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As the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series regular season heads for the halfway point, all attention will be focused on this weekend’s fifth annual American Rebel Light Virginia NHRA Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park

For the second straight year, the event will a unique two-day race format in the professional classes, with three qualifying sessions in Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock Motorcycle on Saturday and eliminations on Sunday. Saturday’s action will also include the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge competition, which will run concurrently with the second and third qualifying sessions.

Four-time Top Fuel world champ Steve Torrence, winner at the tour’s most recent stop in Bristol, Tenn., will be part of the Mission Challenge field, facing off against points leader Tony Stewart, while second-place driver Shawn Langdon will square off against Justin Ashley.

Austin Prock, the reigning Funny Car champion, won his first Virginia NHRA Nationals last year and could use a strong weekend to offset back-to-back first-round losses at the last two events. Prock still leads the points but just barely over 2025’s most improved racer, Paul Lee, while Prock’s John Force Racing teammate, Jack Beckman, has two wins this year. The loaded field also includes four-time world champ Matt Hagan, three-time champ and recent Bristol winner Ron Capps, and Epping winner J.R. Todd.

Gaige Herrera, the two-time reigning champion, once again leads the Pro Stock Motorcycle points. He has two wins on the season and currently leads six-time champion Matt Smith. Other riders to watch will be Bristol winner Richard Gadson, Smith’s wife, Angie, as well as Chase Van Sant, Steve Johnson, and Jianna Evaristo.

Competition also will be featured in the NHRA Lucas Oil Series, Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, NHRA Holley EFI Factory X and Pingel Top Fuel Motorcycle

2024 EVENT WINNERS

Doug Kalitta, Top Fuel; Austin Prock, Funny Car; Gaige Herrera, Pro Stock Motorcycle

MOST EVENT VICTORIES

Cory McClenathan, 4, TF; John Force, 4, FC; Warren Johnson 4, PS; Matt Hines, 2, PSM

TRACK RECORDS

Top Fuel – 3.654 seconds by Brittany Force, May '22; 335.82 mph by Force, May '22.
Funny Car - 3.853 seconds by Matt Hagan, May '22; 335.82 mph by Hagan, May '22.
Pro Stock Motorcycle - 6.703 seconds by Gaige Herrera, June '24; 201.37 mph by Angie Smith, May ‘22

NATIONAL RECORDS:

Top Fuel - 3.623 sec. by Brittany Force, Sept. '19, Reading, Pa.; 341.59 mph by Brittany Force, April ‘25, Charlotte
Funny Car - 3.793 sec. by Robert Hight, Aug. '17, Brainerd; 341.68 mph by Austin Prock, Nov. ’24, Pomona, Calif.
Pro Stock Motorcycle - 6.627 sec. by Gaige Herrera, Oct ‘23, Dallas; 205.04 mph by Matt Smith, July ‘21, Sonoma, Calif.

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, June 20
Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series qualifying at 9:00 a.m. and eliminations at 2:30 p.m.
NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series qualifying at 4:00 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.
Top Fuel Motorcycle Drag Racing Series qualifying at 4:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.
Factory X qualifying at4:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, June 21
Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series eliminations at 9:00 a.m.
Factory X qualifying at 11:00 a.m. eliminations at 4:05 p.m.
Top Fuel Motorcycle Drag Racing Series qualifying at 11:15 a.m. and eliminations 4:15 p.m.
NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series qualifying at 1:00 p.m. and 3:35 p.m.
NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying at 11:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, June 22
NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series eliminations begin at 12:00 p.m.

TELEVISION

Sunday, June 22, FOX Sports 1 (FS1) will televise two hours of qualifying coverage at 2:00 p.m. ET and three hours of finals coverage at 4:00 p.m. ET

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TICKETS

To purchase tickets to the American Rebel Light Virginia NHRA Nationals, visit nhra.evenue.net/list/RV.