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The AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals and the Dodge NHRA Nationals are switching their event dates for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.   The Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading…

It appears that the Pro Stock Motorcycle Countdown to the Championship is going to be a two-bike affair between Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson teammates Andrew Hines and Eddie Krawiec, who sit 1-2 atop the standings, but they’re not…

In this week’s edition of Night at the Museum, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom highlights one of the newest additions to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: Don “the Snake” Prudhomme’s Army Plymouth Arrow. The car won the…

Through a standout career that includes eight Top Fuel world championships, Tony Schumacher has displayed an incredible ability to produce remarkable late-season runs to grab a world title. Trailing…

Alex Laughlin, who at the recent AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals became NHRA’s latest first-time winner in Pro Stock, isn’t resting on his laurels. The talented Texan recently earned his…

NHRA’s six-race Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championships has determined the season championships, but it hasn’t always been that. NHRA of FOX reporter Jamie Howe takes a look back at the numerous ways and format…

Bristol Dragway won the NHRA Southeast Division Summit Racing Series Team Championship over Gainesville Raceway and Montgomery Motorsports Park while Timmy Smith led the list of individual winners at the Southeast Division Summit Finals at Atlanta…

Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park captured the team championship while Russ Stryker, Howard Devore, Steven Umberger and Freddie Camarena took home the individual championship at this weekend’s NHRA Pacific Division Summit Racing Series Finals…

With just three races left in the Countdown to the Championship, Antron Brown in Top Fuel and Ron Capps and Tommy…

The "all-in-one" fuel-system valve is all the rage in the nitro classes these days, a unit developed by the DHL team in cooperation with Don Jackson that replaces three others parts with one, as Kalitta Motorsports crew chief Jim…

We’ve looked at the top drivers in Top Fuel, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle in this column, so to wrap up the series, this week, we delve into the win stats for the Funny Car class. Everyone can probably quickly guess the top two drivers…

What does is cost to build a 10,000-horsepower nitro Funny Car that will run 330 mph on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series? NHRA on FOX analyst Tony Pedregon, a former two-time NHRA Funny Car world champ, breaks it down, from chassis to…

The list of Sportsman winners at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals included everything from fresh-faced 18-year-old Koy Collier, who was competing in his first national event, to 69-year-old veteran Larry Cummings, who collected his first…

Matt Driskell, the 1996 Super Comp national champ, is now a serious contender for a second title following his win in the Top Dragster presented by Racing RVs category. The final round featured two of the top-five ranked drivers in the country with…

Tom Schmidt wheeled his Pontiac GXP past JJ Heber’s Mustang in the final round of Top Sportsman presented by Racing RVs and in the process earned his fifth NHRA national event victory in four different categories. Schmidt, a previous winner…

The youngest, and perhaps most exuberant champion of the Dodge NHRA Nationals, was Super Gas winner Koy Collier, who turned 18 on Sept. 23, the day that qualifying and time trials began for the event. It was significant because had the event been…

Super Comp winner Christopher Dodd had one prior national event final at the 2014 Dallas event, but he has now evened his record by driving his Undercover-chassis dragster to a final-round win over Robert Eaker, who fouled in his ’67 Nova…

Larry Cummings has visited the winner’s circle many times, but it’s usually to join the celebration with one of his two sons, Britt and Slate, who have combined to win 10 national events in a variety of classes. This time, it was his…

After a runner-up finish earlier this season, when he fouled against Tommy Phillips in Houston, Jacob Pitt rallied to win his second national event title. Driving his ’69 Barracuda, a car built by West Coast ace Steve Wann, Pitt kicked off…

Comp champ Terry Smith called his first victory a “dream weekend” after defeating Fred Allen in the final round. In a battle between the No. 12 and No. 19 qualifiers, Smith used a (-.543) 6.547 to beat Allen’s (-.503) 7.387. Smith…

It is easy for Steve Torrence to reminisce when he is in the staging lanes at the Texas Motorplex, the site of the 31st annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals, Oct. 13-16. The Top Fuel standout and Kilgore, Texas native grew up racing at the track…

Last Sunday’s reveal of Don Prudhomme’s '75 Army Monza as the No. 4 Funny Car on the Top 20 fan-vote list whittles our list down to just three entries, with the No. 3 spot scheduled to be revealed Sunday of the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas…

The 2016 NHRA Breakfast, held annually at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, will continue the celebration of NHRA’s 50 years of Funny Car with some of the sport’s biggest stars. Funny Car drivers featured during the NHRA breakfast are include…

Olympic gold medalist and local hero Michelle Carter will serve as the grand marshal for the 2016 AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex, Oct. 14-16. Carter isn’t a drag racer, but if anyone knows about competitive spirits and…

The world’s best drag racers will have some Texas-sized expectations when they roll into Texas Motorplex, Oct. 13-16, for the 31st annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. The event just south of Dallas is the 22nd race of 24 on the 2016 NHRA…

This week, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom looks back to the 1992 Funny Car championship season of Cruz Pedregon. After John Force had won back-to-back championships in 1990 and 1991, along came rookie Funny Car driver Pedregon in Larry Minor’s McDonalds-…

On Saturday morning of the recent Dodge NHRA Nationals, Chris Holbrook made the quickest and fastest pass in NHRA Stock eliminator history. He joined NHRA’s Lewis Bloom via Skype in the Wally Parks NHRA Studio to talk about the history-making…

Prior to last weekend’s Dodge NHRA Nationals, NHRA reporters Amanda Busick and Lewis Bloom checked in with Angelle Sampey from the Wally Parks NHRA Studio. A week earlier, she and Cory Reed had announced that they were leaving Star Racing at…

  There shouldn’t be a whole lot of debate about this, so I’ll just come right out and say it: Peter Biondo is the greatest Sportsman racer in the 60-plus-year history of the National Hot Rod Association. OK, I’m sure some…

The third time did not turn out to be the charm for John Force Racing’s Funny Car triumvirate last weekend at Maple Grove Raceway as John and Courtney Force and teammate Robert Hight all lost in the opening round. There was a bright spot for…