Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels will support Duck X Productions’ No Mercy 7 Outlaw Radial Revolution as a major sponsor this year. Scheduled Oct. 6-9 and hosted by South Georgia Motorsports Park, racers are preparing for this year’s event, offering the biggest drag radial payout of the year to the winner of Radial vs. The World.

“No Mercy is some of the best small tire drag racing in the world,” stated Tom Kundrik, Motorsports Manager for Mickey Thompson. “Our ET Street Radial Pro tires were made for this kind of competition, and we’re looking forward to another great doorslammer event.”

The PDRA's Pro Extreme division stands at three wins and 0 losses.

In the last three events, the eighth-mile doorslammer division's premiere division has match raced a Pro Nitrous doorslammer, an Alcohol Funny Car and now a Jet Dragster. The quickest and fastest full-bodied division remains the king of the eighth-mile jungle for now. 

Tommy D'Aprile made drag racing history on Friday evening during the PDRA Sunshine State Shootout by becoming the first Pro Extreme driver to beat a Jet dragster. 

While all of his NHRA Funny Car rivals were getting a sound sleep Saturday in Reading, Pa., two-time class champion Matt Hagan was dashing home to Christiansburg, Va., via his father David’s private plane to be present for the birth of third child, Tucker, who was born at 6:25 a.m. Sunday.

“I’m running on pure adrenaline,” Hagan said early Sunday afternoon back at Maple Grove Raceway after winning his first-round match-up against Jim Campbell in the Dodge Nationals.

Multiple winners were recognized as the NHRA Keystone Nationals concluded at Maple Grove Raceway after rain delays over the weekend. Winners were recognized in Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car, Comp Eliminator, Stock, Super Comp and the rest of the classes that encompass the nationwide series.
 
In the Top Alcohol Dragster final round the audience witnessed Jackie Fricke, Flemington, N.J., chase down Chris Demke, Sunland, Calif., for the winning light. Fricke registered a victory pass of 5.263 seconds, 278.92 mph to Demke’s 8.594 seconds, 97.72 mph. This is Fricke’s first National event Wally trophy in her second final round appearance.

Antron Brown said he virtually couldn’t see his way down the Maple Grove Raceway 1,000-foot course Sunday in the Top Fuel final round of the NHRA Dodge Nationals near Reading, Pa.

That’s a perilous proposition, considering his Matco Tools / Toyota/ U.S. Army Dragster is a 10,000-horsepower beast that jets down-track on an unholy mixture of nitric acid and propane and zips from start to finish faster than anyone could say, “Antron Brown retains his Mello Yello Drag Racing Series points lead.”

When it comes to talking about who will win the NHRA Funny Car world championship, Tommy Johnson Jr. seems to get lost in the conservation.

That shouldn’t be the case anymore.

Vincent Nobile knew he let a Northwest Nationals national event win slip through his hands.

During the final round for Seattle - which was completed Sept. 3 at the U.S. Nationals – Nobile had a faster car than his opponent Aaron Strong, but handed Strong his inaugural Pro Stock win when he recorded a redlight.

It’s October now.

Maybe it was the dank, gloomy weather that inspired him. Or maybe some Halloween ghouls manipulated the normally friendly, affable Eddie Krawiec.

Tommy Johnson Jr. raced to the Funny Car victory at the Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway on Sunday.

Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Vincent Nobile (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also victorious in their respective categories at the 21st event of 24 on the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. The Dodge NHRA Nationals is the third race of the six-race NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship playoffs.