BEAR CREEK TWP. – To the casual passerby, it just looks like a dirt road that leads into the woods. But venture down that road, past the cement flower planter, painted checkered-flag black and white, ...

Dennis Van Alstine of Duluth still suffers lingering effects of a stroke he had two years ago. His speech is slow and occasionally slurred, but his passion for drag racing remains unchanged. Van ...

Don “Big Daddy” Garlits was in town to sign autographs and share past times with the crowd of motor heads and former dragsters at the Suffolk Raceway Reunion May 24 at the Suffolk Executive Airport.

A nostalgia craze has swept through drag racing in recent years. Memorable and venerable old race cars are being located, restored and raced. Local enthusiasts of the sport will get a chance to view ...

Courtney Force, the daughter of drag racing legend John Force, gets off to a fast start at Raceway Park in June 2009. Word that more than a half-century of drag racing had come to an end at Raceway ...

Chris Rini had to see the movie, if only out of curiosity. Rini, a Pro Nitrous racer in the Professional Drag Racers Association, a series which regularly races at NHRA facilities, went to see “Sully, ...

It’s a Saturday morning, you’re at Dezzi Raceway on the south of KwaZulu-Natal, the sun is peeking over the coastline, a light breeze is in the air, tainted with the smell of methanol while thunderous ...

Seventies TV detectives Starsky and Hutch, who chased bad guys through the streets of Bay City in an emissions-strangled, 158-hp, red-and-white-vector-painted, 1975 Ford Gran Torino, dubbed the ...

The Rolling Stones come to town Sunday for the first time since 1981, when they played two shows at what was then known as the Tangerine Bowl, or T-Bowl, now the Florida Citrus Bowl. Recently I told ...

If you're even remotely familiar with RuPaul, you've likely heard his mantras. Those aren't just catchphrases he doles out to contestants on "RuPaul's Drag Race." The multimedia superstar has been ...