The stars of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series will begin preparing for their pursuits of Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock world championships from Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park outside of Phoenix, Arizona, during the PRO Nitro Spring Training test session slated for February 10-12. The testing sessions hosted by the Professional Racing Organization will be closed to the public except for Saturday, February 12, when fans who have purchased tickets to the NHRA Arizona Nationals will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for the on-track testing action. Fans may add on test session tickets to their Arizona Nationals ticket order online or they may call the NHRA Ticket Sales Center at 800-884-6472 if Nationals tickets have been previously purchased.

Almost 30 drivers from more than a dozen of the top professional NHRA teams, including nine current or former world champions, will be testing many with brand new race cars and new sponsors.

The opening round of the 2022 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel championship at Sydney Dragway, January 21-22, has received a massive boost with NHRA legend Larry Dixon set to race for leading Australian team, Rapisarda Autosport International.

Dixon will partner with Australian champ Wayne Newby in the absence of West Australian team member Damien Harris. The latter is unavailable due to state government travel restrictions and border closures.

Jamie Jackson had no idea how crucial a 1961 match race between Sammy Hale and “Sneaky” Pete Robinson would be in preserving drag racing’s history. He was awestruck at the presentation of sounds and speed.

While photography was the preferred way of capturing the intensity of the straight-line sport, Jackson believed this was so inadequate in presenting the way it really was. Now joined by his older brother Sonny, the siblings borrowed their parents’ 8 mm Brownie Hawkeye movie camera, which used Kodak color film. 

Two decades behind the wheel of her iconic jet dragster has only made Elain Larsen better and faster. She will embark in 2022 on her “Two Decades of Thrills: Full Throttle Tour,” which will propel her into the next phase of her professional career.

At the end of the season, Larsen will change her focus as the primary driver for Larsen Motorsports (LMS). Instead, she will assume a more prominent leadership role within LMS, the company she founded with her husband, Chris, and Blazing Trails, the 501(C)3 non-profit she founded. She will work more on the R&D side of motorsports and connect students to exciting, non-traditional careers through STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)

When historic Thunder Valley opens its gates in 2022, it will once again be the one of the busiest drag strips in the country as it will continue to offer fans a wide variety of compelling events, headlined by the prestigious NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.

In 2022, the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals will return to its traditional Father’s Day date, June 17-19. The marquee event anchors an impressive season calendar that also will showcase the NHRA Junior Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals, the return of both the Street Car Takeover and the American Motorcycle Association, two World Footbrake Challenge events, the Rad Torque Fall Fling, the DER Series and the Thunder Valley Street Fights.

The opening round of the 2022 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel championship at Sydney Dragway, January 21-22, will be a watershed moment for the sport of drag racing in Australia after the four teams currently competing - Rapisarda Autosport Racing, PremiAIr Hire Racing, Jim Read Racing and Lamattina Top Fuel Racing - banded together and decided to run their own independent, stand-alone championship series.

The decision to quit the 400 Thunder series and go it alone with their own six-round series has resulted in a seismic shift in the world of Australian drag racing. 

Featuring 2021 SEMA Battle of the Builders Champion Robert Matranga with his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, the History Channel will premiere the Battle of the Builders special on Sunday, January 23, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. (PT/ET). The one-hour special has aired on television since 2015, giving viewers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the SEMA Show, up-close footage of the vehicles, and exclusive interviews with builders as they share their personal stories and journey to the SEMA Show. For many of the builders, SEMA Battle of the Builders is their chance to prove that they are among the elite.

Drag Illustrated will honor 2021’s most outstanding racers, tuners, promoters, moments and more when it unveils the winners of the inaugural DI Awards on Thursday, February 3, 2022. The winners will be revealed on the DI Awards show streamed live on the Drag Illustrated Facebook and YouTube pages at 6:30 p.m. Central. The winners will also be featured in the new Racer of the Year Issue launching in early February. 
 
“I've labored over this for a long time and spoken about it a lot, but it's worth repeating: drag racing is hard,” said Wes Buck, founder and editorial director, Drag Illustrated. “This is an extremely competitive sport with some of the highest of highs and lowest of lows – sometimes coming in the same weekend. You don't see 'undefeated' drag racers. This is a sport where losing is simply part of the game, it's part of the journey, and, honestly, I think that is why this community is full of such incredible human beings...because that's what this sport, this level of competition, oftentimes produces.

Top Fuel's Krista Baldwin and Pro Modified's Lyle Barnett pulled closer to clinching their first Virtual Reality Hot Rod Association series championships by winning their fifth race. The Strange Engineering Be There Nationals at the legendary U.S. 30 Dragstrip is the sixth of nine races in the 2021 - 2022 season. 

Baldwin pulled out early on final round opponent TJ Zizzo and then fought off a late hour charge from the defending series champion and second place in points. She holds a 138 point lead over Zizzo, while four drivers still have a mathematical chance of winning the title. 

A 218 point lead is needed to clinch following next week's Grandnational in Montreal, Quebec.