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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Shane Westerfield

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Shane Westerfield ran the table with a win in the JEGS Allstars race and a Sunday victory over Kris Hool in the Top Alcohol Funny Car final round. Westerfield ran as quick as 5.414 on race day and sealed the win, his third of the season, with a 5.…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Super Gas Koy Collier

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Two weeks after his father, Steve, was injured in an on-track accident in Topeka, Koy Collier scored his second win of the season in Super Gas. Following his runner-up in the JEGS Allstars race, Collier rallied on Sunday to earn another win in Super…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Super Stock winner Justin Lamb

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Reigning Stock and Super Stock champion Justin Lamb almost doubled with a runner-up in Stock and a win in Super Stock. Lamb fouled by eight-thousandths in the Stock final but returned a few moments later to close the deal in Super Stock when he…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Super Comp winner Austin Williams

19 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
The Super Comp final was also decided via a red-light start which ended Koy Collier’s chance to join the distinguished list of drivers who have doubled-up at an NHRA national event. When Collier left .009-second ahead of the green light, Austin…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Top Alcohol Dragster winner Joey Severance

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Joey Severance earned his second win of the season by stopping Dan Page in the Top Alcohol Dragster final round, 5.249 to 5.347. With four runs between 5.221 and 5.250, Severance was dominant on race day to earn his 21st career victory.
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Comp winner Michael Mans

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Two weeks after he broke a three-year win drought with a Super Stock victory in Topeka, Michael Mans returned to the winner’s circle after he drove Daryl Arrowsmith’s GTO to the Comp title. Facing a field that included some of the best racers in the…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Stock winner Jeff Adkinson

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Justin Lamb’s red-light in the Stock final was a huge relief to Jeff Adkinson, who won his third national event title behind the wheel of his A/SA ’69 Camaro. A multitime Division 2 champ, Adkinson reached the final by beating Matt Lund in a heads-…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Super Street winner Val Harmon

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Val Harmon, the 2012 JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals champion, earned a second national event title in Super Street after defeating Cole Cummings, who finished the event with a win and a semifinal finish. Harmon won the all-Louisiana, all-’67 Nova battle…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Top Sportsman winner Don O'Neal

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Crazy doesn’t begin to describe the final round of Top Sportsman presented by Racing RVs after Don O’Neal won his second national event of the season, even though he fouled in the final. O’Neal left .004-second too soon which should have ended…
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JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals Top Dragster winner Kyle Seipel

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
With a win in the final round of Top Dragster presented by Racing RVs, Seipel joined his good buddy, Lamb, in the winner’s circle. Seipel, a winner in four different NHRA classes, locked horns with young prodigy Aaron Stanfield in the final and…
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JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Dragster winner Joey Severance

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Defending world and JEGS Allstars champ Joey Severance, near lane, returned to the winner’s circle after winning the special event for the third time in his career to help lead the West Region to the team title. Severance’s final-round 5.24 sealed…
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JEGS Allstars Comp winner Frank Aragona

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Frank Aragona Jr., near lane, put up three wins for Division 1, sealing his second career Allstars title by beating Division 4’s Craig Bourgeois in a titanic matchup of former world champs. Aragona, whose other Allstars crown was won in 2011,…
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JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Shane Westerfield

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Shane Westerfield’s championship-defense season just keeps getting better as the reigning class king, near lane, won the JEGS Allstars for the second time in three years, then followed with a Sunday win. Westerfield defeated fellow West Region racer…
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JEGS Allstars Stock winner Ryan Mangus

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Division 7 Stock representative Ryan Mangus was congratulated by Jeg Coughlin Jr. after driving Coughlin’s Drag Pak Challenger to a win in the JEGS Allstars. Mangus won the final round over Division 6 rep Joe Sorensen, who fouled by seven-…
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JEGS Allstars Top Sportsman winner Lester Johnson

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Division 3 racer Lester Johnson, near lane, drove his amazing ’55 Chevy to a win in the Top Sportsman class when he topped Division 4 racer Bob Gulitti in the final round. Gulitti cut a .001 light but broke out by a hundredth while Johnson rolled to…
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JEGS Allstars Super Stock winner Aaron Stanfield

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
A year after defeating his father, Greg, in the Chicago Super Stock final, Aaron Stanfield, near lane, returned to Route 66 Raceway to help the Division 4 team earn the overall points title in the JEGS Allstars event. In the final, Stanfield…
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JEGS Allstars Super Gas winner Ken Mostowich

