Mopar and Dodge//SRT took the wraps off a new, fourth-generation version of the factory-built, racetrack-only Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak car today at the 2019 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show.

The 2020 Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak is engineered for grassroots drag racers that compete in sportsman classes in events sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and National Muscle Car Association (NMCA).

Oh, boy – here we go again . . .

Just when the chirping started to die down between NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle veterans Steve Johnson and Matt Smith about “hobby racers” and whether Suzuki bikes could be as competitive as Harley-Davidson and Buells, their final-round showdown Sunday at Las Vegas – which Smith won – started another round.

Cory McClenathan, the 34-time winner who’s No. 9 all-time in the class, said he isn’t sad to be retiring from his successful Top Fuel career.

“No. I mean this has been coming for a while. I’ve been out here, doing this for a long time,” he said. “It is. I don’t think about it until I get to the track and I’m talking to people.

We would talk about old times and they’re like, ‘Why are you leaving? We don’t want you to.’ Well, I don’t want to leave. It’s just, I think at my age, at 56, that it’s time to say, ‘OK - kind of s--- or get off the pot.’ Everybody says, ‘Oh, you’re still young, to keep doing this,’ and I don’t feel like I can’t handle the car anymore. It’s just like man, I want to do something different. What am I going to do? And trying to find a full-time deal, you know as well as I do, nowadays . . . It’s hard.

Some of the baddest drag bikes in the business will return to the track next year as part of the Mickey Thompson Tires NHRA Top Fuel Harley Drag Racing Series.

NHRA officials have announced a 10-race schedule, bringing the popular competition back to select events throughout the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.

The NHRA's 2020 Pro Modified season, the first since the Real Pro Modified Association, will take on a new look with two new combinations.

Kalitta Motorsports, the seven-time NHRA world championship-winning team, and NGK Spark Plugs announced an exclusive multi-year partnership today at SEMA that pairs the world’s leading spark plug brand to one of the most legendary teams in motorsports. The marketing partnership, which will officially begin in 2020, will see every race car in the Kalitta Motorsports stable use NGK Spark Plugs in all NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events.

After Brittany Force tamed the seemingly unconquerable Capco beast that is reigning Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence Sunday in the final round of the NHRA Dodge Nationals at Las Vegas, she needled him.

“Bet you Steve-o is shaking in his boots right now,” the Advance Auto Parts Dragster driver said with glee after beating him with a track-record 3.652-second elapsed time to his 3.719.