There's a storm brewing for NHRA Pro Stock driver and Competition Eliminator Robin Hood, Rodger Brogdon. Soon the tempest will hit the strip. 

For Brogdon, this storm is the design on his forthcoming Pro Stocker from KB Racing bearing the name of his Rooftec brand, a roofing company that has aided countless storm victims in getting their properties back to normal. 

"The whole car is a big giant storm with lightning bolts, tornadoes, and everything else on it," Brogdon explained. "Even though I'm not a storm chaser, I know the car will draw a lot of attention. I just wanted to do something a little bit different."

Top Fuel racer and drag racing dad Mike Salinas knows the value of encouragement. 

Salinas met Alliana (now 17) and Terralyn Fletcher (9), now Junior Drag Racing sisters, at the 2019 Dodge NHRA Mile High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway while on a family trip with parents Terry and Bobbi. The blue-collar Top Fuel racer immediately took a liking to the sisters and began chatting with them about the virtues of drag racing, and especially his daughters' involvement. 

A gifted used piston sealed the deal. 

Today Josh Hart Racing announced an exciting VIP offer to NHRA race fans through driver Josh Hart’s Instagram and Twitter pages that will provide one lucky fan and a guest the trip of a lifetime to the 2022 NHRA Gatornationals. Beginning today through Friday, February 11, at 11:59 p.m. EST fans have the chance to win round trip airfare for two people, one hotel room, a rental car and two full event tickets to the NHRA Gatornationals, March 11-13, 2022.
 
“I won the Gatornationals last year and would love to celebrate again in the winner’s circle with two lucky fans that follow me on my social media,” said Josh Hart, 2-time Top Fuel winner in 2022. “We have a great fan following and this is a chance for one fan and a guest to enjoy a full weekend of racing on Josh Hart Racing. The details are on my Instagram. I can't wait to meet the winner and get the season started.”

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​Heading into the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, Kalitta Motorsports and DHL will be extending their partnership with another multi-year extension on one of the longest running and most successful motorsport marketing programs. The upcoming season will be the fifteenth year the two globally successful companies have worked together both on and off the track. 2018 NHRA Funny Car champion J.R. Todd will drive the familiar red and yellow DHL Toyota Funny Car while 2013 NHRA Top Fuel champion Shawn Langdon will once again be behind the wheel of the DHL Top Fuel dragster.

The two successful businesses have built their partnership on excellence and an uncompromising pursuit of category leadership. Together they have won two NHRA Funny Car world championships with Del Worsham in 2015 and in 2018 with J.R. Todd behind the wheel of DHL Toyota Funny Cars. In addition to the on-track exposure, DHL utilizes the Kalitta Motorsports VIP hospitality track-side experience for their customers and clients. This season, the two companies will be recognizing and celebrating 15 memorable moments throughout the season on social media and through media opportunities.

Phillips Connect, a national leader in semi-trailer tracking and sensor technologies, will serve as presenting sponsor for CompetitionPlus.com’s extensive social media properties. Additionally, CompetitionPlus.com’s TV brand will, for the fourth season in a row, provide live streaming for the Professional Racers Organization’s Nitro Spring Training at Wild Horse Motorsports Park, February 10-12.

CompetitionPlus.com founder Bobby Bennett said the involvement of Phillips Connect will be part of a major push to deliver drag racing news to the masses worldwide. The PRO Nitro Spring Training live stream is just one of the aggressive programs planned for 2022.

Lake Speed Jr. is a forward-thinker. 

The VP of Sales and Marketing for Total Seal Piston Rings has a foot solidly in the present and an eye already into the future for generations to come. 

Speed is both appreciative and attentive to his current customer line-up but steadfastly holds a vision of what the future brings. 

Tom Hammonds has been there and done that in drag racing circles. He even has the t-shirts to show for it.

Once a superstar power forward in the National Basketball Association, Hammonds did his time on the grand stage as a Pro Stock driver. And while driving a Pro Stock car was fun, the experience of fielding a team left a lot to be desired in the fun department. 

"I always wanted to get back and involved in racing again," Hammonds said. "And man, I mean, I remember my old days when I first started racing with my old, old, old 69 Camaro that I had. I was running in NMCA Series. I started looking around at where I'd like to race. To me, NMCA resembles as close as you can get to an NHRA event."

With the start of the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series on the horizon, it wasn’t hard to notice the excitement in Del Worsham’s voice.

Worsham, the crew chief along with Nicky Boninfante on Alexis DeJoria’s nitro Funny Car, is ready to get 2022 rolling, especially with how strong DeJoria finished the 2021 campaign.

DeJoria got a heater in the final three races last year – winning in Bristol, Tenn., losing in the second round in Las Vegas, and claiming a runner-up finish at the season-finale in Pomona, Calif. DeJoria, who also was the No. 1 qualifier in Bristol and Vegas, finished sixth in the final world standings.

It's the final event of the season. Qualifying is complete, now it's time to begin the process of eliminating down for a winner of the VRHRA World Finals at Ontario Motor Speedway, Race 9 of 9 in the Virtual Reality Hot Rod Association. 

It's all fun in fantasy land to get away from the troubles of what is happening in the real world. 

For those new to this fantasy world, this is how it works. The race with the most votes advances to the next round. We had a day of voting to seed the eight-car fields. 

First-round ends tonight at 6 PM EST. 

WS Construction, a company specializing in pre-engineered steel buildings and erection service, has stepped up as the title sponsor of the Professional Drag Racers Association’s Pro Boost class, PDRA officials announced today. The company has served as the presenting sponsor of the class for the past two seasons. P2 Contracting and Ty-Drive will take over the presenting sponsor role for the 2022 season. 
 
The three companies are each owned by Pro Boost racers who believe in the PDRA and the Pro Boost class and want to help both succeed. 
 
WS Construction President Randy Weatherford has competed in Pro Boost since 2019 when he switched over from Switzer Dynamics Pro Nitrous. He’s become a top contender in his ProCharger-boosted WS Construction Camaro, finishing off the 2021 season with a win at the Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger.