The Springtown, Texas-based "War Wagon” AA/Fuel Altered team announced their plans to shatter the long-standing quarter-mile AA/FA elapsed time and mile per hour records this March.

The War Wagon made history in June of 2020 with the quickest recorded eighth-mile elapsed time in history for a AA/Fuel Altered at 3.447 in the final round of the Pro Mod vs. Fuel Altered Showdown at Xtreme Raceway Park. Riding that momentum, the Farris family, with tuner David Kirkland, have now set eyes on the ultimate prize, becoming the quickest and fastest fuel altered in the world to the quarter-mile mark. Their goals are to best the current elapsed time record of 5.286 set by Joe Haas in 2013 and the 286.07 mile per hour record set by the late Ron Fassl in 2005.

Watch now as Joe Caruso, the patriarch of the Caruso Family Racing team, proudly debuts their brand new RJ Race Cars built NHRA Pro Mod Chevy Camaro.

"It's gorgeous. I've owned a Rick Jones car before back in 1992. I purchased Rick's personal Pro Stock and was just totally impressed with that car. Can't wait to get this one out to the race track, do some testing so that we can make a great showing in Gainesville in March, at the NHRA Gatornationals."

It's the uncertainty which Terry McMillen cannot stand.

McMillen, who, for over a decade, has raced Top Fuel in the NHRA, faces an uncertain 2021 where the odds do not appear to be in his favor. But those who know the fan-favorite drag racer from Elkhart, Ind., understand he's made a career out of beating the odds.

Though, this time might be the most overwhelming situation he's faced since jumping into Top Fuel in the mid-2000s. McMillen's longtime sponsor Amalie Oil suspended his contract amid a pandemic-fueled slowdown.

Kirk Lanz, a well-known Western Canadian Top Sportsman racer, is making the jump into NHRA Pro Modified in 2021. Here's a sneak peak of his Jerry Bickel-built 1969 Camaro, which is headed to Proline Racing Engines to be set up for a new Procharger combination. 

Don Schumacher Racing will soon expand its involvement in the straight-line racing world beyond the NHRA, and into the popular ‘outlaw’ style of drag racing.
 
Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) and Don Schumacher Precision Manufacturing (DSM), DSR’s manufacturing arm, are pleased to announce that Don Schumacher Racing Performance Parts (DSR.parts), the recently-launched full-service web shop for racing and production vehicles, will join the Funny Car Chaos and Outlaw Fuel Altered circuits as an associate partner of each series in 2021.

Crew chief John Collins, the wrench boss for nitro Funny Car driver Tommy Johnson Jr at Don Schumacher Racing the past seven years, has a new address.

Collins has joined Cruz Pedregon and will serve as the crew chief for the team owner and nitro Funny Car driver.

“Including myself, I brought eight guys with me who worked with me on Tommy’s car at DSR to Cruz’s team,” Collins said. “It is different. The surroundings are completely different. After being here a week and going through all his stuff, with Rip and Ryan, Cruz has done a very good job I think in what he has built. He has great stuff. He has great policies. I’m impressed with how well he has done.”

A drag racing institution will return to NHRA in 2021.

If you raced Modified Eliminator in the 1970s, you didn’t pick Cotton; he picked you. Back in those days of the high-winding, 50-pound flywheel, Doug Nash shifted coupes and sedans, the gentleman from Ringgold, Ga., named Cotton Perry was not the ideal opponent.

No, he didn’t have a finely tuned small-block engine or a sleek Corvette Stingray.

But he did have as nice of a Modified Production entry as the others, a ’67 Chevy II.

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In 2020, Alexis DeJoria returned to the cockpit of a nitro Funny Car after a two-year hiatus.

DeJoria drove the ROKiT Toyota Camry Funny Car to a solid eighth-place finish in points in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series that was abbreviated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

DeJoria compiled an 11-11 elimination-round record, highlighted by four semifinal appearances at the season-opening Winternationals, St. Louis, Houston, and Las Vegas.

“The highlight of the season I would say was coming off a two-year hiatus and having a great showing at the Winternationals in Pomona,” DeJoria said. “We had a new team and I hadn’t been out there for two years.  Even with all that newness we went out and ran good numbers and made it to the semifinals. That was a huge, huge highlight for me. Unfortunately, after that our season got cut short and we had to sit for a while. When we did come back out, we struggled a little bit at first but as soon as the guys figured out the tune-up, we were running really good and consistent. Coming back after being off for so long and getting back to running well in itself was a huge highlight, too.”