Who needs a stinkin’ helmet when a cigar is protecting your handsome mug? Not “Dandy” Dick Landy, pictured testing his quickest, fastest and “lastest” fuel Funny Car at Lions Drag Strip. The 1966 Dart ...

As former NHRA Funny Car champ and 2026 title contender J.R. Todd tells it, taking one of these 12,000hp beasts down a ...

Funny Cars and dragsters became prominent in the 1960s, with dragsters focusing on achieving maximum speed and Funny Cars emphasizing showmanship and entertainment. The term “Funny Car” originated ...

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 ...

The technology behind a both an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car is stunning, a true engineering feat of genius. However, the long, skinny power-producers, with the skinny front tires and the ...

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Alexis DeJoria has proven to have one of the quickest cars in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Funny Car class with six top-eight qualifying results in the first 10 events. She's currently 11th in ...

“This car we started running in 2019,” Alex says of the unsponsored “Hot 4 Teacher” Top Fuel Funny Car. “I raced Nostalgia Funny Car for about 10 years before that.” And in case you’re wondering, Alex ...

The mid-engine C8 Chevy Corvette was a landmark technological revolution in the nearly seven-decade history of America’s favorite sports car. This jet engine-powered funny-car dragster, based on a ...

Sunday morning, Toyota unveiled a new car for competition in 2022 NHRA Funny Car competition as they switch from Camry to the GR Supra. The GR Supra will debut on track in February with the ...

For a decade now, Toyota’s NHRA Funny Car has been based on the Camry. Even with a TRD edition, though, it just isn’t the sportiest car out there. Apparently, Toyota Motorsports North America has ...

Drag racing legend John Force, 75, had a catastrophic malfunction in his Funny Car at full noise in the first round of the NHRA Virginia Nationals on Sunday. Force was taken to a hospital where he’s ...