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Remembering Pat Minick and the legend of the Chi-Town Hustler

20 Jan 2017
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Pat Minick
The passing of Pat Minick, original driver of the famed Chi-Town Hustler Funny Car, on Thursday took me by surprise and saddened me in the way that I mourn the loss of the pioneers of our sport. The heroes that I grew up reading about on the pages…
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The Chi-Town Hustler

20 Jan 2017
Photo of the Week
Chi-Town Hustler
The famed Chi-Town Hustler at Southern California's Irwindale Raceway in 1969, with the late Pat Minick at the wheel. Crew chief Austin Coil stands beside the car.  
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Pat Minick, original Chi-Town Hustler driver, passes away

19 Jan 2017
News
Chi-Town Hustler
Pat Minick, who gained fame as the driver of the first series of Chi-Town Hustler Funny Cars that he campaigned with partners Austin Coil and John Farkonas, and their ’69 Dodge Charger, passed away Jan. 19. He was 79. The Chi-Town Hustler was…
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NHRA.com offers new home base, new features for NHRA Members

18 Jan 2017
News
NHRA member
The launch of the new NHRA.com is big news for NHRA Members because, in addition to all the great content fans have come to expect from NHRA, the site now offers  an improved experience for Members, NHRA’s most loyal customers. Beginning today…
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Happy New Year

18 Jan 2017
On the Run: Kalitta Motorsports
Kalitta
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season and that the nitro withdrawals haven’t been kicking in too bad yet! So many exciting things have happened since the end of the 2016 NHRA season that I can’t wait to fill you…
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NHRA announces jet car program expansion for 2017 season

The jet car exhibitions that have run at NHRA national events is expanding for 2017 and will be featured at a record amount of races and will run Friday nights after the second Top Fuel session.
18 Jan 2017
News
Jet cars at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Throughout the 2017 season NHRA national events will feature exhibition passes from the popular jet cars. Known for their exciting pre-run flame shows and afterburner pops, jet cars are thrust-driven vehicles propelled by jet engines and are a fan…
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NHRA Today roundtable: Who's in the driver's seat

NHRA reporters Amanda Busick, John Kernan and Lewis Bloom discuss some of the big “Silly Season” news so far as teams get ready for the Circle K NHRA Winternationals.
18 Jan 2017
Posted by NHRA.com staff
NHRA Today™
NHRA reporters Amanda Busick, John Kernan and Lewis Bloom discuss some of the big “Silly Season” news so far as teams get ready for the Circle K NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona starting. Some of the topics include not only the…
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Who's Next?

Predicting the next national champions is hard work, but here are ten racers who have never won a championship, but could easily breakthrough for a title in 2017
18 Jan 2017
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
The Sports Report
Sawyer
Quickly scanning the numbers, more than 5,000 racers competed in at least one event in Comp, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Top Dragster, and Top Sportsman last season and a significant number of those racers entered enough events to…
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NHRA on FOX to feature 16 live Sunday eliminations shows; four live Sunday elimination shows on FOX

The 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series television schedule for the season’s Sunday eliminations shows has been released and is highlighted by 16 live Sunday finals shows.
17 Jan 2017
News
TV
Officials from NHRA and FOX Sports have unveiled the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series television schedule for the season’s Sunday eliminations shows. The 2017 season is highlighted by 16 live Sunday finals shows, including four on the FOX…
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A look at the Funny Car performance surge

17 Jan 2017
Candida Benson, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
Tuesday Morning Crew Chief
Jack Beckman's Funny Car
Since Jack Beckman and his then-Jimmy Prock-led crew turned the world on its head with back-to-back stunning performances in Sonoma and Seattle in 2015, Funny Cars have been getting quicker and quicker, and the 2016 season saw new track records at…
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NHRA Today: Catching up with Ashley Force Hood

16 Jan 2017
Posted by NHRA.com staff
NHRA Today™
Ashley Force Hood, the first of John Force's Funny Car-racing daughters, visits with NHRA's Amanda Busick in the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to talk about her current video projects with John Force Entertainment, about her racing memories, and the…
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Winningest Racers at the Winternationals

The Circle K NHRA Winternationals has produced a combined 85 different winners in Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock through the years, and 31 of those drivers have won more than once. But which drivers have the most victories at the season opener?
16 Jan 2017
Candida Benson, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
Fast Five
Bob Glidden makes a run at the 1976 Winternationals
The Circle K NHRA Winternationals is just a few short weeks, and the annual season opener has produced 85 different combined winners in the Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock ranks through the years. Of those 85, 31 have won more than once, but only…
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About the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series

15 Jan 2017
NHRA.com staff
News
Heritage Series
To help preserve NHRA’s rich history and tradition while capitalizing on the success of nostalgia drag racing competition, NHRA in 2009 formed the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series that today crowns year-end points champions in 14 categories.…
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Alcohol Funny Car veteran Moats passes away

Vern Moats, one of the longest-tenured Top Alcohol Funny Car driver before his retirement in 2012, died Jan. 15. He was 77.
15 Jan 2017
News
Vern Moats
Vern Moats, one of the longest-tenured Top Alcohol Funny Car driver before his retirement in 2012, died Jan. 15. He was 77. Moats began racing in the early 1960s, and had been in a Top Alcohol Funny Car since 1972 before the class or the one that…
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Of national consciousnesses and Pandora's Box

