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Beckman’s Benchmarks: Career and performance plateaus in reach in 2025
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Crunching 2024's final Funny Car stats
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Redemption Time: 2025's hungriest Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle teams
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Crunching 2024's final Top Fuel stats
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Redemption Time: A look at the hungriest Funny Car teams of 2025
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Redemption Time: A look at the hungriest Top Fuel teams of 2025
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25 questions and question marks we have heading into the 2025 season
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Happy Stats-Mas! Unwrapping some mind-blowing stats from the 2024 season
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Best of Behind the Scenes 2024
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10 NHRA Drag Racing gifts that we have already unwrapped this year
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Funny Car's Big Year of Speed: Was it 2017 vs. 2024? Here's what we think
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Power moves and speculation: The 2024 Silly Season clutch locks up
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NHRA Museum Twilight Cruise Toy Drive united car enthusiasts for a cause
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Vegas Chainsaw: Austin Prock’s most perfect win was his final one in 2024
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Prock brings the house down with emotional championship speech
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Greg Anderson reflects on Pro Stock triumph at awards ceremony
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Gaige Herrera clinches second NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship
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NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony: Behind the Scenes
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Weekend Rewind: 2024 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals
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5 Things We Learned in Pomona
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Herrera sets sights on second straight Pro Stock Motorcycle championship
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Stanfield, Glenn, and Anderson to battle for Pro Stock championship in Pomona
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Championship coronation on tap for Funny Car’s Austin Prock in Pomona
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Bid to win a behind-the-scenes experience with In-N-Out's Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson
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Top Fuel set for epic finish at In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals in Pomona
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Don Prudhomme honored with Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award
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NHRA livestreams from the heart of the 2024 SEMA Show—Day 4
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NHRA livestreams from the heart of the 2024 SEMA Show—Day 3
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Two years ago, Gaige Herrera was a relative unknown; now he's a champion
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NHRA livestreams from the heart of the 2024 SEMA Show—Day 2
Who’s next? Searching for NHRA’s next first-time Pro winner
Who is in line to become NHRA’s next first-time Professional winner? With the start of the 2025 season looming, we’ve broken down a list of likely candidates.
Last season, there were eight different winners in Top Fuel, seven in Funny Car, six in Pro Stock, and four in Pro Stock Motorcycle, yet the only first-winner was Chase Van Sant, who claimed the Pro Stock Motorcycle title in Seattle. That only…
Continuity and community at Pacific Division Jr. Championship Series kickoff
The power of continuity and community was evident at the recent kickoff for the Pacific Division Jr. Championship Series presented by Ted Wiens at Famoso Dragstrip in Bakersfield, where a former competitor returned to tune and mentor his friends.
photos by Matt DeYoung
The power of continuity and community was evident at the recent kickoff for the Pacific Division Jr. Championship Series presented by Ted Wiens at Famoso Dragstrip in Bakersfield.
Longtime JDRL racer…
NHRA Museum celebrates a blockbuster weekend at the 75th Grand National Roadster Show
The GNRS delivered an unforgettable weekend of hot rod excellence — and the roots of the National Hot Rod Association were on display everywhere.
A staple of the hot rod world since 1950, the 75th annual Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) is the longest-running indoor car show in the United States, bringing together the most stunning handcrafted roadsters in pursuit of the coveted…
Shawn Reed's Top Fuel team looking to pick up where they left off in 2024
After a strong finish to the 2024 season, the first full campaign of his Top Fuel career, Shawn Reed and crew chief Rob Wendland are setting their sights on a fast start to the 2025 season.
Championship windows: Who’s in one and whose may be opening or closing
In each and every season in all sports, people talk about teams entering and exiting so-called “championship windows," a period of time when the right people, the processes, and parts are all together at once.
In each and every season in all sports, people talk about teams entering and exiting so-called “championship windows.” What does it mean? Simply, it’s a period of time when the right people, the right processes, and the right parts are all together…
From crewmember to driver, Gary Pritchett masters the fine art of multitasking
Last year, Gary Pritchett made the transition from crewmember to driver by racing five different cars, and the results were nothing short of spectacular.
Change in life is inevitable, and last year, Gary Pritchett realized it was time for a change.
For more than a decade, Pritchett was a valued crewmember on the Capco Contractors Top Fuel team, and it was quite a ride as he helped Steve Torrence…
Crunching 2024's final Pro Stock Motorcycle stats
Although Gaige Herrera ran away to his second straight NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, there were several other riders who shined in different statistical categories beyond the points standings. Here's a look at some of those stats.
