NHRA’s Pro Mod series has released its 10-race schedule for the sanctioning body’s 75th anniversary season in 2026, with a six-contest “regular” season and four races in Pro Mod’s Road to the Championship.
Next year’s schedule shows quite a bit of date equity for this exciting series, which features highly modified closed vehicles racing the traditional quarter-mile dragstrip. The diversity in this class is its calling card, with a variety of power-adding capabilities for the 3,000-plus horsepower engines that induce speeds in excess of 250 mph.
Pro Mod joins the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series for its season starter at Gainesville Raceway, with the 53rd annual Gatornationals the first weekend of March. The Pro Mods return to Firebird Motorsports Park outside Phoenix, AZ for a third time next year, having raced successfully at that track the past two seasons. This year’s Gainesville race was completed at Phoenix due to inclement weather in Florida.
Pro Mod will race four-abreast in Charlotte with the other professional classes in late April and be part of NHRA’s national event premiere for South Georgia Motorsports Park the first weekend of May, before returning to Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway in mid-May.
Pro Mod’s regular season concludes at beautiful Bristol Dragway the weekend of June 12-14.
Following its summer hiatus, Pro Mod holds its four-event Road to the Championship playoffs, starting during drag racing’s biggest race weekend, the prestigious Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals, traditionally held Labor Day weekend at Indianapolis-adjacent Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
The Mission Foods playoffs have a TBD date for their second event, as does Pro Mod, which will take part in the second playoff contest for its championship, held the final weekend of September. The series concludes its 2026 season with more date equity, racing at World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis and finishing the 10-contest campaign on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway October 29-November 1, 2026.
Before Pro Mod enters its 2026 campaign, it will complete the 10-race Congruity Pro Mod Drag Racing Series the end of October, again on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. After racing at St Louis, the championship is still wide open: Billy Banaka is the current points leader, looking for his first title in this class, hounded by St. Louis’ first-time winner, Derek Menholt and Mike Stavrinos, both just 11 points in arrears. J.R. Gray is fourth and needs to make up 24 points, with Sidnei Ferigo fifth and 51 points behind Banaka.
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