Dave Bellover does it for love.

What does Bellover do?

Bellover, along with former Top Fuel racer Don Ewald, runs the website www.wediditforlove.com, a website designed to preserve drag racing's early history.

For over a decade, Tony Schumacher represented the United States Army. This weekend he will be representing a key demographic of the country's military family - the children.

Thanks to the Maynard Family Racing's (JCM) commitment to an end of the season "giving car," the dragster driven by Schumacher will be adorned in the livery of the Tennessee-based A Soldier’s Child [ASC] nonprofit program. At the last race in Las Vegas, the team featured the American Mobility Project.

Maurice Dupont understands he's in for a weekend like he never experienced when racing Top Fuel in the 1990s. It took the plane ride home from successfully relicensing in Tucson, Az., to confirm it's a whole new ballgame. 

Dupont was headed back home to Oakland, Ca, to retrieve a few items before heading to the Fairplex in Pomona as a driver in Scott Palmer's stable of Top Fuel dragsters. 

It was one of the proudest moments of Trevor Larkin's life.

Standing in the pit area at Irwindale Dragstrip, he just stood there looking at the former Top Gas front-engine dragster. But this was no ordinary rail.

The dragster was the same one his dad Tommy Larkin campaigned in the late 1960s to early 1970s and sold in 1972. It's one of the most impactful memories he has of his dad, who passed away in 2011.

If there’s one lesson Jasmine Salinas’ father, Top Fuel racer Mike Salinas, taught her, it’s to stay the course and never give up. Today, she has proof her father’s counsel is spot on.

Salinas, who drives the Scrappers Racing/Pep Boys Top Alcohol Dragster, recently scored her first regional championship, winning the North Central title. 

Growing up in a family immersed in drag racing history, Lana Chrisman understood the importance of preserving that history. That's why when Chrisman, daughter of the legendary Jack Chrisman, was offered the Executive Director position at the Lions Automobilia Foundation; she knew she had found her calling.

"I think it's important because we have to understand where we came from, where our industry came from," Chrisman said. "In southern California. So much came out of there, and so many innovators; we have Iskederian and Howard Cams, Keith Black, there's so many of our founding manufacturers came out of Southern California and tested at Lions. So I think that that relationship is important for us to preserve for just for our next generation to understand it and have a clear understanding of where we came from."

Travel back in time to an era when the NHRA Champions were decided on the pit road of the famed Ontario Motor Speedway. This rare broadcast was aired in 1977 via syndication on CBS channels and produced by the legendary Diamond P Sports.

You'll see the legends Shirley Muldowney, Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme, "Dyno" Don Nicholson, Bob Glidden and many more.

However, the most entertaining celebrity might just be a shaggy haired Graham Light racing his Top Fuel dragster to the finals.

In the early 80’s, the growing popularity of the IHRA mountain motor Pro Stock class made a huge ripple in the great drag racing pond – a ripple felt all the way past the front doors of NHRA headquarters in Glendora, Ca.

Headlines once reserved for Bob Glidden, Lee Shepherd, and Frank Iaconio now featured such names as Rickie Smith, Warren Johnson, and Ronnie Sox. The IHRA Pro Stockers had blasted their way into the 7.90s during the 1980 season and the 7.80s one year later.

Never mind the fact the NHRA had just staged the closest point championship in the history of the class, a battle that went down to the final run of the season. The IHRA had seven-second Pro Stockers and wasn’t afraid to flaunt them to the media.

NHRA cars ran 8.30s. IHRA cars ran 7.80s. Get the picture?

In the weeks prior to the end of the 1981 season, the NHRA announced that they would do away with the pounds-per-cubic-inch format and adopt an IHRA-type program.

Instead of the sky-is-the-limit mentality of the IHRA, however, the NHRA put a 500-inch ceiling on their “mountain motors.”

Veterans Day usually always falls on the weekend NHRA concludes its season. 

This year Kalitta Motorsports will team with long-time sponsor Clean Harbors to recognize the sacrifice and commitment of our brave servicemen and servicewomen on Veteran's Day, November 11, during the NHRA Finals in Pomona, Ca.