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The PDRA finished up its Darlington event at Benson. Here's who brought home wins in all the PDRA professional categories. View the full article

There’s nothing quite like the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway and the massive sensory overload is coming quick, with the spectacular spectacle set to take place on April 23-26 at the “Bellagio of Dragstrips.” An event as wild and unique as this one always makes for a memorable experience for every fan, especially this season during NHRA’s special 75th anniversary season. But just in case you needed a reminder, here are 4 reasons you can’t miss this year’s 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Drag

Check out FuelTech's FTSPARK GEN3 MAX2000 and Pro HV Injector Driver. These are designed for high horsepower applications. View the full article

Turn & Burn is a new take on drag-and-drive events. Summit Motorsports Park will host this unique street car extravaganza. View the full article

NHRA officials announced today it has entered into a strategic alliance with the RPM Group in an effort to help bring NHRA drag racing back to the South Florida area. The RPM Group is a premier motorsports and marketing company focused on helping to resurrect racing venues in the South Florida area. Led by an experienced group of automotive professionals and passionate enthusiasts, their goal is for NHRA drag racing to return to facilities across the area. “We’re extremely excited for th

Summit Motorsports Park is thrilled to announce a historic broadcasting agreement with FloSports, the leader in sports streaming. For the first time in history, the 49th Annual Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire – widely recognized as the largest single-day drag racing event in the world, will be available to a global audience via live stream on FloRacing. The Night Under Fire is the crown jewel of the Bader family’s legendary promotions, drawing tens of thousands of fans to Norwalk for a senso

Drag racing has a way of delivering its biggest moments when nobody quite planned for them. Sunday evening at Pomona, after a day full of weather delays, Matt Hagan piloted the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage Funny Car to the winner’s circle for Tony Stewart Racing – and in doing so, became the driver who won NHRA’s 1,000th Funny Car race. The number lands hard when you sit with it. One thousand races. Decades of passes, countless careers made and broken, John Force in the news week after week

Ten years ago, “Tricky” Rickie Smith added another championship to his robust résumé when he clinched the 2015 PDRA Pro Nitrous world championship. This season, the relentless North Carolina-based driver/tuner/owner is looking to become the next two-time world champion in the series’ 12-season history. With backing from Jim and Annie Whiteley’s J&A Service and Junie Michael of Parkway Ford, Smith set out to run the full 2026 Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series schedule, which began in M

There are programs that spend years grinding toward their first win light. They write checks, burn nitro, shake the car down, and work through the learning curve one weekend at a time. And then there’s what Richard Freeman and Tony Stewart just did at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona. Three races were all it took. Three races from the moment Elite Motorsports fielded the R&L Carriers Top Fuel dragster with Stewart behind the wheel to the moment they pulled into the Pomona winner’s circ

A new 1/8-mile no-prep dragstrip is set to open outside Denver at Colorado National Speedway. It's designed to simulate street racing. View the full article

The First Drag Race presented by Robbin’s Repairables set at Shadyside Dragway ignited the 2026 ten-race championship season for the Southeast Gassers Association. From the creek side to the top of the North Carolina hills, the small vale of Shadyside roared with life, echoing the glory days of the 1960s gasser and drag racing. The racers of SEGA launched with parts straining revolutions, slammed all four gears by hand with no electronic aid, and streaked over the finish stripe to the delight of

The Southeast Gassers opened the 2026 season with a bang. Here's a recap of all the action from Shadyside Dragway. View the full article

The 6th Annual Spell Paving Services Funny Car Chaos Classic presented by Vertex Roofers delivered three days of CHAOS at the Texas Motorplex, April 9-11. With pits packed with outlaw funny cars and nitro burners of all kinds, the anticipation was high and the fun meter was pegged in Texas.  After two rounds of qualifying on Friday, Keith Zimmerer’s “Penny Pincher 2” funny car led the Rodak’s Custom Roasted Coffee ‘A’ Field into eliminations with a 3.59 at 210 mph. Mary Reep and Daniel Cottr

Orlando Speed World Dragway is proud to announce the return of one of the most anticipated events in domestic American muscle and street-style drag racing — the 2026 FuelTech World Street Nationals, taking place November 12–15, 2026. In a historic and highly anticipated milestone, competitors will battle for the prestigious NHRA Wally trophy, elevating the World Street Nationals to an entirely new level of competition and recognition. Known as “The Original” and “Grandfather of all”, the

