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Younce RV partners with Brad McBride to Keep the Wally in North Carolina

At this week's Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals, A/Fuel driver Brad McBride and Team LRC will have help from Younce RV of Hudson, N.C., as they work to keep the Wally in the great state of North Carolina. 
19 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Brad McBride
At this week's Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals, A/Fuel driver Brad McBride and Team LRC will have help from Younce RV of Hudson, N.C., as they work to keep the Wally in the great state of North Carolina.  After a strong outing in Norwalk,…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Top Dragster winner Rusty Baxter

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
64:58
The Top Dragster presented by Vortech Superchargers class has been contested at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals just four times and Rusty Baxter has won two of them. Baxter, the 2019 Indy champ, scored again by running a 6.172 on his 6.…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Top Sportsman winner Vince Hoda

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
56:14
Vince Hoda scored the biggest win of his career at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals when he stopped Craig Liles in the final of Top Sportsman presented by Vortech Superchargers. Hoda powered to a 6.63 against his 6.70 dial after Liles…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Super Street winner Douglas Wood

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
70:09
Douglas Wood made his second NHRA national event victory a big one, winning a tight Super Street final round over Ryan Locke. Wood, the 2017 Atlanta Super Street champ, took the stripe by just .002-second over Locke as both drivers had great…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Super Gas winner Bo Butner

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
80:58
Versatile Bo Butner added another trophy to his championship mantel as the former Pro Stock and Comp world champion won his first Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals title with his second career Super Gas win. Butner, who also has national event…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Super Comp winner Austin Williams

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
75:32
Austin Williams bagged his second Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals crown, backing up his 2019 tock triumph with a win this time in Super Comp. The Lone Star State superstar beat five-time national event Super Gas winner Jason Kenny in the…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Stock Eliminator winner Brett Candies

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
64:10
Less than a year after winning his first national event title in Bristol, Brett Candies score again at Indy following a double-breakout Stock final against Jim Marshall. Candies got to celebrate at the same track where his late father, Paul, earned…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Super Stock winner Peter D'Agnolo

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
73:53
Pete D’Agnolo ran his record in NHRA national event finals to a perfect 5-0 when he won the Indy Super Stock final over James Caro. D’Agnolo, the winner in Gainesville earlier this season, drove his Camaro to a 9.639 on his 9.64 dial to win the…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Competition Eliminator winner Doug Engels

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
90:56
After breaking a 14-year victory drought earlier this season in Topeka, Doug Engels added a second U.S. Nationals Comp trophy to his shelf to sit alongside his 2008 silverware. Engels, the No. 1 qualifier, made it through five rounds losing only .03…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Sean Bellemeur

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
117:19
Reigning Top Alcohol Funny Car world champ Sean Bellemeur won the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals for the second time, racing his Steve Boggs-tuned Bartone Brothers Camaro to a 5.46 to defeat D.J. Cox Jr., as he did earlier this season in…
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2022 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals Top Alcohol Dragster winner Julie Nataas

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
82:11
Julie Nataas won’t soon forget her Indy 2022 weekend. In winning the JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Dragster crown Saturday night, her OTG dragster shed all of its body panels in the lights. The Randy Meyer Racing team drove a new body from Kansas…
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Nitro Time Machine: Josh Hart's holeshot wins 2021 Charlotte Top Fuel title

Last fall at zMAX Dragway, Josh Hart win Top Fuel on a final-round holeshot over Brittany Force. Relive that "anything's possible" moment in the latest installment of Nitro Time Machine.
19 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Nitro Time Machine
 Josh Hart
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Tanner Gray won in Charlotte to continue charge to 2017 Pro Stock championship

In the latest Nitro Time Machine, watch as Tanner Gray, who returned to Pro Stock competition at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, scored his fifth win of the 2017 season at zMAX Dragway en route to an eventual world championship.
19 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Nitro Time Machine
Tanner Gray
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2022 JEGS Allstars Top Sportsman champion Robert Fortuna

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
61:21
Robert Fortuna chipped in with 300 of the Northeast Division’s total of 1,000 points after stopping Division 7 rep Paul Mitsos in the final of Top Sportsman presented by Vortech Superchargers. Mitsos was first off the starting line but broke out by…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Top Dragster champion Brandon Miller

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
71:24
Brandon Miller helped the Northeast Division put the wraps on their eighth overall team championship when he drove to victory in Top Dragster presented by Vortech Superchargers. Miller was nearly unstoppable in his final round race against blocker…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Super Street champion John Dexter

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
59:42
Division 7’s John Dexter ran a near-perfect race in the Allstars Super Street finale, following a .015 light with a dead-on 10.900 pas in his Arizona-based Camaro to shut the door on recent NHRA National Dragster feature subject Keith Mayers and his…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Super Gas champion Rusty Cook

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
74:23
Division 3’s Rusty Cook won back-to-back in JEGS Allstars Super Gas competition, and the defending champ did it in style with a perfect reaction time in the final and a 9.917 that left no room for his Division 3 teammate Rob Kropfeld’s otherwise…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Super Comp champion Devin Isenhower

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
73:25
Past U.S. Nationals champ Devin Isenhower continued his mastery of Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, wheeling his Division 3-based dragster to the Super Comp win in a doubke-0breakoutbout with Division 5’ Jeff Cheney. Isenhower’s 8.893 was just…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Stock champion Larry DeForrest

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
37:12
Larry DeForrest of Division 5 had to sit on the starting line for more than six seconds in his final round battle against Division 6s Darrick Ellam, but he was able to run down his opponent and win with a 9.59 on his 9.57 dial.
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2022 JEGS Allstars Super Stock champion Mike Crutchfield

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
61:50
Division 2 rep Mike Crutchfield cemented his reputation as one of the best racers in the history of the JEGS Allstars with his fourth win in the specialty event. Crutchfield won the Super Stock title after Division 4’s Pete Peery red-lighted.
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2022 JEGS Allstars Comp champion David Eaton

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
51:22
Division 2 Comp champ David Eaton brought home the hardware to Florida with his Oakley-backed A/AP Bantam roadster, taking an easy win when Division 5’s Doug Engels and defending Allstars champ and Monday’s U.S. Nationals winner, had to lift after…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Funny Car champion Kyle Smith

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
90:11
Kyle Smith put the Central Region into the winner’s circle with his automatic-transmission-equipped PCdisposal.com Mustang, racing to a 5.50 to 5.57 victory over East Region pilot D.J. Cox Jr., who also was runner-up in the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA…
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2022 JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Dragster champion Julie Nataas

19 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
News
116:04
The North Central Region’s Julie Nataas jumped out to a big lead against tire shaking West rep Joey Severance en route to an apparent easy victory until her parachute came out at halftrack and the body panels flew off the car near the finish line,…
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Barton scores second straight Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown victory

David Barton and his Saw Mill Auto Chevrolet COPO Camaro picked up their second consecutive Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown victory Sunday at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals.
19 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown
David Barton and his Saw Mill Auto Chevrolet COPO Camaro picked up their second consecutive Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown victory Sunday at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway, the seventh of eight events on the 2022 season…
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Kalitta Motorsports and DHL to support Feeding America at next four events

Kalitta Motorsports and longtime sponsor DHL Express are partnering with Feeding America, the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States, to help in a race to end food insecurity with the "Drive For Purpose Challenge."
19 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Feeding America
Kalitta Motorsports and longtime sponsor DHL Express are partnering to accelerate hunger relief and help those who need it most — working families, children, and the elderly. Together, they are working with…
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Prock, Hight, Enders and Gladstone roll to wins at Pep Boys NHRA Nationals

Robert Hight, Austin Prock, Erica Enders and Joey Gladstone all won in front of a capacity crowd at Maple Grove Raceway to open the Countdown to the Championship
18 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Race coverage
Winners
It was a dominant start for John Force Racing to open the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, as Top Fuel’s Austin Prock and Funny Car points leader Robert Hight powered to wins on Sunday in front of a capacity crowd at Maple Grove Raceway at…
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Five for Division 5 as Summit Series winners clinch berths in National Championship

Lane Weber, Ed Holmes, Ryan Montford, Beau Drexler, and Alex Fangmann will represent Division 5 at the Summit Series National Championship in Las Vegas after winning their respective classes at the West Central Division Finals.
18 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Division 5
The following are Saturday's final results from the 2022 NHRA Summit Racing Series West Central Division Finals: SUPER PRO Lane Weber, Littleton, Colo., '79 Firebird, 11.279, 109.04  def. Mike Secrest, Wichita, Kan., '11…
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Pep Boys NHRA Nationals Sunday photo gallery

The NHRA National Dragster photographers were all over Maple Grove Raceway on Sunday of the Pep Boys Nationals to capture all of the action on and off the racetrack.
18 Sep 2022
NHRA National Dragster staff
Gallery
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Sunday News and Notes from the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals

News and notes from final eliminations at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. Updated throughout the day.
18 Sep 2022
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Race coverage
Reading
  UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY Clay Millican was due for a break - and he got one in a major way to open Top Fuel eliminations on Sunday. Millican struggled mightily on the starting line in his first-round matchup against…
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Pep Boys NHRA Nationals Sunday preview

After two days of fencing in qualifying, the heavy blows will start landing as final eliminations race to life at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, the first of six races in the Camping World Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship playoffs.
18 Sep 2022
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
Race coverage
 Pep Boys NHRA Nationals
After two days of fencing in qualifying, the heavy blows will start landing as final eliminations race to life at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. The event is the first of six races in the Camping World Drag Racing Series…
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