infamous ford thunderbolt. Fans go to the drag races for the roar and raw power and smell of burning rubber and fuel, not to hope some car crashes as most in any type of oval track racing do. Robert hight breaks nhra funny car speed record at 337. Essentially a collection of photographs of the early days of funny car racing, the photos are a good insite into times past. Larson eventually got back into the funny cars and won the world funny car championships in 89. It seems strange that one of the most spectacular crowd pleasers in drag racing has been on the outer for 14 years. Funny car nationals drag racing nostalgia classic quaker city motorsports park 2014 duration.

Funny car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. The other professional classes are top fuel, pro stock, and pro stock motorcycle. Steve reyes followed these fiberglassbodied, nitro burning machines and their drivers from the years leading up to the creation of the funny car class through its halcyon days. Funny car drag racing john force night under fire summit motorsports park 2011 by drag strip riot. They also have the engine placed in front of the driver, as opposed to. Nhra drag racer and 16time funny car champion john force has been released from the hospital after a moderately heinous crash sunday evening at the arizona nationals. By 1965 austin was one of the first funny car racers in the south with the black tbolt. Just drag racing nitro funny car its no laughing matter. Funny car nationals drag racing worlds fastest us 1 motorsports park 2017 duration.

Funny car fever is a humorous, heartfelt, firsthand account of the most exciting and memorable years of the funny car class. From 1966, the first year of the class, through 1979, there were more than 500 licensed funny car drivers competing at nhra events. June 25, 20 coming off of two backtoback race weekends in bristol, tenn. Overall record for the class that included blown gas aad, blown alcohol aada bad unblown nitro dragsters afd 5811 don garlits afd 176 598 sanford me art malone afd 183. Hagan shatters funny car marks on recordsetting day in. Both austin and bateman ran on cars owned by steve plueger. Austin began racing the car as an afx and kept on updating the car as the years went by. The 68yearold strip veteran was going head to head with jonnie lindberg when his engine exploded just feet from the finish line. Larson would later get out of funny car racing after a nasty crash and rent grumpy jenkins 7012 pro stock camaro before getting his own vega pro stocker. The cover reads mickey thompson and butch maas debut their radical pontiac grandam funny car, powered by a 540 cubic inch blown hemi and destined to make big waves in the 73 racing season. There was a tom frazier who ran a udra alcohol funny car in 1976, not sure if this is the same guy. Mmm, little rad wagon your opening a pandoras box here. National electric drag racing association record holders. This thrilling form of car racing includes a variety of racing series such as superstreet car, superstock car, funny car and top fuel drag car racing.