Best of Dallas
After three action-packed events to open the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series headed to Texas for the fourth of six events that will determine this year’s world champions. The exciting action…
AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals Saturday notebook
Drivers in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series classes got their final shots at qualifying and fine-tuning race-day setups for eliminations during today’s final two qualifying sessions, and though there were some improvements and shuffling…
Track records tumble as Hight, Brown lead nitro fields; points leaders Line and Hines lead Pro Stock shows
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AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals Friday notebook
The AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals kicks off the second half of the 2016 Countdown to the Championship, and with just three races remaining to determine the world champions in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, there is a greater sense of…
Troy Coughlin Jr. to join Kalitta Motorsports in third Top Fuel machine in 2017
Kalitta Motorsports has announced the expansion to a third Top Fuel dragster team to be driven by Troy Coughlin, Jr., beginning in the 2017 season. This announcement aligns two of the legendary names in the sport, Kalitta and Coughlin, for the…
Krawiec coming on strong heading to Dallas
Starting the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship with a first-round loss is usually not an ideal recipe to winning a world championship. It’s the exact scenario Pro Stock Motorcycle standout Eddie Krawiec was…
Event Preview: AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals
The 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship enters the second half with the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at venerable Texas Motorplex, home of so much history since its creation in 1986. Three decades later, the all-concrete supertrack…
The top three: Pulde
With the Top 20 Funny Cars list whittled down to just three – “Jungle Jim” Liberman’s '73 Vega, Dale Pulde’s '77 War Eagle Trans Am, and John Force’s '96 Castrol Firebird -- and the top two not to be announced for…
National Dragster's Top 10 Reading photos
NHRA National Dragster photographer Marc Gewertz stopped by the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to share with NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom the staff’s favorite images from the Dodge NHRA Nationals.
Tricky Tipster's Dallas picks
For more than five decades, NHRA National Dragster's famed Tricky Tipster has tested his prognosticating skills prior to each national event, putting odds on the top eight racers he thinks have the best shot at victory in Tricky Tipster.…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Super Gas champion Craig Porter
Craig Porter also earned his first national event Wally with his victory in Super Gas in his second final. Porter, runner-up in his ’93 Mustang last year in Gainesville, went the distance this time by outmaneuvering final-round opponent Ed…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Super Comp champion Amanda Boicesco
Super Comp victor Amanda Boicesco was one of only two first-time national event winners among the Reading Sportsman champs, but winning is no stranger to her family: Her father, Iggie, is an eight-time national event champ who won in Reading in…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Stock champion Peter Biondo
Just three weeks after collecting his 49th victory in Super Stock at the NHRA Carolina Nationals in Charlotte, Peter Biondo snagged career win No. 50 in Stock in Reading. Racing in his 75th final, “the Terminator” drove his B/SA ’…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Super Stock champion Michael Iacono
Michael Iacono, who scored his first victory at the 2004 Reading race, quickly recovered from his loss to Peter Biondo in the Stock final to corral his sixth win with a victory minutes later in the Super Stock final in his familiar pink GT/DA…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Alcohol Funny Car champion Andy Bohl
Andy Bohl, who last year scored a huge win at the U.S. Nationals, collected career win No. 3 in Reading with his Howard’s Cams/Competition Products Camaro when he defeated Sean Bellemeur in the final on a holeshot, 5.57 to 5.51, after a…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Alcohol Dragster champion Jackie Fricke
Jackie Fricke scored her first win in Top Alcohol Dragster by driving John Finke’s A/Fuel Dragster to a final-round victory over former national champ Chris Demke. No. 2 qualifier Fricke, whose husband, Shawn, is a national-event-winning…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Comp champion Al Ackerman
Former Comp national champ Al Ackerman, who hadn’t won a national event since his dominating, three-win championship campaign in 2010, wheeled his F/Dragster to his fifth win with a final-round defeat of Joe Carnasciale, (-.65) 7.88 to (-.61…
Dodge NHRA Nationals Sportsman champion highlights
Due to persistent rain that limited time-trial and qualifying efforts, the majority of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series portion of the Dodge NHRA Nationals was completed Monday at Maple Grove Raceway, where the sun shone most brightly on seven…
Motorplex win a high priority for Texan McGaha
Five years ago, Chris McGaha recorded his first Pro Stock round win at the Texas Motorplex, the site of this weekend’s 31st annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at the Texas Motorplex. As big as that…
Fans weigh in on 2016's top moments to date
As the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season roars to its conclusion, NHRA has been asking on social media for fans to share their favorite moments of the season to date. NHRA’s Amanda Busick checks out the submissions from…
Glidden first to reach 50-win milestone
Reaching the 50-win milestone in NHRA national event competition is a rare and impressive feat, one first accomplished 30 years ago at Texas Motorplex, site of this weekend’s AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals, by NHRA Pro Stock icon Bob Glidden…
NHRA Today: Biondo reaches 50-win milestone in Reading
With his victory in Stock at the recent Dodge NHRA Nationals, Peter Biondo, one of the premier NHRA Sportsman racers of all time, became just the 17th driver in NHRA history to record 50 NHRA national event wins. Biondo, known in drag racing…
NHRA Today: Pedregon looks to turn around disappointing season
Cruz Pedregon is a two-time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car world champion, but the last few years have not been kind to the Cruzer. He hasn’t won an event since Englishtown in 2014 and has only five…
Maintaining consistency is Capps’ goal
As he chases his first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car world championship, Ron Capps was a model of consistency throughout the 2016 regular season. That consistency has stretched into the…
Four Score
So you’ve never heard of Gage Burch? Stick around a while, you almost certainly will. As a quick introduction, Burch is a 16-year-old drag racing prodigy from Palmetto, Fla., who is in the process of making the jump from the NHRA Summit…
Schedule change announced for 2017 Countdown races
The AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals and the Dodge NHRA Nationals are switching their event dates for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship. The Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading…
NHRA Today: Hines, Krawiec always looking for improvement
It appears that the Pro Stock Motorcycle Countdown to the Championship is going to be a two-bike affair between Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson teammates Andrew Hines and Eddie Krawiec, who sit 1-2 atop the standings, but they’re not…
Night at the Museum: Don Prudhomme's Army Arrow
In this week’s edition of Night at the Museum, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom highlights one of the newest additions to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: Don “the Snake” Prudhomme’s Army Plymouth Arrow. The car won the…
NHRA Today: Laughlin earns Alcohol Dragster license
Alex Laughlin, who at the recent AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals became NHRA’s latest first-time winner in Pro Stock, isn’t resting on his laurels. The talented Texan recently earned his…