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Kelly Clontz ran all 16 Pro Stock Motorcycle events last season and she experienced a lot of memorable moments including her first professional round win in Dallas. Armed with a full-year's experience, and a new sponsor, the Steamfitters Union Local…

NHRA teams faced adversity yesterday after rain and high winds interrputed the opening day of the NGK Spark Plugs Four-Wide Nationals but Mike Salinas, Jack Beckman, and Karen Stoffer managed to adapt to the changes and head into Saturday's final…

North Carolina fans have learned to love their nitro like they love their NASCAR, and this weekend they have a homestate favorite to cheer for in veteran Bob Gilbertson. For the last seven years, the Gastonia, N.C., racer, once a tour…

Photo highlights from the opening day of the NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. It was a challenging opening day at the track with rain hitting twice, leading to some yeoman's work by the NHRA Safety Safari…

Mike Salinas, Jack Beckman, and Karen Stoffer are the early leaders after and abbreviated day of qualifying at zMax Dragway. Salinas, coming off his first national event win three weeks ago in Las Vegas, set the zMax Dragway track record with a 3.…

Karen Stoffer rode Jerry Savoie’s Suzuki to the top spot during Friday’s Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying. Stoffer, who joined Savoie’s White Alligator team this season, rode to a 6.864 to take the early lead. Stoffer is riding the same bike that LE…

Mike Salinas set a new zMAX Dragway track record, blasting his Scrappers Racing dragster to a 3.687, breaking the 3.689 mark set last year by Brittany Force. Fresh off of his runner-up two weeks ago in Houston, Antron Brown raced to a 3.725 for…

Jack Beckman has the lead halfway through Funny Car qualifying after powering his Infinite Hero Dodge to a 3.891 under the lights at zMAX Dragway. Points leader Robert Hight had the only other three-second pass, a 3.935 that could have been…

After what is undoubtedly the combined shortest and weirdest Funny Car qualifying session in history, Dale Creasy Jr. is the low qualifier with a 7.713-second elapsed time. Only one grouping of three Funny Cars made it off the starting line after…

Matt Smith is a lot of things but shy isn’t one of them. Whether he’s playing a staging game with the intention of throwing his opponents out of rhythm or publicly calling most of his Pro Stock Motorcycle rivals “hobby racers”, he often boldly goes…

It’s his rookie year, and Austin Prock is learning his lessons at a fast clip. Within a matter of days he went from just getting his Top Fuel license to a surprise entrant at the season-opening Winternationals. His first head-to-head race was…

Jack Beckman likes to joke that because he lives 2,000 miles away from the Schumacher Racing headquarters in Brownsburg, Ind., he is able to resist his temptation to spend countless hours at the shop. That doesn’t mean that Beckman isn’t able to…

Former NHRA rookie of the year Spencer Massey will make his return to Top Fuel racing at the NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals this weekend after a near-four-year absence, driving Pat Dakin’s Commercial Metal Fabrication dragster. Massey,…

When you have a Pro Stock Motorcycle that can run 6.72, you probably don’t need much of an edge but Andrew Hines believes the four-wide format affords himself a significant advantage over most of his competitors. It’s hard to argue with Hines’…

After running a pair of career-best passes at the season finale in Pomona last November, Bob Bode couldn’t wait to get back on the track this season. He had no idea it would be late April before that happened. “We always go to Pomona [for the…

The second of two four-wide races of the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season kicks off today with two qualifying sessions at zMAX Dragway outside of Charlotte, N.C. Just three weeks ago, the teams duked it out four-wide at The Strip…

The Mickey Thompson Tires Pro Bike Battle will descend on Sonoma Raceway once again in July during the NHRA Sonoma Nationals. Eddie Krawiec, who runnered up against Matt Smith in 2018, leads the standings as the race-within-a-race approaches. Hector…

Considering he has two final rounds appearances, a world record, one victory and the points lead, it couldn’t be a much better start to the 2019 E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service season for Stevie “Fast”…

Denso Spark Plugs created the 200-mph Club at the beginning of the 2018 season with the expressed purpose of encouraging Pro Stock Motorcycle riders to break one of the last great barriers in NHRA Drag Racing. It worked almost immediately. Hector…

NHRA Power Rankings debuted alongside the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals in Pomona as a way to measure race teams via a host of drag racing statistics. To help bring fans up to speed, NHRA on FOX broadcasters Tony Pedregon and Brian Lohnes joined…

Jerry Savoie isn’t sure how many events he will race during the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. But there are two definite locations on his list and two races he wasn’t going to miss. The first was the four-wide race in Las Vegas,…

Ahh the joys of four-wide racing, where you can lose to the same driver twice and still win the race -- or holeshot three other drivers at once to produce a stunning victory. Opinions on four-wide racing vary, but no one can call it boring.…

J.R. Todd won the first four-wide event of the season, the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Las Vegas, and can go back-to-back in the four-wide format in Charlotte. The NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals kick off Friday at zMAX…

When the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and zMAX Dragway first made plans for a four-wide drag race in 2010, Cruz Pedregon considered himself a fan of the concept. Heading into this weekend’s 10th annual NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals…

With a learning curve that’s already been impressive during his NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series rookie season, Top Fuel driver Austin Prock is eager to show more improvement during his second career four-wide drag racing experience at this…

The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series returns to Georgia’s House of Speed, Atlanta Dragway, on May 3-5 for the 39th annual Arby’s NHRA Southern Nationals, powering back to one of the long-established events on the circuit. It is the seventh of…

When Mike Salinas started competing in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, he did it with the intent of being successful right off the bat. With a final round in his 25th career race and his first career Top Fuel win in his 42nd race, Salinas…

The biggest spectacle in drag racing turns 10 years old in 2019, as NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series four-wide drag racing returns to zMAX Dragway for the upcoming 10th annual NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, April 26-28. It is the…

Funny Car racer Terry Haddock has signed a corporate sponsor, Checklist Boards, to banner on the side of his Mustang-bodied entry. Checklistboards.com was founded to reduce errors in healthcare. Checklist Boards are in more than 15,000 operating…