The Discovery Channel has its weekly Shark Week, and it's not for the weak at heart. Starting this year in the second week of October, Donald Long's Duck X Productions presents its Duck Week. Instead of a television screen, it's in your face, relentless drag radial doorslammer competition. 

The first phase of Duck Week ended on Tuesday evening, with an early-in-the-week drag race featuring the best of the best in five key drag radial divisions - Radial vs. The World, Pro 275, X275, Ultra Street, and Limited Drag Radial. 

The Battle of Thrones, the specialty event formerly known as The Sweet 16, came to an end with Brian Markiewicz (Radial vs The World), Jason Collins (Pro 275), Shane Moses (x275), Dave Fiscus (Ultra Street) and Jamie Hancock(Limited Drag Radial).

After months of preparation, the weekend has finally arrived for Angelle Sampey to expand her racing endeavors from two-wheels to four. The 46-time NHRA national event winner will make her highly-anticipated Top Alcohol Dragster racing debut at the NHRA Fall Nationals. 

She comes into the Texas Motorplex after another successful A/Fuel Dragster test, this time behind the wheel of the Michalek Brothers' entry at Indianapolis Raceway Park. She will drive the same dragster this weekend. 

"I feel very confident going into this weekend," said Sampey. "What a night and day difference between where I'm at now and those first few licensing runs at Brainerd (Minn.) back in August. I will admit, when I first got into the car last Wednesday, I was nervous again because I hadn't driven in three weeks, so I just had to get that first run down and shake the nerves off, but I was good after that."

Each year, Ron Capps has won an NHRA nitro Funny Car world championship in 2016, 2021, and 2022 – there has been one constant.

Capps always performed well at the fall race in Dallas. The star driver had a runner-up finish in 2016 at the Texas Motorplex, and then he won race in 2021 and 2022.

Capps enters the Texas NHRA FallNationals this weekend fourth in the points standings but a mere 33 points behind leader Bob Tasca III. 

Bakersfield is a nitro town, and word comes today that the popular Nitro Chaos series, a spin-off of the Chris and Tera Graves-inspired Funny Car Chaos, has landed a date at Famoso Raceway in September, 2024. 

The California Chaos event, slated for September 27-28, 2024,  will offer 32 qualified spots for nitro burners with guaranteed payouts of $55,000-plus. It will mark the first time the unique format and run whatcha’ brung formula has ventured outside the south-central and mid-western United States. The event is open to all nitro-burning machines with the motor in the front and contested on the eighth-mile ‘outlaw’ style. There are no rules regarding engine combination, body style, etc. The series includes front engine dragsters, fuel altereds, funny cars, and pro mods. The Nitro Chaos series will enforce all safety guidelines. The only other ‘rule’ is each entry must have a minimum of 80% nitromethane in the fuel tank.  

The kids shouldn’t be the only ones allowed to have all the fun. 

That’s why this weekend, Billy Torrence, the 65-year-old father of multi-time Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence, plans to make his debut at the 38th annual NHRA FallNationals hosted by the Texas Motorplex, located in Ennis, Texas. 

Funny Car Chaos, the unique Funny Car-only format created by Chris Graves, has announced its 2024 schedule of events. The grassroots Funny Car series, which features diverse combinations ranging from supercharged engines on nitromethane to turbocharged on methanol, has emerged as a top drag racing entertainment venue. The bottom line is if the body lifts up and the car passes safety protocols, there’s a place for it to race. This season, Spell Paving Funny Car Chaos will present nine events, eight of which are championship points-earning events. 

The season opens in April with the fourth annual Funny Car Classic at the Texas Motorplex, located outside of Dallas. This event, which has attracted as many as 64 entries in the past, will be partnered with sister series DMP Awnings Nitro Chaos on April 4-6, 2024, to bring more than enough nitro entertainment, including a 32-car feature field. 

In a clash of blue-collar nitro racers, Funny Car racer Terry Haddock got the best of Top Fuel racer Mitch King at the inaugural Texas Invitational match race. The battle of flame-throwers kicked off the 3rd annual Stampede of Speed week at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. 

Haddock's path to triumph began on Saturday when he outpaced fellow Funny Car contender Jeff Diehl in the opening round, setting the stage for his monumental face-off with King for the Texas Invitational championship belt. Securing his spot in the final, King left a trail of tire smoke behind as he outperformed Buddy Hull during Saturday's heart-pounding race.

David Nickens wanted to see how well he could do. Sportsman drag racing Jeff icon Jeff Taylor was all too willing to give it a shot. They wanted to give a Factory Stock Showdown a shot.

Well, maybe not the class or the car. 

Starting next season, Competition Eliminator’s dynamic duo will get a chance to have their cake and eat it, too. Next year they will hit the track with a destroked, 360-inch. Magnuson supercharged LS platform engine in a Dodge Stratus. 

CompetitionPlus.com, drag racing's longest-running online magazine, is preparing for its 25th year in the industry with a series committed to preserving drag racing history.

CompetitionPlus.com, founded in 1999 and launched in September of that same year, has published tens of thousands of articles chronicling both current news and drag racing history. In the months leading up to its 25th anniversary, the online pioneer will feature the top stories of each year.