NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Steve Reintjes, who has served as NHRA’s Coordinating Producer for the past two years, has been promoted to the role of Vice President of Broadcasting. 

From the fab shop turning out short blocks, cylinder heads, superchargers, bodies, and chassis to the race shops, where 2020's combinations are being brewed, there's a lot going on at John Force Racing in the off-season.

Osborn, the world’s largest and most complete solution provider of high-quality surface treatment and finishing products, will join Kalitta Motorsports as a major associate sponsor to the multi-time NHRA world championship team. 

NHRA has announced the schedule for the 2020 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series, featuring the NHRA Motorsports Museum’s Hot Rod Reunions.

Two-time world champion Jonnie Lindberg is building race cars and planning his return to Top Alcohol Funny Car class after three-year run with Jim Head Racing in the Mello Yello series.

Former NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car racer Gary Clapshaw passed away Dec. 15. Clapshaw ran his own cars for years but is perhaps best remembered for generously loaning his Top Fuel dragster to legend Don Garlits, providing “Big Daddy” with the car to make his long-desired first 300-mph pass.

Safety equipment pioneer Bill Simpson, founder of Simpson Racing Products, who introduced the concept of a braking parachutes in drag racing and also developed life-saving fire-retardant equipment for motorsports, died Dec. 16.

Bo Butner, the 2017 NHRA Pro Stock champion, has inked a deal with Strutmasters for the 2020 season of NHRA's Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.

Rodney Flournoy was a Southern California fan favorite in the 1980s with his family-run Funny Car. Nearly 40 years later, he's still burning nitro in the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series, now with his daughter at his side.

More than 80 guests stopped by the NHRA booth through the three days of the 2019 PRI Show in Indianapolis to chat with NHRA on FOX hosts Brian Lohnes, Tony Pedregon, and John Kernan. Watch them all now.

NHRA National Dragster's final issue of 2019, the annual Year in Review edition, is online for NHRA members and in the mail to homes and shops around the world.

NHRA and IndyCar drivers bowled and mingled with families and fans during Don Schumacher Racing's annual Bowl For Riley event in Indianapolis, which now has raised more than $700,000 for Riley Children’s Foundation.

Ford Performance, along with Ford Customer Service Division and its brands Motorcraft and Quick Lane, have signed a multiyear deal with NHRA team owner and driver Bob Tasca III, continuing a long relationship with his Mustang Funny Car operation.

Journeyman nostalgia drag racer Joe Morrison was introduced as the new shoe of the Leverich Family Racing Top Fuel Dragster for the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.

Mobil 1 will return to the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series in 2020. ExxonMobil, in partnership with Toyota Racing Development, will become Kalitta Motorsports’ official lubricant partner in 2020 and Mobil 1 racing oil will be used in all team cars. 

The 2019 season was full of exciting moments, but which were the most memorable? NHRA fans took part in a vote and selected the 19 Most Memorable Moments of the season. No. 1: John Force wins 150.

The NHRA on FOX cameras are rolling at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis with three full days of interviews from the show, available for viewing at NHRA.com .

The drivers of Don Schumacher Racing will be the featured guests at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show Grand Opening Breakfast Thursday morning. The breakfast will be streamed live on NHRA.com beginning at 7:45 a.m.

The holidays may be upon us shortly, but there's no holiday at Torrence Racing where the two-time Top Fuel champs are hard at work preparing for the 2020 season an a chance to join an elite group of teams who have won three straight titles.

Tickets are now on sale for the 66th annual U.S. Nationals, the World’s Biggest Drag Race. This event, Sept. 2-7 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis., marks the 18th stop on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing tour.

Funny Car world champion Robert Hight feels the nitro categories have caught up to Pro Stock in terms of tight finishes at the stripe.

The NHRA Tech Dept. goes to great lengths to maintain a level playing field in the E3 Pro Mod Drag Racing series as the class is set to welcome new technology in 2020

After a disappointing season in which Terry McMillen failed to qualify for the Countdown to the Championship, crew chief Rob Wendland and the Amalie Motor Oil Top Fuel team are hard at work to make sure that doesn't happen again in 2020.

Don Schumacher Racing will host its annual Bowl For Riley event, Dec.  11 in Indianapolis where NHRA and IndyCar drivers will bowl and mingle with families and fans during a night of fun and fundraising for the Riley Children’s Foundation.

With the recent hiring of crew chief Eric Lane, there's a lot of work -- and a lot of optimism -- flowing at Cruz Pedregon Racing, where the former two-time world champ is eager to get back into the thick of the championship race.

The 2019 season was full of exciting moments, but which were the most memorable? NHRA fans can vote now to help select the 19 Most Memorable Moments of the 2019 season, which will be revealed in reverse order through the end of the year beginning Dec. 13.

They call the time between the Auto Club NHRA Finals and the season-opening Winternationals the "off-season," but there's very little time being taking off at Don Schumacher Racing, where work is progressing on the team's 2020 machines.