Women will be leading the charge at JCM Racing as headliners Alexis DeJoria and Ida Zetterström have been commissioned to assume the driving responsibilities for Joe and P.J. Maynard’s two-car operation in 2025. Competing as the sport’s first all-female nitro team, DeJoria will pilot the Bandero Premium Tequila Funny Car while Zetterström will be at the controls of the JCM Racing Top Fuel dragster.
Read MoreAlexis DeJoria is taking her talents to Joe Maynard’s JCM Racing team for the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season, it was announced by both parties today.
Read MoreIt had been six long years since Alexis DeJoria had last visited Route 66 Raceway. Returning for the first time since 2017, she was looking forward to celebrating her milestone 200th Funny Car event at the historic Joliet, Ill. facility, but after struggling during qualifying, and experiencing a starting line mishap in the opening round of eliminations, it was a weekend DeJoria and the DC Motorsports team would rather soon forget.
Read More“I’m really excited about heading back to Bristol. It’s always been one of my favorite tracks. Every round counts and we’ve had some bad luck the last few races.”
Read MoreFour-Wide is a different kind of beast. If you have ever held witness to this event in person you know the amount of sensory overload that goes along with having four nitromethane burning, 11,000 horsepower hotrods all staging at once.
Read MoreIt is amazing that in all the years of NHRA drag racing that we have never had a female World Champion in Nitro Funny Car. We have see it in Top Fuel and Pro Stock, but never Funny Car. Alexis is on a quest to change that stat and be the first woman ever to wear the title at the end of the season.
Read MoreAlexis DeJoria achieved her career-first Funny Car win at the NHRA Arizona Nationals in 2014, and was hoping for a repeat performance on Sunday at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. Starting from the No. 9 position
Read MoreAfter a successful pre-season test session at the PRO Nitro Spring Training event last week, Alexis DeJoria and the DC Motorsports team are ready for their Bandero Premium Tequila Toyota GR Supra Funny Car to make its competition debut.
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