go the drag radial route, or walk the middle ground with a D.O.T.-legal slick. Here are a few pointers about picking tires, how to take care of them, and also a simple method for making sure they ...

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 ...

Toyo Tires ® announces the launch of their Proxes line of drag slicks and free rolling tires. The result of an intensive four year research, development and testing program, the new Proxes line ...

The widow of a drag racer who died in a crash late last month said her husband repeatedly voiced concerns about the tires the National Hod Rod Assn. required him to use. Darrell Russell died June ...

And all that power and logic are delivered through a pair of bias-ply drag slicks manufactured in Akron ... in the Goodyear Racing catalog, $917 per tire. Each one is expected to last eight ...

During all the years of running the Dart, the rear tires have always been 26x9 bias-ply drag slicks on 15x7 Weld wheels. With all the rage about the great success to be had with drag radial tires ...

The best way to get off-the-line traction is with a wrinkle-wall drag slick, that’s just a fact. But if you weren’t spinning tires or getting bogged down with traction control, slicks might ...

Track prep gave rise to specialists in the field about a decade or so ago, when radial tire drag racing was taking off (as opposed to slicks) and “doorslammer” racing (those are cars with ...

These tires, Nitto NT05Rs, are essentially drag slicks with just enough tread to be legal. Hell, their website calls the tires “D.O.T.-COMPLIANT COMPETITION DRAG RACE TIRE.” Here, read the ...

On big drag slicks, the crinkling of the tire shrinks the overall size of the wheel, which gives you a gearing advantage at low speeds, and then springs back into shape at higher speeds.