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The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series is pleased to announce it returns after a 2-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The series makes its return to action this weekend at Texas Motorplex with a Top Alcohol only regional event. Action will intensify early June at Atlanta Dragway and Tulsa Raceway Park as all categories restart their season.<\/p>\n
In addition to the full schedule of Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events, a JEGS SPORTSnationals event has been added at New England Dragway on August 21-22. This is in addition to the JEGS SPORTSnationals \u201cdoubleheader\u201d at National Trail Raceway on July 16-19. Race teams attending the JEGS SPORTSnationals events will have an opportunity to earn national championship points and a grade point.<\/p>\n
Due to the abbreviated season, the championship structure for national, regional and divisional points has been adjusted.<\/p>\n
Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car<\/strong> Comp, SS, STK, SC, SG, SST, TD, TS<\/strong> As officials built the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series regional\/divisional schedule, careful consideration was taken on grade points for 2021. At this time, no final decision has been made. Once a decision has been made an announcement will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series is pleased to announce it returns after a 2 month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":72646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,22],"tags":[7567,2052,7794,41,7,2520,515],"class_list":["post-72643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-covid-19","tag-events","tag-lucas-oil-drag-racing","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-schedule","tag-texas-motorplex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/435-4353719_for-the-16th-season-the-nhra-lucas-oil-e1590080892820.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-iTF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72648,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72643\/revisions\/72648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00b7 Alcohol National Championship \u2013 best 2 of 5 regional and best 5 of 7 national events<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Alcohol Regional Championship \u2013 best 4 of 5 regional events. No home regional<\/strong>
\nevent minimum requirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 National Championship \u2013 best 3 of 5 national and best 5 of 7 divisional events<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Division Championship \u2013 best 5 of 7 races. Must enter a minimum of 2 home<\/strong>
\ndivisional events (need not claim home divisional events)<\/strong><\/p>\n