Heading into 2023 Texas Motorplex will host the Funny Car Chaos season opener for the third year in a row. Recognized as the largest Funny Car event in the country, the excitement and anticipation for the Funny Car Chaos season has been building since the season finale during last year’s Stampede of Speed. The Funny Car Chaos Classic will happen March 16-18 at the famed track south of Dallas and early indications are this event will be record-setting.

John Force Racing will once again feature four full-time hot rods in the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season. Driven by their returning roster of 2022 drivers, Brittany Force, Robert Hight, Austin Prock and John Force, the legendary team will be chasing the organization’s 23rd and 24th NHRA world championships.

“The 2022 season was good to us. We all got wins, did the work for our sponsors,” said the founder and CEO of John Force Racing, John Force. “Brittany with the championship and Robert battled all the way to the end. Austin kind of surprised us all with the late surge and I held my own too. We’ll build on that success this year. We’ve promoted from within, made some changes and it makes me, all of us, excited for this season.”

After a three-year hiatus, the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series will make its highly-anticipated return to Chicago for the Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance. The fan-favorite event has seen countless historic NHRA moments over the years and the 2023 race promises to once again deliver action-packed, 11,000-horsepower, 330-mph excitement in NHRA’s return to Chicago and Route 66 Raceway. 

“The NHRA fan is our core consumer for products manufactured under the PEAK and BlueDEF brands,” states Old World Industries Director of Sports Marketing, Brian Bohlander. “Without races at Route 66 Raceway in nearby Joliet, there’s been a void for the fans in our home market so it’s exciting to have the NHRA back in 2023 and hopefully for many more years to come.” 

Fuel Factory has entered a multi-year partnership to fuel the efforts of racers in the Mid Atlantic Super Series. 
 
The Mid Atlantic Super Series is a northeast based organization, hosting ten series races at three different racetracks for Super Gas, Super Comp and Super Street. Additionally, the newly added Top Dragster, Top Sportsman and Jr. Dragster runners will compete at six events. 

One thing has been a constant for the Pro Stock Motorcycle class since it became a points-earning professional division in the NHRA. It always started the season at least one or two races after the other professional divisions started. 

That is, until now. Yes, in 2021, they all started together, but only because the schedule was adjusted for COVID restrictions. This time it was a planned start. 

When the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series kicks off next month in Gainesville, Florida, the two-wheel racing contingent will be on equal ground with its four-wheel brethren.

A proverbial pot of golf awaits the winner in Top Fuel at the 65th running of the iconic March Meet at historic Famoso Dragstrip in Bakersfield, California. The race is slated for March 2-5. 

Bob McLennan, the owner and crew chief of the famed Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel dragster and head of the AAFD (All-American Fuel Dragsters) association, recently announced with the help of Top Fuel driver Jim Young and Famoso track operator Blake Bowser that the eliminator field would be racing for the largest purse in the history of the March Meet. 

A total of $60,000 in prize money will be up for grabs, with $10,000 awarded to the winner from Custom Floaters, and Planet Fitness is putting up $5,000 for the runner-up. The semifinalists will earn $3,000, while the quarterfinalists will be paid $2,500.

The Funny Car Chaos Championship drag racing series is very excited to welcome new marketing partners Performance Motorcoaches and Excel Drywall to its growing list of supporters who are fueling the continued expansion of the run whatcha’ brung funny car series. 

These new partnerships along with continued primary support from Spell Paving Services, Wulff Pumps and Fat Tirez Apparel have made it possible for big changes in the per event and year end payout program for the 2023 season. 

Flav-R-Pac Frozen Fruits and Vegetables, which is owned by Frank Tiegs, will be a primary sponsor on Robert Hight’s Chevrolet Camaro Funny Car this season.

In addition to flying their colors on Brittany Force’s Top Fuel dragster for half the season, Flav-R-Pac has stepped up to take on four races with the three-time Funny Car champion. Hight will field the Flav-R-Pac / Cornwell Tools / AAA Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car to open the 2023 season at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway in Florida, March 10-12.

“I’m extremely excited for the opportunity to race the Flav-R-Pac colors. Frank Tiegs, who owns Flav-R-Pac and Montana Brand / Rocky Mountain Twist on Austin Prock’s dragster, has been a major part of the John Force Racing family over the last several years. I think it really says something about how well the partnership is working to have him take on an additional car with us for four races,” said Hight, President of John Force Racing. “I look forward to celebrating with him in the winner’s circle and maybe even getting a double up with Brittany in her Flav-R-Pac dragster. That would be huge.”

Brian Corradi is one of those crew chiefs who can get the most out of any situation. During testing last weekend in Gainesville, Fla., he was busy getting the most out of his driver - Antron Brown. 

However, the task was not to get more performance out of Brown, as he understands Brown already drives at peak performance. It's Brown's spare time that Corradi wants to improve the bottom line. 

Brown spends a healthy amount of his time in the pits during the events mixing up the Matco Team's fuel for the day, and as Corradi sees it, this chore takes up more of the boss' time than it should. 

Along with the incredible on-track action to kick off the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, the hallowed grounds of famed Gainesville Raceway will feature five of the most historic cars from legendary driver “Big Daddy” Don Garlits in a special “Swamp Rat Alley” section at the 54th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals.

NHRA and Garlits, one of the most iconic drivers in drag racing history, have teamed up for the “Swamp Rat Alley” inside the Hot Rod Junction featuring six famous Garlits cars. The cars will be on display throughout the weekend at Gainesville Raceway, giving fans the unique chance to check out some of the most historic cars driven by one of the legends in the sport. Garlits will also be on hand throughout the weekend at Gainesville Raceway to meet with and sign autographs for fans.