NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rookie Chase Van Sant will be competing in the class for the first time at the Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway, July 14-16.

However, Van Sant is no stranger to racing at the track outside of Denver.

“I think I raced there for three or four years when I was probably 12 to 13 until I was 15,” said Van Sant, 25. “I went last year working for Jerry (Savoie) and Karen (Stoffer). So, it was my first time back, yeah, for a little while.”

When Van Sant arrives riding a Suzuki for White Alligator Racing in Morrison, Colo., it will be a farewell for the Mile-High Nationals.

Veteran chassis builder Murf McKinney described him as the voice of reason in a sport where there have always been many voices.

Motorsports safety pioneer Arnold "Arnie" Kuhns, who dedicated his career to improving the safety and reliability of motorsports parts, passed away at the age of 83 on June 1. Kuhns, inducted into the SEMA Hall of Fame in 2002 and SEMA’s Motorsports Parts Manufacturers Council (MPMC) Hall of Fame in 2016, was widely recognized for his contributions to the industry.

"He had multiple engineering degrees but never told anybody," McKinney said. "Arnie always played the dummy in the room. Even though he had all these degrees, he had an abundance of common sense. There's not a meeting that didn't go by that he didn't say, 'At the end of the day, what's the right thing to do?" 

Camrie Caruso, the 2022 NHRA Rookie of the Year, is gearing up for the highly anticipated NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. Tequila Comisario, Caruso's primary sponsor, is all set to host a special free fan event to promote their collaboration with the rising star of the NHRA. 

Future Energy Solutions (FES) Lighting, a national "lighting-as-a-service" provider, is making its foray into sports marketing by joining the Kalitta Motorsports corporate partner family. The partnership positions FES as a primary partner on Shawn Langdon's Top Fuel dragster, marking the company's first sports marketing endeavor.

Greg Carrillo, a Top Fuel owner/driver, is ready to roll into the 2023 season.

Carrillo will make his 2023 debut at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals on July 14-16 at Bandimere Speedway in his Top Fuel dragster, sponsored by Santiago’s Mexican Restaurant, a franchise based in Colorado.

“It’s really been a great thing to have their name on our car, because the people really jump up for the Santiago’s car,” Carrillo said. 

Damien Harris and the Rapisarda Autosport International team were awarded the prestigious Stan Sainty Cup as winners of the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship in Darwin last June. Harris celebrated his third national Top Fuel win, having previously clinched the 2005 ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel Championship and the 2016 400 Thunder Top Fuel Championship. 

Until 2021 Andy Lopes was best known in Australian motorsport circles as the promoter of the Summernats, a four-day celebration of Aussie custom car culture held in Canberra, the nation’s capital that attracts over 100,000 spectators.

Today, as head of the National Drag Racing Championship series, he is arguably the most powerful man in Australian drag racing.

Launched in May 2023, the NDRC incorporates separate championships for Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car and an expanded National Sportsman series for 2023-2024.

Geoff Turk admitted he once had a fleeting interest in movie-making. But even the guy whose then-future stepdaughter Erin once said, “You’re either a pathological liar, or you’ve had a hell of a life,” couldn’t have generated a script that produced the drama that played out in his life over the last few months.

When the Factory Stock Showdown frontrunner turned Factory X pioneer suddenly forgot how to send a text on his cell phone, he knew something was terribly wrong.

“I’d go to text and I asked my wife [Jena], ‘Hey, do you text with your thumb? Did they change the Apple keyboard?” Turk inquired frantically. “Because I can’t text, “I’m writing texts. I look at it; I got gibberish. And I’m trying to fix it and I got gibberish. Something’s wrong with the keyboard on the phone.”

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle star Matt Smith has fond memories of almost every NHRA-sanctioned track he’s competed on since joining the class two decades ago.

And, Bandimere Speedway, the site of the upcoming final Mile-High Nationals on July 14-16 outside of Denver in Morrison, Colo., is no different.

Smith, who has won 36 career Pro Stock Motorcycle national events and has captured six PSM world championships in 2007, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.