Rain Wins NHRA Finals at Pomona; Champions Named on Points from Las Vegas
The forecast didn’t look good at the start of last week and it progressed to dire as the NHRA Championship weekend got rained out.
The forecast didn’t look good at the start of last week and it progressed to dire as the NHRA Championship weekend got rained out.
NHRA is closing out its 74th Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season on its ancestral dragstrip in Pomona the weekend of November 13-16. The 60th annual In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals takes place at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip and will crown champions in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
When NHRA’s Mission Foods Drag Racing Series’ regular season ended , the first-ever regular season champions were Tony Stewart in Top Fuel, reigning titleholder Austin Prock in Funny Car, Pro Stock’s Dallas Glenn and reigning two-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champ Gaige Herrera. But now, things have changed.
Ken Black, the maestro who began and nurtured KB Titan Racing, passed August 26 at the age of 79.
On a cool and cloudy day that started late after morning showers, the conditions merited extra-quick lap times and that’s exactly what the enthusiastic fans in the stands and The Zoo received.
This weekend’s race at Seattle marks the start of the second half of a 20-race season and a different approach for the pair of nitro classes: Top Fuel and Funny Car.
A cool $150,000 will be awarded to each of the top finishers of the 14-race “regular” season at the Cornwell Quality Tools NHA U.S. Nationals at Indy in Top Fuel and Funny Car, with additional payouts for Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
This hasn’t been the year that Elite Motorsports has hoped for or planned for in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Pro Stock category
Some races are really worth the wait. This past weekend’s 24th annual Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals on the Bristol Dragway dragstrip had its share of postponements, cancellations and downtime to frustrate anyone in the pits and the stands, but in the end, history was made for four winners.
Brittany Force secured her first victory of the 2025 season at Epping and was joined in the Winner’s Circle by Kalitta Motorssports’ J.R. Todd’s Toyota GR Supra and by six-time Pro Stock champ Greg Anderson.