Veteran nitro Funny Car Justin Schriefer’s passion for competing in the NHRA is still as high as ever.

Schriefer, who is based out of Grant Park, Ill., will make his season debut at the Dodge//SRT NHRA U.S. Nationals, Sept. 3-5 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis
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Jose Gonzalez has been on a tear this season, and by virtue of photographic proof, we are convinced he's prepared to raise the level a notch or two. Check out this new rocket for Gonzalez from Jerry Bickel, and headed to Proline for the horsepower.

Last year, the JEGS Allstars race found a new home when it moved to historic Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis. Held during the Dodge SRT U.S. Nationals, NHRA’s oldest and most prestigious event, the pairing proved to be a successful one with Indy proving to be the perfect host for the JEGS Allstars race, which celebrates its 37th year in 2021.

This week, the best Sportsman racers from across NHRA’s seven geographic divisions will return to Indianapolis for the special event that crowns both an overall team champion and individual winners in 10 separate eliminators.

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CompetitionPlus.com, a leader in drag race reporting for over two decades, will continue its tradition of expanded race coverage of the Dodge SRT NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.

Thanks to sponsorship from Jerry Bickel Race Cars, Smart Sanitizer, and McLeod Racing, the Spartanburg, SC-based, pioneering online magazine will present individual full event notebooks for all Camping World Drag Racing Series categories, as well as one for the Pro Modified division and the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. Highly acclaimed videographer Les Mayhew will chronicle the event with various event features in a Video Notebook.

Originally published 9-1-2006

On one weekend the careers of Blaine Johnson and Tony Schumacher intersected...

Many drivers look back on the first elimination-round passes of their professional careers as a bit surreal. But nothing could come close to the emotional swing that Tony Schumacher experienced in his first race in a Top Fuel dragster.

It promised to be intimidating enough for Schumacher because it came at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, the National Hot Rod Association's oldest and most prominent race.

But 10 years ago, that first quarter-mile ride, which should have taken about 4.7 seconds, seemed to take an eternity.

Schumacher was the No. 16 qualifier. As such, he was paired against No. 1. But this time the No. 1 qualifier didn't pull up to the starting line. He had died two days before of massive head injuries from a top-end accident during qualifying.

So Schumacher had a single pass instead of getting to race Blaine Johnson, the 34-year-old sensation who was running away with the Top Fuel championship, owned the national speed record, and set a track-record 4.61-second elapsed time on his final run. Gone was the likeable Californian whom veteran publicist Rick Voegelin called "a tiger in a race car." But little did anyone know just how much this rookie Schumacher, this rather overwhelmed 26-year-old from Chicago, would turn out to be the same kind of driver.

Despite heat, humidity, and heavy rain, racers were incredibly competitive at the NMCA All-American Nationals, Aug. 26-29, 2021, at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. They pushed play rather than pause, and took on the challenges that came with tuning and traversing the track in oppressive weather. They wanted to go wheels-up and win, and along the way, they wowed the crowd.

Awaiting those who fought and found victory at this fifth-of-six races on the NMCA tour were enticing Edelbrock Victor Awards.

Most of the VP Racing Lubricants Xtreme Pro Mod drivers pulled off 3.70 and 3.80 passes in qualifying, and among them was Chip King, who clocked a 3.75 in his Mustang Mach 1 to set the pace. But as the sun set on Sunday night, Jackie Slone and Dave Roemer were inching into the beams in their nitrous-sipping Camaros for the final round of eliminations. Slone secured the win with a 3.75 after Roemer turned on the red light.

Racecar drivers are never satisfied, and veteran NHRA Sportsman competitor Justin Lamb is the prime example. No matter his achievements, the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series (LODRS) overachiever just keeps redefining the goal.
 
Lamb, whose first national event victory was in Top Comp at the SPORTSnationals in Fontana in 2006, has claimed 27 wins across a total of six categories. He's raced two cars for most of his career, and most commonly, he has been devoted to Super Stock and Stock Eliminator.
 
The devotion to door cars has paid off by way of five Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series championships – three in Super Stock (2015, 2017, 2018) and two in Stock (2013, 2017). Lamb also has eight division titles earned in NHRA's Pacific Division across four categories, Top Comp (2003), Comp Eliminator (2011, 2012), Stock (2013, 2017, 2019) and Super Stock (2015, 2017).

This year the Dodge Hemi Shootout enters its 20th year, and regardless of your manufacturer identity, one must respect the revered Hemi in all of its beauty.

It's one of the greatest displays of high horsepower pageantry, and it's a tradition at drag racing's most prestigious event.

Each year the Dodge Hemi Shootout gathers the best of the best, of drag racers running the special Hemi-powered blend of 1968 Plymouth Barracudas and Dodge Darts. Sit back and crank up the speaks as we bring you the sights and sounds of one of the best drag races all year.

Past Mountain Motor Pro Stock champion John Montecalvo has a vision, and he wasn’t going to stop pressing until it became a reality. 

Montecalvo, who resides in Center Moriches, NY, wanted to bring back drag racing to Long Island. Last Saturday, he watched the effort spearheaded by Peter Scalzo become reality. There hasn’t been legal, sanctioned racing on the island since Westhampton Drag Strip closed after the 2003 season and was replaced by a senior living complex. The event drew over 1,000 to Enterprise Park in Calverton. 

Last Saturday, while Montecalvo’s Mountain Motor Pro Stock counterparts were racing at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, he was at the historic drag race.

​​Following the success of the inaugural Twisted Shifterz Nitro Chaos event held July 30-31st at Iowa’s Eddyville Raceway Park, event promoter Chris Graves has announced the return of the all-nitro extravaganza to Eddyville on June 3-4th, 2022. In addition, a second event has been added to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Mo-Kan Dragway in Asbury, Missouri outside Joplin on July 15-16th, 2022.