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Meet "the Mongoose" at NHRA Fan Fest Thursday night in La Verne

Race fans attending the Auto Club NHRA Finals can meet the legendary “Mongoose,” Tom McEwen, Thursday evening at Lordsburg Taphouse & Grill in Downtown La Verne during the official NHRA Fan Fest, 6:45 – 8 p.m.
07 Nov 2017
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Fanfest
Race fans attending the Auto Club NHRA Finals can meet the legendary “Mongoose,” Tom McEwen, Thursday evening at Lordsburg Taphouse & Grill in Downtown La Verne during the official NHRA Fan Fest, 6:45 – 8 p.m. An autograph session will take…
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Hight in position to close out second Funny Car championship

A brilliant second-half of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has put Robert Hight in the position to compete for a second career Funny Car world championship at the Auto Club NHRA Finals. 
07 Nov 2017
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Robert Hight
A brilliant second-half of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has put Robert Hight in the position he hoped for at the beginning of the year, and that’s the chance to compete for a second career Funny Car world championship.…
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Courtney Force’s Funny Car to feature Taylor Swift’s 'reputation' album cover

John Force Racing/Advance Auto Parts driver Courtney Force will drive the No. 6 Big Machine Records Funny Car at the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona this weekend to promote Big Machine Records’ 10-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated sixth studio album, reputation.
07 Nov 2017
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Courtney Force
John Force Racing/Advance Auto Parts driver Courtney Force will drive the No. 6 Big Machine Records Funny Car at the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona this weekend in her bid for the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello championship. Through JFR’s partnership with…
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Torrence, Force, Kalitta ready for tight Top Fuel battle in Pomona

The season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona will decide who wins their first NHRA Mello Yello Top Fuel championship.
06 Nov 2017
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Steve Torrence
Steve Torrence is one race away from putting the ultimate finishing touch on a nearly-perfect 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. The eight-time Top Fuel winner this year holds a 20-point advantage against Brittany Force and the world…
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Behind the Numbers: Stage is set for close finish to NHRA season

The Auto Club NHRA Finals will close out the season in Pomona by crowning four champions. Here's a look at the scenarios.
06 Nov 2017
Jacob Sundstrom, NHRA National Dragster Associate Editor
Behind the Numbers
Hight
If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of Joe Amato. It doesn’t matter his last win came 17 years ago, nor does it matter his most famous win came a year before I was born. That’s his 1990 victory at the…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Sportsman champion highlights

Following his most recent win at the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas, Joey Severance is now a three-time NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Dragster champion. Severance locked up the title and then went on to defeat Shawn Cowie in the final round.
03 Nov 2017
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Joey Severance
Following his most recent win at the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas, Joey Severance is now a three-time NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Dragster champion. Severance locked up the title and then went on to defeat Shawn Cowie in the…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Super Gas winner Val Torres Sr.

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Val Torres Sr. opened eliminations in Super Gas with a perfect 10.050 on the 10.05 altitude-adjusted index, and he eventually made his way to the final, where he coasted to the win after Tanner Hiatt fouled by two-thousandths of a second. Torres was…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Super Comp winner Marko Perivolaris

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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After runner-up finishes earlier this season in Phoenix and the Division 7 race in Salt Lake City, Marko Perivolaris earned the win in Super Comp when he defeated Mark Potts in the final round. Racing on a 9.05 index, Perivolaris drove to a 9.062 to…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Stock winner Justin Lamb

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Justin Lamb has already locked up the national championship in Super Stock, and he’s now on the verge of adding the Stock title after a dominating win in Las Vegas. Lamb drove his new Redback Boots COPO Camaro to a win over Randi Lyn Shipp’s…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Super Stock winner Ryan McClanahan

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Ryan McClanahan is also a seven-time national event champion, following his win in Super Stock. McClanahan, the 2010 Super Stock national champion, won in his SS/BM Cobalt after final-round opponent Darrell Dietz fouled in his FSS/C Cobra Jet…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Comp winner Greg Kamplain

