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2024 JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Sean Bellemeur
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D7's Myhre, O’Moore, Hoefer, Schneider, Leon headed to National Championship
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NHRA Summit Racing Series National Championships on the line in Las Vegas
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2024 JEGS Allstars Top Sportsman winner Curt Fredrich
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2024 JEGS Allstars Super Street winner Alan Bush
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2024 JEGS Allstars Super Gas winner Mchael Boehner
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2024 JEGS Allstars Super Comp winner Tom Stalba
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2024 JEGS Allstars Stock winner Michael Brand
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2024 JEGS Allstars Super Stock winner Trey Vetter
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2024 JEGS Allstars Comp winner Stephen Szupka
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2024 JEGS Allstars Top Alcohol Dragster winner Julie Nataas
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Copertino, Northrop, Harvey, Sutliffe, and Hoff win Division 1 Summit Finals
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Sill, Innes, Hastings, Drnach, and Sheppeard win Division 3 E.T. crowns
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Vaughn, Milton, Quinn, Fangmeyer, and Larson win Division 5 E.T. titles
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Nelson doubles, Garrett, Merrill, and Couch also claim Division 4 E.T. titles
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Meziere, Price, Burkevics, Reeves, and Webster win Division 6 Summit Finals
Alex Xydias (1922 - 2024)
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Action heats up for upcoming NHRA Summit Racing Series Finals
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2024 NHRA Northwest Nationals Top Alcohol Dragster winner Casey Grisel
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NHRA Northwest Nationals Sunday preview
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Hodge Repeats, Stack Brothers Double Up At JDRL Eastern Conference Finals
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Celebrating Ed Iskendarian’s 103rd Birthday
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Sunday News and Notes from the PlayNHRA Virginia Nationals
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Wilson wins fourth title to highlight JDRL Western Conference Finals in Dallas
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Kalitta looks to close the only gap on his resumé: A New England Nats win
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New owners have renovated and re-energized historic Rockingham Dragway
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Vantine wins season opener of Pingel Top Fuel Motorcycle Series in Chicago
Stephen Bell wins his second Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown event of 2024
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Firebird Raceway's Midnight Grudge Drags gets prime local exposure
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Summit Racing Equipment renews as title sponsor of NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League
The Indy Before Indy
Last week’s North Central Division event at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis attracted more than 600 racers and provided a perfect warm-up for the upcoming Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals.
The Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals doesn’t start for two more weeks yet there were officially 634 racers on the grounds of Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis last weekend. The large gathering of Sportsman racers was made possible when the North…
The three that got away
Justin Lamb went to three final rounds in two weeks and lost all of them, but it would be hard for him to not consider his Sonoma and Seattle trip a success
During a three-week swing that included the Division 7 Lucas Oil Series event in Sonoma, the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals, and the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle, Justin Lamb competed in five events. His combined record for the five includes a…
Family circle
After winning the Stock title at the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals, Brian McClanahan now joins his father and son as an NHRA national event winner.
As the son of former national champ Jerry McClanahan and the father of 2010 Super Stock national champ Ryan, Brian McClanahan has been to the winner’s circle many times at NHRA national events, but he didn’t have a Wally trophy to call his own until…
Same time next year
Chris Whitfield pulled off a feat even more rare than a double when he earned back-to-back Super Comp titles at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals
The first half of the 2017 NHRA season featured five doubles at national events, but that remains a rare feat that has only occurred 38 times by 24 different drivers. In Denver, Kris Whitfield pulled off a feat that is even more rare when he won…
Eight is not enough
Once again, the JEGS Allstars provided a perfect showcase for the best drivers in the NHRA Lucas Oil Series and the Division 3 team took him the title for the eighth time
There may be no such thing as a perfect race, but even if that’s the case, the JEGS Allstars event, heled each year at Route 66 Raceway, certainly comes close. Each year, 80 of the best racers in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series earn exclusive…
Man of the Century
Sportsman great Dan Fletcher becomes just the third driver to win 100 NHRA national events after his Super Street victory at Route 66 Raceway
The Fallen Patriots NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented by K&N Filters had a JEGS Allstars double, a traditional double, and a rare father-son final round, but all of them took a backseat to the most newsworthy event of the weekend: Dan Fletcher’s…
Crème of the Krop
Rob Kropfeld’s Super Gas win at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals will be talked about for a long time, but it’s just one of many career highlights.
