The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series “regular” season is coming down to its final two events: this weekend’s Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway and the vaunted 65th annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals held on Labor Day weekend.
No one in NHRA’s Funny Car class has a hotter hand right now than Bob Tasca III, who earned back-to-back national event wins at Bristol and Norwalk, the two most recent races on a 24-event calendar.
However a return to competition occurs, it can’t happen too soon. Tony Schumacher is a missing cog that keeps Top Fuel exciting. And keeps guys like Steve Torrence honest. The sport really needs him.
Hard to believe this is only the 19th time NHRA’s Mello Yello series has encamped at Bristol Dragway, home of the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
Doug Kalitta quietly goes about his job of racing an 11,000-horsepower NHRA Top Fuel dragster to the highest levels of competition.
Longtime nostalgia Funny Car driver Jim Maroney is now driving his way to the top of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series ladder with the launching of his all new Top Fuel team.
One historic event of the 2019 Mello Yello NHRA season gave three drivers a chance to earn their own golden victories this weekend at Gainsville Raceway.
Scott Palmer, who has raced Tommy Thompson Motorsports’ Top Fuel dragster in NHRA Mello Yello competition the last three seasons and earned his spot in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs the past two years, returns to competition again next year.
Bob Vandergriff Racing (BVR) is gearing up for the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season – even before the current 24-race schedule is completed.
Recently, the ownership team changed to Straight-line Strategy Group, and they elected to bring Mike Kloeber to the party as crew chief for Millican’s Parts Plus, Strutmasters rail for 2019 and beyond.