Compared to stick and ball sports, motorsports stats have traditionally been very limited due to the nature of competition. For years, drag racing statskeepers would track wins and losses and average time, elapsed time, and speed averages, but…
Crunching 2024's final Pro Stock stats
Pro Stock in 2024 was a wide-open battle that came down to the last day of the season because none of the top teams dominated all of the performance stats that were spread widely among the top runners. Here's a look back at the final Pro Stock stats from last season.
Compared to stick and ball sports, motorsports stats have traditionally been very limited due to the nature of competition. For years, drag racing statskeepers would track wins and losses and average time, elapsed time, and speed averages, but…
Constructing the perfect Funny Car weapon to stop Austin Prock in 2025
No one driver and their skills were able to stop Austin Pock from winning the 2024 NHRA Funny Car championship, but what if you blended the best attributes of his competitors into one Super Racer? Would that stop Prock's rampage in 2025?
Let’s get a few things straight right off the bat. We’re not here to root against anyone, pick a side, endorse one competitor over the other, or anything like that. We’re fans of competition. Raw, nasty, sometimes contentious, emotionally draining,…
Beckman’s Benchmarks: Career and performance plateaus in reach in 2025
Knowing that Jack Beckman will be making the full pull in 2025, we decided to look at his career statistics to see where he stands and where he could stand in the event that he, his car, and his team perform to the exceptionally high level they were performing at in 2024.
With the official announcement at the Performance Racing Industry show in Indianapolis back in December that Jack Beckman is to inhabit the seat of the Peak Performance Chevrolet Camaro out of John Force Racing for the entire 2025 season and…
Crunching 2024's final Funny Car stats
Austin Prock was 2024's runaway Funny Car world champion and the driver who shattered the 340-mph barrier, but you may be surprised that he and his team didn't really dominate any performance stats, yet they were top three in most.
Compared to stick and ball sports, motorsports stats have traditionally been very limited due to the nature of competition. For years, drag racing statskeepers would track wins and losses and average time, elapsed time, and speed averages, but that…
Redemption Time: 2025's hungriest Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle teams
In the third and final installment of a preseason report, we take a look at what are sure to be among the hungriest of Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle teams entering the 2025 season trying to rectify the issues they had last year.
It happens to the best of teams and organizations in every pro sport. A hard year. A down year. A downright hard year. No competition is as unforgiving in this regard as professional drag racing. The brutal abruptness of our beloved motorsport…
Crunching 2024's final Top Fuel stats
As we prepare to launch into 2025, let's take a deep dive into the statistics that helped shape the 2024 season. Who was quick, who was not, and what it all meant.
Compared to stick and ball sports, motorsports stats have traditionally been very limited due to the nature of competition. For years, drag racing statskeepers would track wins and losses and average time, elapsed time, and speed averages, but that…
Redemption Time: A look at the hungriest Funny Car teams of 2025
Funny Car racing in 2024 was a wild shootout as everyone was chasing Austin Prock, but there were some teams whose struggles to keep pace became evident. Here's a look at those teams and what they might do for a better 2025. Second in a series.
It happens to the best of teams and organizations in every pro sport. A hard year. A down year. A downright hard year. No competition is as unforgiving in this regard as professional drag racing. The brutal abruptness of our beloved motorsport…
Redemption Time: A look at the hungriest Top Fuel teams of 2025
There was a lot of individual misery across all classes in NHRA Drag Racing last season, and many teams are looking for some redemption in 2025. In the first of a four-part series, we take a look at which Top Fuel teams are looking to put 2024 in the rearview mirror and how they can do it.
It happens to the best of teams and organizations in every pro sport. A hard year. A down year. A downright hard year. No competition is as unforgiving in this regard as professional drag racing. The brutal abruptness of our beloved motorsport…
25 questions and question marks we have heading into the 2025 season
The new season is just about two months away, kicking off with the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, March 6-9. Here’s a look at 25 things we’re thinking about and questions we have ahead of the season launch.
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2025. The new season is just about two months away, kicking off with the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, March 6-9, and there are a whole lot of interesting storylines to look forward to.
Here’s…
Happy Stats-Mas! Unwrapping some mind-blowing stats from the 2024 season
Now that the dust has settled and the Christmas gifts have been opened, we thought it a good time to pore over the figures, the facts, and the interesting occurrences of 2024 one last time.
Now that the dust has settled, the PRI show has concluded, the Christmas gifts have been opened, and the racing world has entered into a couple weeks of lull as it should, we thought it a good time to pore over the figures, the facts, and the…
Best of Behind the Scenes 2024
All season long, we've brought you the best behind-the-scenes moments at the top end as our winners celebrated their victories, and we've compiled the best of the best to help wrap up the year.
