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Both reigning world champ Doug Kalitta and red-hot class rookie Tony Stewart will be running special back and gold liveries at the Texas NHRA FallNationals, saluting Mobil 1’s 50th anniversary, a fitting tribute to a Texas-based company at an event set in the heart of the Lone Star State. 

Don Thomas, Joe Lisa, and Houston Raikes led the list of winners as the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series South Central Division competed at Texas Motorplex for the makeup event at Pine Valley.

The rain-delayed completion of the Division 4 event from Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park took place at Texas Motorplex just before the Texas NHRA FallNationals.

Season-long sponsor True Brand Products will have its first full-car wrap on the Jim Dunn Racing Funny Car at the Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex. In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) will also be highlighted on the True Brand nitro Funny Car.

Mark Ingersoll, lead crew chief for six-time and reigning world champion Erica Enders at Elite Motorsports, is recovering from a double lung transplant but has a long road of recovery ahead of him, and the Elite Motorsports family has started a GoFundMe to help Ingersoll with ongoing medical and care expenses.

An inside look at the thermal damage that leads to dramatic smoke shows on the dragstrip

The second half of the six-race NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship playoffs begins this weekend with the main event of Texas Motorplex’s Stampede of Speed, the Texas NHRA FallNationals, starting an epic three-race finish.

For the second year in a row, veteran Funny Car driver Terry Haddock took the win light at the Stampede of Speed's signature exhibition event, the Texas Invitational.

Tune in to the NHRA FAST Channel Saturday for a five-episode Talkin’ Funny Cars with Buddy Hull marathon that will feature Buddy Hull talking with fellow Funny Car standouts Ron Capps, Cruz Pedregon, Daniel Wilkerson, Paul Lee, and Austin Prock.

Second-generation Pro Stock driver Mason McGah will drive his father’s ex-Pro Stock Camaro in Comp during the upcoming Division 4 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event and race both that car and his traditional blue and yellow Camaro in Pro Stock at the Texas NHRA FallNationals.

As part of the PlayNHRA initiative, the oddsmakers at Alt Sports Data have released updated championship odds for Professional racers in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.

Bradley Johnson scored wins in both Top Dragster and Top Sportsman on separate days as the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Pacific Division completed a doubleheader event at Famoso Raceway.

Officials with NHRA, Firebird Motorsports Park, and the Gila River Indian Community have announced a multiyear extension for the annual NHRA Arizona Nationals.

In recent years, we’ve seen a flood of articles across different sports all asking the same question: Who's on your [fill in the blank] Mount Rushmore? We got to wondering: Who would be on Top Fuel's Mount Rushmore? Garlits? Muldowney? Schumacher? Brown? Dixon? Kalitta? Torrence?

After a highly successful first year at the Texas Motorplex, the popular JEGS Allstars competition returns to the famed facility as part of the track’s Stampede of Speed and Texas NHRA FallNationals on Oct. 9-13.

With just three races to go in the 2024 season, the battle for NHRA Rookie of the Year is really heating up with a star-studded and diverse field of nine first-year racers eligible for the prize. Here's a look at their seasons to date.

Tony Stewart and Tony Bogolo were the respective winners in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car as the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series North Central Division wrapped up a doubleheader event at World Wide Technology Raceway.

How does six-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champ Matt Smith’s multi-role focus sharpen his success on and off the track?

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the NHRA Midwest Nationals as they celebrate with their teams and accept congratulations from their defeated final-round opponents.

In advance of the 39th annual Texas NHRA FallNationals, Talkin’ Funny Cars with Buddy Hull will catch up with NHRA Funny Car points leader Austin Prock, which premieres on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. EDT and 8 p.m. PDT.

Funny Car championship hopeful Jack Beckman discussed the mental game of drag racing — and all of motorsports, really — with Amanda Busick of NHRA on FOX.

The 2024 edition of the NHRA Midwest Nationals continued the event's long history as a pivotal race in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs and an event where the unexpected can and usually does happen.

NHRA’s women of power continue to create history during the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season, with the latest milestone coming at the NHRA Midwest Nationals, where, for the first time in class history, four women qualified for the Top Fuel field.

The official start of the Texas NHRA FallNationals at the historic Texas Motorplex begins Oct. 10 with an epic lineup of NHRA competitors at the Pre-Stage Fan Fest in downtown Waxahachie, Texas.

On this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by back-to-back Pro Stock winner Dallas Glenn and the winning Top Fuel crew chief from St. Louis, Mike Neff.

The Division 2 National Open, originally scheduled for Oct. 5-6 at Carolina Dragway, has been canceled. The decision comes in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which caused significant damage to the region, leaving the facility without power and unable to host the event.

You have plenty of chances to catch all the high-speed action again as NHRA on FOX re-airs the Third race of the Countdown to the Championship from St. Louis!

NHRA fans can watch the Division 3 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series doubleheader event from World Wide Technology Raceway for free starting Wednesday on NHRA.tv.

In addition to the thrilling action in the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Midwest Nationals, six winners were also crowned in Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competition at World Wide Technology Raceway, including Comp winner Ryan Warter.

It was a chill bump-inducing weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway as a fresh note in history was written, crew chiefs proved unafraid, and veteran racers emerged victorious during a pivotal championship race. Here are five takeaways from the NHRA Midwest Nationals.