Ch-ch-changes in NHRA Top Fuel Team Ownerships
Hart looking to hand off his race operation, Pruett looking to get back in the seat and more big changes ahead for NHRA championship racing.
Hart looking to hand off his race operation, Pruett looking to get back in the seat and more big changes ahead for NHRA championship racing.
All four Mission Foods Drag Racing Series categories are in play as the tension builds and racers vie for a 2025 world championship in straight-line racing.
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.
Ken Black, the maestro who began and nurtured KB Titan Racing, passed August 26 at the age of 79.
2026 marks NHRA’s 75th anniversary as the premier entity in the USA sanctioning straight-line racing. And while date equity and returns to familiar tracks is always a good idea, the addition of two new facilities and the promise of a third – to be announced – date on the upcoming 20-race season for the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series makes the anticipation even sweeter.
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 43rd annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals was an opportunity for many to evaluate their standing in the straight-line community before the close of the “regular” season of Mission Foods Drag Racing Series competition.
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.
With funds available – in addition to added points – for the No. 1 seed after this weekend’s race in Brainerd MN and the 71st Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals two weeks hence at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP), there’s a lot on the line for everyone.