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Dodge NHRA Nationals Stock champion Peter Biondo

13 Oct 2016
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Just three weeks after collecting his 49th victory in Super Stock at the NHRA Carolina Nationals in Charlotte, Peter Biondo snagged career win No. 50 in Stock in Reading. Racing in his 75th final, “the Terminator” drove his B/SA ’…
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Dodge NHRA Nationals Super Stock champion Michael Iacono

13 Oct 2016
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Michael Iacono, who scored his first victory at the 2004 Reading race, quickly recovered from his loss to Peter Biondo in the Stock final to corral his sixth win with a victory minutes later in the Super Stock final in his familiar pink GT/DA…
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Dodge NHRA Nationals Alcohol Funny Car champion Andy Bohl

13 Oct 2016
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Andy Bohl, who last year scored a huge win at the U.S. Nationals, collected career win No. 3 in Reading with his Howard’s Cams/Competition Products Camaro when he defeated Sean Bellemeur in the final on a holeshot, 5.57 to 5.51, after a…
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Dodge NHRA Nationals Alcohol Dragster champion Jackie Fricke

13 Oct 2016
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Jackie Fricke scored her first win in Top Alcohol Dragster by driving John Finke’s A/Fuel Dragster to a final-round victory over former national champ Chris Demke. No. 2 qualifier Fricke, whose husband, Shawn, is a national-event-winning…
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Dodge NHRA Nationals Comp champion Al Ackerman

13 Oct 2016
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Former Comp national champ Al Ackerman, who hadn’t won a national event since his dominating, three-win championship campaign in 2010, wheeled his F/Dragster to his fifth win with a final-round defeat of Joe Carnasciale, (-.65) 7.88 to (-.61…
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Dodge NHRA Nationals Sportsman champion highlights

13 Oct 2016
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Due to persistent rain that limited time-trial and qualifying efforts, the majority of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series portion of the Dodge NHRA Nationals was completed Monday at Maple Grove Raceway, where the sun shone most brightly on seven…
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Motorplex win a high priority for Texan McGaha

13 Oct 2016
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Five years ago, Chris McGaha recorded his first Pro Stock round win at the Texas Motorplex, the site of this weekend’s 31st annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at the Texas Motorplex. As big as that…
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Fans weigh in on 2016's top moments to date

13 Oct 2016
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As the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season roars to its conclusion, NHRA has been asking on social media for fans to share their favorite moments of the season to date. NHRA’s Amanda Busick checks out the submissions from…
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Glidden first to reach 50-win milestone

13 Oct 2016
NHRA.com staff
Throwback Thursday
Reaching the 50-win milestone in NHRA national event competition is a rare and impressive feat, one first accomplished 30 years ago at Texas Motorplex, site of this weekend’s AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals, by NHRA Pro Stock icon Bob Glidden…
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NHRA Today: Biondo reaches 50-win milestone in Reading

12 Oct 2016
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With his victory in Stock at the recent Dodge NHRA Nationals, Peter Biondo, one of the premier NHRA Sportsman racers of all time, became just the 17th driver in NHRA history to record 50 NHRA national event wins. Biondo, known in drag racing…
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NHRA Today: Pedregon looks to turn around disappointing season

12 Oct 2016
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Cruz Pedregon is a two-time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car world champion, but the last few years have not been kind to the Cruzer. He hasn’t won an event since Englishtown in 2014 and has only five…
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Maintaining consistency is Capps’ goal

12 Oct 2016
News
As he chases his first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car world championship, Ron Capps was a model of consistency throughout the 2016 regular season. That consistency has stretched into the…
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Four Score

12 Oct 2016
Kevin McKenna, National Dragster Senior Editor
The Sports Report
So you’ve never heard of Gage Burch? Stick around a while, you almost certainly will. As a quick introduction, Burch is a 16-year-old drag racing prodigy from Palmetto, Fla., who is in the process of making the jump from the NHRA Summit…
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Schedule change announced for 2017 Countdown races

11 Oct 2016
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The AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals and the Dodge NHRA Nationals are switching their event dates for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.   The Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading…
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NHRA Today: Hines, Krawiec always looking for improvement

