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The December issue of NHRA National Dragster magazine, the annual Year in Review special, is now online in digital format and in the mail in its traditional print format to NHRA Members around the world.

The jampacked issue celebrates the action-packed 2025 season in a variety of ways, through telling the stories behind each of the 18 world championships, through statistics, and through the lenses of the National Dragster photographers from the pits to the awards ceremonies. The staff reviewed the highlights of the season, both on and off the racetrack, and also picked its 10 most memorable moments of the year and offered a final farewell to friends we lost in 2025. World championship-winning columnist Luke Bogacki adds to the flavor with his take on the dynamic drama of the Sportsman championship battles.

Elsewhere in that issue, the traditional divisional champ posters salute the Sportsman champs in each of NHRA’s seven divisions as well as the Top Alcohol regional champs. The issue also highlights the season of NHRA Rookie of the Year Spencer Hyde and the four winners of the NHRA Crew of the Year presented by Red Line Oil competition.

On the news front, the issue offers a retrospective look back at the career of John Force, who has announced his retirement from driving, and explores the other changes going on at John Force Racing in what is already a tumultuous offseason, then catches up with JFR’s newest driver, Alexis DeJoria, to talk about her new home. Finally on the Force front, columnist Elon Werner talks about his 12 years as Force’s publicist and handler through some wild adventures.

The issue also offers a look back at the soggy, season-ending affair that was the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals while highlighting the event’s Sportsman winners, and ND Editor Phil Burgess offers his viewpoint of the wet weekend. There’s still more race coverage with the Division 7 finale from The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and a look inside the SEMA Show.

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