As we wait for that Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals Brainerd round to roll in another week from now, it’s time to reflect on the regular season titles and money at stake after both Brainerd and The Big Go – the Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals – on Labor Day weekend.
Summit Motorsports Park’s vaunted 49th Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire takes place this Saturday, inaugurating the month of August with quarter-mile and 1,000-foot thrills.
Only Sonoma, Seattle, Brainerd and Indianapolis remain to crown a regular season champion in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. NHRA awards nearly $400,000 to the regular season titleholders
Every drag racer wants to win. Otherwise why bother to spend the time, money and organizational talent to travel to a racetrack and compete? And there are some tracks where a win comes with something special.
Changes are afoot to adjust the number of dragsters competing in NHRA’s 75th anniversary season upwards next year.
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.
Gordon, who has been driving – and crewing on – her family’s Funny Car and is a third-generation straight-line racer, will enter NHRA’s Mission Foods competition in 2026 in a Ron Capps Motorsports Top Fuel dragster.
Toyota will be supporting teams through the 2025 season.
Before he alights at Topeka, KS for the 35th and final Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor on the Heartland Motorsports Park drag strip.
Camrie Caruso is moving to KB Titan Racing in 2023.
