A C6 Corvette will do the quarter mile in the mid-high 12s. This 16,000 pound Volvo truck will do the quarter in the high 12s. I am impressed.

Earlier this year, I got my first drag racing experience in a pre-production 2013 SRT Viper GTS. On a slick course and street tires, I ran a respectable 12.12 at 125 MPH. Turns out I was barely scratching the surface of what the Viper can do.

An NHRA drag race in North Carolina on Saturday gave fans a little more than they bargained for when pieces of a Funny Car's body flew off during a run and landed in the stands. Amazingly, no one seems to have been seriously hurt.

Diesel is just for truckers and tofu-munching hippies, right? Watch this 11-second Dodge pickup and you might reevaluate that perception.

This is Ford Racing’s part number M-FR500-CJ. It costs $97,990, but it gets you a fully prepped, turnkey NHRA drag racer.

A lot of people think of McLaren's MP4-12C as some sort of rolling science project. That may be true, but it's also the fastest science project you've ever seen.

Thanks to modern safety advances, Top Fuel drag racing champion Antron Brown walked away from his car exploding at 300 miles per hour and crashing multiple times into concrete retaining barriers.

I like my drag racing uphill, in the snow, with at least two weels in the air for most of the run.

I like my drag racing with less cages.

Two impatient and very stubborn train conductors were leaving the Gloversville, NY Station at the same time. They raced each other. It didn't turn out well.