DI Driver Blog: Megan Meyer
Time sure does fly when you’re having fun! 2015 has been full of ups and downs, mostly ups though, which I am grateful for to have the opportunity to actually see my future unfold, and watch all the...
View ArticleRivenbark Wins Lucas Oil Pro Mod Shootout for Team GALOT
The sophomore edition of the Lucas Oil Pro Mod Shootout was this year presented by E3 SparkPlugs. The rules allowed Big Dog/EOPM rules, which basically means any power adder but NO screw blowers. That...
View ArticlePDRA Unveils 2016 Schedule
The Professional Drag Racers Association paves the way for their third season with the release of the 2016 schedule. The nine race schedule will make stops at many facilities familiar to the PDRA....
View ArticleTwo Young Females Battle for PDRA Top Junior Dragster Championship
Automotive racing is one of the few sports in which male and female compete directly against one another. In the Junior Dragster ranks, female competitors are as common as male competitors, marking an...
View ArticleDI.com BLOG: The Adventures of Angry Tom
Things that make “Angry Tom” angry I grew up in a different time, I think, a better time. I raced mostly at Norwalk, Dragway 42, Thompson, and Quaker City. Pretty much the same group of people every...
View ArticleAhli, Musi, Frigo and Schweigert Win PDRA World Finals at Richmond
The winner’s list for the all-eighth-mile Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) season ender Oct. 24, at Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) displayed a distinct international flair as racers from...
View ArticleThe Peepshow: Preston ‘Peeps’ Pennington Puts the Hurt on Big Money Bracket...
He may be young, but 24-year-old Preston “Peeps” Pennington already has the skill and savvy of a racer twice his age. His humble personality and appreciative nature make him easy to like, but his...
View ArticleDIALED IN: Wayne B. Good’s One of a Kind ’67 Chevelle
The problem with drag racing today is that people are just too darn serious about it. The level of sophistication that’s evolved over the years—not to mention the money at stake and money it takes—has...
View ArticleCameron Ferre’s Top Fuel Dream
Most people who run into Cameron Ferré in his native Huntington Beach, California, are amazed when they find out what he does for a living. The skateboard-toting 30 year old isn’t just a SoCal surfer...
View ArticleCory Reed to Make PSM Debut at Las Vegas
Pro Stock Motorcycle’s next big star might just be former motocross racer Cory Reed, who will join three-time world champ Angelle Sampey on George and Jackie Bryce’s Star Racing team for the entire...
View ArticleBob Gardner – Pro Mod’s One-Man Wonder
As one-half of Clint Satterfield’s impressive two-man NHRA Pro Mod team, Bob Gardner has built quite a reputation for himself. Fortunately, it’s a reputation for being one of the hardest workers out...
View ArticleTA/FC Team Owner Jay Blake is Following His Dream
As the only blind crew chief in all of motorsports, Jay Blake has garnered attention from national news outlets like NBC Sports and The New York Times. When he isn’t busy running the Permatex/Follow A...
View ArticleLizzy Musi Scores Second Career PDRA Pro Nitrous Win
A return to Virginia Motorsports Park was exactly what Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) Pro Nitrous star Lizzy Musi needed in order to end a turbulent season on a high note. The 24-year-old...
View ArticleDI CLASSIC: Rickie Smith – A Doorslammer Legend Faces Finality
There is no way Rickie Smith would have—probably even could have—imagined in 1989 as he wrapped up his fourth-straight IHRA Pro Stock championship that it would be 24 years before he would again earn...
View ArticleStevens Shatters 230-MPH Barrier
He’d been to a couple of PDRA events earlier this year, but a DNQ at St. Louis in May followed by a no-show for round one of racing after qualifying 13th at Martin, MI, the next month didn’t exactly...
View ArticleDI DRIVER BLOG: Kyle Dvorak
Oh boy, I’m not even sure where to start with this latest driver blog entry. Some very exciting things have been happening around these parts the last couple of months! It seems hard to believe that my...
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NHRA and FOX Sports officials announced Oct. 31, that two-time Funny Car world champion Tony Pedregon will provide the analysis and color commentary for FOX Sports’ television coverage of the 2016 NHRA...
View ArticleBrown and Enders Lock Up World Titles; Kalitta, Hight, Enders and Hines Race...
Antron Brown and Erica Enders won NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world championship titles in their respective categories Sunday at the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor...
View ArticleTroy Coughlin Sr. Wins Second NHRA Pro Mod World Championship
Jewelers will have to find a spot for another stone in the Coughlin family ring. JEGS.com driver Troy Coughlin Sr. won the 2015 NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series championship on Sunday,...
View ArticleBarnett Heads Home to Continue Burn Recovery
By Ainsley Jacobs Drag racing, or any kind of motorsport, is inherently dangerous. Every time a driver straps in to make a run, pass, or lap, they knowingly accept it could be their last. Fortunately,...
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