At its heart, drag racing is a sport as old as time itself. Two Neolithic cavemen run from a hungry bear; one gets eaten, one lives to run another day. Neither caveman nor bear needs to send a check ...

Nick Bowman is pretty sure his father brought him to the drag racing track when he was less than 2 months old. “I did the same with my son,” said Bowman, 38, of West Deer. To say that the Bowmans are ...