Officials at Byron Dragway have announced the popular racing venue is seeking new ownership.

This is an exciting opportunity to take an established motorsports venue into the future.  Byron Dragway is fortunate to have been under stable and consistent ownership for decades, allowing the venue to not only establish but truly develop many successful events and racing programs.  This is a turn key motorsports venue that presents many opportunities for long term growth, expansion and diversification.

The late Terry Chandler's dream of having a "giving car" in the NHRA Funny Car category will continue through 2020 after her husband, Doug Chandler, agreed to continue her mission and fund two Funny Cars with Don Schumacher Racing.
 
The Dodge Charger R/T Funny Cars will continue to be driven by Tommy Johnson Jr. and Jack Beckman in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and will continue to benefit worthwhile non-profit organizations. Since Terry began funding the teams in 2014, they have donated branding space to the Make-A-Wish and Infinite Hero foundations.

As co-owner of the PDRA, Jason Scruggs has been in staunch support of the organization from day one, never missing a race in his Pro Extreme “Mississippi Missile”. And while he is maintaining his partial ownership, the upcoming PDRA Summer Nationals will look a little different as Scruggs announces he is taking some time off from racing.

“I have a whole lot going on with business and my family right now and just going to take a break from racing for a while,” Scruggs explained. “I’m still behind the PDRA one hundred percent. I want to clear the air and don’t want any rumors to start flying about PDRA.

​​​Terry McMillen’s breakthrough semifinal finish at Sonoma was a huge and timely boost to his Countdown chances. And proving last weekend's epic performance was no fluke, he pulled off a monster takedown of point leader Steve Torrence in the first round and drove his way to the final round, before losing a tough one to Antron Brown.  

Clay Millican’s Fathers Day Top Fuel victory at Bristol – poignant because his first in NHRA competition not only came in his home state of Tennessee but on a day he had dreaded after losing son Dalton in a motorcycle accident – just might be the most popular drag-racing victory ever.

However, another one might have come right on the heels of Millican’s triumph at Bristol Dragway.

This one might have been a little embarrassing – with the accent on the last three syllables.

Up until Sunday, this year’s Western Swing has been a bust for two-time Pro Stock series champion Erica Enders. However, she pulled into Seattle rested and ready after a Wine Country tour in Northern California and a rafting trip on the McKenzie River in Oregon and some sightseeing at Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market before qualifying started at Pacific Raceways. That R&R worked its magic, as she rebounded with a No. 4 spot in the Northwest Nationals order.

“Mark and Marshall Stockseth, the husband and wife who sponsor us and Matt and Angie [Smith in the ProStock Motorcycle class], they invited me to the Wine Country to go wine tasting with them. And in the 14 years I’ve raced in Sonoma, I’ve never taken the time to do that. So it was a first-time treat for me,” she said.

They toured the Opus One, Jordan, and Far Niente wineries.

 Considered the biggest race in Pro Mod history, Mike Bowman didn’t flinch.

Bowman raced into the history book by capturing the title at the inaugural Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod winner takes all $100,000 race.

Bowman, in his 1969 Chevelle, beat Steven Whiteley in his 2014 Cadillac, in the final round.

There is good. There is great. And then there is Robert Hight’s weekend in Seattle.

Most drivers only dream of a weekend as dominant as the one Hight, crew chief Jimmy Prock, and the John Force Racing team enjoyed at Pacific Raceways, as the driver of the Auto Club Chevrolet Camaro had low elapsed time in seven of his eight runs, claimed the No. 1 qualifying position and earned his second win in three races at the 30th annual NHRA Northwest Nationals.

It was experience against perseverance, this Top Fuel final Sunday at the NHRA Northwest Nationals near Seattle between Antron Brown and Terry McMillen.   

It was a three-time series champion on the verge of 660 round-wins when he arrived against an earnest School of Hard Knocks graduate who had 45 round-wins and treated his crew members to steak dinners when they won a single race-day match-up.