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Following a successful outing in St. Louis, Mike Salinas and his Scrappers team are very much in contention for the 2022 NHRA Camping World Top Fuel title, and crew chief Rob Flynn says they're gearing up for the final three events of the season.

The 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship begins the second half of its six-race playoffs with the annual Texas NHRA FallNationals at fabled Texas Motorplex. All four world championships are still well up for grabs.

Fan-favorite Top Fuel racer Cory McClenathan has withdrawn from competition at the Texas NHRA FallNationals, where he had planned to drive good friend Dexter Tuttle’s dragster, due to health reasons.

On this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, Tony Pedregon of the NHRA on FOX and National Dragster Senior Editor Kevin McKenna come on with host Brian Lohnes to talk about the Texas NHRA FallNationals. 

With three races remaining, Josh Hart and his R+L Carriers team are just 64 points out of first place in the hotly contested Top Fuel championship battle so they very much control their own destiny.

At the 1999 Dallas event, Tony Schumacher not only scored his first Top Fuel victory, but also moved a step closer to his first NHRA world championship.

The first three races of the Countdown to the Championship have not gone according to plan for Brittany Force and her Monster Energy team but they are counting on a strong finish at the final three events.

The newly formed Gadson/Brandt Pro Stock Motorcycle team will debut their Military Suicide Awareness Suzuki at the Texas NHRA FallNationals near Dallas.

Rahn Tobler was supposed to have retired, but early this year, the multi-championship-winning nitro tuner had a change of heart. It has been a unique season of learning for Tobler, just as it has been for his new charge, young John Force Racing Top Fuel driver Austin Prock. 

The NHRA Countdown to the Championship has already treated race fans to dominant performances, record-breaking runs, incredible surprises, and changes at the top of the standings – and that’s just through three playoff races.

With a commanding lead in the Camping World NHRA Pro Stock standings, Erica Enders and the Elite team are prepared for just about anything as they head into the final three events of the 2022 season.

NHRA events at the Texas Motorplex are never boring and that was certainly the case in 1989 as we take a trip back in our latest episode of Nitro Time Machine.

The Drag Racing Association of Women’s single biggest fundraising activity is the annual DRAW Auction at the Texas Motorplex, held during the Texas NHRA FallNationals on Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Champion’s Club.  

Brandon George, Tim Butler, John Nelson, Dalton Markham, and Jay Traina scored wins at the 2022 NHRA Summit Racing Series Southeast Division Finals to earn berths in the National Champion race in Las Vegas in late October.

The second annual Stampede of Speed concludes at Texas Motorplex with the main event, the 37th annual Texas NHRA FallNationals on Oct. 13-16, promising fans an incredible weekend of thrills and action, right in the heart of the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.

The Capco Contractors team has never been out of title contention this season, but their odds of a fifth straight Top Fuel title got a huge boost following Steve Torrence's most recent win in St. Louis.

The official start of the Texas NHRA FallNationals at the historic Texas Motorplex will rev up with an epic lineup of NHRA drivers and riders for the Pre-Stage Fan Fest in downtown Waxahachie, Texas.

"I just wanted to do it my whole life. It's the only thing I've ever thought about, every waking moment of my entire life." —Jake Opatrny, on getting to drive a Top Fuel dragster at the 2022 NHRA Midwest Nationals.

For more than 50 years, Pro Stock has been the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series driver's class, and in through these on-board cameras in Matt Hartford's Camaro you can see why.

Doug Gordon won in Top Alcohol Funny Car in his return to racing and Phil Smida won both events in Super Street as the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series North Central Division was in action for a doubleheader event at World Wide Technology Raceway.

All racers are amazing people and fierce competitors, but some stand out for not just being great racers, but great human beings, too. We recently lost one of them, former Texas Top Fuel racer Jody Smart, and with the Texas NHRA FallNationals next up on the national event schedule, it seems the perfect time to remember him.

Currently ranked No. 4, John Force has work to do if he's going to win a 17th Funny Car championship but no one on the JFR team is prepared to throw in the towel as they head to Dallas for the NHRA Texas FallNationals.

At the 1990 Dallas event, independent Top Fuel racer Wayne Bailey fireballed an engine during qualifying but wasn't the least bit fazed by the whole experience.

The 2022 season finale in the Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown category is set to include an increased purse, as NHRA officials announced today a $5,000 purse bonus from Dring Air Conditioning and Heating at the Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex.

Legends Nitro Funny Cars — Funny Cars with 1979-or-older body styles, blown nitromethane-fueled engines, two-speed transmissions, and 21-gpm fuel pumps harkening back to a wildly popular era of Funny Car racing — will be part of the action at the NHRA Nevada Nationals, Oct. 27-30. 

NHRA fans can watch the Division 3 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series doubleheader event from World Wide Technology Raceway for free starting Thursday on NHRA.tv powered by National Dragster.

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the NHRA Midwest Nationals as they celebrate their victories with their teams and one another, and accept congratulations from their vanquished final-round foes.

At 200 mph, things happen quickly. But listen to Angelle Sampey discuss scraping the wall with her bike's foot peg with the coolness of a fighter pilot.

The talent pool and parts expertise at John Force Racing is extensive, but when you see two Funny Cars run the same e.t. in the same session—that's nitromethane mastery!

At every NHRA national event, NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart offers fans the chance to send him an email with technical questions about the race cars, the tracks, and the procedures. As part of a semi-regular feature, we’ll share those questions and answers on NHRA.com.