Author: Mike Haag

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Vincent Nobile wasn’t shy in relaying his thoughts on how his 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has gone this far. But the Pro Stock standout also expects his luck to change in his Mountain View Tire Chevrolet Camaro starting at this weekend’s 48th annual NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. “I would pretty much say the season has gone terrible so far,” said Nobile, who is currently eighth in points. “It’s definitely not what we expected to this point. But everyone has ups and downs, and I think…

Courtesy of the NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. – NHRA announced its 24-race 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule, featuring intense racing action at tracks across the country. Millions of fans will witness sensory-overloading side-by-side racing action where winners and losers can be separated by mere inches at speeds exceeding 330 mph. All 24 events during the busy season will be aired exclusively on FOX Sports and for selected events on the FOX broadcast network, with live and near-live coverage of most of the events. Over 575 hours of programming will feature action from Friday and Saturday…

Courtesy of AM Racing FORT WORTH, Texas. – Riding the momentum from two consecutive top-15 finishes in his most recent NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), AM Racing driver Austin Wayne Self seeks to keep the momentum train rolling in Friday night’s winstaronlinegaming.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Not only is Texas Motor Speedway considered Self’s hometown track, but the 1.5-mile speedway is the site of one of Self’s career-best finishes on an intermediate track last June. “I can’t wait to get back on the track this week,” said Self, a native of Austin, Texas. “We’ve had a lot of…

FORT WORTH – A photographic look at the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers on the track during practice on Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway. All photos by Michael C. Johnson. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Eddie Krawiec estimates he has made more than 10,000 runs down the dragstrip at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, the site of this weekend’s 48th annual NHRA Summernationals. But the next one the three-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champion makes will surely be one of the most memorable. Krawiec and longtime teammate Andrew Hines will debut the Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson team’s new Harley-Davidson Street Rod at this weekend’s 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event. A project that started in earnest in January will come to fruition this weekend and…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage always has been a thrill seeker, and former NASCAR and INDYCAR star Robby Gordon added another experience Wednesday to that extensive list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlpVZXhMa-U&feature=youtu.be Gordon took Gossage on an exhilarating two-seater ride in a SPEED Energy Stadium Super Truck that included a high-flying jump on the newly built layout at Texas Motor Speedway. The series will be an exciting new addition to this weekend’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600 NASCAR/INDYCAR weekend and transforming it into a diverse motorsports tripleheader. The Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks will have…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas Motor Speedway is celebrating its bobblehead promotion featuring Verizon IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal for Saturday night’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600 with a “tongue-in-cheek” video interview with the six-foot version of the American open-wheel star’s bobblehead. Rahal touches on a number of subjects during the 10-question interview, ranging from how g-forces affect a bobblehead racing at Texas Motor Speedway to whether he is better looking than the real Graham. (Click here to watch the interview.) The first 20,000 ticket holders attending Saturday night’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600 will receive the Graham…

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – The chance to compete at his hometown track never gets old for Antron Brown, a Chesterfield, N.J. native who grew up racing at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, the site of this weekend’s 48th annual NHRA Summernationals. But the race also seems to invigorate Brown to do something great the rest of the season. Brown has won back-to-back Top Fuel championships, winning 10 of his 14 races in that span either at Englishtown or after the event. It’s an impressive sign that Brown only seems to get better in his 10,000-horsepower Matco Tools…

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – It has been a season of learning for J.R. Todd, who made the move from Top Fuel to Funny Car at the start of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series campaign. That includes last weekend’s first-round loss in Epping, where Todd immediately realized an aspect he has to improve while driving his 10,000-horsepower DHL Toyota Camry. But it’s that willingness to accept the challenge and a confidence in his Kalitta Motorsports team that gives Todd belief things are on the right track, and he hopes to show that progress at this…

FORT WORTH, Texas – If there is one thing for certain, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver John Hunter Nemechek wants to put his No. 8 NEMCO Motorsports Silverado in Victory Lane on Friday at the NCWTS winstaronlinegaming.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. The NCTWS drivers return to Texas this weekend as part of a race card that also includes the Verizon IndyCar Series. The NCWTS action begins on Thursday with practice sessions from 3-7:55 p.m. Qualifying is on Friday at 4:35 p.m. and the 167-lap race is set for 7 p.m. Nemechek, who is the 19-year old son of…