IHRA Australia has imposed a maximum speed limit of 260 mph for all sedan type vehicles. Effective immediately.

The decision is primarily aimed at Pro Slammer and Pro Mod cars and is in response to a series of high-speed crashes over the just completed 2022-2023 season. 

Lauren Freer will tell anyone she wasn’t looking for celebrity status. However, on Sunday afternoon in Norwalk, Ohio, the Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing Series competitor found it. 

Freer won the Super Comp division in her dragster, one of nearly 50 races in combined Lucas Oil, local, and Junior Dragster competition. But it was not just another win when she drove her Super Gas Corvette to victory. Freer became the first female drag racer to win two categories in a national event. 

“It’s pretty unreal,” Freer said on Monday after the reality of her historic moment set it. 

Noted motorsport administrator Tim McAvaney has been appointed CEO of the Australian National Drag Racing Association.

McAvaney has extensive experience in track and series management, particularly in the Speedway world, and will take up the position on July 3. 

Brittany Force, a two-time and reigning NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Top Fuel world champion, has been nominated for the 2023 ESPYS Best Driver Award. This is the second time Force has received the nomination following her 2017 championship season.

Force's impressive performance in the 2022 season earned her this year's nomination. Driver of the Monster Energy / Flav-R-Pac Chevrolet Top Fuel dragster, she finished the 2022 season with five victories and 10 No. 1 qualifying positions, leading the points standings for a total of 12 races. Her team even set a national record speed of 338.94 mph in the season finale.

 As a slow and steady rain shower lightly tapped on the window of the John Force Racing hauler, the legend himself slouched on his couch - still in his fire suit, hours from any possibility of racing - and let out a sigh.

Alone for a few moments amid the hustle and bustle of a normal race day routine, John Force looked toward the sky and began to speak to a figure unseen in the room: “(Bill) Bader, you’re up there now, stop the rain, would ya?"

It was one of the first quiet moments Force had to think about the first NHRA national event held at the famed Summit Motorsports Park without the man who put it on the map, legendary track owner Bill Bader Sr. One year ago at this race, moments after the celebrations had ended and the trophies were handed out, the racing community was shocked to learn that Bader had lost his life in an accident at his home in Idaho.

Leah Pruett has been working on getting rid of superstitions in her life.

After years behind the wheel of dozens of different race machines, the veteran racer has picked up a few quirks here and there that have, at times, shaped how she has handled herself on race day. But there was just something about this weekend that stood out for the California native that pointed to a good result.

“When you have been racing like I have for 27 years, you accumulate some superstitions,” Pruett said. “This year, I’ve tried to push those away. But I would see a No. 1 sign. I would see the No. 1 that’s right there in my dash. And today, it just stuck out to me. Going in the number one qualifier, that gives you momentum, but you have to be there (in the end) to get those wins.”

Hector Arana Jr. proved once again that he can’t be overlooked in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

Arana Jr.’s skills were on display at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, on Sunday as he raced to his first victory of the 2023 season. Arana Jr. claimed the title by clocking a 6.821-second run at 199.82 on his Buell to defeat Steve Johnson’s 6.943-second lap at 176.63 mph on a Suzuki.

It was Arana’s 18th career victory. Arana Jr. was piloting his GETTRX Buell powered by Global Electronic Technology, Inc.

Matt Hartford always had the passion to chase an NHRA Pro Stock world championship.

The veteran driver has surrounded himself with a great cast and crew, and he’s right in the mix to be No. 1 in the class at season’s end – especially after this weekend.

Hartford qualified No.1 and then cruised to the title at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, on Sunday.

Hartford, in his Total Seal Chevy, secured the victory by clocking a 6.624-second time at 207.02 mph to defeat Dallas Glenn, who slowed to 17.599 seconds after severe tire shake off the starting line.

Blake Alexander knew Sunday was going to be a special day.

He didn’t know why. He didn’t know how. He just knew that something big was going to happen.

“I woke up today and I saw my wife and my son and I knew I was in the right place and I was supposed to be here, I just didn’t know what was going to happen today,” Alexander said.

As it turns out, that prophetic vision of a successful Sunday turned into his first career Funny Car victory. Alexander bested class titan Matt Hagan in the final at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals and, in doing so, became the 18th driver in NHRA history to earn a win in both nitro categories, collecting a pair of Top Fuel victories back in 2018.