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Brian Inouye has spent most of his life around nitro race cars, washing parts, installing body panels, turning wrenches and eventually driving them. Now comes the part the kid hanging

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Who could have imagined history playing out the way it did last Sunday at Rockingham Dragway? Certainly not Matt Hagan, who arrived there in 2008 as a Funny Car driver

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Paul Smith is 80 years old, has been racing nitro cars longer than some of his competitors have been alive and knows exactly when he plans to retire. When he’s

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There will be plenty of pink in the SCAG Racing pits at St. Louis, but calling it a paint-scheme weekend would miss the point by a mile. When SCAG’s cars

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Shawn Reed says he isn’t griping just to gripe. He knows exactly why NHRA ruled him ineligible for the 2026 Countdown to the Championship, and he acknowledges his team failed

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NHRA isn’t changing television partners for 2027. It is changing the way its entire national-event product gets delivered. Beginning next season, NHRA’s Mission Foods Drag Racing Series will be spread

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A lot of people believed Jason and Stephanie Peterson owned U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, and that’s kinda-sorta what Alec Pinsonneault had in mind. Pinsonneault owns the picturesque drag strip outside

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Damien Harris spearheaded Rapisarda Autosport International 1-2-3 after defeating teammate Shane Olive in the final of Top Fuel at the rain-affected Haltech East Coast Nationals, Sydney Dragway, September 26. Reigning

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NHRA has spent years trying to put its product in front of people who weren’t necessarily looking for drag racing. Sunday in St. Louis, FOX could deliver another one of

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Competition Plus’ Water-Cooler Topics From The NHRA Nationals at the Rock outside of Rockingham. 1 – HAGAN’S FULL-CIRCLE MOMENT – Let the record reflect that Rockingham (NC) Dragway now holds

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