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With just the Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals remaining in the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series regular season, 21 drivers have already secured their positions for the Countdown to the Championship playoffs that begin Sept. 12-15 in Reading.

In addition to the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series winners at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, 10 winners were also crowned in Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series action at Brainerd International Raceway.

The Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals were a blast, and our brilliant NHRA National Dragster photographers captured it all. Here's a bit of what happened on Sunday at Brainerd International Raceway.

Scott Libersher won for the first time in the Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown Series at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

With the Countdown to the Championship coming into view, Justin Ashley, Blake Alexander, and Dallas Glenn scored valuable points with their wins on Sunday at Brainerd International Raceway's Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

We're off and running on Sunday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. The sun is shining brightly on Brainerd International Raceway, and we've got a jam-packed day ahead as titlists are decided in all classes. Follow along in today's News and Notes. (Updated throughout the day)

The day has arrived. It's Sunday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, and the racers and teams of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series are dialed into one thing: winning a trophy at historic Brainerd International Raceway.

Austin Prock powered to No. 1 and claimed another Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge win on Saturday in Brainerd. Antron Brown and Greg Anderson also claimed coveted #2Fast2Tasty titles, while Steve Torrence and Jerry Tucker raced to No. 1 on a long but thrilling day at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

The second day of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals has arrived, and Brainerd International Raceway is filling to the brim with fans hungry for drag racing action. With two sessions of nitro, three qualifying rounds of Pro Stock, and the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge on the schedule, it's going to be a banger. Follow along in the news and notes.

Saturday action at Brainerd International Raceway was something to behold, and our ace NHRA National Dragster photographers caught it all at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Here's a glimpse at what you may see in future issues of the legendary National Dragster magazine.

One of the most anticipated portions of Mission Foods Drag Racing Series national events has come to be the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge, and this weekend's battle goes down today at Brainerd International Raceway.

Yes, the NHRA National Dragster photographers did venture into the Brainerd Zoo - but only briefly and just to get these photos for your viewing pleasure. See the notorious Zoo and more in the Friday photo gallery from the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

News, notes, quotes, and photos from the opening day of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

Four-time Top Fuel world champion Steve Torrence powered to the provisional No. 1 position on speed at Brainerd International Raceway, taking the top spot over Tony Stewart on Friday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Blake Alexander and Greg Anderson join Torrence at the top.

As the most winning Pro Stock driver in NHRA history, Greg Anderson is no stranger to the winner’s circle, including at Brainerd International Raceway, which serves as the host of this weekend’s 42nd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

After a two-week respite, NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series racers are reset and ready for the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. The clock on the regular season is tick-tick-ticking toward closing, and action is expected to be particularly fierce at Brainerd International Raceway.

The Drag Racing Association of Women will be hosting a celebration of life for Rosalee Noble on Friday of the Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals.

After nearly four years away, Jack Beckman will return to Funny Car competition at this weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals as the fill-in driver and earning points for 16-time Funny Car champion John Force following Force’s crash in late June.

From teenage prodigy to five-time NHRA world champion to a dominant figure in high-stakes bracket racing, there was nothing Scotty Richardson couldn’t do, and do well.

In the 2000s, Top Fuel star Tony Schumacher scored eight wins and reached nine final rounds at the NHRA U.S. Nationals in a decade of dominance in which other stars, including Antron Brown, Robert Hight, and Greg Anderson, also began to shine.

The experts at Alt Sports Data have set the opening lines for this week’s event at Brainerd Int’l Raceway, and they have chosen Doug Kalitta, Austin Prock, and Greg Anderson as the pre-race favorites.

Doug Kalitta’s storied career began in 1998, and race No. 600 will come at this weekend’s 42nd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in his points-leading Mac Tools Toyota Top Fuel dragster.

Take a video look back at five wild and crazy runs from one of NHRA's wildest and craziest events, the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Fires, wheelstands, crashes, and more.

Scag Racing has revealed specialty paint schemes highlighting individual products from Metalcraft of Mayville’s Scag Power Equipment line that will debut at this weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, an event and venue known for more than its on-track action.

Tony Pedregon joins Brian Lohnes to talk all things Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, championship contenders, fresh drivers arriving at the race, and how some teams are contending for a title already and some teams are pretending to. 

As the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series regular season winds down, NHRA teams are gearing up for the 42nd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, which takes place at festive Brainerd Int'l Raceway on Aug. 15-18.

NHRA fans can watch the Division 1 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series doubleheader event from New England Dragway for free starting Friday on NHRA.tv.

NHRA nitro drivers Ida Zetterstrom and Matt Hagan thrilled a packed house with burnout exhibitions at RoadKill Nights presented by Dodge.