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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…

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Southern California-based In-N-Out Burger has had strong connections to drag racing since founder Harry Snyder took a 50-percent stake in ownership of Irwindale Raceway in the 1960s and began selling his famous hamburgers out of the track’s…

In the 50 years that the Funny Car class has been contested in NHRA, there has been no shortage of memorable and unpredictable moments. Over the course of 802 events, 89 winners have been crowned with several surprises along the way. We ranked the…

Brainerd Int’l Raceway isn’t the home track for Bob Bode, but for a number of reasons, it feels like it for the Funny Car driver. Ever since winning the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at the…

The photographers of NHRA National Dragster, the official magazine of NHRA, capture thousands of dramatic images at every NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national event, so it’s hard for them to choose favorites, but…

Get to know the stars of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series a little better with this fun feature from NHRA National Dragster magazine that features fun, off-the-wall questions not asked in regular interviews with the drivers. In this…

FOX Sports 1 (FS1) is adding 30 minutes of live NHRA programming on Saturday, Aug. 20, 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…

Jim Oberhofer, vice president of racing operations at Kalitta Motorsports and crew chief for the team’s Doug Kalitta-driven Mac Tools Top Fueler, checked in with NHRA’s Lewis Bloom at the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to talk about the highs…

When Greg Anderson drove to victory at the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals, he collected Wally No. 85, tying legend Bob Glidden for second on the all-time Pro Stock wins list. Anderson and Glidden are two of the top drivers on that list — who…

Timing is crucial in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. In the fastest motorsport on the planet, in which 10,000-horsepower, nitro-burning dragsters reach 330 mph in less than four seconds, races are won and lost by hundredths of a second.…

BRIAN OGLESBEE’S HOME-BUILT ’55 CHEVY SUPER STREETER With the exception of the hood scoop, Brian Oglesbee’s classic Chevy Bel Air looks like it could be cruising burger joints in the 1950s instead of tearing…

NHRA on FOX Indy Bureau Chief John Kernan checked in with Amanda Busick at the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to update the busy week underway at Don Schumacher Racing, where the cars of Antron Brown…

Premium Top Eliminator Club (TEC) tickets are going fast for the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, Aug. 31-Sept. 5. Those who purchase tickets will be the first to experience the new TEC pavilion, which will…

I’m back from an incredible weekend in Seattle, where, appropriately, after last week’s column about the track’s legendary 64 Funny Cars events, the floppers were the star of the show with nine of the quickest times in history, national record-…

The Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil was a Funny Car statistician’s dream world as nine of the 10 quickest passes in class history were recorded at Pacific Raceways. Entering the event, Matt Hagan has the…

Reigning NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car champ Del Worsham had an incredible weekend at the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals presented by Lucas Oil, setting the national…

With the Western Swing in the rearview mirrors, NHRA’s Mello Yello teams are returning to their home bases to prepare for the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals and, beyond that, the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals. From the Wally Parks Route 66…

Justin “Big Chief” Shearer, star of Discovery Channel’s reality television series Street Outlaws, plans to compete in his Pro Mod car in the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals Aug. 31-Sept. 5 at Lucas Oil Raceway in…

As an experienced pilot and Top Fuel racer Doug Kalitta is used to flying across the ground and above it, and the owner of Kalitta Charters recently invited NHRA FOX reporter Amanda Busick to Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Mich., not only to…

Bob Mandell's supercharged Top Sportsman Corvette   Bob Mandell has lovingly produced hundreds of showcase machines from his race-car-building emporium, Bob’s Pro Fab, in the tiny town of Culleoka, Tenn., but none may…

Sonoma winner J.R. Todd, driver of the SealMaster Toyota Top Fuel dragster, will throw out the first pitch at the Cincinnati Reds' Major League Baseball game Aug 15.   Raised in nearby Lawrenceburg, Ind., Todd grew up cheering on…