Long before corporate sponsorships and wind-tunnel aerodynamics, drag racing was raw, dangerous, and fiercely personal. The quarter mile became a proving ground where unknown mechanics turned beat-up ...

Organized drag racing celebrates its 70th birthday on July 2, 2020. On that day in 1950 the first "official" drag race took place at an out-of-commission Army airbase in Santa Ana, California. Soon ...

In 1952, the brilliant Rod & Custom magazine writer Roger Huntington did some math to figure out the quickest possible quarter-mile time drag racers would ever achieve: Just 9.1 seconds at 166 mph. He ...