13 Jan 2017
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Hot Wheels
Last week’s column on the many looks of Don Prudhomme’s first Barracuda included the statement that the car was the one “That launched Prudhomme’s name into the national consciousness.” I quickly heard from Insider regulars Dennis Friend and…
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NHRA Today: Inside Don Schumacher Racing's machine shop

It takes a lot of parts to keep Don Schumacher Racing’s fleet of Top Fuelers and Funny Cars running down the track, and thanks to a $7 million investment, the team can make many of those parts in house at their Brownsburg, Ind., shop.
13 Jan 2017
Posted by NHRA.com staff
NHRA Today™
It takes a lot of parts to keep Don Schumacher Racing’s fleet of Top Fuelers and Funny Cars running down the track, and thanks to a $7 million investment, the team can make many of those parts in house at their Brownsburg, Ind., shop. The DSR…
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Booth Higgs named show producer for NHRA on FOX television broadcasts

Television production veteran Kymberly Booth Higgs has been named NHRA show producer for the 2017 FOX Sports television broadcasts of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.
13 Jan 2017
News
Kymberly Booth Higgs
Television production veteran Kymberly Booth Higgs has been named NHRA show producer for the 2017 FOX Sports television broadcasts of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. She will also produce the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and the J&…
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NHRA Today: NHRA announcer Reinhart's season preview

NHRA chief announcer Alan Reinhart stopped by the Wally Parks NHRA Studio recently to chat with NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom about the upcoming 2017 season.
12 Jan 2017
NHRA Today™
NHRA chief announcer Alan Reinhart stopped by the Wally Parks NHRA Studio recently to chat with NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom about the upcoming 2017 season. The two spoke about some of the changes during the off season along with some of the big…
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Circle K NHRA Winternationals set to ignite the senses as NHRA Mello Yello season kicks off in Pomona

The tradition-rich Circle K NHRA Winternationals, which will for the first time in its history feature Sunday’s eliminations live on the FOX national broadcast channel, kicks off the 24-race NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Feb. 9-12, at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
12 Jan 2017
News
Pomona
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing is a complete sensory experience. The earth rumbles as blaring 10,000-horsepower racecars shoot nitro into the air at 330 mph in pursuit of victory; and that pursuit of victory and a championship crown will once again…
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NHRA Today: DeJoria amped for Winternationals return

11 Jan 2017
NHRA Today™
Alexis DeJoria suffered her third concussion in four months when she slammed into the wall in Las Vegas in October, which ended her 2016 season early. The driver of the Tequila Patron Funny Car driver never doubted her 2017 return, and joined NHRA…
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NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series points and qualifying procedures changed for upcoming season

The NHRA competition committee has announced changes to qualifying procedures at all NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events and more.
11 Jan 2017
News
PC2
The NHRA competition committee has announced changes to qualifying procedures at all NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events, changes to the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship, and also announced an added point-and-…
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Remembering George Howard

10 Jan 2017
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
The Sports Report
George Howard
George Howard long ago secured his place in drag racing history. The longtime track operator, race promoter, who passed away on Sunday, January 8, after a brief illness, had the audacity to think that he could offer a top prize of $40,000 for an E.T…
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Does Winternationals success equal season success?

10 Jan 2017
Candida Benson, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
Tuesday Morning Crew Chief
Ron Capps in winner's circle 2016 Winternationals
When each season starts, drivers often talk about the importance of getting a great start to the season, but does early success, particularly at the Circle K NHRA Winternationals, lead to a successful season overall? It did for Ron Capps last season…
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NHRA Today: Jim O discusses Team Kalitta's 2017 plans

10 Jan 2017
NHRA Today™
There have been some major changes this off season for Connie Kalitta’s race team led by rookie Troy Coughlin Jr. making the move to fulltime Top Fuel driver and J.R. Todd going from a Top Fuel car to the DHL Funny Car and numerous changes in the…
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NHRA to honor first responders in 2017

09 Jan 2017
News
First Responders
In the high-speed world of NHRA Championship Drag Racing, things can happen in the blink of an eye. Wins and losses are decided by milliseconds but when things go wrong on the track, NHRA racers know that they also can rely on the lightning-quick…
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In partnership with Oberto brands, 7-Eleven to sponsor Jim Dunn Racing in 2017

09 Jan 2017
News
Jim Dunn Racing
7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain, is gearing up for a high-speed promotion in 2017, partnering with Jim Dunn Racing and associate sponsor Oberto Beef Jerky for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. The primary…
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The Hawaiian wins the 1965 Winternationals

06 Jan 2017
Photo of the Week
POW 277
Don "the Snake" Prudhomme earned his first of 49 career wins with his victory in Roland Leong's Hawaiian Top Fueler at the 1965 Winternationals.  
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Prock rejoins JFR as team strengthens for 2017

Crew chief Jimmy Prock will return to John Force Racing as the team strengthens its racing operations in preparation for multiple championship runs for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.
06 Jan 2017
News
John Force Racing is strengthening its racing operations in preparation for multiple championship runs for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.   Sixteen-time Funny Car champion John Force will reunite with crew chief…
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Which champion will repeat?

06 Jan 2017
Poll Position
2016 champions
Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock), and Jerry Savoie (Pro Stock Motorcycle) will be bannering the No. 1 on the side of their rides this season after finishing the 2016 season as champs, but can they keep it? All…
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NHRA Today: Lindberg ready for nitro Funny Car challenge

06 Jan 2017
NHRA Today™
National Dragster Senior Editor Kevin McKenna broke the news Tuesday afternoon that two-time Top Alcohol Funny Car champion Jonnie Lindberg would…
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