Atlanta Dragway will be in action again, now that the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) has completed its purchase of the facility in Commerce, GA, once the home of NHRA’s Southern Nationals.
The United States Auto Club (USAC) has assigned one of its greatest competitors to direct the series where he’s been most successful: Kody Swanson
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.
NHRA has released the dates for GETTRX NHRA All-Star Callouts for both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle, as well as the season schedule for those classes.
This year’s races had all the drama one could handle, from both the winner and runner-up in the Sox & Martin race being DQ’d for technical violations post-event to regular season winners and losers, intra-race special events and the final standings in that regular-season competition.
With five rounds of qualifying and special events, followed by four rounds of racing on the actual Labor Day holiday, the U.S. Nationals are always the biggest straight-line race in the United States – and perhaps the world.
Preparing to run the race “every racer wants to win” at Lucas Oil Raceway Park with a host of other activities filling the weekend.
The American motorsports world lost two giants the weekend of August 22-24.
Capps, whose love and participation in all forms of racing is well-known, is taking his know-how to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) for the Thursday, June 26th Thursday Night Thunder Heroes midget race, an all-star , celebrity contest that features some of the biggest names in American motor sport.
A tale of winners and losers at the 65th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals was only part of the story.
