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The 13th annual NHRA New England Nationals presented by bproauto rolls into New England Dragway in Epping, N.H., June 5-7 – the eighth of 20 races on NHRA’s 75th-anniversary Mission Foods schedule, the second leg of the Eastern Swing that opened last weekend at the inaugural Potomac Nationals, and the centerpiece of New England Dragway’s own 60th-anniversary season. Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock are on the championship clock. The track records that Doug Kalitta, Brittany Force, and Greg And

KTR Drag Racing has launched KTR-U, a tuning education program run out of the company’s Thomson, Georgia, facility, with the first classes set to roll out in the coming weeks. Founder Stevie “Fast” Jackson announced the program on the latest episode of the Shake and Bake Show, with additional details to follow in the days after. Jackson has spent most of his racing and engine-building career holding KTR’s process and data inside the building. By his own admission, he refused for years to tea

Leah Pruett and Matt Hagan are looking for more success at Epping. Here's a preview of the TSR team's plans for the New England Nationals. View the full article

Performance Racing Industry (PRI) will debut the PRI Motorsports Engineering Symposium, a one-day program taking place Thursday, Dec. 10, during the 2026 PRI Show at the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium. The program brings together race engineers, teams, manufacturers, and emerging engineering talent in a working forum focused on real-world motorsports performance and innovation. Rather than a traditional seminar, the symposium emphasizes engineering challenges, performance solut

The PDRA is shining a big spotlight on its sportsman racers. The Thunder Valley Throwdown will provide big payouts for these racers.View the full article

New England Dragway has been good to Elite Motorsports. The team heads to the New England Nationals looking for more wins. View the full article

The Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series announced today that the series will host its first PDRA Sportsman Spectacular as a part of the upcoming PDRA Thunder Valley Throwdown presented by Larry Jeffers Race Cars at Bristol Dragway on August 7-9. The Sportsman Spectacular will offer increased payouts for all of the PDRA’s sportsman and Jr. Dragster categories competing in the fifth of seven 2026 PDRA national events.  “Sportsman racers are the backbone of our sport,” said Tyler Crossnoe, ser

John Force Racing is loaded up and ready for the New England Nationals. Here's the team's preview for the event this weekend. View the full article

S650 Mustang owners now have another option to dial up some big horsepower. Check out Vortech's new supercharger kit for the S650.View the full article

A strong start to the season has the chance to get even better for Funny Car’s Chad Green at this weekend’s 13th annual NHRA New England Nationals presented by bproauto at New England Dragway. Approaching 100 career starts in the Funny Car ranks, Green is off to the best start in his career, winning in Gainesville and Chicago and currently sitting third in points in the loaded Funny Car category. This weekend, he’s also sporting a new look with bproauto, adding another layer of importanc

Melling Engine Parts was recognized for excellence in product content during the 2026 Auto Care Connect event, held May 11–14 in Atlanta, Georgia. The recognition highlights Melling’s continued commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality product data that supports customers, partners and the broader automotive aftermarket. Presented in connection with the Aftermarket Content Professionals Network (ACPN), a community of the Auto Care Association, the recognition was announced during Auto

The Mid-West Drag Racing Series has stripped the Jacob McNeal Racing team of all points earned at last weekend’s Shakedown at M’Town at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan and placed McNeal on probation for the remainder of the 2026 season, MWDRS officials announced yesterday. The announcement came after a post-race spot check found the team’s Pro Mod Cuda running an illegal blower pulley, allowing for 98% overdrive instead of the maximum 92% allowed. The infraction was discovered Sa

THE WES BUCK SHOW – EPISODE 427 “HATERS SILENCED & HISTORY MADE” SOME WINS ARE BIG. SOME WINS MEAN A LITTLE MORE. AND THIS WEEK? WE GOT BOTH. This week on The Wes Buck Show, we’re talking about a pair of victories that had the drag racing world buzzing all weekend long. First up, Austin Prock joins the show fresh off a massive NHRA Funny Car victory, his first since making the move from John Force Racing to Tasca Racing. New team. New chapter. Same killer instinct. Yo

