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Former NHRA Top Fuel championship-winning driver and crew chief Dick LaHaie passed away Dec. 5. He was 76. LaHaie won the championship as a driver in 1987 and tuned both Scott Kalitta and Larry Dixon to world championships in the class.

NHRA National Dragster’s final issue of 2018, the Year in Review, is online now for NHRA members, and it’s in the mail to homes and shops around the world.

Graham Light, who earlier this year announced his retirement as NHRA’s senior vice president of racing operations at the end of 2018,  will join the Board of Directors of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by Automobile Club of Southern California.

Dodge will be the official sponsor of NHRA Livestream coverage from the 2018 PRI Show, Dec. 6-8. “NHRA on Fox – Powered by Dodge” will offer three full days of coverage from the show, available for viewing at NHRA.com.  

Three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champ Angelle Sampey will not return to Liberty Racing in 2019 after two seasons with the team.

Veteran crew chief Tommy DeLago back on the market after season with both Kalitta Motorsports and Cruz Pedregon Racing.

2018 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car championship J.R. Todd was saluted recently by his Lawrenceburg, Ind., hometown. which named a street in his honor.

Five racers represent a fresh wave of talent in the National Hot Rod Association. You know some of them, and some you’ll know a lot better coming into the 2019 season.

Bo Butner will race full Pro Stock season with K.B. Racing while also participating in SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown.

John Markham rode his Kawasaki to the Summit Racing Series Motorcycle championship, cutting a near-perfect .002 reaction time that forced his opponent, Jeremy Hicks, to break out aboard his Suzuki.

In a final-round Sportsman battle of yellow vintage Mopars, Brian Hendrickson powered his '72 Demon to a double-breakout victory over Brent Erickson to claim the 2018 Summit Racing Series Sportsman national championship.

Nelson Belot Jr., who won the Pro wild card drawing, drove his Dalton, Mass.-based ’63 Cutlass to victory in the Summit Racing Series national championship when Dustin Loynes’ Division 3-quartered ’80 Firebird out of Walled Lake, Mich., ran too quick and broke out by a hundredth of a second.

Pat Osmundson claimed the Summit Racing Series Super Pro national championship in his dragster in a terrific final-round battle with Jeremy Hancock. Osmundson got a slight reaction time edge, .016 to .019, and ran a near-perfect 8.806 on his 8.80 dial to fend off Hancock’s right-there 7.087 on a 7.08 prediction by just .044-second.

Even though he is still in the early stages of his NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle career, Mark Paquette is no rookie when it comes to competing on two-wheels. Paquette boasts more than 20 years of motorcycle experience as both a crew chief and a rider.

Newly crowned NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champ J.R. Todd and his nitro-fueled friends in Brownsburg, Ind, are back in the lanes -- bowling lanes, that is -- as their competitive nature strikes again.

NHRA has released the event-by-event class schedule, a matrix that displays which classes and special features will compete at which NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events in 2019.

The SAMTech.edu NHRA Factory Stock Showdown returns to NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events in 2019 and will expand to eight races during the year.

David Rampy became just the fourth driver in NHRA’s centennial club when he earned the Comp title in Pomona, James Stevens won his first title in Top Alcohol Dragster, and former world champ Shane Westerfield claimed his 10th career victory in Top Alcohol Funny Car.

If you were a drag racing fan in the 1960s and 1970s, you knew the Color Me Gone name even if you couldn’t recall the name of its driver, Roger Lindamood, who tore up dragstrips around the country for more than a decade. We lost Lindamood Oct. 14, at the age of 91.

This holiday season, surprise the NHRA fan in your life, or even treat yourself, with the gift of Nitro! Get huge discounts on NHRA tickets or take advantage of a special sale on NHRA All Access subscriptions.

NHRA has announced the schedule for the 2019 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series that will feature thrilling races across the country including the NHRA Motorsports Museum’s Hot Rod Reunions.

NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series champions were officially crowned and a number of special awards were presented during the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Watch the full ceremony now on NHRA.com.