Santa Pod Raceway is delighted to announce a new partnership to become the Main Title Sponsor of the venue’s unique ‘outlaw’ race: The DOORSLAMMERS Powered by FuelTech. FuelTech, the leading global manufacturer of motorsport electronic and engine-management systems, has already joined Santa Pod as title sponsor of the FuelTech Motorsport UK British Drag Racing Championship and its fearsome, 250mph ‘doorslammer’ Pro Modified cars. FuelTech now develops that relationship by supporting Santa Po

There’s a version of the Pro Mod rules debate that plays out in comment sections and Facebook groups, where people who have never tuned a race car tell those who have exactly what needs to happen. “Stevie Fast” Jackson is not one of those people. He’s built the engines, logged the dyno pulls, and spent the money. Now he’s making the important call about where he thinks Pro Mod is heading. Killin’ Time Racing is going centrifugal. All the way. “We’re building 13 of these things right now,

THE WES BUCK SHOW – EPISODE 421 “SMOKE, HORSEPOWER, AND STRAIGHT TALK” SOME WEEKS ARE BIG. SOME WEEKS ARE LOADED. THIS WEEK? WE’VE GOT A FULL-ON POWER MOVE. This week on The Wes Buck Show, we’re bringing in a lineup that covers just about every angle of NHRA right now, and we’re doing it all at once. First up, Tony “Smoke” Stewart. Fresh off a Top Fuel win in Pomona, and yeah, that makes win number three in Top Fuel for the man, and his first win with this team. Driving for Richard F

The NHRA Winternationals is a special event. Check out this massive photo gallery from the 2026 Winternationals. View the full article

In the month of March ProCharger racers brought home some big wins. Here's who parked their ride in the winner's circle. View the full article

During the 66th Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals the NHRA was celebrating its 75th anniversary and the running of the 1000th Funny Car race. For Top Fuel team owner and Funny Car and Top Fuel driver Travis Shumake, whose father Tripp, was a beloved driver throughout his career, the weekend was an emotional experience. The younger Shumake entered a nostalgia Funny Car with the livery his father race when he won the 1981 Southern Nationals, the 100th Funny Car race in NHRA history.   “This was an am

Chad Green of Midland, Tex., drove his nitro-burning CGM Bond-Coat Ford Mustang Funny Car to the quarterfinals Sunday at the famed NHRA Winternationals drag races at the In-N-Out Burger Dragstrip in a rain-delayed event. After two sun-drenched days of qualifying at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds racing plant, Green, who qualified sixth, and the 16-driver Funny Car field had to play a waiting game with a series of rainstorms pelting the facility throughout Sunday morning and afternoon. Af

AutoMeter Products, Inc. introduces the new 7400 InVision Digital Dash, a universal-fit solution on AutoMeter’s latest 8.8-inch InVision platform. Designed to expand fitment opportunities, the 7400 delivers modern instrumentation in a more compact format, offering the same advanced functionality and performance as AutoMeter’s popular 12.3″ InVision series.  At the center of the system is a high-resolution 8.8″ LCD display, providing sharp, easy-to-read data across five user-selectable screens w

Rolling into the 66th Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals Funny Car driver Dylan Winefsky was eager to make his mark at the 1,000th NHRA Funny Car race. Coming off a record setting performance three weeks ago at the FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals at his hometown track Firebird Motorsports Park the rising star was focused on building momentum. The 21-year-old driver made the most of this weekend on and off the track qualifying and spending time with the fans.   “Going into Q4 yesterday, being number 11 wa

Jordan Vandergriff was introduced as a kid to the sport of drag racing at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, his hometown track, and he hoped to earn his first Funny Car win there in the NHRA’s 1,000th Funny Car race but the semifinals finish he and his Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team were able to achieve in the NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals was still an experience he’ll always treasure. John Force Racing teammates Josh Hart, Alexis DeJoria and Jack Beckman all ran strong in their

Funny Car driver Spencer Hyde delivered a weekend of progress and promise at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, competing in the milestone 1,000th NHRA Funny Car race.   Hyde qualified No. 13 in a competitive 18-car field, powered by a strong 4.057 second pass at 312.06 mph during the fourth and final round of qualifying on Saturday. The run secured his spot in eliminations and demonstrated the continued upward trajectory of the Head Racing team.   The weeken