Wayne Newby tasted victory for the second time this season after defeating American teammate Ashley Sanford in the final of Top Fuel at the Nitro Thunder meeting at Sydney Dragway, May 4. 

John Zappia broke a 10-month long drought with a gritty win over reigning champ Paul Mouhayet in Pro Slammer. Aaron Tremayne outpaced sibling Tyrone in Pro Stock and evergreen Gary Phillips took the honors over long-time rival Steve Reed in Pro Alcohol.

Don't look now, Top Fuel competitors, but Steve Torrence has heated up.

Torrence didn't win in the first five races of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, which is news only because he swept ALL six races of the 2018 Countdown to the Championship to win his first title.

This hasn’t been a Ron Capps-type season.

Through six races of the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Series season, the 2016 nitro Funny Car world champion had only won five rounds in eliminations and had not won a race.

Pro Stock Motorcycle star Andrew Hines is making a statement this season.

The veteran Harley-Davidson driver won his third national event in four attempts when he took home the title Sunday at the 39th annual Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals in Atlanta.

Las Vegas Top Fuel winner Mike Salinas was conspicuous by his absence in Atlanta. Salinas, who has two No. 1 qualifiers and came into the Southern Nationals fourth in the points, had business to tend to in California that kept him away.

Salinas owns Valley Services in San Jose, Calif., a waste-disposal, dumpster rental and event-rental service company, hence the name of his team, Scrappers Racing.

The 2019 season of the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series has been something of a different experience for Steve Matusek, who joined the Elite Motorsports team at the conclusion of last year. Matusek and longtime friend Danny Rowe had raced as teammates for the previous five seasons, and when Rowe opted to step away from Pro Mod in order to focus more on business, a new opportunity was presented to nine-year Pro Mod veteran Matusek.

He and Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman joined forces and rounded out a powerfully capable group of drivers. The Pro Mod brand of Elite Motorsports also includes diverse and decorated drivers Alex Laughlin and Erica Enders.

Mike Castellana claimed his second victory in three years at Atlanta Dragway in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service on Sunday, winning the 39th annual Arby’s NHRA Southern Nationals, where the series was presented by FuelTech. It is the fourth of 12 races during the 2019 season.

Castellana ran 5.825-seconds at 248.29 mph in his supercharged Al-Anabi Performance Chevrolet Camaro, picking up the final-round win when Jose Gonzalez suffered a red-light start.

Fans witnessed a pretty cool moment on the starting line toward the end of Funny Car qualifying during the NHRA Southern Nationals. Blake Alexander's car wouldn't fire, and while Paul Lee waited patiently in the other lane, Alexander's team thrashed in an effort to get the engine started.