Top Fuel Dragster pilot Jim Maroney is selling his complete operation. Due to a downturn with his business, American Flowtech, he is being forced to sell the team.

The business has been impacted due to the restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic.

Cory Reed, who runs Reed Motorsports, had been in a staple competitor in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle ranks from 2016 until most of the 2019 season.

However, Reed sat out the final six races of the 2019 season and was a no-show at the first two PSM races in 2020 – Indy 1 and Indy 3. Then, there he was at the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA U.S. Nationals Sept. 3-6 in Indianapolis, making his season debut. Reed was riding an Erik Buell Racing Gen 2 (EBR) motorcycle.

With five races left in the COVID-19 pandemic-sabotaged NHRA Mello Yello Series season, Ron Capps knows his team needs to make a move.

Capps, the 2016 nitro Funny Car world champion, is fifth in the points standings, 141 points behind Jack Beckman, his Don Schumacher Racing teammate. Capps pilots the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat.

The National Hot Rod Association and FOX Sports have announced a multi-year extension of their agreement to telecast all NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing series competitions across FOX, FS1 and FS2 well into this decade. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

“FOX is thrilled to extend our relationship with the NHRA as we enhance our coverage for drag racing fans,” said Mark Silverman, President, National Networks, FOX Sports. “The NHRA on FOX has achieved record audiences for the sport, and we look forward to working with the NHRA to continue to expand the audience and grow the sport beyond the middle of this decade.”

Bob Bode knows all too well the ups-and-downs of life behind the wheel of a nitro machine.

He has seen the highest of highs, with his one-and-only win coming at Brainerd way back in 2010. And he has seen the lowest of lows, with incidents like what happened to him Friday night in Indianapolis.

During the first round of qualifying on Friday, Bode blew a hole in the block of his Funny Car, creating a unique set of circumstances that created a flash fire inside the cockpit. While Bode emerged uninjured, it was a spectacular sight to witness under the lights during the only night session of the season.

The 2020 Denso U.S. Nationals didn’t work out in Steve Graham’s favor.

The Santa Clara, Calif., Pro Stock driver failed to make the 16-car field. Graham’s Camaro quickest time was 6.715 seconds at 206.01, which was 20th on the ladder.

The U.S. Nationals was Graham’s third race of the season.

There was a glaring absence at the recently completed Denso NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway just outside of Indianapolis. Unless one is into the sportsman ranks, it might have been gone unnoticed.

The Factory Stock Showdown, the division created for factory-built race cars, was missing its frontrunning Ford Cobra Jet Mustangs. Chris Holbrook and the Skillmans, Bill, and Drew opted out of the Big Go.

Veteran NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion Hector Arana Sr. has quite the impressive resume.

He has competed in 326 NHRA national events and has seven wins and 16 runner-up finishes and one world championship. 

Arana Sr. planned on racing with is son, Hector Arana Jr. at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals March 13-15 in Gainesville, Fla.

It is often said that drag racing is a fraternity.

It is a unique brotherhood of racers, crews, and fans that is unlike any other sport on the planet.

So when one of their own is in trouble, you can expect the entire pit area to respond. And respond they have.

NHRA drag racers and fans have responded in a big way to help fellow racer Dom Lagana as he struggles in an Indianapolis hospital recovering from life-threatening injuries resulting from an auto accident that also seriously injured Top Fuel racer Richie Crampton and crew member Jake Sanders. Crampton continues to recuperate from multiple injuries, and Sanders was treated and released following the late-night crash in August.

Performance Racing Industry (PRI) has announced that the 2020 PRI Trade Show will not be taking place as scheduled in December.

The announcement comes after months of working closely with the Visit Indy team, the Indiana Convention Center staff, and other Indianapolis officials to develop a plan for a safe and productive PRI Trade Show. Despite health and safety guidelines that would have been in place, mounting uncertainty related to the Coronavirus resulted in an environment that would not be conducive to a productive trade show.