Before there were specific drag-racing tires, drivers and engineers had to make do with what they had, leading to some pretty creative - but flawed - solutions.

Rare is it that we're talking about 14-inch rims and skinny tires here at MM&F. More often than not, the feature cars you see on these pages are running some serious performance rubber on at least a ...

In the world of professional drag racing, low tire pressures are often considered to be good for performance. Does that logic translate to road cars and their tires? Driven Media decided to find out ...

AKRON—Goodyear has moved production of one line of Mickey Thompson-brand drag racing tires to its Goodyear Innovation Center Manufacturing (ICM) race tire plant in Akron. The tire maker—which ...

STOW, Ohio — Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels is offering rebates on sets of qualifying off-road and drag-racing tires of $100 and $50, respectively. The company's Summer Rewards Program offers ...

BUFFALO, N.Y.— Dunlop Motorcycle Tires — a business unit of Sumitomo Rubber North America — has added a line of radial DOT street-certified tires for drag racing to its motorsports tire portfolio. The ...

You can make all the horse-power you want and all the suspension upgrades you can, but none of that matters if you can't get the tires to stick to the ground ...

Atturo Tires said in November 2021 that it would soon add its first drag radial to the AZ850 line of tires. Considering the AZ850 line already made a name for itself by outperforming original ...

Dunlop has never really tried to create a motorcycle drag racing tire, until now. Meet the Dragmax. It comes in 190/50ZR17 size, which is the most popular size for serious drag-racing competitors on ...

Despite what the Fast and Furious franchise would teach you, you can't just drag race properly (or safely), on any street in the county. And turning a street, be it a piece asphalt or concrete, into a ...

Although hardcore race parts are the true "stars" of the annual Performance Racing Industry trade show (PRI) in Indianapolis, competition-specific cars and trucks also have a significant amount of the ...

In 1952, the brilliant Rod & Custom magazine writer Roger Huntington did some math to figure out the quickest possible quarter-mile time drag racers would ever achieve: Just 9.1 seconds at 166 mph. He ...