Just ask a casual drag racing fan what they think of today's current NHRA Pro Stock, and chances are you will get one of these answers.

"Nothing stock, nothing relatable, never watch them. Best time to go check out the sportsman pits."

"Park a Pro Stock car next to the factory-produced equivalent, and that'll answer the question as far as I'm concerned."

After a last-minute move from Bradenton Motorsports Park to Gainesville Raceway, FL2K22 presented by Brian Crower is ready to host the biggest and baddest street cars for a weekend of roll racing, drag racing and more, Oct. 6-9. With bragging rights and $125,000 in cash payouts on the line, it’s one of the most anticipated events in the street car scene. 
 
Victor Alvarez launched the first FL2K in 2013 as a destination event for high-performance street cars. The event has exploded since then, attracting fans, racers, and sponsors to Bradenton Motorsports Park, with many more people watching online from around the world. Alvarez increased his commitment to the event and the track in general when he purchased Bradenton Motorsports Park in 2018. 

Kirk Williams admits that he “wasn’t the best mathematician in high school.”

But he didn’t have to be an Einstein to understand that Funny Car Chaos was the place he needed to race based on raw numbers.

“Where else can you go and have a $100 entry and run for $6,000?” the Glenwood, Iowa, racer said.

A big weekend is on tap for the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series (MWDRS) presented by J&A Service, as the series will crown event champions for two different events at the fall edition of the Throwdown in T-Town, Oct. 6-8, at Osage Casino & Hotel Tulsa Raceway Park. Eliminations from the MWDRS Great Bend Nationals in June will be completed Thursday before kicking off the Tulsa race, adding another element to the historic event. 
 
“We’re coming up on our 30th edition of the Throwdown in T-Town,” said Keith Haney, founder of MWDRS and co-owner of Tulsa Raceway Park. “We do two a year, one in the spring and one in the fall. The fan turnout is always amazing. Everybody looks forward to racing at the Throwdown just because of the atmosphere itself. Todd [Martin, track co-owner] does a great job interacting with the fans. Having Al Tucci and Luke Clevenger on the mic and all of them interacting together is pretty cool too.”

The 24th Annual Whipple Superchargers NMRA All-Ford World Finals presented by Competition Clutch & Holley Intergalactic Ford Festival at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, recently wrapped up another successful season. 

The 16-car field of VP Racing Madditives Renegade was tight, with defending and two-time champion Joel Greathouse leading the charge in qualifying with a 4.52. The finals came down to Greathouse and his KBX Performance teammate Shawn Pevlor, with Pevlor collecting his first NMRA win in his nitrous-assisted machine, 4.51 to 4.58. 

The points lead can inspire a team to do many things. For Bobby Hilton, it inspired him to go out and purchase a championship-winning car. He has great expectations for the season now that his team has an essential piece of the puzzle - the AA/FD formerly driven by Tony Bartone.

Hilton fields a Nostalgia Top Fuel dragster driven by his son Tyler. Tyler took over the points lead in June when a staged boycott by members of the All American Fuel Dragsters group kept all but two teams from attending the NHRA Heritage Series' Holley Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Ky.

The Hiltons not only attended but won the event and grabbed the accompanying points. He held the points lead until the most recent event in Tulsa.

The penultimate event of the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series will be enhanced with Legends Nitro Funny Cars being part of the action at the NHRA Nevada Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Oct. 27-30. 

The invitation-only event will feature 12 entries competing for eight qualifying spots with a winner being crowned after three elimination rounds. The category consists of Funny Cars with 1979-or-older body styles, blown nitromethane-fueled engines, two-speed transmissions, and 21-gpm fuel pumps harkening back to a wildly popular era of Funny Car racing. 

News flash... Erica Enders is a human being - though her performances may sometimes look robotic. 

The four-time NHRA Pro Stock champion, with her win on Sunday at the NHRA Gateway Nationals, extended her point lead to 120 with a final round victory over Dallas Glenn. The victory marked her eighth of the season.

Enders also posted her sixth win at World Wide Technology Raceway and her fourth in a row. She beat Chris McGaha, Troy Coughlin Jr., and No. 1 qualifier Kyle Koretsky to reach the final round. 

"Sounds to me like a good day," Enders said. "It was pretty intense. Coming in, we lost in the semis last week in Charlotte. My teammate Aaron went on to win, and we had a 64-point spread on him, and it got further as you went down. But second-round racing, my teammate TJ, I know exactly what he is capable of and the power that he has because I have the same. So being able to beat him and watching Aaron and Greg both go out that round, it was a pretty huge point swing there. Then going on to win the race was obviously the best outcome."