In the high-octane world of drag racing, Funny Cars and dragsters reign supreme, captivating audiences with their speed and power. While both vehicles are built for the quarter-mile sprint, they ...

The Hot Rodfather made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. Alexis DeJoria, a six-time NHRA Funny Car winner and driver of the Bandero Premium Tequila Chevy Camaro, will join John Force Racing as it ...

Known as the biggest funny car race in the world, the Funny Car Chaos Classic was founded by Chris Graves, who as a kid loved funny cars. He later created one of the coolest drag racing series on the ...

Austin Coil—drag racing crew chief extraordinaire and a friend for more than 50 years—is a lucid and spry 80 years of age.

The NHRA Funny Car class was dominated by Don "The Snake" Prudhomme (four championships) in the 1970s, Kenny Bernstein (four championships) in the 1980s and John Force in the 1990s (nine titles) and ...

Drag racer “Fast Eddie” Schartman knocked over the first domino 60 years ago at the 1966 Tulsa Finals in Roy Steffey’s S/XS ...

After reading one of my blog entries titled "," a couple of colleagues in the automotive field approached me and asked: "We don't get it. What's so funny about his car?" At first I thought it was a ...

Moreover, with Traxxas as the sponsor of the Top Fuel and Funny Car portions of the weekend, two eight-car eliminators that pocket the winner a cool $100K each, promoter extraordinaire, and former ...

Every week, in a rite that’s part voodoo, part audio slapstick, partly mild Don Rickles putdown, partly sincere Mr. Rogers-helpful, Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, diagnose America’s love affair ...

A combination between the classic Dodge Charger and a Funny Car racer sounds intriguing, there’s no doubt about it, but finding one to buy isn’t necessarily the easiest thing to do. And yet, you can ...

Trying to infuse AI with humor telling capacities is a challenge, plus we might wish to be mindful of comedic AI in systems such as self-driving cars. Humor can be quite useful. Let’s see how. Suppose ...

Naming cars is an extraordinarily complex science. It's also one into which automakers pour barrels-full of dollars that seemingly could have been spent on silly things like steering and suspension.