Final round-by-round results from the 14th annual Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway, the 18th of 22 events in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series:

Drag Racing Association of Women, is $5,000 richer, thanks to David Napp’s donation to the charitable organization Saturday at the Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals at Concord, N.C.
DiBartolomeo – photojournalist/editor, racer with handful of victories dating back to the early 1990s, manufacturer, parts distributor, innovator, and liaison between drivers and the sanctioning body – passed away May 23 at age 68 following a battle with cancer.

Napp, co-owner of Old Bridge Township Raceway Park at Englishtown, N.J., presented the gift on behlf of the Napp family to DiBartolomeo’s family. Accepting were Di Bartolomeo’s widow Dottie; son Franklin, his wife Jennifer, and their son, Evan; and daughter Christina.

Sometimes what they don't know can be the biggest fear a drag racer can face. Three years ago, point leader Justin Ashley knew just enough about a Top Fuel dragster to make him dangerous, but not in the sense of his capabilities. He was a dangerous talent to the competition. 

As he sat in the burnout box moments before making his first run behind the wheel of a 12,000-horsepower dragster, Ashley had a moment of fear he had never shared with anyone until today. 

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How does the saying go? Education is important, but having fun is importanter?

Grammar shortcomings aside, Larry Morgan has a master's degree in Pro Stock drag racing, and now he's working on his doctorate in having fun. 

"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't having fun," said Morgan, driving the Phillips Connect/VitaC Shot Pro Stock Camaro. "That I can guarantee you."

If Tony Schumacher was looking for security in drag racing, he got it on Saturday. 

The Maynard Family Race Team announced at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, the team they have renewed their partnership agreement with SCAG Power Equipment with a three-year deal. 

The program originally began this season with a seven-race deal as the major sponsor and six races as the co-primary.  

Only in America can a drag racer who raced his first national event wearing a pirate eye patch and won one day lead Mountain Motor Pro Stock qualifying at an NHRA national event.

Elijah Morton drove his 800-plus cubic inch Mustang to a 6.249  elapsed time at 226.39 miles per hour to set the pace for first-day qualifying at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, the fourth outing for the large displacement factory hot rods. 

Though these cars have been in the six-teens, a 6.2-second run is no joke. 

​The King of drag racing John Force was back on top of NHRA’s nitro Funny Car world on Friday.

Force clocked a 3.854-second lap at 330.47 mph in his Camaro to claim the provisional No. 1 spot at the betway Carolina Nationals in Charlotte, N.C.

When the 2022 NHRA season began veteran Top Fuel driver Doug Kalitta was full of optimism for what his team could accomplish.

That positivity was fueled by the addition of world championship crew chiefs Alan Johnson and Brian Husen to his Kalitta Motorsports team in the offseason.

When a man named Captain Chaos stands there speechless, you know the poop is real. And that's precisely what happened to the master of Chaos, Kenny Koretsky, as he stood on the starting line at Maple Grove Raceway surveying the packed grandstands and the unending line of race fans still coming in.

"I couldn't even give my speech," Koretsky admitted. "It's just emotion; it got the best of me."

Koretsky might have been the only person who didn't see this coming. Those who know the man who runs seemingly a gazillion businesses simultaneously and does so efficiently knew when Koretsky and his family purchased Maple Grove Raceway in April 2022 that a grand time was on the horizon in September.