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Ida Zetterström didn’t make her Top Fuel season debut until August, but her eight-race body of work to close out the season and her strong international support earned her the support of voters to be named Best New Talent.

Cody Lane, a second-generation sensation from the Great Northwest, was named Sportsman Driver of the Year by voters for the 2024 National Dragster All-Star Team.

Sean Bellemeur, who clinched his fourth NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Funny Car world championship, was voted Top Alcohol Driver of the Year by fans.

The NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League Right Trailers Western Conference Finals returns to Texas Motorplex on June 13-15, and the Right Trailers NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals will take place July 17-19 at Bristol Dragway.

The team from Antron Brown’s Top Fuel championship-winning AB Motorsports helped share that excitement with a strong presence on social media and was voted the 2024 National Dragster All-Star Social Media Account of the Year.

For the first time ever, NAPA will team up with NHRA as an official partner, becoming the “Official Auto Parts Store of NHRA” as part of an exciting multi-year agreement.

Join us for a full day of live-streamed interviews on the NHRA on FOX Stage, featuring an all-star lineup of hosts and guests.

Set to celebrate its landmark 75th season in 2026, NHRA officials revealed a series of special plans today to kick off the campaign for the historic year in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. 

Right Trailers and LB Trailers announced the Racers selected for their 2025 Motorsports Team at the Performance Racing Industry trade show in Indianapolis on the NHRA stage. 

NHRA has announced the 2025 season schedules for the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, Flexjet NHRA Factory Stock Showdown, Holley EFI NHRA Factory X, Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock, and Pingel NHRA Top Fuel Motorcycle.

Pro Stock to compete at 18 races with GETTRX NHRA All-Star Callout moving to Norwalk; Pro Stock Motorcycle to race at 15 events and GETTRX NHRA All-Star Callout again in Sonoma

NHRA officials have announced the creation of a special two-day exhibition showcase race, a new event featuring big-name NHRA stars racing at an NHRA member track. The first showcase event, the Peach State NHRA Showcase of Champions, will take place Oct. 24-25, 2025, at South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, Ga.

The town of Brownsburg, Ind., home to the NHRA North Central Division and Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, recently hosted their annual holiday parade which featured a significant NHRA drag racing presence.

In July 2017, Robert Hight ran 339.87 in his Funny Car, and there were several other 339- and 338-mph speeds, but it took more than seven years for the class to top 340 mph. Why? And which of those two seasons knocked our socks off speed-wise?

Though the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock class was contested at just a handful of races in its inaugural NHRA season, and young Johnny Pluchino emerged as the first NHRA world champion in the brazenly bold category.  

Evan Jonat has been named NHRA Senior Vice President of National Events. Jonat, who is based out of NHRA’s San Dimas, Calif., office, has been NHRA Vice President of Live Events since 2018, first joining NHRA in 2007 as a field marketing manager.

Mark Pawuk has been racing in the NHRA for more than 40 years, first in Super Gas then Pro Stock, and, more recently, in Factory Stock, where he finally won his first world championship. Here's a look back at five great moments from "the Cowboy's" career.

Five-time Super Stock world champion Greg Stanfield etched his name in the pages of history once more, winning the championship in the inaugural season of Holley EFI Factory X.

Clinton Snead has been named the new NHRA Director of Engineering, returning to NHRA from Toyota Racing Development, where he served as senior engineer.

Larry McBride has been the face of Top Fuel Motorcycle racing for more than a quarter century, so it seemed very fitting that he would win the inaugural championship of the Pingel NHRA Top Fuel Motorcycle Series.

Tickets are now on sale for the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, which takes place March 27-30, 2025, as NHRA celebrates 65 years of the historic race next season at the legendary In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Fans can also see the return to four qualifying sessions for the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.

The NHRA National Dragster staff wraps up and recaps a thrilling 2024 NHRA season with a monster 244-page December issue packed with reflections and memories of the year.

We teased you, we told you, we reminded you, and still some of you refused to believe that the 2024 Silly Season would live up to the hype. As we’re still reasonably early into it, it’s already brought some fireworks to the sport and the eggnog is barely cold. 

The NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum teamed up with the California Highway Patrol Baldwin Park Division for the 2024 Twilight Cruise Night and Toy Drive.

Now an annual tradition, we've once again selected 10 unforgettable Sportsman racing moments from the recently completed 2024 NHRA Drag Racing season.

Tony Stewart Racing has announced that Mike Knudsen has been promoted to crew chief on Matt Hagan’s Funny Car, with Phil Shuler joining the championship-winning team heading into 2025.

Of all the topics that got the drag racing populace fired up in 2024, the performance numbers and weight adjustments in the Pro Stock Motorcycle category were probably the most incendiary. But what does the data say? We've got the answers.

Thomas Prock and Gaige Herrera join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster. The two who garnered championship honors in their respective roles and categories bring us inside their evolution in the sport, the work it took to earn their titles, and how 2025 is already shaping up before them.

Gaige Herrera rode his way to another dominant world championship run, again setting records, again reaching double-digit wins, and again remaining as the class of the category on his RevZilla/Mission Foods/Vance & Hines Suzuki.

Live interviews, breaking news, and exclusive insights from the world of motorsports — Dec. 12-14, 2024 — live-streamed on YouTube and NHRA.com