Top Fuel racer Josh Hart is expanding his growing drag racing program to include a Factory Stock Showdown entry in 2022. Initial plans call for Hart's wife Brittanie to drive the DragPak Challenger in NHRA competition. 

"We ordered it in early 2019, we were on the list for it, and everything was delayed because of COVID, and then my daughter was born," Hart explained. "That changed things drastically."

The Harts took delivery of the hot rod Mopar in the middle of the 2020 season and understood a car of this magnitude couldn't sit idle in the shop. 

NHRA Pro Stock driver and 2022 NHRA Rookie of the Year candidate Camrie Caruso today launched a brand-new website (CamrieCaruso.com) and a unique Fan Club opportunity for her growing legion of fans. The Fan Club Founding Member program launched today and will run through January 31.

“We are so excited to get the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing season started we wanted to do something extra special for our fans,” said Caruso. “We love all our fans and wanted to give our Fan Club Founding Members a special offer that is more than just a t-shirt. The lifetime discount on merchandise is something no one else has offered and we are looking forward to hosting fans in our pits as crew members throughout the season. This is going to be an amazing year and we can’t wait to get to Pomona and get started.”

Ed Renck has established a trend of breaking world records at the Bonneville (Utah) Salt Flats.

That trend continued this past fall.

On Sept. 30, at the 2021 Bonneville World Finals, Renck set the world record again in the C Gas Roadster Class with a speed of 258.803. That bettered the mark of 258.257 mph he established on Oct. 1, 2020 in Bonneville.

“It’s really cool to set this record again,” said Renck, 79.

After winning three NHRA nitro Funny Car world championships – 2011, 2014 and 2020 – Matt Hagan is embarking on a new journey in 2022.

In mid-October, it was announced that Hagan, along with Top Fuel driver Leah Pruett, were leaving Don Schumacher Racing and joining newly-formed Tony Stewart Racing.

Stewart, a NASCAR star, world champion and team owner, married Pruett, a nine-time NHRA Top Fuel event winner Nov. 21.

Veteran Pro Stock racer Vincent Nobile is changing his drag racing career path in 2022.

Nobile confirmed to CompetitionPlus.com he will be competing in a dragster in the Super Comp ranks with a JA Performance Engine in the upcoming season.

“I’m actually working on my engine as we speak,” said Nobile, who lives in Long Island, N.Y. “As of right now I have a (Ray) Miller dragster in my garage and Billy Torrence is building me a car, which should be done shortly. Assuming everything gets finished in time and we get to test everything I will probably end up being in the new Torrence car, which is a dragster.”

Nobile, who has 13 national event wins in NHRA’s Pro Stock class, explained what took him down the Super Comp path. He last competed fulltime in Pro Stock in 2018.

Stevie "Fast" Jackson finally pulled it off. And while holeshots are a key to winning on the drag strip, the two-time NHRA Pro Modified champion pulled a voting holeshot that the dominant Lyle Barnett couldn't overcome. 

Joining Jackson as winners at the third annual VRHRA Thunder in the Dome fan-vote race at the fictional CompetitionPlus.com Thunderdome was Krista Baldwin (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car), Bruno Massel (Pro Stock), and Karen Stoffer (Pro Stock Motorcycle).

Jackson, who is sponsored by the country of Bahrain, became the first driver to defeat Barnett this season in a match where readers from 11 different countries cast votes. 

It's race day at the CompetitionPlus.com Thunderdome located in Spartanburg, SC. Qualifying is complete, now it's time to begin the process of eliminating down for a winner of the Truharvest Thunder at the Dome, Race 4 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. 

Every high profile drag racer has that one car that just didn’t meet their expectations.

Scotty Cannon had his 1997 version of the 1941 Willys, the first car he ever failed to qualify after winning five world championships and he had been the only driver to qualify at every Pro Modified event up until that point.

Bob Glidden had his Ford EXP, a Pro Stock car built at the urging of Ford to run under the pounds-per-cubic format and converted to 500-inch competition. Glidden said it was the worst car he ever owned in his career.

Scotty Cannon had his 1997 version of the 1941 Willys, the first car he ever failed to qualify after winning five world championships and he had been the only driver to qualify at every Pro Modified event up until that point.

Bob Glidden had his Ford EXP, a Pro Stock car built at the urging of Ford to run under the pounds-per-cubic format and converted to 500-inch competition. Glidden said it was the worst car he ever owned in his career.

The most prestigious event on the ANDRA calendar, the Australian Nationals, returns to Sydney Dragway for the first time since 2015 on February 11-12.

Initially scheduled for Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne, a week earlier, the event has been moved due to unavoidable delays in finalizing the track re-surface.

The good news for race starved Victorians is that racing at Calder Park is set to resume early in 2022 and will host the 2023 Australian Nationals. 

CHE Precision is a family-owned company built on hard work and strong partnerships and we are excited to announce our new partnership with Elite Motorsports and Erica Enders Racing in 2022,” said Rochén Holguin, Business Development and wife of the owner.

“We look forward to supplying the team with the best high-performance valve train components on the market and high-performance building a relationship on and off the track with great people like the Enders, and the Freemans.”