The trip was a rite of passage.

Young Clay Millican had never been to a major drag race without his mother or father, and one weekend clear back in the last century, the teenager from Drummonds, Tennessee, located outside of Memphis, set out for a points race at Atlanta Dragway.

After a 50 year delay drag racing legend Don “The Snake” Prudhomme found his redemption in the desert finishing the grueling five day Yokohama NORRA Mexican 1000 presented by Method Race Wheels. The four-time NHRA Funny Car champion and drag racing legend along with co-driver Canadian Shane Chatwell drove his JEGS  2018 Polaris RZR 1000 prepped by P.J. Jones of PJ’s Performance in Scottsdale, Ariz., to a tenth place finish in the Stock Turbo UTV class of the off-road rally run by the National Off Road Racing Association (NORRA.
 
“It was a hell of a run I can tell you that,” said an exhausted but satisfied Prudhomme after the race. “It was a thousand miles worth of trails, dirt roads, rocks, boulders and massive dust clouds. You name it we saw it in the desert. It was unbelievable. Just to make it to the finish line is an achievement. It was just a hell of an experience and I can’t even really put it into words how tough it was.”
 

Matt Hagan didn't mince words. 

The burly Funny Car driver expressed his disdain for the NHRA's new policy of putting less traction compound in the latter part of the drag strip. 

Hagan took his message to Twitter by posting, "I'll say it cause no one else will say it. @NHRA should be embarrassed for the show we put on in charlotte. I'm very sorry to all our fans that payed (sic) to see that. @NHRA has changed track prep to slow the cars down and the end result is tire smoke, explosions and a poor show!!"

Arriving to compete at NHRA’s Southern Nationals has proved to be a nightmare for Top Fuel driver Audrey Worm.

The hauler owned by Gary Leverich Racing & Audrey Worm Racing carrying Worm’s dragster and parts was broken into sometime between April 30 and Thursday, May 3 while it was parked in Heiskell, Tenn.

JEGS, one of the largest high performance automotive equipment retailers in the United States, has reached an agreement with NHRA as the title-rights sponsor for the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event taking place at Route 66 Raceway outside of Chicago. The JEGS Route 66 NHRA Nationals will take place on May 31-June 3 and will feature competition in all four professional categorie.
 
The entitlement builds upon the involvement by the organization as the JEGS Allstars specialty race will take place on Saturday, June 2. This race-within-a-race will pit the top points earners from NHRA’s seven geographic divisions of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and four Top Alcohol regions against each other in the culmination of a yearlong points battle. Competitors in Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Comp Eliminator, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Stock Eliminator, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Stock, and Super Street will compete for team and individual honors as well as a share of the $124,000 purse.

Veteran drag racer Rick Hord remains confident a difference of opinion between him and the NHRA's tech department will be resolved in the coming weeks. 

Hord, a longtime NHRA sportsman racer who graduated into the volatile Pro Modified division, posted a career-best run during Friday's Q2 session at the NGK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals,  a 5.711 elapsed time at 260.91 miles per hour.

Hord's pass was the sixth quickest elapsed time in the history of the series and the fastest speed ever since the Pro Modified cars became an official series in 2010.