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NHRA drag racers turn corners in the dirt on backyard go-kart track in Indy
Jimmy Wingo, who services the clutch on Tommy Johnson Jr.'s Funny Car, built a go-kart dirt track in his backyard an invited some of his racing buddies, including Steve Torrence's clutch guy, Gary Pritchett, over to share in the racing fun to help stoke everyone's competitive fires.
NHRA Expertise: Torque wrench life hack for hard-to-reach bolts
Can’t fit a torque wrench between your engine’s oil pan and flexplate? Use a box-end wrench to extend the reach of your torque wrench.
Here’s what you need:
3/8-inch drive torque wrench
12-point combination wrench with ½-inch wrench on one side and 7/16-inch wrench on the other
This formula: M1 = M2 x L1 / L2
This…
NHRA Expertise: Build a custom transmission dipstick for any car using AN fittings
Another use for AN fittings that you'll kick yourself for not thinking of sooner.
Transmission dipsticks are one of the hassles of race cars. In factory applications their steel tubes snake up past the drivetrain and firewall to put the dipstick right where you need it. But in a one-off combination? Forget it. About the only…
World Wide Technology Raceway delivers lunches to local medical center
NHRA Member Track World Wide Technology Raceway and Jimmy John’s delivered 200 lunches to front-line medical personnel at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., May 6, which was National Nurses Day,
World Wide Technology Raceway, an NHRA Member Track and host of the annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals, joined with Jimmy John’s to deliver 200 lunches to front-line medical personnel at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite…
Pro Stock Motorcycle rider John Hall's company is aiding Connecticut neighbors
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider John Hall has been working to support his local community by donating money and beverages through his business, Orange, Conn.-based Dichello Distributors, to local fire stations, hospitals, and food banks.
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider John Hall has been working to support his local community through his business, Orange, Conn.-based Dichello Distributors.
The company, of which Hall is the president, has made a $5,000 donation to the…
Tim Wilkerson issues the Food is Fuel Challenge for Central Illinois Foodbank
NHRA nitro Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, is hoping to inspire the community to rise in support of those who need it most during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wilkerson's Service Center, owned and operated by NHRA nitro Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, is hoping to inspire the community to rise in support of those who need it most during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wilkerson, driver of the Levi, Ray…
Show Us Your Shop archive
What's going on at your shop or garage? Are you building a new hot rod, tinkering with parts, or just want to show us where you do you hot rod dreaming and scheming? Send us a video and we'll share it with the drag racing world. …
Show us what you’re working on!
This is project time, a season when social distancing means the safest place to be—is alone with your race car project. Send us photos of what you're working on.
There are two places races are won, on the track, and in the garage. So what are you doing with this time to make your race car quicker? We want to see.
Send us photos and videos of your car being prepped, your engine being built, your new cage…
NHRA updates concerning COVID-19
A news archive of all NHRA press releases concerning the COVID19 pandemic and its effects on NHRA Drag Racing.
News and information from the NHRA concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sept. 2: NHRA announces balance of 2020 Mello Yello season; six more races…
Holley National Hot Rod Reunion rescheduled for Aug. 20-22 at Beech Bend
The 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance held at Beech Bend Raceway, Bowling Green, Ky., originally scheduled for mid-June, has been rescheduled to Aug. 20-22.
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum officials announced today the postponement of the 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance held at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky. The annual three-day event, originally…
After Pomona boomer, it's Funny Car Body Repair 101 with Paul Lee Racing
A supercharger backfire at the 2020 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals damaged the Funny Car body of Paul Lee; assistant crew chief Donnie Bender explains what it took to get the body back into race-ready condition.
Show Us Your Shop! Take a tour through the Harris Race Cars shop in Nebraska
Take a tour through the Harris Race Cars shop of NHRA Division 5 Comp eliminator team of the Harris family. The shop is located in Nebraska City, Neb.
Take a tour through the Harris Race Cars shop of NHRA Division 5 Comp eliminator team of the Harris family. The shop is located in Nebraska City, Neb.
The team was founded by patriarch Bill in the mid-80s with his brother to field a…
Reinhart Reveals: Pro Stock vs. Pro Stock Motorcycle pistons and valves
NEW FEATURE: NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart explains the difference in sizes between the pistons and intake valves in Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle engines.
Weekend Update with Brian Lohnes: The week's most interesting stories
NHRA's Brian Lohnes takes a look at the last week in NHRA news -- things you need to know and stories you might have missed.
NHRA announces revised plan to restart 2020 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series
NHRA officials have announced that they are working with state and local officials as well as host tracks and teams on a revised Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule, which will be announced soon. The season is expected to resume in August.
