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Garrett Bateman won a Top Alcohol Dragster event in Las Vegas for the third consecutive season, and Shane Westerfield picked up his second Top Alcohol Funny Car title of 2017 to lead the list of winners at the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals.

The Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance and California Hot Rod Reunion presented by Automobile Club of Southern California are returning to their traditional formats for the 2017 season.

NHRA Funny Car champion Ron Capps, a longtime fan of the Verizon IndyCar Series, got to see speed from a different perspective this weekend at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach -- as the passenger of legendary open-wheel racer Mario Andretti in the IndyCar Experience two-seater.

Bob Vandergriff Jr. will make his return to the Top Fuel cockpit at the upcoming NHRA SpringNationals in Houston, thanks to sponsorship from Valvoline. Vandergriff’s current plans call for three events.

Rookie Tanner Gray joined NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom in the Wally Parks NHRA Studio via Skype delivered by Papa John’s to talk about his recent Pro Stock win at the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals. 

Throughout 2017, NHRA All Access subscribers will get bonus content with the airing of vintage NHRA national events as part of the new Flashback Friday feature. This week: the 1989 Keystone Nationals.

Kalitta Motorsports released news today that Shawn Langdon would join as the third Top Fuel driver on their team. The former DSR driver joined Amanda Busick on NHRA Today delivered by Papa John’s to discuss his surprising move to Kalitta Motorsports.

There were two new winners for the season and one first-time winner at the fourth race of the 2017 NHRA season, so what did we learn from the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals? John Kernan joins Lewis Bloom and Amanda Busick for Thursday’s Roundtable from the Wally Parks NHRA Studios delivered by Papa John’s.

Team Kalitta is expanding to a third full-time Top Fuel dragster team beginning with the next event in Houston. The machine will be backed by Global Electronic Technology with 2013 Top Fuel world champion Shawn Langdon as the driver.

Tickets are now on sale for the 63rd annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals, the world’s most prestigious drag race, Aug. 30-Sept. 4 at historic Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis.

Megan Meyer and Annie Whiteley led the charge of champions at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series South Central Division event at No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, La.

John Labbous raced to his second win in as many weeks and his third of the season this weekend at GALOT Motorsports Park and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, while Clayton Roberts took the win in the  Southeast Division Stott’s Ford Top Sportsman class.   

Joey Severance and John Lombardo Jr. were among the winners as the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competed at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Richie Stevens Jr. is getting back in the saddle, at least for one race. He'll fill in for Deric Kramer at the NHRA SpringNationals in Houston.

Aeromotive will be the title sponsor of NHRA’s West Central Division Super Shootout. The Aeromotive Super Shootout is run in conjunction with the West Central Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events.

Dean Hall’s Top Sportsman win in Las Vegas might have featured the best driving performance in the history of the class.

In this week’s Crew Chief Confidential, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom caught up with Dave Connolly, John Collins. and Brian Corradi, the three winning crew chiefs from the Denso Spark Plugs Nationals. 

Funny Car driver J.R. Todd got the chance to test a Global Rallycross racer at Lucas Oil Raceway while GRC driver Alex Keyes was a featured guest in Las Vegas.

MX Industrial and Magnaflux and Select Performance have renewed their support of the Top Dragster and Top Sportsman categories. These classes feature elapsed times in the six-second to low-seven-second range and have become quite popular since their inception.

Western Colorado Dragway’s Ray Vollender joined NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom in the Wally Parks NHRA Studio via Skype delivered by Papa John’s to talk about the track’s 50th anniversary season.