Business Archives - Backfire Racing

EL Puckett October 30, 2026

HRC US brings 12 race cars to SEMA, confirms Civic Type R HRC Concept for America and...

Vegas Will Crown Four Bracket Racing World Champions. They’re NHRA’s Real Customers. A gray Pro Stock car blasts down the track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as a blue car trails in the next lane, with packed grandstands behind them

Lauren Miller October 29, 2026

Four bracket world titles are up for grabs in Vegas, and the 64-racer field says plenty about...

JGR’s Gabehart Suit Is Now Running on the Judge’s Clock, and the Warning Came With It Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 18 Toyota after the team's first ARCA Series win at Daytona in 2026

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EL Puckett October 28, 2026

Judge warns JGR over filings made without leave, sets Dec. 15 hearing and keeps Gabehart-Spire suit on...

NHRA Landed Cordova’s Famous Name. Now It Owes Racers a Date. Two Top Fuel dragsters race side by side down the Sonoma Raceway dragstrip in 2023

EL Puckett October 27, 2026

Cordova Dragway has joined NHRA's West Central Division and picked up two 2027 events. The release left...

NHRA Takes a Streaming Stage to SEMA, Where Drag Racing Does Its Shopping Spencer Massey’s orange Fram dragster and Antron Brown’s Aaron’s dragster launch side by side in a Top Fuel final at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2012

EL Puckett October 23, 2026

Drag racing is a parts-buying sport, and the biggest parts store on the calendar is in Las...

Hitachi Stays on Penske’s Front Wings. The Contract That Matters Is in the Truck Shop. Scott McLaughlin’s red-and-white No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet IndyCar turning through a corner at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, with Hitachi lettering on the front-wing endplate

Kyle Matthews October 23, 2026

Hitachi stays on Team Penske’s IndyCar front wings for 2027. The bigger story is which Hitachi is...

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Johnny Puckett October 23, 2026

MotoGP has found a cheap way to scout riders in places where it has no pipeline: put...

Racing’s Hidden Costs: The Helmet That Expires Differently in Every Rulebook Green, black and orange Spec Miata race car numbered 152 at speed on a road course, the driver wearing a helmet visible through the side window

Lauren Miller October 21, 2026

Racing helmet expiration rules differ by sanctioning body. Here's what a Snell SA2015 helmet's last-legal date really...

Yamaha Quit MX2 and Gave Itself 137 Days to Build an MXGP Team Jeremy Seewer exits a rutted dirt corner on a blue Yamaha motocross bike beneath the Monster Energy finish gantry at the 2022 Spanish round of the Motocross World Championship