Those aspects didn’t exist in the early years of Funny Car racing, so if the goal is to retain the vintage vibe of that time period, I give today’s nostalgia drag racing a solid D-. This is ...

The 32-car Funny Car Chaos field was broken up into four eight-car fields (A, B, C, and D). Eliminations started at 5 p.m., and racing continued under the lights until it was time to crown the ...

A gainst Cruz Pedregon in the first round of eliminations at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Denso Sonoma Nationals, Austin Prock set the Sonoma Raceway Funny Car speed record at 340.90 mph, ...

Autoweek asked Ron Capps' crew chief and long-time tuner Dean "Guido" Antonelli what makes an NHRA Funny Car explode. Turns out, the combination of gallons of nitromethane pumping through a ...

The first Funny Cars didn’t all have a flip-top body or a tube chassis like the modern version that characterizes the category, they did use a supercharged engine that ran on nitromethane.

Toyota is changing its NHRA Funny Car entries from Camry to GR Supra bodies in 2022. Kalitta Motorsports driver and 2018 series champion J.R. Todd assisted in the development of the new car and ...

“Most smart strip promoters” had their eyes on funny cars for 1966, and Rupp said he “had a couple of solid bookings for my new car before I had ever fastened the first pieces together.” ...

The Funny Car's key component is an 8.1-liter (496 cubic inch!) V-8 developing about 11,000 horsepower and some 8000 lb-ft of torque. Oh, and it is capable of revving to 8500 rpm.

Wheels A (Barely) Controlled Explosion, and 330 M.P.H. Before You Can Blink An inside look at the engines that propel the funny cars of drag racing from zero to you-can’t-be-serious in four seconds.

He'd been a crew chief before, guiding rival team Don Schumacher and driver Gary Scelzi to a Funny Car title in 2005. That caught the attention of Force, whose team has won 18 of the past 22 titles.

We have to be honest, we think all race cars are kind of funny looking. And when we say funny, we mean totally awesome. But really, why is there a particular class of drag cars called funny cars ...