drag racing

Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen are two names that are forever intertwined. You might know this pair better by their nicknames; Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen. This duo turned drag racing into the sport it is today, and they did it by running their hugely powerful (and heavily...

Which supercar is best? That's a common but complicated question. Is it the fastest? The quickest? The best-handling? The most well-rounded? The prettiest? The most visceral? There's at least one answer to the question, however, and it's settled at the drag strip. Which supercar is best in the...

A 2013 SRT Viper recently covered the quarter mile in 11.1 seconds at 127.4 mph.

If you missed your chance at getting one of the drag-strip-ready COPO Camaros that Chevrolet was building for 2013, the brand is giving drag racers a second chance (of sorts). On March 28, Chevrolet Performance will begin selling an unspecified but “limited number” of Camaro rolling...

If you missed your chance to buy a drag-strip-ready COPO Camaro in 2012, here's some good news: the car will be produced for 2013, but in the same production run of just 69 units, the same as in 2012. The number is significant as it pays homage to the 1969 Camaro ZL1, of which just 69 examples were...

In yet another installment of our Electric Cars Don't Have To Be Boring Snoremobiles series, we have "Big Daddy" Don Garlits hitting the drag strip in a 1,500-kilowatt (2,011-horsepower) electric drag racer. From burnouts to launches, this drag car looks like a wild ride. We're by no means the...

The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, which comes in normally-aspirated, supercharged and (now) twin-turbo variants, is designed with a singular purpose in mind: to get through the quarter-mile as quickly as possible. The turn-key drag racer, which can be had for as little as $85,490 (for the...

This summer, we brought you Chris Harris's last go around with the Porsche 911 GT2 RS and the Ducati 1199 Panigale superbike on the drag strip. As you'll remember, the Ducati destroyed the Porsche. But would things be different if the strip were a bit longer, the speeds higher? Perhaps. That's the...

If you grew up in the 1970s and had any interest in cars, you know the names Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. Rivals on track and (mostly) friends off-track, the pair created a marketing juggernaut that paved the way for modern motorsports marketing...

The 2012 SEMA show is well underway, and among the various tuned and factory custom cars on the show floor, there are a few legitimate race cars. One of them is the straight-strip terrorizing Mustang Cobra Jet--now with twin turbos. Get more Mustang news: Subscribe to our daily newsletter Though we...

Chevy promised its 2012 COPO Camaro would slip under nine seconds for the quarter mile, and now the car has delivered.

The team at Hennessey Performance never let us down when it comes to high-horsepower fun. Here, we see what a Lamborghini Aventador eats for a light snack: A Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster. Played out over the course of a one-mile drag race, but over and finished before more than a few hundred feet...

Chevrolet's COPO Camaro drag racer is under construction, and this is an inside look at the cars as they undergo conversion from run-of-the-mill Camaro bodies-in-white into full-on race cars. The photos, from The Block, a Chevrolet Performance website, show the cars in various states of completion...

If you've ever needed videographic proof that bad driving and an evil heart can prove anything, you'll want to check out this video. Otherwise, get ready to be infuriated. Before we get too deep into the murk here, let's be clear: we have no ill feelings toward our green-obsessed friends who put a...

Proof that all-wheel drive cars can be upset by too much power, even in a straight line, is this video footage of a drag race between two highly-modified Nissan GT-R supercars. The driver of the GT-R on the right loses control soon after launching, with his car then proceeding to twist and turn on...

It may have taken four tuning companies, but the world's quickest Mercedes is here.

Remember last week’s video of a Bugatti Veyron leaving a mildly tuned Nissan GT-R in the dust at a drag strip in Florida? Well, here’s two new videos of the night, filmed from directly beside the Veyron as it lights up its wheels and heads down the strip. We even get a few words from...

The IHRA joins the NHRA in recognizing electric drag racing as a legitimate sport, expanding the number of tracks available to electric racers in the United States and Canada.

The COPO Camaro concept shown at SEMA 2011 takes to the drag strip in a new video from Chevrolet Performance.

Today, Ford Racing unveiled the 2013 Cobra Jet Mustang at the Performance Racing Industry show in Orlando, Florida. This is the latest in Ford Racing’s Cobra Jet lineage, which began with the drag racing special’s victorious introduction at the NHRA Winternationals back in 1968. The...