Drag racing is an exhilarating motorsport where cars reach incredible speeds in mere seconds. However, the immense power and pressure involved can lead to catastrophic engine failures. Engineering ...

Beginning in the early 1960s, Chrysler began producing a tuned, drag-ready V8 called the Max Wedge. It was only around for a ...

John Lohone’s 1,169-hp all-aluminum Brodix big-block cut through Drag Week’s Pro Street NA class for the win. Here’s how he did it. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four ...

The street car market has come a long way since it went big-time in 1992, when HOT ROD launched its Top 10 Fastest Street Cars in America. In those 30-plus years there have been thousands of street ...

The 1963 Chevrolet Impala Z11 was a lightweight version of the Impala that packed a 430-hp 427 under the hood and dominated drag racing in 1963.

DINWIDDIE, Va. — Drag racing legend John Force was hospitalized on Sunday after his engine exploded at the finish line of an NHRA event in Virginia and his vehicle crashed into a wall. According to a ...

Drag-racing legend John Force was hospitalized following a brutal crash on Sunday when his engine exploded while crossing the finish line during the first round of eliminations at the NHRA Virginia ...

What qualities come to mind when you think of the archetypical big American internal combustion engine? Is it giant, hulking leviathans where anything less than eight cylinders is paramount to commie ...