Brittany Force and her team weren’t horsing around at Maple Grove Raceway in the heart of Amish country at the 35th annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals presented by Pennzoil when they set a new national Top Fuel elapsed time record on Saturday.

Ron Capps (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Angelle Sampey (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are also No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the 19th event of the 2019 season.

Ron Capps powered to the top of the Funny Car category on Friday when he set both ends of the Maple Grove Raceway track record during the 35th annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals presented by Pennzoil.

Capps, who is chasing his second title at Maple Grove, ran a 3.837-second lap at 339.28 mph in his NAPA Filters Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat to go to the provisional No. 1 spot and set a new elapsed time and speed record at Maple Grove Raceway at the first race of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs.

There is nothing part-time about Paul Lee’s racing operation outside of the schedule. 

With a big-time operation, a championship-winning crew chief, and a talented driver, Lee is in a unique situation of having the car and team capable of going rounds and being successful, yet he remains limited in his schedule as to ensure the team is able to compete at its peak each and every race weekend. 

Wally Stroupe failed to qualify for the prestigious U.S. Nationals.

This was Stroupe’s second time racing Pro Stock at the U.S. Nationals the first time coming in 2015.

Although Stroupe didn’t make the field, he’s brimming with optimism about his Pro Stock future.

A year ago, Dave Connolly showed how valuable he was as an NHRA Pro Stock crew chief.

Connolly helped guide Tanner Gray to the world championship. When Gray departed to pursue a NASCAR career, Connolly wasn’t out of work for long as he signed on with KB Racing and the Summit Racing team of Greg Anderson and Jason Line.

NHRA officials announced the 2020 schedule for the SAMTech.edu NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Drag Racing Series, which will compete at eight of the 24 events on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule.

This fan favorite category continues to grow in popularity as the SAMTech.edu NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Drag Racing series showcases the best in American automotive muscle.

It has been just over four years, but Aaron Stanfield is back driving in NHRA’s Mello Yello Series Pro Stock class.

Stanfield is driving a Camaro for Richard Freeman’s Elite Motorsports for the final six races of the season, beginning with the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals Presented By Pennzoil at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa., Sept. 12-15.

A new era will dawn for Keith Haney Racing (KHR) Sep. 13-14, as "Black Mamba," the team's brand-new, nitrous-breathing 2019 Camaro, will make its competition debut with the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Pro Mod Series (MWPMS) at Memphis International Raceway.

"To say I'm excited is a huge understatement. I can't wait to get the Black Mamba out there and sink my fangs into the competition," declared team owner and driver Haney, who also owns and promotes the all-eighth-mile MWPMS.

You just never know. 

Those four little words are the sole driving force behind an entire race team as veteran racer Terry Haddock clings to the possibilities of the unknown in the sport of drag racing. 

In more than two decades behind the wheel, Haddock has seen it all in the sport. He has been a world champion in a nitro Funny Car racing with the International Hot Rod Association in the late 2000s. But with the NHRA, he hasn’t been nearly as successful. 

The Best of Texas BBQ Sauce Funny Car Chaos Championship series presented by Red Line Shirt Club made its debut at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan on September 6th and 7th. This marked the most northern stop in series history for the southwest-based funny car series. With the battle heating up in the chase to the Inaugural Funny Car Chaos Championship, every run would prove critical in this, the sixth points race of the year presented by Powershield Coatings. Atop the Chaos, US 131 general manager Jason Petersen provided a non-stop line up of drag racing entertainment including the Top Fuel dragsters of Larry Dixon and Dom Lagana, Bob Motz jet-powered Kenworth, the Nostalgia Drag Racing League and much more.

Fourteen nitro and alcohol burning floppers made the tow to Michigan, including cars from as far south as Seguin, Texas to as far north as Ontario, Canada and included several first time Chaos participants. The open format to body style and engine combination attracted a wide variety of entries from the Canadian based Aidan Heatley-Smith and the “Ant Hill Mob” team who made their United States competition debut with their 2013 Ford Mustang bodied, screw blown 521 cubic inch combination, to Sue Christophersen who became the second female Chaos driver in series history in the “Susie Q” 1957 Chevy bodied entry powered by a roots style blown 521 TFX. Mike Minick, Vic Tiffin, and David Wagner also made their first Funny Car Chaos appearances in Michigan.