Funny cars sit at the top of the drag racing heirarchy, with engines capable of 10,000 hp or more. As you can imagine, those ...

Day One qualifying results from the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals Friday, Aug. 15, at Brainerd International Raceway.

The 32-car Funny Car Chaos field was broken up into four eight-car fields (A, B, C, and D). Eliminations started at 5 p.m., and racing continued under the lights until it was time to crown the ...

Funny Cars have around 8,000 horsepower and are designed to do one thing well: go very, very fast in a straight line. By contrast, a Trophy Truck rides on 39-inch tires and has at least two feet ...

A gainst Cruz Pedregon in the first round of eliminations at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Denso Sonoma Nationals, Austin Prock set the Sonoma Raceway Funny Car speed record at 340.90 mph, ...

The first Funny Cars didn’t all have a flip-top body or a tube chassis like the modern version that characterizes the category, they did use a supercharged engine that ran on nitromethane.

We have to be honest, we think all race cars are kind of funny looking. And when we say funny, we mean totally awesome. But really, why is there a particular class of drag cars called funny cars ...

As with most Funny Cars, the body sports several sponsors alongside the traditional "Chevrolet" and "Camaro" logos. Most of the car is painted a bright, metallic blue, which will make the SS Funny ...

The cars’ unconventional name can be attributed to someone simply saying the cars looked funny when they first hit the drag racing scene in the 1960s, according to Auto Week.

Some consider a Funny Car to be supercharged, with a tube chassis and fiberglass flip top body, but by then they were known as funny cars—and not for the reasons they were supercharged with tube ...

Two Fridays ago, I posted the "World's Top 10 Sexy/Funny Beer Ads." Since many of you apparently enjoyed that, I thought I'd re-post some similar ads from the wild and woolly world of car advertising.

Dave Densmore, Force Racing: The funny car actually developed outside the framework of organized racing. They were late-model muscle cars. They weren't integrated into the NHRA until about 1969.