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Ranking the world's best 10 drivers

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

Jimmie Johnson won his fourth consecutive Sprint Cup championship, but how much weight does that carry in Terry Blount's rankings of the world's best drivers? Plenty.

Story | Conversation | December 08, 2009

Foundation at John Force Racing is rock-solid

Terry Blount

...when he speaks, and he speaks a lot. It can give the impression that the 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion doesn't know what's going on around him. Impressions can be misleading. Force...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2009

Funny Car champ Hight quiets his critics

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

Critics claim Robert Hight got a free pass to the NHRA playoffs because his famous team owner/father-in-law spun the tires in a must-win duel at Indy. Well, look at him now.

Story | Conversation | November 30, 2009

Fort Hood tragedy looms large at TMS

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

There is a kinship between racers and soldiers that runs deeper than sponsorship dollars. That much was evident Friday at Texas Motor Speedway, where NASCAR Nation remembered the fallen at Fort Hood.

Story | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Winning a title without winning a race?

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

Several drivers have won NASCAR's Cup title with the benefit of only one race win all season. Is this the year we crown a champion with no wins? Don't laugh -- it could happen.

Story | Conversation | September 08, 2009

History made, tempers flared; Big Go was crazy

Terry Blount

...the past 50 years, but Monday's finals might have been the best show ever for the NHRA's signature event. Schumacher beat his former crew chief Alan Johnson and rival driver Larry Dixon to...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 08, 2009

Brown prevails in classic Top Fuel final

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

The 2009 Top Fuel season was supposed to be all about Tony Schumacher and Alan Johnson. Then why is Antron Brown dominating the headlines?

Story | Conversation | July 19, 2009

Courtney Force makes her father proud

Terry Blount

...go winless. Baby Force took home a trophy. Courtney Force, John's youngest daughter, earned her first NHRA victory in Top Alcohol Dragster on Sunday in the Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceway. Force defeated Chris...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 19, 2009

With Bud leaving, Kenny Bernstein Racing in limbo

Terry Blount

KENT, Wash. -- Imagine the NHRA without a Bernstein involved. It could happen. Losing the Bernstein family from the NHRA would be similar...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2009

Consistency fuels Countdown hopes

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

What's more important: Winning or consistency? Funny Car points co-leader Ashley Force Hood will take consistency over winning any day.

Story | Conversation | July 18, 2009

Will quarter-mile racing return?

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

It's been a year since the NHRA reduced the length of races from a quarter-mile to 1,000 feet for safety reasons. Will we ever get those 360 feet back? Ideas abound, but no solution is standing out.

Story | Conversation | July 17, 2009

They're going drag racing in Qatar

Terry Blount

NHRA team owner Alan Johnson said plans are being worked out for an eight-car exhibition drag racing...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2009

Worsham off to quick start at Al-Anabi

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: A sheikh and a guru walk into a bar... No one is laughing, but an improbable union of drag-racing royalty has Del Worsham crying tears of joy.

Story | Conversation | May 08, 2009

F1, Cup made for wildly different day

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

Never was the juxtaposition of F1 and NASCAR more apparent than on a great Sunday of racing from around the world.

Story | Conversation | March 31, 2009

Muldowney: 'Thrill is gone' from NHRA

Terry Blount, ESPN.com

Racing to 1,000 feet? A Championship Countdown playoff? Drag-racing trailblazer Shirley Muldowney says "the thrill is gone" in the NHRA.

Story | Conversation | March 25, 2009