NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Past NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series world champions Joey Severance in Top Alcohol Dragster and Doug Gordon in Top Alcohol Funny Car led the list of winners at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

After a three-season absence from the winner’s circle, four-time NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster world champ Joey Severance collected milestone win No. 25 at the same event that he won his first way back in 2007. Severance was a clutch .017 on the Tree and raced to a 5.27 holeshot victory. Johnny Ahten finished second despite a better 5.24, and former world champ Chris Demke was third. Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals champ Jasmine Salinas finished fourth after red-lighting in the Scrappers Racing machine. [video]

2020 world champ Doug Gordon put the back-to-back defending  Top Alcohol Funny Car event champion Beta Motorcycles Camaro back into the winner’s circle for the third straight year with his 18th career win, finishing ahead of 2017 world champ Shane Westerfield and Las Vegas’ own Nick Januik. [video]

Ryan Priddy scored his first career national event win and added another trophy to the mantle of his car’s owners, the Mitsos family, when he roared from behind to defeat Doug Lambeck in the Comp final round. Priddy, a two-time Top Sportsman runner-up (most recently at this year’s Winternationals), powered his 200-mph Mountainview Tires A/AA Camaro to a dazzling (-.61) 6.60 to flag down 16-time winner Lambeck’s (-.50) 8.45 in his venerable D/SMA Sunfire. [video]

Justin Lamb won for the ninth time at his home track in Las Vegas when he drove past Tony Hewes’ vintage ’69 Mustang in the Super Stock final. Lamb’s Silver State Plumbing Cobalt has won 13 straight rounds since it came out of “retirement.” Hewes was appearing in his fifth career national event final. [video]

A few weeks after winning the Super Stock title in Pomona, Ryan McClanahan connected again in Las Vegas with a win in Stock. McClanahan survived a tough double-breakout final against Doug Lambeck, who was also in the Comp eliminator final. [video]

Allison McKoane was a deadly .005 on the Tree in the Super Comp final round with the Clawson Motorsports dragster then eked out the win by .007-second ahead of defending event champ Michael Miller for her first national event triumph. Miller, a five-time winner at The Strip, ran a near-perfect 9.051 but was later off the line against McKoane’s 9.065. [video]

Damon Bustamante corralled his first career national event win, driving his ’57 Corvette roadster to the Super Gas victory over Edwin Olpin. Bustamante controlled the race from the onset with a near-perfect .001 reaction time then eased to a 10.074 victory that he dedicated to his late grandfather. Olpin, whose father, Ed Sr., won the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com in this car earlier this season, ran closer to the index with a 10.059 but couldn’t overcome Bustamante’s holeshot. [video]

Ed Olpin won for the second time this season when he defeated Mike Ferderer in the final of Top Sportsman presented by Vortech Superchargers. Olpin, the current championship leader in the class, won with a 7.094 on his 7.07 dial after Ferderer slowed. [video]