Danko Family Racing

08/11/2023

So I’ve been really late with my updates on here this race season but here is a quick recap from last weekend. We entered the NHRA D1 Regional Event that Maplegrove held since Atco closed the doors and we entered to run Super Comp in the yellow dragster. We were mainly trying to get the car dialed in for when Lindsay Danko starts driving. We fought through some issue, bad fuel regulator and tried slowing the car down enough to run 8.90’s. Going into first round we staged against Tom Stalba and I knew it would take a good package to put a win light on and although I tried I gave it away on the starting line going -.001 red. That opened the door to head to Island Dragway on Sunday to drive Bob Hill’s Fiat in some match races. First run there everything went text book except me putting the chutes out a little late 😬 and on the second run coming out of the burnout we had an engine failure. We will get rebuilt and see you at a track soon!

08/03/2023

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After a successful test session at Cecil County, we discovered a slight problem that caused a super quick thrash to make it out to our hometrack Maple Grove ...

07/26/2023

Jim Danko

07/26/2023

Come out and support us and our home drag strip Maple Grove Raceway this Sunday for the Geezers event! I will be piloting the Bustin Loose blown Fiat of Bob Hill again in some match race fun against a fast Mike Geroni in his beautiful blown Fiat! I would like to say a BIG thank you to Bob for trusting me in putting the win light on in his lane for this race.

06/15/2023

If you are looking for something to do Saturday come out to Maple Grove Raceway and help support a good cause. I am honored to be driving Bob Hill’s awesome Fiat!!

06/08/2023

Only 2 races into our 2023 race season and it has been a very busy 2023 season already. Luck has not gone our way to say the least. We haven’t made it out of 1st round and out of the total 6 qualifying runs so far we have only made it down the track for half of them. We are making some changes before we go back out to the track and keeping fingers crossed they are the correct positive changes. From running lean, melting plugs, burning a piston, blowing a head gasket, torching a cylinder it has been a lot of work. I have had this motor apart more times in these 2 races then my last 4 season put together. I do not want to break any major parts causing downtime on the track with a mistake so I have decided to sit out of the Lebanon Valley Dragway Regional event this weekend and we hope to put on a better showing at the Numidia Dragway race in 5 weeks. We will update before that. Our sponsors, friends and family deserve a better showing than we have put on in 2023. See you at the track soon!

05/30/2023

Just a quick highlight from Maplegrove Dragway from this past weekend. We had a guest appearance crew member Bob Toth and boy did he earn his keep with a very busy weekend for us. Special thank you to every person on our team once again I couldn’t do it without you all! Tim with Mr Race Oil got to hangout with us awhile and we got to meet his son Andre, he seemed in heaven around all the cars! I feel like I once again let everyone down. Disappointment would be an understatement but we are still going at it with the hopes of beating our gremlins. This season we have had to take the motor apart and slap it back together so many times you would think we are a fuel team. Q3 caught us with the heads still off, blower on ground and nowhere near ready to make a run to get in the field but guess what, we did it. I had to get suited up and strapped in the car at the trailer and the crew took off towing me up to the lanes. Barreling down the staging lanes and right out into the water box, start up, short burn out back up as the starter is yelling at me to stage and we did. With a little help from broke competitors we did make the field only to have some problems of our own. We do not give up and will be back out soon and hopefully we catch these gremlins that have been haunting us. Thank you to everyone that supports us throughout racing!

05/27/2023

Lindsay getting some more comfortable seat time.

05/27/2023

Q2 here we come!!

05/25/2023

DFR on the way to Maple Grove Raceway

05/09/2023

She’s ready, will be making laps soon!