11 Oct 2016
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It appears that the Pro Stock Motorcycle Countdown to the Championship is going to be a two-bike affair between Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson teammates Andrew Hines and Eddie Krawiec, who sit 1-2 atop the standings, but they’re not…
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Night at the Museum: Don Prudhomme's Army Arrow

11 Oct 2016
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In this week’s edition of Night at the Museum, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom highlights one of the newest additions to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: Don “the Snake” Prudhomme’s Army Plymouth Arrow. The car won the…
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Schumacher ready to dial up clutch performance

11 Oct 2016
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Through a standout career that includes eight Top Fuel world championships, Tony Schumacher has displayed an incredible ability to produce remarkable late-season runs to grab a world title. Trailing…
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NHRA Today: Laughlin earns Alcohol Dragster license

11 Oct 2016
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Alex Laughlin, who at the recent AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals became NHRA’s latest first-time winner in Pro Stock, isn’t resting on his laurels. The talented Texan recently earned his…
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NHRA 101: How NHRA's champs are crowned

11 Oct 2016
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NHRA’s six-race Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championships has determined the season championships, but it hasn’t always been that. NHRA of FOX reporter Jamie Howe takes a look back at the numerous ways and format…
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Bristol takes team title; five heading to Summit National Championship

10 Oct 2016
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Bristol Dragway won the NHRA Southeast Division Summit Racing Series Team Championship over Gainesville Raceway and Montgomery Motorsports Park while Timmy Smith led the list of individual winners at the Southeast Division Summit Finals at Atlanta…
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Wild Horse Pass takes team title; five earn spots in Summit National Championship

10 Oct 2016
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Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park captured the team championship while Russ Stryker, Howard Devore, Steven Umberger and Freddie Camarena took home the individual championship at this weekend’s NHRA Pacific Division Summit Racing Series Finals…
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NHRA Today: Brown, Capps, Johnson solidify title bids

10 Oct 2016
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With just three races left in the Countdown to the Championship, Antron Brown in Top Fuel and Ron Capps and Tommy…
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"All-in-one" valve all the rage in nitro fuel systems

10 Oct 2016
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The "all-in-one" fuel-system valve is all the rage in the nitro classes these days, a unit developed by the DHL team in cooperation with Don Jackson that replaces three others parts with one, as Kalitta Motorsports crew chief Jim…
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Winningest Funny Car drivers

10 Oct 2016
Candida Benson, Jr. Dragster Contributor
Fast Five
We’ve looked at the top drivers in Top Fuel, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle in this column, so to wrap up the series, this week, we delve into the win stats for the Funny Car class. Everyone can probably quickly guess the top two drivers…
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NHRA 101: What does it cost to build a Funny Car?

07 Oct 2016
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What does is cost to build a 10,000-horsepower nitro Funny Car that will run 330 mph on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series? NHRA on FOX analyst Tony Pedregon, a former two-time NHRA Funny Car world champ, breaks it down, from chassis to…
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Sportsman champion highlights

07 Oct 2016
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The list of Sportsman winners at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals included everything from fresh-faced 18-year-old Koy Collier, who was competing in his first national event, to 69-year-old veteran Larry Cummings, who collected his first…
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Top Dragster champ Matt Driskell

07 Oct 2016
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Matt Driskell, the 1996 Super Comp national champ, is now a serious contender for a second title following his win in the Top Dragster presented by Racing RVs category. The final round featured two of the top-five ranked drivers in the country with…
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Top Sportsman champ Tom Schmidt

07 Oct 2016
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Tom Schmidt wheeled his Pontiac GXP past JJ Heber’s Mustang in the final round of Top Sportsman presented by Racing RVs and in the process earned his fifth NHRA national event victory in four different categories. Schmidt, a previous winner…
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Gas champ Koy Collier

07 Oct 2016
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The youngest, and perhaps most exuberant champion of the Dodge NHRA Nationals, was Super Gas winner Koy Collier, who turned 18 on Sept. 23, the day that qualifying and time trials began for the event. It was significant because had the event been…
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Super Comp champ Christopher Dodd

07 Oct 2016
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Super Comp winner Christopher Dodd had one prior national event final at the 2014 Dallas event, but he has now evened his record by driving his Undercover-chassis dragster to a final-round win over Robert Eaker, who fouled in his ’67 Nova…
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