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Shane Westerfield, the 2017 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Funny Car champion, began his title defense with a victory in Pomona, and he was joined in the winner’s circle by Shawn Cowie (Top Alcohol Dragster), Dan Fletcher (Comp), Kyle Rizzoli (Super Stock), Larry Gilley (Stock), Gabriel Torres (Super Comp), Kevin McClelland (Super Gas), Steve Will (Top Dragster) and Paul Mitsos (Top Sportsman). 

A tremendous rookie season has only pushed Pro Stock driver Tanner Gray to raise the bar even higher for the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.

Three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown will serve as the honorary pace car driver at the inaugural Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, March 4.

Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals Funny Car-winning crew chief Dickie Venables talks about the success that he and driver Matt Hagan has experienced recently and takes a look at the year ahead. Indianapolis bureau chief John Kernan reports.

Shawn Langdon has never been one to back down from a challenge and the former Top Fuel world champion remains thrilled at trying to tackle perhaps the biggest one in his racing career early in the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.

Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Phoenix will forever be remembered as the site of three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney's 18th and final career win.

NHRA Pro Stock racer Vincent Nobile, low qualifier at the recent Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, joined Lewis Bloom and Amanda Busick on Facebook Live to talk about the season ahead.

Leah Pritchett has taken home the last two NHRA Arizona Nationals Top Fuel Wallys, and is looking to make it three in a row.

Crew chief Brian Husen and the rest of the Monster Energy Top Fuel team got right to work in the John Force Racing shop after Brittany Force crashed in Pomona. NHRA Indy bureau chief John Kernan caught up with Husen to discuss Force's crash and the team's preparation for the NHRA Arizona Nationals.

The NHRA Southeast Division grew by two tracks thanks to the addition of the Aiken, S.C. and the Julian, N.C. tracks.

David Rampy, Anthony Bertozzi, and Jerry Wallace led the list of winners at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Southeast Division event at Orlando Speed World Dragway.

Matt Hagan looks to sweep first two races for second year in a row, and third time in four years, as the NHRA Drag Racing tour moves back to Phoenix.

Dodge has signed on as title sponsor of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national event at Bandimere Speedway in Denver.

In 1975, iconic drag racing artist Pete Millar drew a rogue’s gallery of NHRA heroes positioned on the starting line of the Winternationals that ran on the cover of the “new” CARtoons magazine. How many legends can you identify?

Two-time Funny Car champion Matt Hagan joined Lewis Bloom and Amanda Busick in the Wally Parks Studio presented by Papa John's to wrap up his season-opening Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com victory.

NHRA National Dragster’s fourth issue of 2018, featuring NHRA Nitro Spring Training coverage and more, is online now for NHRA members, and it’s in the mail to homes and shops around the world.

NHRA on FOX analyst Tony Pedregon and Indy bureau chief John Kernan joined NHRA’s Amanda Busick and Lewis Bloom via Skype in the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to recap the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals and to look ahead to Phoenix.

A Super Comp dragster replica of drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney's "Last Pass" Top Fuel dragster will be on the block this weekend at the Mecum Auction at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Proceeds of the sale will benefit her namesake charity, Shirley's Kids.

The Mac Tools driver started the season with a victory with skill, hard work, and a little help from a horseshoe.

Summit Racing Equipment has renewed its long-standing sponsorship of the NHRA Summit Drag Racing Series, Summit Racing NHRA King of the Track program, and the official high-performance source of NHRA.

Clay Millican joined NHRA reporters Lewis Bloom and Amanda Busick on Facebook Live to talk about resetting his own elapsed time national record and answer fan questions on Facebook Live.

NHRA’s Lewis Bloom caught up with the winning crew chiefs in the Mello Yello classes following the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com to get their insights on their victories.

Racing in front of his family and friends at his home track, the timing is perfect for Mountain View Racing driver Paul Mitsos to win his first national event title

It's back! Our Photo of the Week and interactive puzzle returns. This week: Forty years ago this week, Kelly Brown won Top Fuel at the Winternationals en route to the 1978 world championship.