NHRA officials announced today that they are working with state and local officials as well as host tracks and teams on a revised Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule, which will be announced soon. The season is expected to resume, with…
Happy birthday, John Force
Drag racing's winningest driver, John Force, is celebrating his birthday today, and we're celebrating right along with him with the gallery of candid Force photos. The 16-time champ is never thrilled to be reminded of his age, so we'll just celebrate it with these 71 images.
Lohnes Calls Life: Jack Beckman, hockey pucks, and stinky old drag magazines
Some everyday-life moments just need an expert like NHRA on FOX announcer Brian Lohnes to call the action.
NHRA Lucas Oil Series Stock champ Allison Doll relives title-winning season
2019 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Stock eliminator world champ Allison Doll relived the drama of her historic championship season via Skype with NHRA’s Brian Lohnes.
Mario Andretti says he'd have loved to try Top Fuel; well, we have this photo ...
As a guest on a recent FOX iRacing broadcast of a dirt-track race that included NHRA star Ron Capps, motor-racing superstar Mario Andretti said he'd have loved to try Top Fuel. He didn't but he did drive one of Mickey Thompson's dragsters, and we have the photo to prove it.
As a guest on a recent FOX iRacing broadcast of a dirt-track race that included NHRA star Ron Capps, motor-racing superstar Mario Andretti said he'd have loved to try Top Fuel. He didn't but he did drive one of Mickey Thompson's…
Ryan Oehler's Pro Stock Motorcycle team hard at work preparing for racing return
Rising NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle star Ryan Oehler got together with NHRA’s Brian Lohnes via Skype to talk about his team’s efforts and takes us for a behind-the-scenes look at dyno testing in his shop.
Funny Car rookie Alex Miladinovich: "We're just trying to make it happen"
Funny Car rookie Alex Miladinovich, whose emotional top-end interview after qualifying for the field at this year's Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals went viral in the NHRA world, checked in via Skype with NHRA's Brian Lohnes about that moment and what's going on with his team this season.
Flashback Friday: Rewatch the 2019 Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals
We're throwing it back to the 2019 Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals broadcast, featuring Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock Motorcycle racing. Watch the entire Sunday broadcast—right now.
Farewell to a brother editor, Jim Edmunds
Jim Edmunds, who served as the editor of NHRA National Dragster for nearly seven years, passed away April 25 and is remembered by the guy who holds his job now, current ND editor Phil Burgess, and some of his other fellow colleagues.
In its first 10 years, National Dragster changed editors the way that Roland Leong used to change drivers: Frequently and often with little notice. From 1960 through 1969, the name atop spot the magazine’s masthead changed 11…
Latest FREE issue of NHRA National Dragster magazine now available
The latest issue of NHRA National Dragster magazine, being offered in digital format only and free to the racing community during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now online for reading. Features on the new electric Cobra Jet, Factory Stockers, Matt Bynum, and more pack this interactive issue.
NHRA National Dragster wallpaper images (Issue 08, 2020)
Each interactive issue of NHRA National Dragster magazine includes downloadable images for NHRA fans to use as wallpaper for their computers and cellphones.
Click on the links below to get the images. Instructions on how to add them as …
NitroMall now selling three packs of reusable NHRA-branded face coverings
Face coverings are part of our lives right now, but NHRA fans can now wear them with style with the introduction of a three-pack of NHRA-branded face coverings now available at Nitro Mall, the Official Store of NHRA.
Face coverings are part of our lives right now, but NHRA fans can now wear them with style with the introduction of a three-pack of NHRA-branded face coverings now available at Nitro Mall, the Official Store of NHRA.
Each face cover of this three…
Meet Keith 'Roo Man' Burgan, one of drag racing's finest fabricators and builders
In a racing mecca like Indianapolis and Brownsburg, Ind., that is full of fabricators, few are more talented or respected than Keith “Roo Man” Burgan, who’s been part of the NHRA scene for more than 30 years.
FOX Sports 2 will host 10 hours of drag racing action in May 1 NHRA marathon
NHRA fans can enjoy a nearly uninterrupted all-day marathon of NHRA Drag Racing May 1 on FS2 including Mello Yello, Lucas Oil Sportsman, and E3 Spark Plugs Pro Modified action.
NHRA fans can enjoy a nearly uninterrupted all-day marathon of NHRA Drag Racing May 1 on FS2 including Mello Yello, Lucas Oil Sportsman, and E3 Spark Plugs Pro Modified action.
The action kicks off at 1 p.m. Eastern with back to back half-…
Tech Specs: Inside the supercharged Dodge Challenger Drag Pak
We’re taking a deep dive into the factory muscle cars, engineered in Detroit, and campaigned by NHRA Sportsman racers in the SAMTech.edu NHRA Factory Stock Showdown
Depending on your perspective, the Hemi engine has always been loved or feared. Three-generations of the architecture have terrorized drag strips burning gasoline, alcohol, and even nitromethane. While all three generations of the engine are…