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The application of horsepower to a racing surface can be a violent affair and that requires suspension parts that are up to the task. There are different types of rear suspension setups and if you’re trying to make big power a wishbone might be something you want to add to help keep everything planted. We talked with Rickie Jones from Quarter-Max about the wishbone and why you might want to think about adding one.Often, when people think of the rear suspension under a racecar and important parts …

Rick Jones is well-known as the builder of some of drag racing’s quickest, fastest, and most successful doorslammers, from Pro Stock and Top Sportsman to Radial vs The World and Pro Modified. Jones has built a chassis-building and performance parts empire that’s virtually synonymous with the sport over the last 30-plus years, and it all began with a comparably simple 1969 Chevrolet Camaro.In an improbable tale with a storybook ending, Rick was recently reunited with his first love, his 1969 SS-3 …

Regardless of how quick your race car is, your safety should be priority one. As much as we all love drag racing and want to be in the winner’s circle, it really is just a drag race, and going home safe and sound to your family at the end of the night supersedes any costs, comfort, or other factors that might deter you from preparing as you should. This is precisely why the SFI Foundation and the National Hot Rod Association exists — not just to conduct drag racing events, but to provide and enf …

While much of the focus in drag racing suspension seems to rest on the rear of the car, what’s going on up front is every bit as important to producing a well-balanced, efficient chassis with solid driving characteristics. In an upcoming feature we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the JRi front strut that will be helping us to accomplish this on our Project BlownZ06 radial tire C7 Corvette, but before we can get to that, we first have to center in on the mechanisms for mounting the strut to our …

Steve Jackson reset his own Radial vs The World elapsed time record on Saturday night in spectacular fashion in what was the quickest side-by-side radial tire race in history to capture the crown at the inaugural Woodstock at the Darlington Dragway in South Carolina.Jackson, who had blasted to the previous 3.73-second standard at Lights Out 8 back in February in the debut race for Phil Shuler’s brand new Rick Jones Race Cars-built Shadow 2.0 Camaro, met fellow radial tire frontrunner Barry Mitch …