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Greg Kamplain made the long trip from Indiana to Las Vegas pay off when he drove to the win in Comp. Kamplain won his seventh career national event title by driving his B/Econo Dragster to a final-round win against Tom Mettler’s PST ’01 Dakota truck…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Top Alcohol Funny Car winner Ulf Leanders

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Ulf Leanders coasted to the win in Top Alcohol Funny Car after opponent Dixon spun his Bartone Racing Camaro out on the starting line. Dixon staged with fuel under his rear tire, and his car made an immediate right turn and crossed the centerline as…
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NHRA Toyota Nationals Top Alcohol Dragster winner Joey Severance

03 Nov 2017
NHRA National Dragster staff
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Joey Severance won for the 19th time in his career with a 5.286 to 5.402 victory against Cowie in the Top Alcohol Dragster final, which featured the event’s top two qualifiers. Severance, who never ran slower than 5.314 during eliminations, got to…
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Mello Yello champions to be crowned at Auto Club Finals

World champions will be crowned in all four Mello Yello Drag Racing Series categories at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona at the Auto Club NHRA Finals.
03 Nov 2017
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Pomona
The dramatic conclusion to a thrilling 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series takes place at the Auto Club NHRA Finals, Nov. 9-12, at historic Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif. The final event of the year and the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing…
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NHRA, Bigfoot competitors to visit troops in Japan for 2017's Operation Appreciation

For the seventh consecutive year, Summit Racing Equipment and Armed Forces Entertainment will join together to send a group of top motorsports competitors overseas to visit American troops on duty in remote locations. The annual trip, appropriately coined Operation Appreciation, will this year make stops at various stations in Japan.
03 Nov 2017
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Operation Appreciation
For the seventh consecutive year, Summit Racing Equipment and Armed Forces Entertainment will join together to send a group of top motorsports competitors overseas to visit American troops on duty in remote locations. The annual trip, appropriately…
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NHRA live stream from SEMA Show booth hosted NHRA stars, aftermarket members

Throughout the week, NHRA streamed live from its booth at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas with interviews from NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series stars and members of the performance aftermarket.
02 Nov 2017
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SEMA Show
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Behind the Numbers: McMillen reinforces age is only a number in NHRA Drag Racing

Terry McMillen became the oldest Top Fuel winner in history in a season where we saw the youngest winner of all time in NHRA history.
02 Nov 2017
Jacob Sundstrom, NHRA National Dragster Associate Editor
Behind the Numbers
Terry McMillen
If there’s one thing to take away from the 2017 NHRA Drag Racing season, it’s this: Age is only a number. From Pro Stock rookie Tanner Gray winning at 17 to Terry McMillen winning at 63, we’ve seen drivers turn on win lights on both ends of the age…
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Ellis added to Vance & Hines Harley team for Pomona

Veteran Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chip Ellis will compete on a third Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Street Rod at the Auto Club NHRA Finals
02 Nov 2017
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
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ellis
Vance & Hines and Harley-Davidson have announced that veteran Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chip Ellis will compete aboard a third Harley Street Rod during next weekend’s Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals in Pomona. Ellis will join…
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It's a Gas, Gas, Gas ... more memories of Gas Ronda

Ford drag racing icon Gas Ronda passed away recently, and is being warmly remembered by his family, friends, and fans.
01 Nov 2017
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Gas Ronda
Writing about heroes of the sport that we have lost has always been a curse and a blessing of this column. Naturally, any time that I have to do a “Remembering …” column it’s because time or fate has caught up to one of our heroes and one more…
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Crew Chief Confidential: NHRA Toyota Nationals

NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom spoke with the winning crews from the NHRA Toyota Nationals: Dickie Venables (for Matt Hagan, Funny Car), Matt Hines (for Andrew Hines, Pro Stock Motorcycle); Rob Downing (for Greg Anderson, Pro Stock), and Rob Wendland (for Terry McMillen, Top Fuel).
01 Nov 2017
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WFO Radio NHRA Toyota Nationals Winners Edition

