The incident happened Saturday at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals drag racing event at the Auto-Plus Raceway in Gainesville, Florida. A dragster driven by Larry Dixon broke in half ...

If there ever was a word that best describes drag racer Larry Dixon, it’s “resilient.” Example No. 1: Last season, the three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion and second-winningest driver in Top Fuel ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla.. -- Larry Dixon would prefer to get attention for winning races, not crashing. But on Sunday, that's precisely what he was doing. While other drivers were winning races, Dixon ...

A sign on Larry Dixon's two-seater car eschews any NHRA connection. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) The move was “an obvious effort to use NHRA’s unfettered control over professional drag racing to ...

and Larry Dixon Racing, accuse the NHRA of “an obvious effort to use NHRA’s unfettered control over professional drag racing to control the market in which two-seater exhibition cars compete ...

Larry Dixon compared his frightening crash Saturday ... His team, Bob Vandergriff Racing, doesn't have a backup car, but Dixon said several other teams have offered to let him use their backup ...

Plaintiffs in the suit are Championship Adventures, LLC, Larry Dixon, and Larry Dixon Racing, LLC. “I really wish it hadn’t got to this point. I’m disappointed it had to get to this point ...

Two-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon bought out the final year of his contract with Don Prudhomme Racing Thursday and was quickly replaced by IHRA rookie of the year, Spencer Massey.

Dixon, an Indiana drag-racing legend and the son of Larry Dixon Sr., who raced in the 1960s and 1970s, got his start as a crew member for another legend, Don Prudhomme. He eventually took over as ...

Larry Dixon proudly wears a hefty Super Bowl-sized ... The biggest obstacle to a repeat performance, though, might be his Al-Anabi Racing teammate Del Worsham. After competing exclusively in ...

Larry Dixon, a three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion who won his third title in 2010 at Al-Anabi Racing, will not return to the team in 2012, sources confirmed Wednesday. Dixon, 45, joined the new Al ...

Larry Dixon sees the silver lining in the dark ... just get the pictures from it." Even so in racing, Dixon revels in the opportunity to race venues outside of the mainstream.