Chip Ellis has accomplished plenty in his lengthy NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle career. 

Ellis has won seven career NHRA national events, and he has become a steady rent-a-rider since 2018, driving for the teams of Vance & Hines, Matt Smith Racing and Ryan Oehler. 

Ellis competed at the season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., March 10-12 for MSR and checked another item off his Pro Stock Motorcycle bucket list – eclipsing 200 mph.

Ellis accomplished the feat with a 6.790-second elapsed time at 200.02 mph during the third qualifying session on March 11.

There's business-to-business programs and then there's what the Cuadra Boys team has pulled off headed into this weekend's NHRA Arizona Nationals outside of Phoenix.

The Cuadra Family, who owns the ultra-successful Corral Boots brand, have signed Columbia Impex as a major associate sponsor for the rest of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season. Columbia Impex is a supplier of genuine reptile and exotic leathers. 

With hard launches, huge wheelies, and head-to-head racing, competitors settled right into the new home of the Scoggin Dickey Parts Center NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem presented by Holbrook Racing Engines, March 17-19, 2023 at Orlando Speed World Dragway in Florida.

They thrilled at every turn as they took aim at the NMCA Winner's Circle at this first of six events on this year's Red Line Oil NMCA Muscle Car Nationals tour, and along the way, they confirmed their commitment and courage.

"We saw some amazing racing at our highly anticipated NMCA season opener at Orlando Speed World Dragway," said Rollie Miller, NMCA General Manager and National Event Director. "On the well-prepped national stage, racers showed us what we can expect to see on this year's chase to the championships, and we are in for a wild ride."

Battling NHRA’s big budget nitro Funny Car teams is quite the challenge.

However, it is one nitro Funny Car team owner/driver Chad Green welcomes.

Green was clearly up to the challenge at the season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., last Sunday notching a semifinal finish.

The chemistry and performance for the first NHRA national event of the season with new Funny Car driver Alex Laughlin and Jim Dunn Racing was a success. The team qualified well, ran in the 3.90’s at 320mph in the opening round, and gave their competition a good run for it. The team and driver will look to build on that success and participate in the celebration of the last NHRA national event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park with a Special Edition Funny Car and limited-edition driver signed hero card.

Crank up the speakers, invite your friends over, and check out this high-intensity video on your television from the creative genius of Les Mayhew.

The Rooftec Competition Eliminator Bonus Fund has taken the complex Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series category to the next level. A class that was waning in participation and interest is now on an incredible upswing thanks to this outside-of-the-box program.

This show is both educational and entertaining as the racers describe their different approaches to getting the promised land. This show will deliver an incredible presentation from the NHRA Division 4 season-opener at No Problem Raceway just outside of New Orleans.

NHRA issued a statement on March 16, 2023, declaring Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals Top Fuel champion Mike Salinas committed a rules infraction and, while he'd been declared the winner, was docked 20 points. 

The infraction, which isn't clearly defined on nhraracer.com, was described by NHRA's Jeffrey Young in a statement for CompetitionPlus.com. 

"The NHRA tech department made a mathematical error in weighing the car," Young said. 

Mother Nature had other ideas about this weekend. But even the lady of the weather cannot stop the determination of the Funny Car Chaos series.

Rescheduled until March 23 - 25, 2023,  the 3rd Annual Lone Star Forklift Funny Car Chaos Classic, presented by So-Cal Speed Shop of Waco, descends upon the Texas Motorplex with over 50 entries expected to participate in the season opener.

The rules-free, run whatcha’ brung approach to the Funny Car Chaos formula has a mix of unique participants, including roots and screw superchargers, injected-nitro, turbocharged, and many other oddball power combinations, all chasing the same end goal. 

The show will feature 32 cars qualifying over four different eight-car fields with equal points value across each field, giving any Funny Car an equal chance to claim their portion of the $20,000 year-end Championship payouts made possible by Fat Tirez Apparel, Excel Drywall, and Performance Motorcoaches.

Almost 33 years to the date it debuted, the unthinkable finally happened. 

The NHRA Gatornationals last weekend featured the first time one of the major sanctioning bodies fielded a national event without a single nitrous car on the Pro Mod entry list since the class debuted in March 1990. The field was comprised totally of supercharged cars, centrifugal, roots, and screw versions only.

Leading nitrous engine guru Pat Musi, who builds most of the engines for the PDRA’s Pro Nitrous division, said Pro Modified fans had better get used to it. 

‘There won’t be any at the next event either unless something changes,” Musi said. 

Ozzy Moya loves drag racing and plans to be around the straight-line sport for the foreseeable future. He just doesn't plan to do it anymore at South Georgia Motorsports Park, just outside Valdosta, Ga. 

Moya announced on March 14, 2023, that he'd agreed to sell the track he purchased in 2015 to his friend of 35 years, Raul Torres. The deal is expected to close in 45 days. Moya will continue to run Orlando Speed World. 

Moya said he'd received calls asking if it was health reasons or battles against the local government that led to him sell, but neither played a factor in the decision.