01 Nov 2017
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WFO
NHRA Toyota Nationals Winners Edition featuring on location interviews with Terry McMillen, Matt Hagan, Greg Anderson, and Eddie Krawiec, plus J&A Service Pro Mod Series Champion Troy Coughlin Sr., Rob Wendland, Nate Hershey, and host Joe…
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More champions crowned as Lucas Oil season wraps up in Las Vegas

Shawn Cowie, John Lombardo Jr., and David Rampy scored wins as The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season finale where more national, regional, and division champions were crowned.
01 Nov 2017
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Division 7
Preview | Friday | Saturday LAS VEGAS- The 2017 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series concluded its final regional event Sunday night at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor…
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Melling Performance to expand sponsorship of two-time champ Enders in 2018

Melling Performance has announced a new partnership with Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman for 2018 for primary sponsorship of the Erica Enders-driven Pro Stocker at 16 of 24 races next season, and as major associate sponsor at the remaining eight national events.
01 Nov 2017
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Erica Enders
Following a successful multi-race major sponsorship deal with two-time Pro Stock champion Erica Enders in the second half of 2017, Mark Melling of Melling Performance has announced a new partnership with Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman…
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2018 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series schedule released

The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series returns to premiere racing facilities during the 17th consecutive year for the upcoming 2018 season.
01 Nov 2017
Lucas Oil
The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series returns to premiere racing facilities during the 17th consecutive year for the upcoming 2018 season. The season kicks off at Orlando Speed World Dragway, in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 23-24. During the year the…
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One down, one to go

Justin Lamb uses a late-season rally to clinch the national championships in Super Stock and after a Las Vegas win, he’s closing in on the Stock title as well
01 Nov 2017
Kevin McKenna, NHRA National Dragster Senior Editor
The Sports Report
lamb
Justin Lamb locked up the national championship in Super Stock a couple of weeks ago and he’s on the verge of adding the Stock title after a dominating win at last weekend’s Toyota NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas. Lamb drove his new Redback Boots…
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NHRA announces promotion of Glen Cromwell to President; Peter Clifford to Chief Executive Officer

Glen Cromwell, who rose through NHRA’s ranks from Division Director to become Senior Vice President, Media and Marketing, has been promoted to NHRA President, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Cromwell succeeds Peter Clifford, who will assume the newly created post of Chief Executive Officer.
31 Oct 2017
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Glen Cromwell
The National Hot Rod Association has announced that Glen Cromwell, who rose through NHRA’s ranks from Division Director to become Senior Vice President, Media and Marketing, is promoted to President, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Cromwell succeeds…
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Tasca to return to full-time Funny Car schedule in 2018 with Ford Performance

Bob Tasca III will race a full-time schedule with Ford Performance as his primary sponsor.
31 Oct 2017
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Bob Tasca
Ford will bring its legendary performance legacy to help fuel Bob Tasca III’s Mustang Funny Car for the 2018 NHRA drag racing season. Ford Performance will help the team make the car as “slippery” as possible through the company’s investments in…
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Severance, Westerfield, Lamb clinch championships during Toyota Nationals

Joey Severance, Shane Westerfield, and Justin Lamb locked up the Lucas Oil national championships in their respective classes during the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend.
30 Oct 2017
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Joey Severance
Joey Severance, Shane Westerfield, and Justin Lamb locked up the Lucas Oil national championships in their respective classes during the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend. Severance, Woodburn, Ore.,…
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Fast Five: NHRA Toyota Nationals

With championship drama in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, and NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the NHRA Toyota Nationals, the second-to-last race on the 2017 schedule, was certainly one to remember. NHRA’s Amanda Busick and Lewis Bloom share their five greatest moments from the race.
30 Oct 2017
Posted by NHRA.com staff
Fast Five
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E3 Spark Plugs named Pro Mod series sponsor; 2018 schedule announced

E3 Spark Plugs has been named the series sponsor for NHRA Pro Mod racing. The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service will feature 12 races and a second visit to Texas during the year as well as a change to the qualifying procedures. 
30 Oct 2017
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Pro Mod
E3 Spark Plugs, an industry leader in spark plug technology, has been named the series sponsor for NHRA Pro Mod racing. The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service will feature 12 races during the coming season…
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