If you are into pirates and the era of those cool wooden pirate ships with tall masts and laden with imposing cannons that were commanded by some pret (read more)

“Impact” is a key word in racing. Racing has an impact on millions of fans. Racing has an impact on thousands of families across the nation. Racing ha (read more)

Just like with most men and women, it’s relatively easy to fool around and fall in love with something or someone.

If you remember that Elvin (read more)

Being a people pleaser is what most people in today’s world aim at in life. Drag racers also want to be people pleasers. It’s very important to please (read more)

When it comes to drag racing, there is only one preferred way to go, and that is straight down the racetrack. Not up too high on the launch and not to (read more)

Imagine its just prior to the final round and you’re preparing for that much anticipated final race at the World Finals. You’ve serviced the motor, ad (read more)

Many of us have watched the TV commercials that depict a guy who is said to be “The most interesting man in the world.” He does things the average per (read more)

It’s said that roughly eighty million people attend motorsports events annually in America. There’s a unique love for racing that goes way beyond just (read more)

Can you believe it…the New Year is hear…let’s all have no fear…as it’s time to get off our rear…pull it into high gear…my friends that are so dear…and (read more)

Just looking at an awe-inspiring drag racing machine will make most racers grin from ear-to-ear. Then when you fire up the engine, the smile probably (read more)

With the ongoing wars being waged in the Middle East, and skirmishes in other parts of the world, we all know what the phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruc (read more)

Most racers have some kind of legacy to leave behind. The drag boat racers we’ve lost in past year and a half have lots of history. They were very goo (read more)

Anyone reading this column that is a drag boat driver that I have personally observed race a drag boat is truly a drag boat racer. There is no mistaki (read more)

Making the cut is largely a golfing term where a player has qualified well enough to play on the weekend after playing the qualifying rounds on Thursd (read more)

The last waltz can have a handful of meanings, but it’s not necessarily the last thing you do in life, although that can be true in some circumstances (read more)

Keeping with our theme of the last two columns (a look back at yester-year), my first drag boat race was in July 1967 at Ski Land in Perris, CA. At th (read more)

No, this is not a story about the fabled rock and roll band Led Zeppelin (whom we saw in concert back in 1970 at the Forum in Los Angeles, CA). But it (read more)

We all need that thing called money—dollars, pesos, gilders, franks, pounds, shekels, euros or whatever you want to call it—it pays the bills and buys (read more)

One trip down the liquid quarter-mile isn’t enough once you’ve taken a drag boat for a quick spin. Because, “On this trailer lies a disease for which (read more)

If you’re familiar with motorsports and motorboats, you know a drag boat racing career has to have a beginning, and it starts with a high-powered drag (read more)