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A driver's first season can be one of many learning experiences, both good and, sometimes, bad, as this quintet of rookie drivers discovered in their initial campaigns.

Pit area thrashes are as old as the sport itself as racers and their crews often do some of their best work when faced with adversity. To that end, we present some of NHRA's most memorable pit area thrashes.

In its more than 50 years as an NHRA national event, the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals has crowned a lot of championships, but none better than the five drivers featured in this video.

With their long and skinny layout, Top Fuel dragsters do not handle like regular cars, and when one gets in trouble, it takes some masterful driving to recover, as you can see here in this handful of epic driver saves.

When it comes to nitro Funny Cars, anything can go wrong at any point in a run, but as this handful of explosive clips proves, a car doesn't have to be very far into a pass before things can go awry.

NHRA Drag Racing legend Connie Kalitta has been a mainstay in the sport since the 1950s, the last 25 as a car owner after a successful driving career. Here's a look at five of Kalitta's best moments behind the wheel.

The most significant forces at work on a Top Fuel dragster are invisible until they aren’t. Here's a look at five Top Fuel runs where the car ended up in more than one piece by the time it got to the finish line.

From drivers who were expected to win and didn't to those who weren't expected but did and a few stops in between, here's a look at five shocking moments from the 2023 NHRA season.

There's no sure thing when it comes to anything in the world, but that's never more true than it is in drag racing, as the results showed event after event, and as our Top 5 Upsets of the Year bear out.

Turning on the win light is always a great moment for any driver, but when the driver's contribution is a starting-line holeshot, it goes up to a whole other level. Here's a look at five great holeshot victories from the 2023 season.

The 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season was a scoreboard watcher's delight, with blistering performances from coast to coast. Here's a look back at the five best runs of the year.

It's one thing to win the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals once, but to do it multiple times in a row is a rare club. Here's a look at some of the drivers who have put together impressive winning streaks in Indy.

Winning the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals just once is a lifetime achievement for some, but here's a class-by-class look at the most successful Pro racers in the history of the world's biggest drag race.