16-time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champion John Force was among the fastest again at the pre-season testing for 2015. Force missed out on his 17th title last year to Matt Hagan. So he starts the new year this weekend in Pomona going back to his roots. His new sponsor is Chevrolet and he’ll be…
Eight-time NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher will go into the 2015 season as the defending champion in Top Fuel. The category is among the tightest in drag racing. All 16 cars in the field are often running on the same tenth of a second. New names are in the field this year…
NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd was sitting at home watching March Madness last spring when the phone ring. The next 24 hours was an odyssey you wouldn’t believe if you saw it in a film. Todd was out of the sport full-time at the beginning of the season. By the end of…
2012 NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Antron Brown hired a “body man” to get ready for the 2015 Top Fuel season that starts this weekend in Pomona, California. Brown is a former track athlete and thought it proper to get a physical trainer to get him ready to deal with the violence of Top…
NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car driver Ron Capps is a long-time Friend of the Freaks who’s battled to the wire more than once for a championship. A couple of the John Force titles came at Ron Capps’ expense. Capps is ready for another run at The King but he had to rehab from off-season surgery…
1992 and 2008 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon is off to an encouraging start for 2015. His elapsed times at the pre-season testing was among the top five in times. But Cruz said some of the cars weren’t going their hardest. Still, Cruz knows how to win and beat the King of…
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