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Top 20 Funny Cars: Introducing No. 9

07 Aug 2016
News
As part of NHRA’s 50 years of Funny Car celebration, fans voted on a Top 20 list developed by respected drag racing historians and Funny Car experts.   The results are being revealed in reverse order at NHRA national events this season…
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Revisiting the first Western Swing sweep in Funny Car

07 Aug 2016
News
After earning his third of 16 career Funny Car championships in 1993 and dethroning 1992 champion Cruz Pedregon, John Force began the 1994 season with a flamed Chevy Lumina body and iconic souvenir T-…
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More Countdown playoff positions clinched in Seattle

06 Aug 2016
News
After the rain postponement of the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil in Seattle, eight Top Fuel drivers have clinched their berths in the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship playoffs. In Funny Car…
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Worsham destroys record books in Seattle; Schumacher, Nobile also claim top spots

06 Aug 2016
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Veteran Smith to tune Lee/Kalitta Motorsports Funny Car entry

06 Aug 2016
News
Championship-winning tuner Todd Smith has been named as the crew chief on the McLeod Racing Toyota Camry Funny Car driven by Paul Lee. Smith will lead the third Funny Car team for Kalitta Motorsports that will begin running at the NHRA Keystone…
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Pacific Raceways project will help improve historic facility

06 Aug 2016
News
Pacific Raceways, home of the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil and other NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events for nearly three decades, has received preliminary approval to build a new facility that will…
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Torrence, Worsham break track records to lead Friday nitro in Seattle; Nobile atop Pro Stock

05 Aug 2016
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Papa John's Pizza delivers support to Pritchett

05 Aug 2016
News
Papa John's International Inc. announced it will sponsor Top Fuel racer Leah Pritchett's Don Schumacher Racing Top Fuel dragster team at this weekend's NHRA national event at Pacific Raceways near Seattle…
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DeJoria to miss Seattle race; eyes Brainerd for return

05 Aug 2016
News
NHRA Funny Car pilot Alexis DeJoria will miss this weekend’s Protect The Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle due to injuries sustained in a recent crash, but already is eying a return,…
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Former Chief Starter Mark Lyle remembered in Seattle

05 Aug 2016
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
News
The life of former NHRA Chief Starter Mark Lyle was fondly remembered by family, friends, and the racing community in a Thursday night celebration of life on the eve of the Protect The Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, Lyle…
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Aerospace Components NHRA Excellence in Engineering: Denver 2016

05 Aug 2016
News
  STEVE HAGBERG’S 426 HEMI RO23 BELVEDERE II: ONE OF 55   Steve Hagberg's super-clean A/SA ’67 RO23 Plymouth Belvedere II is No. 15 of just 55 factory-packaged race cars produced by Plymouth at its famed…
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Seattle 64 Funny Cars, 1976

05 Aug 2016
Phil Burgess, National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
By the time that most of you read this, I’ll be at Pacific Raceways covering the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national event at the track formerly known as Seattle Int’l Raceway, which is perfect timing for this week’s subject (I love it…
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Five Minutes With: Tony Pedregon

04 Aug 2016
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Tony Pedregon won two NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car championships and 43 national events in the category before hanging up his driving boots to join the FOX Sports broadcast team this season as a color analyst for NHRA events. NHRA…
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Tricky Tipster's Seattle picks

04 Aug 2016
News
For more than five decades, NHRA National Dragster's famed Tricky Tipster has tested his prognosticating skills prior to each national event, putting odds on the top eight racers he thinks have the best shot at victory in Tricky Tipster.…
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2005 Northwest Nationals

04 Aug 2016
Alex Waldron, National Dragster Associate Editor
Throwback Thursday
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series proceeds north to Washington for the 29th annual Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil in Seattle, the third and final race in NHRA’s Western Swing. For this week’s…
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Event preview: Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals

