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​There was a point in Mike Bucher's life when every day was Father's Day. Now he lives it in another way. 

Bucher, son of former NHRA Top Fuel racer Jim Bucher,  started going to the drag races with his father when he was three years old. Next weekend, after a 38-year scenario filled with persistence and passion, he will honor his father and fulfill a dream. 

To understand Bucher's destination, one must see how the journey began. 

From the moment the Holley Hot Rod Reunion began, Dan Horan Jr. established his dragster as the one to beat and a lock to win the Nostalgia Top Fuel division at Beech Bend International Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky.

Jimi Young didn't get the memo.

Young headlined the winners at the latest NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series event. Joining Young was Levi Keenan (Nostalgia Funny Car) and Mark Pappas (Nostalgia Pro Stock).

The hot rodding world lost one of its rising young stars as Craig Morrison, 46, passed away unexpectedly on June 13 due to complications from Covid-19.

Born in Tacoma, Washington —seemingly with a wrench in one hand and a fishing rod in the other— he enthusiastically followed in his father Art’s footsteps as an avid outdoorsman and automotive craftsman.

Litens High Performance, an Original Equipment leader in automotive tensioning products for domestic and import vehicles, has announced that they had entered a relationship with NHRA Top Sportsman drag racer Don O’Neal.

For the past year, O’Neal has been testing a tensioning kit developed by Litens for use with the Magnuson supercharger in O’Neal’s 2017 Camaro. Litens High Performance will soon be offering this kit to the public in their line of high-performance belt drive products.

Qualifying for the Holley Hot Rod Reunion came to a thrilling conclusion on Friday afternoon with Dan Horan, Jr. (Top Fuel) and Levi Keenan (Funny Car) setting the pace for Saturday's final eliminations at Beech Bend International Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky.

On Feb. 24, Kalitta Motorsports announced they would be partnering with ‘A Kid Again,’ a nonprofit organization focused on helping kids facing life-threatening illnesses to create memories with their families.

That partnership did not go unnoticed by young drag racer Keegan Beverly

2020 was a challenging year on and off the track for the motorsports world. It did, however, end with a Top 5 finish for JB Strassweg in Top Dragster and a new partner for 2021 and beyond, Equal-i-zer Sway Control Hitch.

"We ended 2020 with solid performances on the track, and we are kicking 2021 off with a new partner in Equal-i-zer Hitch, along with Meyer Distributing," Strassweg said. "Equal-i-zer is a great American family-owned company. We sell them every day in our store, and they keep us safe as we travel to races across the country."

Competition Plus Apparel, the apparel division of CompetitionPlus.com, has now expanded to include racer t-shirts.

Headlining the new product line is the newest in the Scotty Cannon Heritage Series, now taking pre-orders for the 1993 Corvette, Three-4-Three in '93 design. Pre-orders are moving quickly and, based on the previous offering, sell out quickly. The second of ten planned productions is a one-time run, so once they are gone, they are gone.

Mopar has named Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) Performance as the supplier of officially licensed engine components for the 2015 and 2021 Dodge Challenger Mopar Drag Pak.

The Dodge Challenger Mopar Drag Pak is the limited-production, purpose-built muscle car for grassroots and professional drag racers competing in events sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and National Muscle Car Association (NMCA). The quickest, fastest and most powerful Drag Pak ever built made its on-track debut this past March with a 7-second quarter-mile run at the NHRA Gatornationals in the Sportsman’s Factory Stock Showdown (FSS) class with DSR pilot Leah Pruett at the helm.

The new DSR Performance online catalog offers engine components for the supercharged 354-cubic-inch Gen-III HEMI V-8 engine that powers both the 2021 model year and previous-generation (2015) Drag Pak.