NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Steve Torrence and “them Capco boys” won 11 of the 20 events –- including his milestone 50th in the class –- and led the points after 18 of the 20 races en route to their fourth straight Top Fuel world championship.

Greg Anderson won his fifth NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Pro Stock championship in 2021 but had to fight to the bitter end in order to make it happen. 

Rachel Meyer deftly slipped into her sister Megan's two-time championship-winning car and rode their father Randy’s powerful tune-up to yet another world championship, the family's third straight in Top Alcohol Dragster.

The Killers Bs -- driver Sean Bellemeur, team owner Tony Bartone, and tuner Steve Boggs –- not only won their third NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car championship in four years but clinched it in dramatic fashion late in the season.

After an early-season crash, Jose Gonzalez likely wouldn’t have been considered a candidate to have one of the most dominating seasons in E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service history.

Since the late 1990s, Jerry Emmons has practically had a reserved parking spot in the Top 10, finishing among the leaders in Super Stock and Stock nearly a dozen times, including a career-best No. 3 in 2006. In 2021, his name ended up atop the list as the Stock world champion.

To win an NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series championship is one thing, but to rack up 734 points, as Super Gas titlist Luke Bogacki did in 2021, suggests someone capable of racing on a whole different level.

Blake Peavler would have been the first to admit he didn’t enter the 2021 Top Dragster presented by Vortech Superchargers season with championship aspirations and ended up enjoying a season not many could have predicted.

A year ago, Christopher Dodd was seemingly unbeatable, racking up five Super Comp victories en route to his first world championship in the class. The victories didn’t come as frequently in 2021, but thanks to a number of consistent performances, the end result was the same,

Ron Capps won a second NHRA Camping World Funny Car world championship with new crew chiefs and new driving procedures, proving once again that he is among the elite in class history.

When he clinched his fifth NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle title in Pomona, it was simply a validation of Matt Smith's greatness, both as a rider and a world-class tuner.

Following a season where he won five of six events and practically coasted to his first title in the Constant Aviation NHRA Factory Stock Showdown, Aaron Stanfield knew that winning a second title would be difficult, but he might not have anticipated the battle that ensued in 2021. 

After adapting to a new combination and solving some early mechanical gremlins, Bruno Massel Jr.joined a short list of Comp racers to win three world championships with a dominating season.

Greg Stanfield thought his days as an NHRA Super Stock champion were nothing more than a distant memory. He was mistaken. More than a quarter-century after winning his fourth Super Stock title in a five-year span, Stanfield is once again an NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series champion.

By the time the divisional race in Houston ended in early April, Jimmy Lewis figured his chances at a championship in Top Sportsman were already finished. He was wrong.