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Ken Mostowich, near lane, scored a win as a blocker when final-round opponent Jack Collier took too much stripe. The Pacific Division racer cut a solid light and drove .003-second over the index to take the Super Gas Wally back home to Calgary, Alta…
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JEGS Allstars highlights: South Central Division rolls to seventh team title

‘The Good Guys” from the NHRA South Central Division turned in a dominating performance to win the 34th annual JEGS Allstars overall team title during the JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago.
19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Aaron Stanfield
‘The Good Guys” from the NHRA South Central Division turned in a dominating performance to win the 34th annual JEGS Allstars overall team title during the JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago. The Division 4 crew built a sizable lead after five…
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JEGS Allstars Top Dragster winner Jeff Strickland

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
A heavyweight bout went the way of Division 2 racer Jeff Strickland, near lane, as he took out reigning Top Dragster presented by Racing RVs world champion Lynn Ellison in the final. Ellison broke out in pursuit of Strickland while trying to score a…
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JEGS Allstars Super Street winner Philip Smida

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Philip Smida II, far lane, ran a nearly perfect race to score a victory for the North Central Division. Smida bested Division 1’s Don Garbinski in a final that was decided by .021-second as Smida wheeled his ’88 Cavalier to a winning 10.909 pass.
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JEGS Allstars Super Comp winner Mike Robilotto

19 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Northeast Division rep Mike Robilotto ran a dominating race to defeat South Central Division competitor and reigning Super Comp world champion Austin Williams in the final. Robilotto cut a .009 light and ran .001-second over the index, leaving…
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Fast Five: Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals

NHRA's Lewis Bloom and Amanda Busick share their top five moments from the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
18 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Fast Five
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Tharpe collects third season win with victory in Bristol

17 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Tii Tharpe won for the third time this season when Doug Vancil turned on the red light and went up in smoke at the hit in the final round of the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. The win put Tharpe just 15 points behind Vancil in the…
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alBalooshi scores Pro Mod win at Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals

AlBalooshi powers into the winner's circle for the first time this year at the E3 Sparks Plugs Pro Mod Series presented by J&A Services portion of the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
17 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Kalid
Khalid AlBalooshi drove to his first victory of the season and fourth of his career Sunday during the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by presented by J&A Service portion of the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley…
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Welch scores first SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown victory in Bristol

Joe Welch takes Drag Pak Challenger to first win in School of Automotive Machinists and Technology NHRA Factory Stock Showdown.
17 Jun 2018
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
News
Joe Welch
While opponent Arthur Kohn was sitting under the tower, strapped into his COPO Camaro, Joe Welch and his crew were in the back of the Bristol Dragway staging lanes, hastily preparing his Drag Pak Challenger for the final round. Welch answered the…
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Schumacher, Capps get first wins of season at Fitzgerald USA NHRA Nationals; Coughlin captures Pro Stock win

Tony Schumacher took home a Top Fuel Wally for the first time in more than a year, while Don Schumacher Racing teammate Ron Capps (Funny Car) also won for the first time in 2018. Jeg Coughlin Jr. (Pro Stock) earned his second victory of the year.
17 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Race coverage
Event winners, from left, Tony Schumacher, Jeg Coughlin Jr., and Ron Capps 4
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Green flips car during Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals Pro Mod action

The parachutes on Chad Green's Chevy Camaro did not deploy, resulting in the car flipping and skidding into the sand trap during E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod eliminations. The racer exited the car under his own power.
17 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
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Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals Sunday Notebook

17 Jun 2018
NHRA National Dragster staff
Race coverage
Bristol
Ladders | Features | Photos | Results ELIMINATION ROUND RECAPS …
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Happy Father's Day!

NHRA wishes a Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Whether you be a racer, a fan, a sponsor, or any part of our world, we wish you the happiest of days.
17 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
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Steven Whiteley secures first Pro Mod No. 1 of the season at Fitzgerald USA NHRA Nationals

Steven Whiteley held on to the No. 1 qualifying position Saturday during the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service portion of the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway.
16 Jun 2018
Posted by NHRA.com staff
News
Steven Whiteley
Steven Whiteley held on to the No. 1 qualifying position Saturday during the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service portion of the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. This weekend’s…
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