The Angel Family, owners of Houston Raceway Park, never had a plan to exit from drag racing. But when an opportunity came along that was too good to resist, they had to act. 

"We found ourselves in a situation where we sat on a piece of real estate that was in an area that was growing in an industrial world," said Seth Angel on the Competition Plus POWER HOUR show. "We just found ourselves where we had to make a decision as a family, what's the next step for us.

"We decided, we've got three and a half decades, 35 years of the history of the sport under our belts, and we've accomplished so much and done so many things. While we didn't want to leave the sport, we just really found ourselves at a crossroads where we, as a family, had to make a decision on what was our next step. Ultimately we decided to sell that piece of real estate. And that's where we're at."

Kevin Brannon grew up around drag racing, having watched his parents race down the track nearly every weekend.

The Spartanburg, SC-based, past NHRA Super Comp champion showcased his talents Friday at the Silverstate Million Dollar Friday at the K&N Spring Fling Million at The Strip in Las Vegas.

Brannon fought his way through six rounds of eliminations to end up in a quarter-final round which was nothing short of a murderer’s row of competition. Round seven pairings included Dylan Hough and Spencer Massey, Doug Foley Jr. and Andy Schmall, Dan Northrop and Kevin Brannon, and Chris Gulitti on the bye.

New Braunfels, Texas-based Bahnbrëcker Slow River Blend Whiskey has signed on as an associate sponsor of Cruz Pedregon Racing for the final NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series national event at Houston Raceway.  

​“Big Daddy” Don Garlits will make his return to Mo-Kan Dragway for the first time since the mid 1980s in a two-day celebration of Mo-Kan’s 60th Anniversary set for Friday and Saturday, July 15th and 16th. 

This event will be headlined by Nitro Chaos, an all nitromethane-fueled, heads-up, run whatcha’ brung contest of horsepower. Mo-Kan Dragway owner Carl Blanton and Nitro Chaos promoter Chris Graves have a long history and share the deep passion for the sport, and feel that Nitro Chaos is the perfect event for this special race weekend. Having the world’s greatest drag racer as feature guest and Grand Marshal truly sends this event over the top. 

What started out in in 2018 as the fulfillment of a missed opportunity has turned into passionate pursuit of off-road excitement by racing legend Don “Snake” Prudhomme who will once again take on the Yokohama NORRA Mexican 1000 RALLY, Presented by Method Race Wheels, April 29 - May 6, 2022. Driving in his MAVTV/Lucas Oil sponsored CanAm Maverick Turbo which he piloted to a class victory in 2021 Prudhomme will be looking to go back-to-back in the grueling 1000 mile off road race. This year Prudhomme will be joined in the cockpit by Nick Firestone, from Phoenix, Arizona, who will be doing double duty as co-driver and navigator. Firestone and Prudhomme were connected through racing legend PJ Jones, who will once again be leading the support team efforts for the team.

And to think Stevie "Fast" Jackson didn't think the NHRA listened to him. 

The two-time NHRA Pro Modified champion had his wish granted by the NHRA when they announced the addition of bonus points to their championship program. 

Jackson lobbied for change on a recent episode of the CompetitionPlus POWER HOUR saying, "All this sandbagging and flying in for Q3 and qualify number one and flying back out 15 minutes later," Jackson said. "You give everybody qualifying bonus points in Pro Mod where it's enough to where it's rounds of racing at the end of the year; you'll stop all the bullcrap sandbagging. 

Chris Graves wasn't sure whether his concept would work or not. 

Six years later, he's grateful the concept did indeed work, and plenty of others are too. 

Graves bet the farm on Funny Cars, and what a wager it has turned out to be. 

After winning his fourth consecutive NHRA Top Fuel world championship in 2021, Steve Torrence had yet to qualifying No. 1 or win a race so far in 2022.

Torrence checked the first box when he blazed to a track record 3.693-second lap at 323.66 mph in the final qualifying session at Houston Raceway Park Saturday.

This is Torrence’s 32nd No. 1 qualifying position in his Top Fuel career. He just edged Brittany Force’s 3.695-second pass on Friday night for the top spot.

From the Ripley’s Believe It or Not files, there’s this late entry.

About three weeks ago, when Kenny Voss and son Cory pulled out of their south Florida home base of Live Oak, the plan was to take their Pro 632 Corvette to a buyer who was meeting them near Dallas, Texas.

But rather than returning directly to Florida with an empty trailer, they bought another race car – and had to make a 2,000-mile detour to get it home. And the transaction that occurred – from start to finish, with a third party who initiated the purchase with a simple suggestion – took all of five minutes.

When the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing rolls into to Houston for the SpringNationals April 22-24, a familiar face will be competing in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

Veteran rider Michael Ray will be piloting a second motorcycle – an Erik Buell Racing bike – for Ryan Oehler.

“We put a deal together for a whiskey company out of Texas, Bahnbrecker Whiskey and they are going to sponsor for Houston,” Ray said. “Ryan Oehler has a second bike he’s been trying to get ready to debut and I talked to him, and he felt comfortable, and it was ready, so we are going to debut his second bike.