A familiar face will be back competing in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class at the Gatornationals this weekend in Gainesville, Fla.

Veteran Chip Ellis will be riding an Erik Buell Racing motorcycle for Matt Smith Racing at Gainesville March 13-15, the season-opening race for the Pro Stock Motorcycles.

In her first season with Jerry Savoie’s White Alligator Racing in 2019, Karen Stoffer was happy with the results. She finished a career-best fourth in the points standings on a Suzuki.

“We’re back and we have the same setup, everything is the same (for 2020),” Staffer said. “(Last year’s finish in the points) was probably some of the motivation to come back. We definitely had a good season. I’m hoping to improve upon that. I’m focusing a little bit more on my riding and continuing to support Tim (Kulungian, Stoffer’s crew chief) and anything I can do as a rider to help him be able to tune the bike. Jerry (Savoie, who finished second in the points) obviously had a fantastic year as well and he’s going to be gunning for a championship and anything I can do to assist I will do, but I will still try and win one myself.”  

This season, NHRA fans will see a familiar name at all NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events. POWERADE, the official isotonic of NHRA, will be providing fans and drivers with two new product offerings to sample and enjoy – POWERADE ULTRA and POWERADE POWER WATER. POWERADE, the sports drink consumers are both part of The Coca-Cola Company.  
 
For the first time in 13 years, POWERADE recently launched two new zero-calorie, zero-sugar products – POWERADE ULTRA and POWERADE POWER WATER. Additionally, the brand unveiled its new ION4-inspired packaging design. These new product and packaging innovations provide more hydration options to a variety of consumers. 

The best education isn’t one conveyed in the classroom, but one that’s useful, and applicable, in real-world situations.

That’s what a handful of students from the University of South Carolina have experienced at the past three NHRA national events at zMAX Dragway near Charlotte. Heading up a project to measure the energy produced by nitromethane-powered vehicles is Dr. Tom Owens, a professor at USC’s School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment since 1989. His area of specialty is seismology.

Attempts to measure the seismic effects of drag racing’s top classes isn’t something new, and stories about such things date back at least 15 years. In one account, the National Seismology Center reportedly measured an NHRA event at “1.5 to 2.0 on the Richter Scale.” Another report, published two years later, “measured the movement of the earth with a mobile seismograph” at “an astounding 3.9.” 

Here is a sneak peek of the latest hot rod rolling out of Jerry Bickel Race Cars. This Camaro belongs to Northeastern-based Gary Courtier and is destined for PDRA Pro Nitrous. It is powered by a Pat Musi engine, and is now en route to the paint shop. Dean Marinis will tune this machine. 

Jeg Coughlin Jr.’s “Breaking Barriers” retirement tour has already racked up a number of incredible moments. But Sunday’s may be hard to top.
 
In an epic final round between two of Pro Stock’s biggest legends at Orlando Speed World Dragway, it was Coughlin who slipped past Greg Anderson in a side-by-side thriller to claim the $75,000 prize at the inaugural Drag Illustrated World Doorslammer Nationals presented by CTech Manufacturing.

With a life-changing moment within reach, Matt Bynum seized the moment.

Bynum, a crew member for years with Kalitta Motorsports and now the car chief for Alexis DeJoria’s nitro Funny Car team, won the coveted March Meet March 8 at Auto Club Famosa Raceway in Bakersfield, Calif.