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Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tommy Ivo joined Jack Beckman on stage at a special Night of Champions at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum following a great day of qualifying at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

Shawn Langdon spent a lot of time in the No. 1 in his nine years of Top Fuel racing before switching to Funny Car, and the former champion wasted no time reclaiming the top spot at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

Matt Hagan grabbed the No. 1 spot on the opening day of the Funny Car season, powering his Mopar Charger to a 3.867 in the opening session of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, and a run that lasted throughout the day.

Elite Motorsports holds the top two spots after the first day of qualifying at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

NHRA National Dragster photographers Jerry Foss and Marc Gewertz were all over Auto Club Raceway at Pomona to capture the action on and off the track at the 60th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

Nostalgia Funny Car racer Dan Horan Jr. took a ride into the sandtrap at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona after his parachutes failed to deploy after a 5.653, 262.59-mph pass. He was not injured

NHRA’s Friday night Prime Time qualifying program allows Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers to choose their introduction music and few were better at it last year than J.R. Todd. Here's a look back at last year's best music pickers and their choices.

Eight vintage Pro Stock machines are making exhibition runs at the 60th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. Enjoy the clip and sign up to watch the entire event live on NHRA.tv.

Brandon Welch, who is making his Top Fuel debut at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, made a solid 3.84 opening pass but punctuated it with an engine explosion in his BetterDiesel.com dragster.

Jack Beckman made a great run to start his 2020 Mello Yello Drag Racing season -- you've got to see this video.

He'll be ready if (or when) the opportunity arises to get back into a Pro Stock car

Prior to the start of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals each season, NHRA drivers take part in Media Day, posing for photos and video footage to be used throughout the season. Here’s a look at some fun moments from the photoshoots.

Erica Enders and Doug Gordon joined Joe Castello on the Auto Club stage to kick off the 60th Lucas Oil Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

Every team wants to start the season on fire, but for Ron Capps and the NAPA Auto Parts Funny Car team, a trailer fire prior to pre-season testing has them starting from behind in Pomona.

We wrap up our three-part look at memorable moments from the 60 years of the NHRA Winternationals with the two most recent decades, the 2000s and the recently completed 2010s. Great legends of the past give way to new legends in the making as the Winternationals history roared on.

Former Funny Car racer Brandon Welch will make his Top Fuel debut today at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals with sponsorship from Better Diesel FBC.

More than 30 years after it last went down the Pomona track at the 1989 World Finals, Mark Maxwell is finally back behind the wheel of his Camaro Stocker, which had been environmentally bagged for three decades.

The 60th anniversary of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals kicks off the 2020 season at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona.

For the first time in years, more than 400 cars will take the track as competitors from Top Fuel to Super Street descend on Auto Club Raceway for Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals in Pomona

Fifty-five years ago, at the 1965 Winternationals, NHRA legend Don Prudhomme scored his first of 49 career victories. "The Snake" relives that magic moment with NHRA's Lewis Bloom.

Former European Top Fuel champ Lex Joon won't be at the season-opening Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, but after a number of major improvements to his team, he's more than ready for the year ahead.

Jim Dunn Racing spent a very busy offseason preparing a new Cattelman's Cut Funny Car for the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. New chassis, clutch, fuel system, and data recorder system have all been added,

Monster Energy Top Fuel driver Brittany Force joined NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom in the Wally Parks Studio to discuss the 2020 Mello Yello NHRA Drag Racing season ahead of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals.

One of the craziest moments in Winternationals history came at the 1981 event with a massive pre-final-round pit thrash in the pits of Funny Car star Raymond Beadle, where the roof of Kenny Bernstein's car was transplanted onto Beadle's wounded car.

Pro Stock cars have come a long way since their debut at the 1970 Winternationals. Here's a look at the very first Pro Stock rules, as printed in the 1970 NHRA Rulebook.

Jack Chrisman drove the Howard Cams’ twin Chevy-powered “Twin Bears” AA/Dragster to the Top Eliminator win at the first Winternationals, held in 1961 in Pomona.

Among the competitors at the 60th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com is a unique Super Street team with a crew consisting entirely of Central California high school students.

The 2020 NHRA season is officially underway as Sportsman cars from Super Street to Top Alcohol Alcohol Dragster take to the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona track for their opening passes.

Forty years ago at the Winternationals, the Top Fuel final pitted Shirley Muldowney against Connie Kalitta in one of the event's most intriguing matchups. Relive it now in this historic video.

Robert Hight scored his latest world championship in his last trip to Auto Club Raceway and he's seeking more Pomona success at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com