Pro Modified racing fans can look forward to an exciting weekend as the fifth edition of the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod returns to Bradenton Motorsports Park from March 1-3, 2024. The event's highlight will be the Pro Mod showdown, where drivers will compete for a whopping $100,000 prize. Additional classes for the event will be announced at a later time.

Expressing his enthusiasm for the upcoming event, Wes Buck, founder, and promoter of WSOPM, said, "We couldn't be more excited to go back to Bradenton on the first weekend in March for another incredible weekend of Pro Modified racing. I love the opportunity to create some continuity. As excited as I was about year one and all the good things that came from this event, I'm even more excited to build on it. To go back to the same venue is huge. That was the first time we'd ever put on an event at BMP. We learned a lot about the track itself and the local area, and we can only grow from here."

The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and its broadcasting team recently received eight prestigious Telly awards and one platinum Viddy award in recognition of their outstanding work. The Telly awards, which honor excellence in video and television, mark the most awards NHRA has received in a single year, bringing their total to 33 Telly awards over the past nine years.

Out of the eight awards, NHRA secured five Silver Tellys in the General Television/Sports category. This recognition was given to the entire NHRA on FOX crew for their coverage of the Reading and Brainerd events, as well as their Pep Boys NHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout show from Indy. The NHRA Senior Director of Production, Rob Hedrick, praised the production team, calling them amazing and highlighting the talent of the creative professionals involved in showcasing "the fastest, most explosive motorsport on earth." He expressed immense joy seeing the team's hard work acknowledged by their industry peers.

Respected EFI system tuner Ben Davidow has officially assumed ownership of BigStuff, the pioneering engine management company founded by drag racing legend John Meaney. The ownership transition was completed in December 2021, with Davidow now overseeing the day-to-day operations and the overall business while Meaney continues to guide BigStuff's next-generation Gen4 Extreme platform.

As part of his strategic vision, Davidow is determined to expand the BigStuff team and enhance customer service for clients worldwide. The company has already taken its first steps in this direction by establishing two offices in North America – one in Southern California and another in Michigan.

Joey Haas laid the proverbial smackdown on the rest of the field this past weekend at the second edition of Funny Car Chaos' Summernationals from Cordova Dragway.

Haas, at the wheel of his big bad nitro-burning Funny Car dubbed "Nimrod," outlasted over 30 other Funny Cars to capture the trophy in the Rodaks Custom Roasted Coffee 'A' field. He not only qualified No.1 overall, but he also set low elapsed time and top speed of the meet during eliminations, sweeping the weekend and earning max points en route to his dominating victory.

Robbie Massey, Tom Furches, and Neil Girot also came up big in Cordova, joining Haas in the winners circle.  

Dallas Glenn always dreamed of one day being able to turn on win lights and have the type of season that Greg Anderson and Jason Line enjoyed throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

Growing up racing quarter midgets and other circle-track cars as a child, Glenn realized from an early age that wasn’t the life for him. When his dad, Steve, went drag racing, Glenn thought he would give that life a try, serving as a crew member on his dad’s team at the age of 16. That, he said, is where he got hooked.

IHRA Australia has imposed a maximum speed limit of 260 mph for all sedan type vehicles. Effective immediately.

The decision is primarily aimed at Pro Slammer and Pro Mod cars and is in response to a series of high-speed crashes over the just completed 2022-2023 season. 

Lauren Freer will tell anyone she wasn’t looking for celebrity status. However, on Sunday afternoon in Norwalk, Ohio, the Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing Series competitor found it. 

Freer won the Super Comp division in her dragster, one of nearly 50 races in combined Lucas Oil, local, and Junior Dragster competition. But it was not just another win when she drove her Super Gas Corvette to victory. Freer became the first female drag racer to win two categories in a national event. 

“It’s pretty unreal,” Freer said on Monday after the reality of her historic moment set it. 

Noted motorsport administrator Tim McAvaney has been appointed CEO of the Australian National Drag Racing Association.

McAvaney has extensive experience in track and series management, particularly in the Speedway world, and will take up the position on July 3. 

Brittany Force, a two-time and reigning NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Top Fuel world champion, has been nominated for the 2023 ESPYS Best Driver Award. This is the second time Force has received the nomination following her 2017 championship season.

Force's impressive performance in the 2022 season earned her this year's nomination. Driver of the Monster Energy / Flav-R-Pac Chevrolet Top Fuel dragster, she finished the 2022 season with five victories and 10 No. 1 qualifying positions, leading the points standings for a total of 12 races. Her team even set a national record speed of 338.94 mph in the season finale.

 As a slow and steady rain shower lightly tapped on the window of the John Force Racing hauler, the legend himself slouched on his couch - still in his fire suit, hours from any possibility of racing - and let out a sigh.

Alone for a few moments amid the hustle and bustle of a normal race day routine, John Force looked toward the sky and began to speak to a figure unseen in the room: “(Bill) Bader, you’re up there now, stop the rain, would ya?"

It was one of the first quiet moments Force had to think about the first NHRA national event held at the famed Summit Motorsports Park without the man who put it on the map, legendary track owner Bill Bader Sr. One year ago at this race, moments after the celebrations had ended and the trophies were handed out, the racing community was shocked to learn that Bader had lost his life in an accident at his home in Idaho.