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NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals always a highlight for Ron Capps

World Wide Technology Raceway has treated three-time Funny Car champion Ron Capps well over the years, and the addition of NAPA Auto Parts — Capps’ longtime sponsor — as the title sponsor of the NHRA Midwest Nationals adds another layer of motivation as well.
25 Sep 2025
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Ron Capps
World Wide Technology Raceway has treated three-time Funny Car champion Ron Capps well over the years, something he hopes to replicate at this weekend’s NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals for multiple reasons.A victory would keep him alive in…
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Behind the Scenes with the winners of the 4-Wide Carolina Nationals

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the 2025 NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals as they celebrate with their teams and accept congratulations from their defeated final-round opponents.
24 Sep 2025
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Behind the Scenes
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A Countdown Catchup with the Insiders

On this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon and Kevin McKenna to talk all things Reading and Charlotte.
24 Sep 2025
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NHRA Insider podcast
NHRA Insider
 On this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon and Kevin McKenna to talk all things Reading and Charlotte. There's been loads of action on the track, unexpected winners, points…
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Fuel Your Future: Explore exciting new career opportunities with NHRA

NHRA is offering qualified professionals the chance to join the team of the world’s largest sanctioning body with a pair of exciting career opportunities: General Manager, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, and Division Services Coordinator, Northeast Division.
24 Sep 2025
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NHRA
NHRA is offering qualified professionals the chance to join the team of the world’s largest sanctioning body with a pair of exciting career opportunities.General Manager, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway ParkRev up your career by…
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Top Fuel’s Justin Ashley after first St. Louis win at NAPA Midwest Nationals

If Charlotte Top Fuel winner Justin Ashley can close out this stretch of three straight races to open the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs with another strong performance at this weekend’s NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals, he’ll find himself among the Top Fuel world title favorites.
23 Sep 2025
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Justin Ashley
Coming off a standout performance in Charlotte, if Top Fuel title contender Justin Ashley can close out this stretch of three straight races to open the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs with another strong performance at this weekend’s…
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Ron Tornow and RAT Racing team win Holley Never Rest award in Charlotte

Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Ron Tornow and his RAT Racing team, who are retiring from racing after the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals, were celebrated for their years of competition with the Holley Never Rest award in Charlotte.
23 Sep 2025
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Ron Tornow
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NAPA NHRA Midwest Nationals event guide: What you need to know before you go

Planning to attend or even watch next week's NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis? Check out our event guide, which features ticket information, event schedule and news, entry lists, a facility map, the Nitro Alley schedule, driver bios, and much more
23 Sep 2025
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NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals event guide
NAPA AUTO PARTS NHRA MIDWEST NATIONALS EVENT GUIDE
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Weekend Rewind: 2025 NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals

The NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals was the first time that teams in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series have run four-wide in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, and the action at zMAX Dragway was expectedly weird and wild. Enjoy our video look back at the race.
23 Sep 2025
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Countdown to the Championship hits halfway point at NAPA Midwest Nationals

This weekend's 14th annual NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals marks the halfway point of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs, and drivers have their sights set on a big weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis.
23 Sep 2025
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NAPA
Every NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series driver knows the importance of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship and its six playoff races. The 14th annual NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals, Sept. 26-28, marks the halfway point of the playoffs…
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Eight Lucas Oil Series event champs crowned at NHRA Carolina Nationals

In addition to the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series action at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, eight other winners were crowned in Lucas Oil Series action at zMAX Dragway, including Top Alcohol Dragster Matt Cummings.
23 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Matt Cummings
In addition to the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series action at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, eight other winners were crowned in Lucas Oil Series action at zMAX Dragway.Gatornationals Top Alcohol Dragster champ Matt Cummings scored…
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Vincent Nobile wins JHG Mountain Motor Pro Stock at Carolina Nationals

Vincent Nobile in his Jersey Auto Supply 2024 Chevy Camaro picked up his first career victory in Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage Mountain Motor Pro Stock Sunday at the NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway.
22 Sep 2025
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Vincent Nobile
 Vincent Nobile in his Jersey Auto Supply 2024 Chevy Camaro picked up his first career victory in Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage Mountain Motor Pro Stock Sunday at the NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway.In the finals, Nobile lined up…
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Five things we learned in Charlotte

22 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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5 Things
We learn a lot at every NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event, and during the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, we sometimes learn lessons that stick with us for the rest of the year. That was certainly the case in Charlotte, and here…
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Kelly Clontz adds ArchKey Solutions for Midwest Nationals

Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Kelly Clontz will lead her race team into the NHRA NAPA Midwest Nationals with ArchKey Solutions, a premier installation and integrated facilities services business.
22 Sep 2025
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Kelly Clontz
Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Kelly Clontz will lead her race team into the NHRA NAPA Midwest Nationals with ArchKey Solutions, a premier installation and integrated facilities services business that builds, installs and maintains electrical,…
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McBride completes unbeaten season in Pingel Top Fuel Motorcycle in Charlotte

21 Sep 2025
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36:12
Larry “Spiderman” McBride, who had already locked up his second straight Pingel Top Fuel Motorcycle championship before the event, added an exclamation point to an unbeaten season with his fourth straight win, three of which came with Bob Malloy in…
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Billy Banaka gets first career Congruity Pro Mod win in Charlotte

