RacingJunk Top Five Articles of 2023!

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Reflecting on a year packed with adrenaline-pumping moments, RacingJunk.com has been at the forefront, delivering thrilling insights and captivating stories to the motorsports community. As the year draws to a close, it's time to celebrate the best of the best—those articles that ignited passions, informed enthusiasts, and kept the engines of curiosity revving. RacingJunk.com has curated an impressive array of content from high-speed track recaps to in-depth technical analyses. Join us as we unveil and relive the excitement, counting down the top five articles that made a lasting impact on the motorsports landscape in the past year.

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This has been a tough week to be a fan of NHRA and its technical department. With the transparency of a strong brick wall, the sanctioning body elected to keep Angie Smith’s crashed Camping World Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle Buell  for nearly a full week without letting her husband Matt, proprietor of Matt Smith Racing, know where the motorcycle was or what NHRA was doing with it.

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NHRA has a penchant for punishing racers and teams that do their homework and build better mousetraps. Many remember the “laid-back headers” era at the start of this decade, when Camping World Drag Racing Series Funny Cars had headers that were, in essence, burning up the bodies of the cars – but also making those missiles even quicker.

The NHRA’s tech department now has its fangs fixed, once again, on Pro Stock Motorcycle (PSM). Vance & Hines built a better mousetrap – actually a cylinder head – that showed just how good it was during the Stampede of Speed and Texas FallNationals at Texas Motorplex little more than a week ago.

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Let me tell you, there’s nothing worse than installing a beautiful engine you’ve just spent days or weeks lovingly rebuilding and reinstalling in your hot rod or strip burner and going to fire it up, only to find out that it either runs terribly or doesn’t run at all.  What’s even worse is spending more time and effort determining that the why of it running terribly or not running at all is because you torque some bolts incorrectly, or didn’t torque them at all.  Another horrible experience is getting it all back together and installed, only to have it fall apart on the street or track for the same reason – incorrectly torqued bolts or bolts that weren’t torqued at a

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Finishing third in NHRA’s Top Fuel category as race runner-up to new champion Doug Kalitta in the final contest of the 2023 season, Leah Pruett had momentum on her side leading into the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. She and husband Tony Stewart scheduled an announcement for the start of this year’s Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show in Indianapolis and rumors swirled around the decision they were about to reveal.

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Tony Stewart Racing (TSR Nitro) nearly performed the unthinkable. As a second-year NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series team, competing in both Top Fuel and Funny Car, TSR Nitro came into the final race of the year with both of its drivers, Leah Pruett in Top Fuel and Matt Hagan in Funny Car, poised to compete for a championship.

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