NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

In addition to the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series action at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, eight other winners were crowned in Lucas Oil Series action at zMAX Dragway.

Gatornationals Top Alcohol Dragster champ Matt Cummings scored his second win of the season, the eighth of his career, and his second at this event, running a 5.18 to outduel Jon Bradford, Jackie Fricke, and red-lighting five-time world champ Joey Severance in the final quad. [video]

A week after winning Top Alcohol Funny Car in Reading, Brian Hough continued his East Coast reign of terror by scoring again in Charlotte, wrapping up his 15th career win in a weird final round in which world champ Sean Bellemeur and Chip Beverett, both red-lighted and Bob McCosh Jr was a no-show. [video]

Thirty-four years after his only other national event win, in Stock in Columbus way back in 1991, Wes Leopold Jr. got back to the winner’s circle, this time in Comp where he wheeled his ASMA Stratus to a stout (.-.59) 7.87 to defeat defending event champ Larry Pritchett‘s (-.40) 7.91. [video]

Byron Worner joined his brother, Bryan, as a Charlotte winner after beating Marion Stephenson in the Super Stock final. Worner cruised to the title after Stephenson spun the tires. [video]

Four years after reaching her first national event final at zMax Dragway, Morgan Taylor claimed her first win via a narrow double-breakout Stock final against Jeff Longhany. Taylor was .003-second under her dial while Longhany missed by .011-second. [video]

Allan Ackles, whose breakthrough first career win came in Atlanta in 2020, added a second Super Comp Wally to his mantle after defeating Tori Iacono on a holeshot in the final round, 8.917 to 8.912. [video]

David Griffith locked up his first career win in style, cutting a .008 reaction time in the Super Gas final and wheeling his Camaro to a 9.912 to defeat his season’s Richmond winner, J.J. Brock. [video]

After three runner-up finishes at his home track, Sandy Wilkins scored a coveted zMax Dragway victory by topping Jeff Brooks in the final of Right Trailers Top Sportsman. The final was a rematch of the 2024 Richmond race, with the same result. [video]