In a wild final round, Billy Banaka picked up his first career victory in the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series on Sunday at zMAX Dragway, defeating Mike Castellana, Sidnei Frigo and Mason Wright in a chaotic final quad at the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals..
21 Sep 2025
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Pro Mod
In a wild final round, Billy Banaka picked up his first career victory in the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series on Sunday at zMAX Dragway, defeating Mike Castellana, Sidnei Frigo and Mason Wright in a chaotic final quad at the NHRA 4-Wide…
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Top Sportsman winner Sandy Wilkins

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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84:01
After three runner-up finishes at his home track, Sandy Wilkins scored a coveted zMax Dragway victory by topping Jeff Brooks in the final of Right Trailers Top Sportsman. The final was a rematch of the 2024 Richmond race, with the same result.
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Super Gas winner David Griffith

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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79:57
David Griffith locked up his first career win in style, cutting a .008 reaction time in the Super Gas final and wheeling his Camaro to a 9.912 to defeat his season’s Richmond winner, J.J. Brock.
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Super Comp winner Allan Ackles

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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92:59
Allan Ackles, whose breakthrough first career win came in Atlanta in 2020, added a second Super Comp Wally to his mantle after defeating Tori Iacono on a holeshot in the final round, 8.917 to 8.912. 
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Stock Eliminator winner Morgan Taylor

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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78:45
Four years after reaching her first national event final at zMax Dragway, Morgan Taylor claimed her first win via a narrow double-breakout Stock final against Jeff Longhany. Taylor was .003-second under her dial while Longhany missed by .011-second.
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Super Stock winner Byron Worner

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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102:26
Byron Worner joined his brother, Bryan, as a Charlotte winner after beating Marion Stephenson in the Super Stock final. Worner cruised to the title after Stephenson spun the tires.
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2025 NHRA Carolina Nationals Comp Eliminator winner Wes Leopold Jr.

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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83:01
Thirty-four years after his only other national event win, in Stock in Columbus way back in 1991, Wes Leopold Jr. got back to the winner’s circle, this time in Comp where he wheeled his ASMA Stratus to a stout (.-.59) 7.87 to defeat defending event…
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2025 4-Wide NHRA Carolina Nationals Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Brian Hough

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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58:00
A week after winning Top Alcohol Funny Car in Reading, Brian Hough continued his East Coast reign of terror by scoring again in Charlotte, wrapping up his 15th career win in a weird final round in which world champ Sean Bellemeur and Chip Beverett,…
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2025 4-Wide NHRA Carolina Nationals Top Alcohol Dragster winner Matt Cummings

21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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128:07
Gatornationals Top Alcohol Dragster champ Matt Cummings scored his second win of the season, the eighth of his career, and his second at this event, running a 5.18 to outduel Jon Bradford, Jackie Fricke, and red-lighting five-time world champ Joey…
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Prock, Ashley, Glenn, Gadson take playoff wins at NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals

Funny Car points leader Austin Prock won the first four-wide playoff race in NHRA history at the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals. Justin Ashley (Top Fuel), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock), and Richard Gadson (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won at zMAX Dragway.
21 Sep 2025
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Winners
Funny Car points leader Austin Prock won the first four-wide playoff race in NHRA history on Sunday at zMAX Dragway, defeating Matt Hagan, Chad Green and Dan Wilkerson in the final round of the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals.Justin Ashley (Top Fuel…
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NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals Sunday photo gallery

The NHRA National Dragster photographers were all over zMAX Dragway on Sunday of the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals, capturing all of the action on and off of the racetrack,
21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Sunday News and Notes from the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals

News, notes, and quotes from final eliminations at the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway. Updated throughout the day
21 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Sunday notes
UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAYTOP FUEL ROUND ONEShawn Langdon, one of two drivers to have won a 4-Wide Nationals in both nitro classes (Funny Car in 2019, Top Fuel earlier this year) advanced to the…
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NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals Sunday preview

For the first time ever, four-wide racing is a part of the Countdown to the Championship playoffs at this weekend’s NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway. Here's a look at what to expect with our Sunday preview.
21 Sep 2025
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Charlotte
For the first time ever, four-wide racing is a part of the Countdown to the Championship playoffs at this weekend’s NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway. Here's a look at what to expect with our Sunday preview.Today will be a historic day…
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Witkowski, Fornwalt, Hakucsa, Schwalm claim Division 1 Summit Series Finals wins

Matt Witkowski, Mike Fornwalt, Bill Hakucsa, and Mark Schwalm scored victories at the 2025 Division 1 NHRA Summit Racing Series Finals at Numidia Dragway.
20 Sep 2025
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Division 1
The following are Saturday's final results from the 2025 NHRA Summit Racing Series Northeast Division Finals:SUPER PROMatt Witkowski, Elverson, Pa., '90 S15, 6.554, 102.17  def. Scott Hakucsa, Denville, N.J., '68 Chev, 6.508,…
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Hagan, Force, Glenn, and Herrera will lead four-wide fields into Sunday battle

Four-time Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan clinched the top spot Saturday at zMAX Dragway, powering to his second No. 1 qualifier this year at the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals. Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock), and Gaige Herrera (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also qualified No. 1 at the event.
20 Sep 2025
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Matt Hagan
Four-time Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan clinched the top spot Saturday at zMAX Dragway, powering to his second No. 1 qualifier this year for Tony Stewart Racing at the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals.Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Dallas Glenn (Pro…
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NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals Saturday photo gallery

The NHRA National Dragster photographers were all over zMAX Dragway on Saturday of the NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals, capturing all of the action on and off of the racetrack,
20 Sep 2025
NHRA National Dragster staff
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