Terry Haddock isn’t racing for an NHRA Funny Car championship this season, but he can certainly have a say in who wins it. With three races remaining in the Countdown
Billy Torrence has raced at Texas Motorplex enough times to know what a home-track crowd expects. This weekend, he’ll try to give them something to cheer about while putting a
Top Fuel dragsters don’t just burn nitro. They burn through stacks of cold, hard cash and that’s the reality one drag racing legend seeking to find her a place amongst
Mother Nature made a mess of the 2026 Funny Car Chaos and Nitro Chaos schedules, washing out three events and disrupting others. Keith Zimmerer and Garry Wheeler Jr. weren’t about
Gary Pritchett had waited a long time for somebody to hand him the keys to a Top Fuel dragster and let him show what he could do. Doug Foley finally
Some of the most important moments in drag racing never happened on the racetrack. They happened quietly, in conversations and contracts, long before the first car ever fired. One of
Marcus Butner arrived at Virginia Motorsports Park with a points cushion, a race car his team believed was as prepared as it had been all season and a chance to
NHRA didn’t quite match the television audience it attracted a year ago when FOX paired drag racing with its NFL coverage, but Sunday’s Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway
Will Smith has a description for the Top Fuel driver SCAG Racing hired before the 2026 season: a Walmart bargain. Smith can laugh about it now because the bargain bin
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NHRA’S COUNTDOWN PROBLEM DIDN’T START WITH SHAWN REED, BUT HIS CASE EXPOSED IT
NHRA had an opportunity to fix its Countdown to the Championship three years ago. Instead, it protected a flawed formula and eventually found itself in a controversy involving a racer