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The season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona will decide who wins their first NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel championship.

The Auto Club NHRA Finals will close out the season in Pomona by crowning four champions. Here's a look at the scenarios.

Following his most recent win at the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas, Joey Severance is now a three-time NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Dragster champion. Severance locked up the title and then went on to defeat Shawn Cowie in the final round.

World champions will be crowned in all four Mello Yello Drag Racing Series categories at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona at the Auto Club NHRA Finals.

For the seventh consecutive year, Summit Racing Equipment and Armed Forces Entertainment will join together to send a group of top motorsports competitors overseas to visit American troops on duty in remote locations. The annual trip, appropriately coined Operation Appreciation, will this year make stops at various stations in Japan.

Throughout the week, NHRA streamed live from its booth at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas with interviews from NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series stars and members of the performance aftermarket.

Terry McMillen became the oldest Top Fuel winner in history in a season where we saw the youngest winner of all time in NHRA history.

Veteran Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chip Ellis will compete on a third Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Street Rod at the Auto Club NHRA Finals

Ford drag racing icon Gas Ronda passed away recently, and is being warmly remembered by his family, friends, and fans.

NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom spoke with the winning crews from the NHRA Toyota Nationals: Dickie Venables (for Matt Hagan, Funny Car), Matt Hines (for Andrew Hines, Pro Stock Motorcycle); Rob Downing (for Greg Anderson, Pro Stock), and Rob Wendland (for Terry McMillen, Top Fuel).

Shawn Cowie, John Lombardo Jr., and David Rampy scored wins as The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season finale where more national, regional, and division champions were crowned.

Melling Performance has announced a new partnership with Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman for 2018 for primary sponsorship of the Erica Enders-driven Pro Stocker at 16 of 24 races next season, and as major associate sponsor at the remaining eight national events.

The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series returns to premiere racing facilities during the 17th consecutive year for the upcoming 2018 season.

Justin Lamb uses a late-season rally to clinch the national championships in Super Stock and after a Las Vegas win, he’s closing in on the Stock title as well

Glen Cromwell, who rose through NHRA’s ranks from Division Director to become Senior Vice President, Media and Marketing, has been promoted to NHRA President, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Cromwell succeeds Peter Clifford, who will assume the newly created post of Chief Executive Officer.

Bob Tasca III will race a full-time schedule with Ford Performance as his primary sponsor.

Joey Severance, Shane Westerfield, and Justin Lamb locked up the Lucas Oil national championships in their respective classes during the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend.

With championship drama in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, and NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the NHRA Toyota Nationals, the second-to-last race on the 2017 schedule, was certainly one to remember. NHRA’s Amanda Busick and Lewis Bloom share their five greatest moments from the race.

E3 Spark Plugs has been named the series sponsor for NHRA Pro Mod racing. The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service will feature 12 races and a second visit to Texas during the year as well as a change to the qualifying procedures. 

Stevie "Fast" Jackson earned the Pro Mod win at the NHRA Toyota Nationals by beating newly crowned 2017 Pro Mod champion Troy Coughlin Sr.

Terry McMillen earned the first win of his career; Greg Anderson and Eddie Krawiec extended their points leads with wins, and Matt Hagan got back into the winner's circle.

Troy Coughlin Sr. clinched his third J&A Service Pro Mod Series championship in dramatic fashion at the NHRA Toyota Nationals, beating his only title challenger, Mike Castellana, in a dramatic, head-to-head second-round encounter.