NHRA Countdown’s Second Half Starts at Texas Motorplex
Everything definitely is bigger in Texas, as the second annual Stampede of Speed at Texas Motorplex is confirming.
Everything definitely is bigger in Texas, as the second annual Stampede of Speed at Texas Motorplex is confirming.
NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship for its Camping World Drag Racing Series competitors, just became a bit more jumbled in all classes.
It’s two down and four to go as NHRA’s Camping World Drag Racing Series chugs towards the close of its six-race Countdown to the Championship that culminates this November in Pomona, CA.
One week’s hiatus between the historic 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers U.S. Nationals and this upcoming weekend’s start of the Countdown to the Championship for NHRA’s Camping World Drag Racing Series was likely just the pause most teams wanted.
Not only did team leader Matt Smith earn his fourth NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, but one of his teammates, wife Angie Smith earned her second PSM Wally winner’s trophy and joined the 200mph club, while Scotty Pollacheck hit 200 and earned his first-class victory at the most sacred race of all: the U.S. Nationals.
NHRA Mello Yello Pro Stock Motorcycle reigning champion Matt Smith has a lot on his plate.
Eight riders will take part in the Mickey Thompson Tires Pro Bike Battle, held on the the final day of qualifying this Saturday.
A thrilling weekend at this weekend’s Route 66 NHRA Nationals would give the current king of Top Fuel his fourth straight win of the season.
If there was any question about the role of families in NHRA drag racing, it was easily answered at the series’ finale on the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona dragstrip. Whether related by blood or by friendship, families prevailed when the championship Wally trophies were handed out.
Matt Smith’s road to his third NHRA Mello Yello Pro Stock Motorcycle (PSM) championship traveled from his hometown of King, NC to Pomona, CA.