After a successful debut season in the highly competitive Funny Car class, Spencer Hyde has been named the 2025 NHRA Rookie ...

Ron Capps is a superstar in the motorsports niche called drag racing. His 74 Funny Car win tally is second only to another NHRA superstar, John Force. To those who don’t know much about drag racing, ...

Ron Capps is going to be racing on the dirt of Eldora Speedway this summer. Capps, the three-time and defending Camping World Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion, has signed on to race a stock car ...

YORBA LINDA, Calif.(AP) — John Force, a 16-time Funny Car champion and the face of NHRA drag racing for nearly four decades, has formally retired.

Long before corporate sponsorships and wind-tunnel aerodynamics, drag racing was raw, dangerous, and fiercely personal. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Murphy, a Hall of Fame racer and the first woman licensed to drive a Funny Car, died Thursday. She was 95. The National Hot Rod Association announced Murphy's death on Friday. It ...

In 1981, when NHRA's Pro Comp drag-racing category was displaced by two new categories, Alcohol Dragster and Alcohol Funny Car, the emphasis suddenly focused on dragster versus dragster and Funny Car ...

Southern California drag racing legend John Force was alert and talking to safety workers immediately after a fiery 300-mph crash Sunday in the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. The ...