Tight Margins for Australian Motorcycle Drag Racing
The ANDRA Grand Final at Dragway at The Bend across April 25 and 26 will bring to a close the 2024/2025 ANDRA Regional Sportsman Championship in spectacular style at what is shaping…
American Rebel Beer Named Entitlement Sponsor For the American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals
Ahead of zMAX Dragway’s thrilling 44,000-horsepower, four-wide spectacle of speed, American Rebel Beer has partnered with zMAX Dragway as the entitlement sponsor for the April 25-27 American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.…
The First Twin Engine Dragbike
Motorcycle drag racers were no different from car drag racers. In addition to looking for ways to increase the performance of their engines, they also looked at ways of adding a second…
Australia’s Upton in Pursuit of World Record
For Top Fuel Motorcycle fans there is no mistaking the one-of-a-kind record setting machine of Australian nitro racer Jay Upton. With an aerodynamic full fiberglass body, which even covers the front tire, Upton recorded the quickest dragbike pass in Australia…
KZ Motocrosser?
What would it be like to have a KZ-style engine in a dirtbike? Would it work? Why would anyone do something like that? After all the KZ motor is not the lightest power plant in the world – just ask…
AMA Dragbike Announces New Exhibition Class
AMA Dragbike announces a new heads-up exhibition class, Factory Extreme. The class will showcase modern production motorcycles outfitted as dragbike’s with a slick and wheelie bar. Factory Extreme is being billed as a grass-roots Pro Stock for the 21st century.…
MIROCK True Street Rule Revision
“From now on in True Street 1000cc bikes are the same exact wheelbase as Busas and 14s,” reports MIROCK official Jason Miller “The only difference in wheelbase is from a turbo bike to a nitrous bike. Turbo bikes are 2″…
Verl Smith Wins in Texas
Verl “Smitty” Smith Racing for Vets took a win in the Cutter’s Foam Pro Street division of the AHDRA’s Lonestar Nationals presented by Kresto at Texas Motoplex near Dallas, TX. Smith defeated Danny Worth in the first round, and went…
Shigematsu Has Career Best Event in St. Louis
Veteran Nitro Harley racer Takeshi Shigematsu of Ehime, Japan, assembled a career-best outing at the AHDRA Rendez-Vous Nationals from St. Louis, MO, April 19-20. Here Shigematsu won the Pro Fuel category and finished runner-up in Top Fuel, while resetting a…
McBride Eyeing Memphis Milestone
The bar has been set. And rather high it is. Larry “Spiderman” McBride, eight-time Top Fuel Motorcycle champion, aims to rewrite the record books yet again at the AMA Dragbike Spring Nationals from Memphis, Tenn. May 3-4. Here McBride will…