04 Aug 2016
News
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads north to Washington for the last of the three consecutive races in the NHRA Western Swing at the 29th annual Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil at Pacific Raceways in…
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NHRA Miami fans, get your FOX live

03 Aug 2016
News
NHRA race fans have been enjoying a historic summer with the first live national network race coverage on the FOX broadcast network, but NHRA has become aware of viewing problems in some areas. The hardest hit has been the Miami area, where FOX…
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McGaha only looking forward approaching Seattle

03 Aug 2016
News
Chris McGaha looks at his current situation and isn’t exactly happy about the missteps that have been made to this point during his 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.   But instead…
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Todd rounding into form heading to Seattle

03 Aug 2016
News
The goal for every racer in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is to be performing at his or her best when the six-race Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship begins.   After a slow start and a number of close calls this season, Top…
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Aerospace Components NHRA Excellence in Engineering: Chicago 2016

03 Aug 2016
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 CARY BALES' 76mm TURBOCHARGED HONDA   Carey Bales’ first car in high school was a Honda Accord that he hot rodded, but that machine is a far cry from the DD/AT 2016 Honda Accord he unveiled at Route 66 Raceway, which was the…
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Force eyes rare Western Swing sweep

03 Aug 2016
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John Force has won the first two races of the Western Swing, in Denver and Sonoma, and now heads to Seattle and the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil looking for a rare…
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Smith named NHRA Director of Media Relations

03 Aug 2016
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Scott R. Smith, who has been with the NHRA since 2002, has been named NHRA Director of Media Relations, it was announced today by NHRA Vice President of Public Relations Terry Blount.   Smith will direct the communications efforts of the NHRA…
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Beckman still sees room for improvement

03 Aug 2016
News
On the surface, everything appears to be going well for Funny Car standout Jack Beckman during his 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.   The former world champion is third in points,…
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Wine Country winners

03 Aug 2016
Kevin McKenna, National Dragster Senior Editor
The Sports Report
The big No. 1 that adorns the sides of Justin Lamb’s Chevy Cobalt Super Stock car wasn’t put there by accident. The single digit identifies Lamb as the reigning national champion in the class, and after a memorable 2015 season, Lamb…
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Funny Car newcomer Welch living his dream heading to Seattle

02 Aug 2016
News
It has been a long and circuitous journey for Brandon Welch, but the Funny Car newcomer is now living his dream and he doesn’t plan to slow down anytime soon.   Welch made his professional debut in 2015, racing the final two events of…
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Okuhara will take over tuning duties on Pritchett dragster

02 Aug 2016
NHRA.com Staff
News
Todd Okuhara, Don Schumacher Racing’s director of racing, will take over as crew chief on the team’s Leah Pritchett-driven Top Fueler beginning this weekend at the Protect the Harvest NHRA…
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Heard it through the grapevine

02 Aug 2016
Brad Littlefield, National Dragster Associate Editor
Tuesday Morning Crew Chief
The 2016 Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals was a spectacular event worthy of the elevated platform it was extended by the sellout race-day crowd and live television coverage on the FOX national network. The second leg of the annual three-event Western…
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Young leukemia patient's dream to be a race car driver fulfilled in Sonoma

01 Aug 2016
News
Thanks to the generosity of several members of the NHRA racing community, 7-year-old leukemia patient Guy Brizzee was able to live out his dream of becoming a race car driver at the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals.   Terry Chandler, who supports…
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NHRA heads to the Northwest for Western Swing finale on national FOX television broadcast

01 Aug 2016
News
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing heads back to Pacific Raceways for the 29th annual Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil, the final leg of the three-race NHRA Western Swing, Aug. 5-7. The event is the only major American…
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DeJoria suffers fractured pelvis in accident at Sonoma Raceway

31 Jul 2016
News
  During the first round of eliminations at the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals, Kalitta Motorsports Funny Car pilot Alexis DeJoria experienced an accident that required a trip to the trauma center.…
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