Former American Drag Racing League champion Jason Hamstra drove his ’69 Camaro to the top of the Pro Extreme charts at the Texas Motorplex Friday night with a lap of 3.608-seconds at 216.65 mph down the eighth-mile track. The opening night of the ADRL US Drags saw near-perfect weather with an even better day expected Saturday. Tickets for the race, as always, are completely free of charge.

Since 2002, Gateway Classic Cars has been an associate sponsor of Jim Dunn Racing’s NHRA Nitro Funny Car.  The team has seen the company go from its original location in the St. Louis market to now having more than 18 locations throughout the U.S., as the largest dealer of classic and exotic cars.
 
In addition to the racing team watching the dealership grow in a number of store locations, they have also watched its online presence grow to the point that cars for sale on Gateway’s website are viewed on average more than seven million times per month.   Jim Dunn Racing team manager, Jon Dunn, always enjoys visiting the headquarters location in O’Fallon Missouri so he can see the latest acquisitions on the showroom.  “As racers, we are the biggest auto enthusiasts you can imagine.  Seeing everything from classic muscle cars to high-performance sports cars on the showroom is impressive”.

The NHRA revealed on September 21, 2020, in a conference call with its stakeholders, nearly two-decade series sponsor Coca-Cola had pulled out of its agreement citing the global pandemic as its reason. The title sponsorship with NHRA was contracted through 2023.

The 2020 season has been one of oddity and unprecedented uncertainty for both professional and sportsman drag racing teams. However, the one certain thing many of the teams share is they plan to move forward regardless of how NHRA’s primary sponsorship landscape evolves.

NHRA has filed suit against Coca-Cola, challenging the soft drink giant used a global pandemic to breach and terminate a six-year contract.

This initial offering is printed on Gildan cotton t-shirts and features an exquisite design by leading artist Greg Ozubko, and headlines one of the more popular race vehicles in drag racing – a fuel-burning, fire-spewing Funny Car complete with the traditional CompetitionPlus, a trend-setter in the world of internet-based magazines. Just like #DragRacingNews will bring you the best, so will this t-shirt.

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Shirt comes in Black, Red and Gravel (light gray).Sizes start at adult small and go all the way to 4X.

Scott Woodruff and his team at Jegs didn't invent the sportsman team specialty drag race, but many believe they've perfected it for almost two decades. The Jegs AllStars event has become a landmark in the NHRA sportsman drag racing landscape.

The event is a continuation of the former TRW and Federal-Mogul All-Star show, but since Woodruff, officially the Director of Media and Motorsports for Jegs, took over the show, he's made it his mission to make it the be-all, end-all race-within-a-race event.

"When you can put your name on an event where the best of the best are racing each other from coast to coast among ten different sportsman classes, it's a real stamp of approval for Jegs," Woodruff said. "It's a great way for us to say thank you to our customers and just have a good time, a good race. It's the most prestigious race that there is in sportsman racing to win. So having our name tied to that is pretty cool."

A letter reportedly sent out to Chicagoland Speedway season ticket holders today may provide a glimpse into the 2021 NHRA schedule, at least when it comes to Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill.

Season ticket holders were informed the NASCAR schedule will be unveiled on Wednesday, and the oval track will not be part of the 2021 tour nor will ARCA be a part of the activities.

As a multi-time world championship-winning team Kalitta Motorsports knows what it means to be in a tough fight. The entire organization understands one of the toughest real-life fights is the daily battle millions of Americans face against cancer. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month all three Kalitta Motorsports race cars will add pink to their livery for the NHRA national events contested in October.
 
“We have lost some brave women in our lives to breast cancer and we wanted to honor them as well as everyone else across the country and world who is dealing with this terrible disease,” said Chad Head, Kalitta Motorsports General Manager. “The month of October is a busy month for our race team with multiple events across the country. We wanted to help keep this issue in front of people and encourage them to keep fighting as well as support this cause however they can.”  

Former Division 2 Services Coordinator Cody Savage has been named the NHRA’s Southeast Division Director (Division 2), serving NHRA member tracks in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Puerto Rico.
 
A native of Loganville, Ga., Savage graduated from Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Sport Management. He got his start in motorsports in 2009 as an event worker at Atlanta Dragway. Savage assumed the role of Division Services Coordinator in 2014 and relocated to his current home in Gainesville, Fla. In that capacity, he was responsible for client service and account management, event planning and staffing, processing licenses and memberships, and on-site event management for the more than 25 events held annually within the Southeast Division.

The Funny Car Chaos series concludes its 2020 Championship Tour presented by Red Line Shirt Club and Mears Mazda Volvo this Friday and Saturday at Alamo City Motorplex outside San Antonio, Texas. The season finale will cap off a challenging, yet amplifying effort for the series to push through the obstacles of the pandemic we have all faced this year.

At the World Finals, Funny Car Chaos is upping the payouts for its sixteen qualifiers which will now top $30,000 total and pay the ‘A’ Field winner $7,500 and ‘B’ Field winner $5,000. Without a doubt, this is icing on the cake for the passionate racers in this series and adds excitement to what is sure to be a thrilling weekend of flopper racing in Texas.

Out West, in the Midwest, down South, against any challengers, against each other, after skipping events or buzzing through consecutive final-round appearances, the duo of two-time and reigning NHRA Top Fuel king Steve Torrence and dad Billy Torrence always seem to find a way to dominate. Together they had won exactly half of the previous six races in their Capco Dragsters before arriving at this weekend’s Amalie Oil Gatornationals.

Steve Torrence tipped the scales for a third championship in his favor Sunday by conquering Florida’s Gainesville Raceway at his dad’s expense. He used a 3.809-second elapsed time (curiously, his slowest of the day) at 322.11 mph on the 1,000-foot “Kenny Bernstein Way” course to top Billy Torrence’s 3.810, 320.74. (The finish wasn’t as close as it might look on paper, thanks to Dad’s sluggish 0.104 reaction time on the launch).