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The NHRA Arizona Nationals, Stop 2 of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, was packed with twists and turns and history-making moments. Here are five big takeaways from the event.

Alex Laughlin is less than 15 runs into his new career as a Funny Car driver, but he’s already run in the threes, qualified for a field, and, perhaps most importantly of all, he’s gotten a thumbs up from his team owner, notoriously tough grader Jim Dunn.

The 38th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals is said to be the last NHRA national event held at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, and Bo Butner and his wife, Randi Lyn Butner, are planning to make the most of it — whether or not it pans out to be the last hurrah in Phoenix. 

Buddy Hull will be making his season debut in Top Fuel this weekend, carrying a new major sponsor in Methanol Moonshine, local sponsorship from Chompie’s restaurant and Camelback Ford, a new crew chief in veteran Mike Guger, and a ton of expectations and dreams.

A lot of racers and fans will be sorry to see Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park close, but Leah Pruett, who's won there twice in three final-round appearances, will surely be at the head of that list.

The NHRA Arizona Nationals has a history of great moments, and the 1993 event, 30 years ago, was action-packed with fires, crashes, and big wins. Here's a look back at five memorable moments from that event.

After a win in the season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, Matt Hagan crew chief Dickie Venables feels good about all of the changes the team made over the winter that helped contribute to a strong start.

Nobody does muscle cars better than Dodge, and for the Hemi car’s swan song it has unleashed an 8.91-second Demon that Dodge is calling the “most powerful muscle car in the world.”

Coming into the NHRA Arizona Nationals hot off their NHRA Gatornationals Top Fuel runner-up, the Torrence Racing team is ready for the year ahead, which assistant crew chief Bobby Lagana Jr. predicts will be "The most competitive Top Fuel field that NHRA has ever seen."

Jeff Diehl Racing, a well-known and respected Funny Car team in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, has brought in driver Jim Campbell to kick off its first race of the season at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. 

After a strong start to the season with a semifinal finish in Gainesville, Leah Pruett's Tony Stewart Racing/Dodge Power Brokers team heads to Phoenix this week. Crew chief Neal Strausbaugh talks about the team's testing work and plans for the NHRA Arizona Nationals.

Hear Wilkerson explain to Bruno Massel how the Maynard-Wilkerson team was created and the instruction Joe Maynard gave to him. 

After tuning Robert Hight's Funny Car with Jimmy Prock for years, Cunningham moves over to fill Rahn Tobler's shoes on Austin Prock's Top Fuel dragster

Gaige Herrera came from the no-wheelie-bar-drag-bike scene to the 2023 Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals and won in his debut race with the Vance & Hines Pro Stock Motorcycle team.

On the heels of their season-opening Top Fuel win at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, crew chief Rob Flynn and car chief Aron Cave hope to use that momentum heading into a trio of Western events.

Watch Big Daddy Don Garlits roast the tires in a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody Jailbreak

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals as they celebrate their victories with their teams and one another, and accept congratulations from their vanquished final-round foes.

The Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals opened the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season with wild action, upsets, and a list of deserving if unexpected winners. Here's a quick look back at the essential action.

The 2023 Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals will long be remembered as one of NHRA’s most successful and most memorable events. Naturally, the season opener also provided a lot of valuable lessons but somehow, we’ve narrowed that down to five points that we learned last weekend at Gainesville Raceway.

It’s early in the season – with just testing and one day of Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals qualifying behind us — but if there’s an unexpected MVP so far this season, it’s definitely Bob Tasca III.

Greg Anderson and the rest of the KB Titan Pro Stock team quickly adjust to a hectic off-season as they look to shift the balance of power in the Pro Stock class.

Erica Enders is poised to become the winningest female driver in NHRA history, while Brittany Force will almost assuredly become the sport's leading female winner in Top Fuel.

It was a historic season in many respects for Ron Capps last year, as the veteran Funny Car standout won his second straight world championship in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Season and gives Capps plenty of momentum going into 2023.

Let's take a quick trip in the wayback machine to 1983, where we review the Top 5 moments from a very memorable NHRA Gatornationals.

Fresh off a record-breaking season and her second world championship in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, Top Fuel star Brittany Force has no plans of letting up — or slowing down.

The 2023 season has only just begun, but for Cody Krohn, this year has already been unforgettable. In February, Krohn earned a license to race Top Fuel in NHRA, and less than a month later, he reached his first final round in Top Alcohol Dragster.

Crew chiefs Jimmy Prock and Danny Hood talk about offseason moves and preseason plans for their respective John Force Racing teams heading into this week's season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals.

Former NHRA Rookie of the Year Austin Prock enters the 2023 season with a lot of momentum after his victory at the 2022 season finale and with new crew chief Chris Cunningham joining the team. Hear from both of them in this exclusive interview.

The launch of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series begins in a special place for third-year Pro Stock racer Dallas Glenn.

Former Pro Stock and Top Fuel driver Alex Laughlin, the new driver of the Jim Dunn Racing Funny Car, shares his views and emotions following his initial runs in the class in testing.