Ron Capps Motorsports (RCM) announced today a new partnership with OKUMA, naming the global leader in machine tool design and manufacturing the official CNC machining partner of the championship-winning organization.   While this marks the first official collaboration between RCM and OKUMA, the relationship between the two extends back to RCM team owner Ron Capps’ days driving for Don Schumacher Racing (DSR). While at DSR, Capps experienced firsthand the advantages of utilizing engine components

Mooresville Dragway, one of North Carolina’s longest-running drag racing facilities, is set for a major transformation under new ownership. According to a report by Joe Marusak of The Charlotte Observer, new owner Matt Erich plans to redevelop the 70-year-old dragstrip into a $50 million motorsports destination called Race City Motorpark & Social Club. The project is planned for the existing Mooresville Dragway property in Rowan County near Mooresville, long known as Race City USA. Erich

The Midwest Nationals will showcase the NHRA to NFL audiences this year. The event will be broadcast during FOX's NFL coverage.View the full article

Team Kalitta wants to continue its dominant run in the nitro ranks at the New England Nationals. Here's what the teams have to say. View the full article

You don't see many AMC products in Super Stock. A.H. Adkins' AMX Super Stocker is a real beast and lays down eight-second passes.View the full article

Orlando Speed World Dragway is putting more than $300,000 on the line for the world’s fastest sport compact cars. The Central Florida facility announced the OSW Import Championship Series presented by GRS-Motorsports this week, a four-race championship chase spanning September 2026 through February 2027. The headline act is the FuelTech Xtreme Class – the quickest, fastest level of import drag racing anywhere on the planet, where the elite of the discipline run in the mid-5-second zone at sp

Shawn Langdon and Doug Kalitta are smashing the Top Fuel class this season. Here's a look at just how dominant they've been in 2026.View the full article

Maddi Gordon continued to gain experience at the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals, where she lost a close opening-round race Sunday morning at Maryland International Raceway. The NHRA Rookie of the Year contender made a string of consistent passes across qualifying and eliminations, giving her confidence in her Rob Flynn and Troy Fasching-tuned Carlyle Tools Top Fuel dragster as the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series kicked off a stretch of three consecutive races. Gordon held on to her No. 6

Angelle Sampey continued to build momentum in her Top Alcohol Dragster career at the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals presented by JEGS, overcoming a challenging start to qualifying before narrowly missing a first-round victory at Maryland International Dragway. Driving the Hangsterfer’s/FVP A/Fuel Dragster for Michalek Brothers Racing, Sampey and her team faced a challenging start to qualifying. In the opening session, Sampey encountered tire smoke immediately off the starting line and was

The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series made its first appearance at Maryland International Raceway over the weekend, bringing Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle to one of the Mid-Atlantic’s most established drag racing venues for the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals presented by JEGS. DI contributing photographer Larry Brown was on the grounds throughout the weekend, capturing the full scope of the event — from nitro cars and Pro Stock machines on track to staging-la

Fresh off their second runner-up appearance through the first six events, Alexis DeJoria and the Bandero Café Funny Car team continued to run with the top of the class when the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series made its debut appearance at Maryland International Raceway for the NHRA Potomac Nationals. Aboard her 12,000-horsepower Chevrolet SS, DeJoria was solid throughout qualifying at the inaugural event, picking up five bonus points en route to securing a qualifying position in the top hal

Racing in a Nitro Funny Car for the first time on the NHRA tour this season, “Nitro” Joe Morrison and the Herzhauser Funny Car acquitted themselves with a solid outing at the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals. The veteran driver drove the Herzhauser Funny Car to the No. 16 qualifier position. The team came into Maryland International Raceway with a plan to make limited runs based on car count as well as the performance of the rest of the Funny Cars in the class. Their solo run on Saturday morning