Last month, NHRA released information about its celebratory 75th anniversary season for the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. At that time, it noted that both nitro categories, Top Fuel and Funny Car, would be conducting a 20-race campaign beginning at Florida’s Gainesville Raceway in March and continuing through to a traditional season finale in November, held at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in California. At the time of disclosure for this schedule, NHRA said it would bring forward the two Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle schedules forthwith.
In addition to announcing scheduling for the pair of Pro Stock classes, NHRA has released the dates for GETTRX NHRA All-Star Callouts for both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. The series earlier revealed Callout races for Top Fuel and Funny Car are slated to take place March 7 in Gainesville for Top Fuel and at the U.S. Nationals over Labor Day weekend for Funny Car.
Next year, Pro Stock returns to a full schedule of 20 events during NHRA’s 75th anniversary campaign, while Pro Stock Motorcycle races at 14 events, as well as a separate date for its GETTRX All-Star Callout, which will take place in Sonoma next July. This specialty race will be contested on its own at the mid-summer gathering, with only the eight standout competitors on-track in the Wine Country.
With Pro Stock competing in all races, special emphasis in this release is placed on the two-wheel competitors’ scheduling. As is customary, ProStock Motorcycle opens its season in Gainesville. The bikes then compete in Charlotte’s four-wide race and at South Georgia Motorsports Park as NHRA makes its national series premier at this track. Pro Stock Motorcycle is slated for Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway in May and as part of NHRA’s national debut on the Maryland International Raceway dragstrip.
In addition to racing at Chicago and Maryland, Pro Stock Motorcycle’s busy months of May and June will be part of race weekends at Bristol (TN) Dragway and at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH. At the latter event, Pro Stock cars will contest their GETTRX Pro Stock All-Star Callout for the second straight year, just a few weeks before the two-wheel set have their specialty event, which will not serve as one of the category’s 14 points-paying events.
Pro Stock Motorcycle returns to competition in Indy, when the 72nd U.S. Nationals take place over Labor Day weekend on the Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park dragstrip, and then proceeds to rejoin the entire Mission Foods Drag Racing Series to compete in the six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs at Reading, an event to be named later, St. Louis, Dallas, Las Vegas and Pomona.
Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenges return in 2026, bringing competitive racing, a bonus purse and bonus championship points to Saturday qualifying, taking place at 13 regular-season events, including the four-wide race next April at Charlotte.
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