Follow along for an in-depth look at the tech behind Dodge's quite serious Hellcat-branded Funny Car: When drag racers first started fitting superchargers to their engines, they repurposed Roots ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NHRA legend John Force taken to hospital after funny car engine explodes Funny car legend John Force was hospitalized Sunday after a fiery high-speed ...

His desire to repaint the car, though, opened up the option to do something more radical with the engine combination. Though the single supercharger was perhaps more true to the Funny Car lineage ...

Museum-ready but built to run, this recently restored 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 Funny Car is one of the first of its kind.

“Most smart strip promoters” had their eyes on funny cars for 1966 ... type rollcage and a removable subframe to cradle the car’s engine, transmission, and rearend. One of the biggest ...

Force was in his Funny Car riding down the track, like he had done thousands of times before, when his engine exploded, causing him to veer across the centerline and into the wall. His vehicle ...

Force crossed the finish line at 302.62 miles per hour when his funny car's engine exploded. Despite the 75-year-old beating Terry Hadcock for the first-round win, he was sent on a trip to a local ...

He'd been a crew chief before, guiding rival team Don Schumacher and driver Gary Scelzi to a Funny Car title in 2005 ... all components of the engine. That's stressful stuff." ...

That was especially true in the mid-'60s for what became the Funny Car class ... Dragstrips saw everything from rear-engine cars to multi-engines to all-wheel-drive. More common was the assortment ...

He won his heat and his car's engine exploded. His funny car crashed into a concrete wall at high speeds. Force was able to get out of the wreckage but his team said he suffered a traumatic brain ...