Nine more Countdown spots clinched in Brainerd
With the completion of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in Brainerd, race 17 of the 18-race NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series regular season, 29 of the 40 spots in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs have been clinched. Only the top-10 drivers…
Force, Worsham, Skillman, and Hines collect big victories at Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals
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Traxxas Nitro Shootout fan vote opens
Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers will rely on fan votes and random lottery drawings to claim the final spot in the NHRA Traxxas Nitro Shootout in their respective categories. The final position in each…
Top 20 Funny Cars: Introducing No. 8
As part of NHRA’s 50 years of Funny Car celebration, fans voted on a Top 20 list developed by respected drag racing historians and Funny Car experts. The results are being revealed in reverse order at NHRA national events this season…
Best of Brainerd
The penultimate race of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series regular season before the start of the playoffs offered dramatic on-track battles and unreal performances on the Brainerd Int'l Raceway surface at the annual Lucas Oil NHRA…
Hagan's record run leads Funny Cars; Brown, Nobile, Sampey also go No. 1
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Brown, Capps win delayed Seattle finals
Don Schumacher Racing doubled up on wins Saturday during the rain-delayed final rounds of the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil at Brainerd Int’l Raceway in Brainerd.
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Schumacher, Worsham, Butner, Sampey are opening-day qualifying leaders in Brainerd
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NHRA Today: Pro Stock Motorcycle points battle intensifies
With just two races left in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series regular season, the battle for the final spots in the Pro Stock Motorcycle Countdown to the Championship is heating up, with six riders within 100 points fighting for the…
NHRA Today: Crampton carries momentum to sponsor's race
With a 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season that has not gone the way as planned to this point, count Richie Crampton as one who is excited to be heading to Brainerd Int'l Raceway this weekend.…
Buster Couch: Tales from the starting line
Last Thursday, on the eve of the national event at his old home track, former NHRA Chief Starter Mark Lyle was remembered by family, friends,…
FS1 will air delayed Seattle finals on Saturday
FOX Sports 1 is adding 30 minutes of live NHRA programming on Saturday during the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals to televise the postponed final rounds of Top Fuel and Funny Car from the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil…
Finish Lines: Jeff Diehl
Get to know the stars of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series a little better with this feature from NHRA National Dragster magazine that features fun, off-the-wall questions not asked in regular interviews with the drivers. In this edition,…
Tricky Tipster's Brainerd 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.…
NHRA Today: Pressure's on McMillen for Countdown berth
As the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series regular season nears its completion, drivers such as Top Fuel veteran Terry McMillen are battling for their lives to get into the top 10 in points to be…
NHRA Today: Torrence trying to double-up
Steve Torrence began the season with a bang with a win at the Circle K NHRA Winternationals from the No. 1 qualifying spot. He also scored a win at the NHRA Summernationals and has qualified No. 1 eight…
Underdahl hopes to turn luck around at Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals
Jim Underdahl knew there would be a learning curve when he rolled out his Suzuki Extended Protection motorcycle with a number of new changes for the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. What he didn’t expect was a season-…
NHRA Today: Enders remains optimistic through rough season
Coming off of two back-to-back world championships, Erica Enders and her newly established Elite Motorsports team remain optimistic throughout their rough 2016 season. Enders scored a huge round-one win over Alex Laughlin in Seattle that moved…
DeJoria still on the mend, will miss Brainerd
Alexis DeJoria and the Tequila Patrón Funny Car team will not compete at this weekend's Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in Brainerd while DeJoria continues her recovery from a pelvic fracture. The…
Event preview: Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to the Land of 10,000 Lakes for the penultimate race of the regular season, the 35th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd Int’l Raceway. The stakes will be high as drivers in Top Fuel, Funny…
1982 Brainerd
This weekend, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to Brainerd for the 35th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. For this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday, we will look through the NHRA National Dragster photo archives at…
Anderson loves extra attention, extra pressure of Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals
There are the usual reasons Greg Anderson is looking forward to returning to his home track, Brainerd International Raceway. There’s the chance to meet up with family and friends, revisit memories from a track where the Duluth, Minn., native…
Featured Flyer: Stock Thunderbolt
John Cooper's vintage Stock Eliminator Ford Thunderbolt When the Ford Thunderbolt was introduced during the early days of the muscle car wars in the 1960s, it was so powerful that it was not allowed to compete in Stock.…
Courtney Force eager to get back on track in Brainerd
Courtney Force is eager to get back on the track at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals this weekend following a first-round collision with the guardwall at Pacific Raceways in Seattle In the first round against Jeff Diehl Force pedaled her Traxxas…
Johnson Jr. embraces challenges ahead
To succeed at this weekend’s 35th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway and during the Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship, Funny Car standout Tommy Johnson Jr…
NHRA Today: Capps gearing up for busy Brainerd weekend
After a roller-coaster start to the season that included a win in Pomona and a DNQ in Las Vegas, Ron Capps and crew found their groove during what many dub the Eastern Swing, winning in Epping,…
Mission Accomplished
When Don O’Neal won the Top Sportsman class at the recent Division 3 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series race in St. Louis, it was far more than just another win: Instead it was the fulfillment of a dream and a promise that was nearly a…
NHRA Today: Resurgent Nobile ready for the Countdown
After a trying start to his 2016 season in which he reached the semifinals just twice in the first 13 events, Vincent Nobile and the Mountain View Tire team came alive during the Western Swing. Nobile was runner-up at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA…
Langdon eyes fast times at Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals
Shawn Langdon might not have won a year ago at Brainerd Int'l Raceway, but the former Top Fuel world champion fondly recalls what took place thanks to stellar conditions during eliminations. Langdon ran an…
Dixon stockpiling equipment for return to Top Fuel wars
Three-time NHRA Mello Yello Series Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon has acquired race cars and necessary racing equipment to his Larry Dixon Racing stable at his team’s headquarters in Brownsburg, Ind. Dixon, the second winningest Top Fuel…