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Johnny Pluchino wins inaugural JHG Mountain Motor Pro Stock championship

Though the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock class was contested at just a handful of races in its inaugural NHRA season, and young Johnny Pluchino emerged as the first NHRA world champion in the brazenly bold category.  
09 Dec 2024
Kelly Wade
2024 NHRA world champion
Johnny Pluchino
Though the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock class was contested at just a handful of races in its inaugural NHRA season, the impact was felt across the board as the throaty 800-plus-cid-motored monsters stretched a rousing…
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Greg Stanfield secures championship No. 6 with Factory X triumph

Five-time Super Stock world champion Greg Stanfield etched his name in the pages of history once more, winning the championship in the inaugural season of Holley EFI Factory X.
06 Dec 2024
Kelly Wade
2024 NHRA world champion
Greg Stanfield
In 1990, a young Greg Stanfield raced his way to the Super Stock world championship, and in 2024, the second-generation drag racer earned the sixth world title of his career as he powered to victory in the Holley EFI NHRA Factory X season standoff.…
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Top Fuel Motorcycle champ Larry McBride dominated with three wins

Larry McBride has been the face of Top Fuel Motorcycle racing for more than a quarter century, so it seemed very fitting that he would win the inaugural championship of the Pingel NHRA Top Fuel Motorcycle Series.
06 Dec 2024
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
2024 NHRA world champion
Larry McBride
Larry McBride has been the face of Top Fuel Motorcycle racing for more than a quarter century, so it seemed very fitting that he would win the inaugural championship of the Pingel NHRA Top Fuel Motorcycle Series.  The 66-year-old Virginia…
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Another season, another record-breaking championship year for Gaige Herrera

Gaige Herrera rode his way to another dominant world championship run, again setting records, again reaching double-digit wins, and again remaining as the class of the category on his RevZilla/Mission Foods/Vance & Hines Suzuki.
03 Dec 2024
Posted by NHRA.com staff
2024 NHRA world champion
Gaige Herrera
A year ago, Gaige Herrera burst onto the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle season full time, becoming something of a phenomenon in his first full season riding for the Vance & Hines team. Setting record after record, winning race after race, Herrera…
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Winner-take-all final round leads to Greg Anderson’s most meaningful title

Greg Anderson has enjoyed as much success as nearly everyone in NHRA history. But this year’s sixth Pro Stock world championship might have been the most meaningful accomplishment of his stellar career.
27 Nov 2024
Posted by NHRA.com staff
2024 NHRA world champion
Greg Anderson
Greg Anderson has enjoyed as much success as nearly everyone in NHRA history. But this year’s sixth Pro Stock world championship might have been the most meaningful accomplishment of his stellar career.   Anderson got the situation he longed…
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Austin Prock left no doubt en route to dominant Funny Car championship

Making a dream a reality is never easy, but surrounded by family and a standout team, Funny Car’s Austin Prock lived out a lifelong aspiration during his dominant, championship-winning 2024 season in the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.
26 Nov 2024
Posted by NHRA.com staff
2024 NHRA world champion
Austin Prock
Making a dream a reality is never easy, but surrounded by family and a standout team, Funny Car’s Austin Prock lived out a lifelong aspiration during his dominant, championship-winning 2024 season in the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.  …
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A Top Fuel title won the hard way: The Countdown heroics of Antron Brown

A look at Antron Brown's 2024 NHRA Countdown to the Championship, and understand how grit, guts, and determination earned him and his experienced team the NHRA Mission Foods Series trophy on a cool November Sunday at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip.
25 Nov 2024
Brian Lohnes, NHRA on FOX announcer
2024 NHRA world champion
Antron Brown
When Antron Brown climbed triumphantly out of his Top Fuel dragster after locking down the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Top Fuel world championship, it was one of the most memorable moments in a career full of them. The AB Motorsports…
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