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Greg Stanfield secures sixth title with inaugural Factory X championship
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Allen Firestone posts three wins en route to first Top Sportsman championship
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Johnny Pluchino wins inaugural JHG Mountain Motor Pro Stock championship
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Mark Pawuk claims long-awaited championship in Flexjet Factory Stock
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Top Fuel Motorcycle champ Larry McBride dominated with three wins
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Another season, another record-breaking championship year for Gaige Herrera
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Winner-take-all final round leads to Greg Anderson’s most meaningful title
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Austin Prock left no doubt en route to dominant Funny Car championship
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A Top Fuel title won the hard way: The Countdown heroics of Antron Brown
Resilience pays off for Shawn Cowie with first Alcohol Dragster championship
Three times over a decorated career in Top Alcohol Dragster, Shawn Cowie had to settle for a bitter second-place championship finish, but 2024 was the year it all came together for his long-overdue first world championship.
When you grow in the cold and snowy climes of British Columbia and run a towing service with more than 30 trucks, you learn a bit about being resilient. When you survive a broken neck, back and head injuries, and a mangled leg from a horrifying…
Killer Bs win fourth Alcohol Funny Car championship with perfect season
Sean Bellemeur and the Killers Bs team — led by team owner Tony Bartone and tuner Steve Boggs — won their fourth Top Alcohol Funny Car world championship in 2024 and their second with a perfect score.
Sean Bellemeur and the Killers Bs team — led by team owner Tony Bartone and tuner Steve Boggs — won their fourth Top Alcohol Funny Car world championship in 2024 and their second with a perfect score of seven national event wins and three regional…
Cody Lane gets first Comp championship for himself and longtime team
Cody Lane and his father Jeff have won tons of divisional championships and finally put it all together this year for Cody to win the Comp world championship.
Winning an NHRA world championship in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Sportsman classes requires drivers to be successful not just at the national event level, but also on the divisional schedule, and making them both happen in the same season…
Jordan Lazic came from behind to take Congruity NHRA Pro Mod title
Missing the first two races in a 10-race season generally isn’t the road map to an NHRA Pro Mod championship, but apparently, no one ever explained that to Jordan Lazic.
Missing the first two races in a 10-race season generally isn’t the road map to a championship, but apparently, no one ever explained that to Jordan Lazic.
Lazic did not attend the Gainesville opener for the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag…
Greg Stanfield secures sixth title with inaugural Factory X championship
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.
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.…
Jimmy Hidalgo wins one title, loses another, and makes history in the process
Jimmy Hidalgo Jr. won the Super Stock world championships this year and came within one point of also winning the Stock championship despite a score north of 700 points.
How close did Jimmy Hidalgo Jr. come to winning both the Super Stock and Stock world championships this year?
One stinkin’ point. Just one.
In a bizarre turn of events, Hidalgo went from being almost a lock to win the Stock title…
Fast car, fair amount of luck carry Joe Sorensen to Stock world championship
Joe Sorensen never even considered a world championship until this year. Midseason, it became apparent that he had a decent shot and played an exceptional game all the way to the final division race of the year.
Joe Sorensen has been a drag racer for decades, but he never even considered a world championship until this year. Midseason, it became apparent that he had a decent shot, and so the Woodburn, Ore., racer stepped into a battle royale with one of the…
In a year of firsts, Colby Fuller came through with Super Comp championship
Colby Fuller started the year with his first divisional trophy, raked in his first Super Comp national event win a few months later, and went on to lock down his first NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series world championship
By no means is Colby Fuller new to drag racing, but the 2024 season brought about a number of firsts for the 24-year-old from Savannah, Ga. He started the year with his first divisional trophy, raked in his first Super Comp national event win a few…
Super Gas champion Val Torres Sr. beats the best to be the best
Longtime Southern California racer Val Torres Sr. found himself in the midst of an incredible battle as the 2024 season came to a close. Ultimately, Torres stood his ground on home turf against some of the best in the country to earn his first world championship in an emotion-tipped season closer.
Longtime Southern California racer Val Torres Sr. found himself in the midst of an incredible battle as the 2024 season came to a close. Coming into the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals, four drivers had a shot at the Super Gas world championship, and in…
Cody Webber goes on a tear in Las Vegas to help earn Top Dragster title
Cody Webber raced in Las Vegas three times in 2024 and was rewarded with two wins and a runner-up, and the valuable points he earned in those three events were key to his world championship drive in Right Trailers Top Dragster.
Fortunately for newly crowned Right Trailers Top Dragster world champ Cody Webber, not everything that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Webber, who hails from Kingman, Ariz., made the trip to Las Vegas three times in 2024 and was rewarded with two…
Allen Firestone posts three wins en route to first Top Sportsman championship
Tom Petty was right. The waiting is indeed the hardest part, and no one knows that better than Allen Firestone, who had to sweat a stressful end to the 2024 season before officially being crowned the Right Trailers Top Sportsman world champion.
Tom Petty was right. The waiting is indeed the hardest part, and no one knows that better than Allen Firestone, who had to sweat a stressful end to the 2024 season before officially being crowned the Right Trailers Top Sportsman world champion.…
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.
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…
Mark Pawuk claims long-awaited championship in Flexjet Factory Stock
Mark Pawuk made a name for himself in the early days of Super Gas and then went on to have a successful Pro Stock career, but winning the Flexjet Factory Stock title was something he could only have dreamt about.
Entering final eliminations at the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis, there were four drivers racing for the Flexjet NHRA Factory Stock Showdown world championship, and Mark Pawuk managed to outlast the other three to claim a long-awaited first…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…