Although it may be factually correct, Rob Kropfeld doesn’t want to simply be known just as the guy who won his first Wally with an 11-second reaction time nor should he be. Kropfeld’s Super Gas victory in Norwalk was indeed his first in NHRA…
Expect the unexpected
The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals featured some of the wildest final rounds of the year in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series.
With a specific reference to the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals had a bit of everything and almost none of it was expected. Years from now, it might still be difficult to explain an event where two different…
The best Father's Day, ever
With a win and a runner-up, Greg Stanfield and his son, Aaron, came within one round of having the perfect Father’s Day in Bristol.
Greg Stanfield got beat by first-time winner Marty Rinehart in the Bristol Super Stock final but the sting of losing was tempered by the Father’s Day gift he got from his son, Aaron, which happened to be the Bristol Top Dragster Wally. The younger…
Three years running
Dan Northrop accomplished a feat even more rare than a national event double when he won his third-straight Englishtown title
A year ago, I used this space to write about how Dan Northrop went to Englishtown and successfully defended his 2015 Super Gas title. Northrop hadn’t raced with a throttle stop in a year but that didn’t stop him from defeating John Labbous Jr. in…
Pouring it on
John Labbous Jr. wins his fourth Super Gas race of the season to take commanding points lead in his first trip to New England Dragway
In 1987, when “Super Steve” Cohen won NHRA’s first Super Comp national championhip, he won so early and so often that he had the title sewn up by mid-July. History might well repeat itself this season thanks to the incredible win streak that John…
Sportsman's paradise
Last weekend's JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals in Bowling Green, Ky., was a haven for NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series drivers, including four first-time winners.
Louisiana has long been known as the “Sportsman’s Paradise” or so it says on the official state license plates, but last weekend, that unofficial title may have shifted a bit north to Bowling Green, Ky., the site of the annual JEGS NHRA…
The fifth dimension
Austin Williams accomplished an almost unheard of feat by winning the Menards NHRA Heartland Nationals for the fifth straight year
Thankfully for Austin Williams, Heartland Park Topeka is less than 500 miles from his home in Burleson, Texas, but even if the distance was twice that far, he’d still be happy to make the trip. It isn’t hard to understand why Williams might have a…
Five shots, zero doubles
At the Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals in Atlanta, five drivers made it to the late rounds with a chance to double up. None of them were able to seal the deal in one of drag racing's most challenging feats.
With two completed doubles and another near miss in the first six races of the 2017 season, it was temping to think that it was getting easier for a Sportsman driver to notch two wins in the same weekend.
Not so fast.
Yes, Ed Oplin opened the…
Another week, another double
With a little help from his friends, John Labbous Jr. becomes the latest driver to double-up after winning the Super Comp and Super Gas titles at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals.
Believe it or not, a double victory remains one of the most difficult feats to accomplish in NHRA drag racing. As most drivers know, winning one race is hard enough but to win two on the same day is extremely problematic. Despite the challenges of a…
Double threat
After an incredibly hot start, Kevin Helms is leading the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series points standings in both Super Stock and Stock.
Kevin Helms missed his second career double by a fraction of a second when he lost in the Super Stock final, but that was about the only thing that went wrong for the four-time champion during last weekend’s NHRA SpringNationals in Houston.…
Just get out and race
For performance car enthusiasts, there are more options now than ever to take part in organized drag racing events
Last week’s introduction of the amazing 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon should permanently put to rest the notion that the U.S. is no longer a car culture. The launch of the Demon was covered far and wide by major media outlets…
Family vacation
On a rare off weekend, three-time Pro Stock champion Jason Line took his family (and his Buick) on a weekend holiday
Jason Line and the KB Racing team are generally all business with the sort of 24/7 mindset that is necessary for success in Pro Stock. However, with a three-week break between the national events in Las Vegas and Houston, Line…
Pure perfection
Dean Hall’s Top Sportsman win in Las Vegas might have featured the best driving performance in the history of the class.