10 NHRA Drag Racing gifts that we have already unwrapped this year
We’re in that sweet spot of the year, that golden window of giving and receiving among friends and family, so we decided to come up with a list of gifts that we already got over the course of the 2024 season. There’s not a lump of coal in the bunch.
We’re in that sweet spot of the year, that golden window of giving and receiving among friends and family. Since that’s the theme for so many over the next stretch of days, we decided to come up with a list of gifts that we already got over the…
NHRA on FOX live stream from the 2024 PRI Show in Indianapolis!
Join us for a full day of live-streamed interviews on the NHRA on FOX Stage, featuring an all-star lineup of hosts and guests.
Live from the NHRA booth (7,032) at the 2024 PRI Show, Brian Lohnes, Tony Pedregon, Jordan Vandergriff, and Hannah Rickards bring their signature style and insight to the stage. These NHRA on FOX personalities will engage with…
Funny Car's Big Year of Speed: Was it 2017 vs. 2024? Here's what we think
In July 2017, Robert Hight ran 339.87 in his Funny Car, and there were several other 339- and 338-mph speeds, but it took more than seven years for the class to top 340 mph. Why? And which of those two seasons knocked our socks off speed-wise?
On a cool July summer night in Sonoma, Calif., in 2017, Robert Hight almost broke one of the sport’s last remaining speed barriers. His stunning run of 339.87 mph put the sport on the precipice of the 340-mph barrier.
That run has stood in…
Power moves and speculation: The 2024 Silly Season clutch locks up
We teased you, we told you, we reminded you, and still some of you refused to believe that the 2024 Silly Season would live up to the hype. As we’re still reasonably early into it, it’s already brought some fireworks to the sport and the eggnog is barely cold.
We teased you, we told you, we reminded you, and still some of you refused to believe that the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Silly Season would live up to the hype. As we’re still reasonably early into it, it’s already brought…
NHRA Museum Twilight Cruise Toy Drive united car enthusiasts for a cause
The NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum teamed up with the California Highway Patrol Baldwin Park Division for the 2024 Twilight Cruise Night and Toy Drive.
This festive collaboration drew more than 100 classic cars, hot rods, and muscle cars to Fairplex Gate 2 at 1101 W. McKinley Ave. in Pomona, Calif. The event, which ran from 2 to 7 p.m., celebrated car culture while giving back to the community.…
NHRA on FOX Stage comes to PRI Show in Indianapolis
Live interviews, breaking news, and exclusive insights from the world of motorsports — Dec. 12-14, 2024 — live-streamed on YouTube and NHRA.com
The 2024 NHRA on FOX Stage is making its way to the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis, bringing drag racing’s biggest names to Booth No. 7032 in the Yellow…
Vegas Chainsaw: Austin Prock’s most perfect win was his final one in 2024
After Austin Prock's all-conquering season, how does one go about picking “the best” win? When you look at the car’s consistency and raw performance along with the handler’s job in the seat, those two elements converged in perfect fashion at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the Ford Performance NHRA Nationals.
You know someone has had an incredible season in professional sports when it’s more fun to look at how great and all-conquering their victories were as opposed to the volume of their accumulation. In the case of Austin Prock and his entire John…
Antron Brown inspires with passionate Top Fuel championship speech
Some people ask, "Is Antron Brown really as gracious as he seems on TV?" The answer is no. He's even more gracious than he seems on TV! Hear him talk about his fourth world championship at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony.
Antron Brown took the stage at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony to deliver a rousing acceptance speech after clinching another Top Fuel championship. The celebrated racer, known for his determination and charismatic energy,…
Prock brings the house down with emotional championship speech
First-time Funny Car champ Austin Prock capped a masterpiece season with a heartfelt tribute at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony.
Austin Prock delivered an unforgettable acceptance speech at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony after securing his first Funny Car world championship. Known for his fiery determination on the track, Prock showcased a softer,…
Greg Anderson reflects on Pro Stock triumph at awards ceremony
After clinching a sixth Pro Stock world championship, veteran racer Greg Anderson shared his emotional journey to another championship victory.
Greg Anderson, a true legend in NHRA Pro Stock racing, took center stage at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Awards Ceremony to deliver an inspiring championship acceptance speech. Having claimed yet another Pro Stock title in a career…
Gaige Herrera clinches second NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship
Gaige Herrera dominated the season to claim back-to-back titles in Pro Stock Motorcycle. Hear who he credits with this accomplishment.
Gaige Herrera has secured his second NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, solidifying his place among the sport’s elite. Herrera’s dominant season was a master class in precision, power, and…