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There’s nothing like winning the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, which stands alone as the pinnacle of drag racing. It’s a feeling Tony Stewart Racing’s Matt Hagan and Leah Pruett hope to enjoy at this weekend’s 69th annual spectacle at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Between exhausting moments of test and grand glimmers of greatness, Robert Hight and his team have felt every high and every low. Now, they're positioned to make their best impression at the most important race of the regular season.

The home of the Big Go — and the 2023 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals — welcomes you to town for the World's Biggest Drag Race.

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals as they celebrate their victories with their teams and one another and accept congratulations from their vanquished final-round foes.

From first-round upsets to Mike Salinas' blazing 338-mph speed, the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, the penultimate event of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series regular season, had plenty of action and drama. Relive it now in our Weekend Rewind video.

By any measuring stick, the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in Brainerd was an extremely competitive and highly entertaining event. Here are five things we learned from NHRA’s annual stop in Minnesota.

with the field for the Countdown to the Championship taking shape, the 2023 Camping World NHRA Funny Car title is very much up for grabs, and Tim Wilkerson has every reason to think he’s one of the favorites.

Team Elite Pro Stock driver Jerry Tucker scoffs at the notion of becoming NHRA’s next Rookie of the Year award recipient, but the sone cold reality is that he’s the current frontrunner for the prestigious award.

A week after getting a back-to-back win at a track, Funny Car standout Bob Tasca III will try to accomplish that again at this weekend’s 41st annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

The Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals has been a mainstay of the NHRA tour since 1982 and has provided fans with scores of thrills, chills, and spills in the decades since. Here's a look at five of the most memorable moments at Brainerd International Raceway.

For the first time since 2019, five-time Pro Stock world champ Greg Anderson will compete at Brainerd International Raceway, the track where he grew up racing, for this weekend's Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor as they celebrate their victories with their teams and one another.

The Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor fought the weather all weekend at Heartland Motorsport Parks, but the resulting racing and joyous celebrations more than made up for it.

Topeka’s House of Speed can handle all of the heat and any of the speeds that NHRA throws at it. Check out the qualifying run recap from the 2023 Menards NHRA Nationals Presented By PetArmor.

The fastest Ford has ever gone is with Bob Tasca III at the wheel of his Ford Mustang Funny Car. This week Tasca shared that glory with all of Ford Motor Company.

The 34th annual Menards NHRA Nationals at Heartland Motorsports Park will forever be burned into memory for all in attendance. For some, it was a resurgence, for others, a time to celebrate history in the best way possible. Here are five takeaways from the event.

Austin Prock's crew chief explains the delicate balance of making power and running up against the best tuners in the sport—without exceeding the capability of the equipment

Success in drag racing requires a well-mixed cocktail. Proper parts and pieces, a capable crew, a strong driver, and an apt and ever-learning crew chief are all required for long-term progress and performance. Buddy Hull assembled all of those things prior to the 2023 season, including tapping veteran tuner Mike Guger as his crew chief.

After nearly a month off, the Pro Stock class returns to action this weekend at Heartland Motorsports Park, which marks the perfect location for standout Troy Coughlin Jr., who claimed the most recent Pro Stock victory last month in Denver.

The NHRA has been holding national events at Heartland Motorsport Park since 1989, and the heroics and histrionics that have taken place could fill a book. Here's a look at just five of the memorable moments at the vaunted Kansas facility.

With a win in Seattle and a pair of victories in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge, Steve Torrence and the Capco team enter the final stretch of the regular season with renewed confidence and enthusiasm.

With each passing race, things seem to get better and better for Funny Car’s Chad Green, who made his first career final-round appearance at the most recent race in Sonoma.

Defending Top Fuel champion Brittany Force hasn’t been to a final round this season and has a win-loss record hovering around the .500 mark, but her veteran tuner David Grubnic isn’t sweating it. He’s confident that the best is still to come.

Thirty years ago at Heartland Motorsports Park, Jim Epler became the first Funny Car driver to exceed 300 mph. Epler, now the Executive Vice-President of Phillips Connect, looks back on his historic achievement.

A year ago — and in his first season as a team owner — Heartland Motorsports Park was the place for a major moment for Top Fuel star Antron Brown. The three-time world champion hopes to continue that success at this year's event.

On the one-year anniversary of the forming of JCM Racing, team patriarch Joe Maynard and his primary driver, eight-time NHRA Top Fuel world champ Tony Schumacher, discuss the past year and what lies ahead for all three of the Maynard-affiliated teams.

It’s Gaige Herrera’s world, and we’re all just living in it. The Pro Stock Motorcycle sophomore became the ninth racer to sweep the Western Swing, the first to do it on two wheels, and dominated action. Here's a look at how the top riders fared. Final in a three-part series.

With a full-house win/runner-up/semifinal trio of finishes, J.R. Todd was the Funny Car star of the Western Swing, even if he did not gain a massive position improvement. Here's a look at how the top Funny Car players fared. Second in a multi-part series.

Five-time Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series champion Justin Lamb won in Seattle and Sonoma to claim the trophy on back-to-back weekends, lengthening a streak that has seen at least one national event win in each season since 2012.