It has often been said that a driver needs at least one lucky round in order to win an NHRA national event, but for Las Vegas Top Sportsman champion Dean Hall that might not be the case. Luck is often a rare commodity,…
More Gators Gold
Beyond the event winners, there were a handful of Sportsman racers who also made their mark on the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals.
There is a strong likelihood that the recent Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals will be remembered as one of the best races of the 2017 season and for Sportsman racers Lester Johnson, Roy Hill, and Carl Tasca, it was certainly a memorable race.…
The hottest driver in drag racing
Meet Terry Nagel, the NHRA Stock racer who has won three of his last four events, including the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals
Last weekend at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, nitro racers Leah Pritchett and Matt Hagan had their two-race winning streaks snapped in Top Fuel and Funny Car, respectively. There is one other driver who suffered no such loss of…
Fast Five: Factory Stock Showdown
The popular School of Automotive Machinists and Technology NHRA Factory Stock Showdown returns at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals. Here are five questions that are will be answered in Gainesville.
The Amalie NHRA Gatornationals will not only feature the first event of the season for racers in the Pro Stock Motorcycle and the J&A Service Pro Mod series, but it will also mark the 2017 debut of the new and improved School of Automotive…
Fifty plus one
Jeff Lane and his son, Cody, each celebrated wins at the Division 7 opener in Phoenix. For Jeff, it was win No. 50, and for Cody, it was his first.
When Jeff Lane turned on the win light in the Comp final at last weekend’s Division 7 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series opener at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, it represented a significant milestone in an already remarkable career. Lane’s…
By George, He's Done It
It took George Stassi 50 years to finally win his first NHRA national event, but he quickly found out that it was worth the wait.
During his five decades as a dedicated NHRA Sportsman racer, George Stassi Jr. has seen and done a lot, but he hadn't turned on a win light in a national event final round until last weekend’s NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports…
In defense of bracket racers
With a competitor base numbering in the tens of thousands, E.T. bracket racing is not only the most popular form of drag racing competition in the world, but from a driving standpoint, it’s also the most challenging.
There are those who think that E.T. bracket racing is easy or that bracket racers are somehow inferior to those racers who compete in heads-up or performance-based classes. People with that mindset are sadly mistaken.
Bracket racing, where…
Twice as nice
Veteran racers dominated the Lucas Oil Series Sportsman action in Pomona, including Ed Olpin, who scored the first double of the new season.
It certainly didn’t take long for the first double-up of the new season. At the Circle K NHRA Winternationals, the first of 25 national events to be contested during the 2017 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season, Utah’s Ed Olpin accomplished a…
And they're off
The 2017 season officially starts this weekend, and among other things, that means Jimmy DeFrank will have an opportunity to pursue a sixth Super Stock national championship.
Much like baseball’s spring training, the start of each new season of NHRA Drag Racing brings with it a renewed sense of optimism and hope. The first day of the season-opening Circle K NHRA Winternationals means fresh paint, fresh parts, and an…
Five burning questions for 2017
Want to know what’s going on in NHRA Sportsman racing in 2017? Here are a few things to look out for as the new season kicks off
Technically, the 2017 season kicked off last weekend with the Pacific Division National Open event at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Calif., and we’re less than two weeks from the first national event of the season, the Circle K NHRA Winternationals…
Thumbs-Up
Practice Tree races have become a hugely popular way for racers to pass the downtime during the winter months. Here’s a look at a couple of the biggest and most successful ones in the country.
On Jan. 7, Justin Vickers won $10,000, and he didn’t burn a drop of racing fuel in order to do it. Vickers, who lives in Ohio, made the trek to Alabama for the 4th annual Practice Tree Showdown presented by Plourd Racing Products and emerged as the…
Who's Next?
Predicting the next national champions is hard work, but here are ten racers who have never won a championship, but could easily breakthrough for a title in 2017
Quickly scanning the numbers, more than 5,000 racers competed in at least one event in Comp, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Top Dragster, and Top Sportsman last season and a significant number of those racers entered enough events to…