NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

The Hemi engines drag racers know and love get their name from the hemispherical (half of a sphere) combustion chamber that positions their valves 180 degrees from one another. Those monstrous valves are held in place by titanium retainers and steel keepers.

Steve Torrence, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders, and Matt Smith won the inaugural NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series championships on the final day of the season, but, for the most part, it was the work they did all season long that put them in that position.

Tune in live at 9 a.m. Pacific time as NHRA's Robert Hight and NASCAR's Joey Logano stump for your vote: Drags or Checkered Flags? Who gets your vote?

With a clutch run in the second round on Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Stevie “Fast” Jackson claimed his second straight world championship in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service.

In lieu of a traditional Awards Ceremony that was not possible this year, NHRA provided the 2020 Camping World NHRA world champion teams with celebratory champagne, championship masks, t-shirts, and all of the makings for a lockerroom-style celebration.

Capping off what was easily one of the best days of her long and successful career, Erica Enders won her fourth Camping World NHRA Pro Stock championship and then returned a few hours later to win her 29th Pro Stock event.

Antron Brown, the three-time world champ who had been winless since the Seattle event in the summer of 2018, collected the Top Fuel win at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil, upsetting freshly recrowned three-time world champ Steve Torrence in the final round.

Hours after watching her husband, Matt, win his fourth Pro Stock Motorcycle world championship, Angie Smith picked up a Wally of her own when she won the final round of the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil.

Matt Hagan wrapped up a perfect day at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, clinching the championship in the semifinals and then winning the event, his third of the season, beating teammate Ron Capps in the final.

Devin Isenhower, Jeff Hefler, Joe McLaughlin, and Don Depeel claimed National Championships in the Summit Racing Series at the Dodge NHRA Finals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

NHRA National Dragster photographers Jerry Foss and Bob Johnson were all over The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to cover the action from Sunday of the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil.

Matt Smith has been dominant this season on his Denso EBR and he was rewarded on Sunday in Las Vegas with his fourth Camping World NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle world championship.

In a dramatic, winner-take-all second-round race at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil, defending world champion Steve Jackson clinched the 2020 championship in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Modified Series presented by J&A Service.

Steve Torrence became just the third driver in NHRA Top Fuel history to win three straight world championships as the two-time and defending champ locked up the 2020 Camping World Drag Racing Series title during final eliminations at the Dodge NHRA Finals.

News and notes from the final day of eliminations from the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The 2020 NHRA schedule wasn’t originally drawn up this way but the four Camping World Drag Racing Series professional champions will officially be crowned on Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Steve Torrence, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders, and Matt Smith enter the final day of the season as the leaders in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle, respectively but their clinch scenarios are varied.

Billy Torrence, Ron Capps, Greg Anderson, and Eddie Krawiec earned the top qualifying spots for Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle respectively at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil, the season finale of the 2020 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing season.

NHRA National Dragster photographers Jerry Foss and Bob Johnson were all over The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to cover the action from Saturday of the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil.

Pro Stock racer Bo Butner and fiancé Randi Lyn Shipp have conspired to replicate Air Force One on his Chevy Camaro, renamed Bo Force One, for the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil.

All’s fair in love, war, and NHRA Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle racing as rival Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle teams plot their qualifying strategies for the Dodge NHRA Finals.

Top Fuel racer Justin Ashley has been named the 2020 NHRA Rookie of the Year. The 25-year-old from Plainview, N.Y., scored a victory at the NHRA Summernationals, qualified for every national event during the 11-race season, led the category in reaction time advantage. and secured 10 round wins.

When Chris “Cowboy” Morel stages his Little City Charger for Saturday’s first qualifying run at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil, it will mark the end of a two-year odyssey from the Nostalgia Funny Car ranks to the “big show.”

This weekend, champions will be crowned at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil, the 11th final race in the 2020 Camping World NHRA Drag Racing Series. Title are up for grabs in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, as well as the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod series, Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, and Summit Racing E.T. Series.

The seven-event E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Modified Series season ends this weekend at the Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Four drivers are still in contention for the 2020 championship including a possible first-time champ.

Kindness General Contractors (KGC) of Cypress, Calif., will be Jim Dunn Racing’s primary sponsor at NHRA’s final race of the season this weekend in Las Vegas. 

Watch a field of Super Stockers from both of Friday's qualifying sessions the 2020 Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil.

Kyle Koretsky, son of NHRA veteran Kenny Koretsky, is enjoying a strong rookie season in Pro Stock with his NitroFish Camaro, He joined NHRA's Brian Lohnes via Skype to talk about his first year as a pro and the road that brought him here.