Eagle, ID -- Three years after owners of Idaho’s Firebird Raceway first met with the Idaho State Historical Society, the state agency recently announced the raceway’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s the first drag strip to receive the designation.Photo: Firebird RacewayThe National Park Service added Firebird...

To say the odds were stacked against Jerry Cotton in 2017 would be a huge understatement.At an age when most folks retire and battling a health condition which left him nowhere near full strength, Cotton came within one round of becoming an International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) World Champion.Cotton was...

Western North Carolina is known around the country as a NASCAR hotbed with an overwhelming majority of the NASCAR teams based around Charlotte, local NASCAR racetracks throughout the region and Charlotte Motor Speedway located in Concord. Drag strips, however, are also bountiful in North Carolina, and International Hot Rod Association...

As Marty Blair approached age 50, he wondered if the sport of drag racing was passing him by. Now 66, he's leaving everyone else in the dust.Blair, who currently calls Spicewood, Texas home, is the Top Sportsman points leader in the International Hot Rod Association Summit Sportsman National Championship. He's...

For a long time, David Schmidt wasn't flying down the track. Instead, he had his head in the clouds.The defending International Hot Rod Association Quick Rod champion didn't race for nearly two decades. Instead, the Flintstone, Ga., driver took up a new hobby of hang gliding.All it took was one...

Just about a year ago, the future of drag racing in west Texas was in jeopardy. An electrical fire destroyed the tower and everything in it including the timing equipment, but the tower has been rebuilt and Penwell Knights Dragway at Caprock Motorplex in Penwell, Texas is back in business...