NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

What’s in a name? While the flanks of today’s race cars are more likely to be emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor or the name of the team, car names back in the 1960s and ‘70s were the calling cards and public faces for many operations. Here's a gallery of some of the more colorful from the National Dragster archives.

Even though the track is not officially open yet for racing, NHRA Division 5 Member Track Rock Falls Raceway in Eau Claire, Wis., had cars on the track May 8 as part a Drive-Thru Tour program to highlight improvements at the track.

NHRA’s Brian Lohnes and Alan Reinhart will host an interactive NHRA Shop Talk show live Wednesday at noon Pacific on NHRA’s Facebook page. The show also will here on NHRA.com and on NHRA’s YouTube page. This week: Chassis science, covering everything from bracket cars to Top Fuel.

Morgan Lucas, son of company founders Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, has been named the president of Lucas Oil Products, a California-based distributor and manufacturer of motor oils and additives.

NHRA E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod sensation Todd Tutterow chatted via Skype with NHRA's Brian Lohnes to talk about his team's offseason efforts and the delayed start to the 2020 Pro Mod campaign.

NHRA's Brian Lohnes takes a look at the stories and happenings from the last week in the world of NHRA Drag Racing.

In this wide-ranging interview, NHRA President Glen Cromwell shares the thoughts behind the decisions that have been made to NHRA schedules during the COVD-19 pandemic and offers a look at the roadmap for the times ahead.

On this episode of the NHRA Insider, Dom Lagana and Billy Stocklin join host Brian Lohnes to talk about tuning race cars, their lives in the sport, and the things that have made them into the successful racers that they are today. 

Ford Funny Car stalwart Bob Tasca III and his Motorcraft tear are back at work in their Indiana shop, beginning the ramp-up process that will carry them back into competition in August. Crew chief Jon Schaffer takes up through the plans, including safety precautions underway in their building

We’d like to thank all our mothers. Without women like them, kids like us wouldn’t have grown up to love cars, wrenching, and racing.

Terry McMillen's Amalie Motor Oil Top Fuel team is another of the Indiana-based operations that are back in the shop working on its equipment, which in their case also includes tending to their "crankshaft farm." NHRA's John Kernan reports from Indy.

Reigning NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence married his longtime love, Natalie Jahnke, May 9 at the home of his parents, Billy and Kay, in Kilgore, Texas.

Shrouded in secrecy, Chevrolet’s Pro Stock Drag Race Competition Engine (DRCE) evolved the big-block Chevy into a 1,400-hp, 10,000-rpm, naturally aspirated motorsport weapon one race weekend at a time.

"Big Daddy" Don Garlits' blowover wheelstand during Top Fuel qualifying at the 1986 Summernationals is one of the most iconic moments in the class' history. Take a ride back in time to see how legendary announcer Steve Evans described the moment.

Two-time and reigning NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Funny Car Sean Bellemeur discusses with NHRA's Brian Lohnes his take on the racing break and what he and the Bartone Racing team have in store when racing finally resumes.

In his newest segment of Reinhart Reveals, NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart shows the difference between a Pro Stock camshaft and a big-block Chevy camshaft.

Racing on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series might still be a couple of months away, but for Don Schumacher Racing, it’s time to get back to work as part of the “Back on Track Indiana” program.

Megan Meyer hasn’t had much of a chance to begin the title defense of her 2019 Top Alcohol Dragster world championship, but the second-generation phenom checked in via Skype with NHRA’s Brian Lohnes to talk about what the team has been doing and what it’s looking forward to when racing resumes.

Jimmy Wingo, who services the clutch on Tommy Johnson Jr.'s Funny Car, built a go-kart dirt track in his backyard an invited some of his racing buddies, including Steve Torrence's clutch guy, Gary Pritchett, over to share in the racing fun to help stoke everyone's competitive fires.

Can’t fit a torque wrench between your engine’s oil pan and flexplate? Use a box-end wrench to extend the reach of your torque wrench.

Another use for AN fittings that you'll kick yourself for not thinking of sooner.

NHRA Member Track World Wide Technology Raceway and Jimmy John’s delivered 200 lunches to front-line medical personnel at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., May 6, which was National Nurses Day,

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider John Hall has been working to support his local community by donating money and beverages through his business, Orange, Conn.-based Dichello Distributors, to local fire stations, hospitals, and food banks.

NHRA nitro Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, is hoping to inspire the community to rise in support of those who need it most during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This is project time, a season when social distancing means the safest place to be—is alone with your race car project. Send us photos of what you're working on.

A news archive of all NHRA press releases concerning the COVID19 pandemic and its effects on NHRA Drag Racing.

The 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance held at Beech Bend Raceway, Bowling Green, Ky., originally scheduled for mid-June, has been rescheduled to Aug. 20-22.

A supercharger backfire at the 2020 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals damaged the Funny Car body of Paul Lee; assistant crew chief Donnie Bender explains what it took to get the body back into race-ready condition.

Take a tour through the Harris Race Cars shop of NHRA Division 5 Comp eliminator team of the Harris family. The shop is located in Nebraska City, Neb.