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The 2024 edition of the NHRA Midwest Nationals continued the event's long history as a pivotal race in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs and an event where the unexpected can and usually does happen.

NHRA’s women of power continue to create history during the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season, with the latest milestone coming at the NHRA Midwest Nationals, where, for the first time in class history, four women qualified for the Top Fuel field.

It was a chill bump-inducing weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway as a fresh note in history was written, crew chiefs proved unafraid, and veteran racers emerged victorious during a pivotal championship race. Here are five takeaways from the NHRA Midwest Nationals.

They don't run the full tour, but you can almost always count on seeing a member of the River family in Pro Stock when you come to World Wide Technology Raceway.

Six-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion Matt Smith is the points leader heading into this weekend’s NHRA Midwest Nationals and will look to extend that points lead in hopes of earning his seventh world title.

It has been a great return to the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series for Funny Car fan-favorite Jack Beckman, who took over driving duties for legendary driver John Force in Brainerd following Force’s June crash, and a win at this weekend's NHRA Midwest Nationals would make it even better.

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the NHRA Carolina Nationals as they celebrate with their teams and accept congratulations from their defeated final-round opponents.

Race No. 2 of the six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs raced to conclusion with the NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway. It was a wild weekend filled with upsets and important moments. Enjoy this video look back at the event.

NASCAR legend and FOX Sports broadcaster Kevin Harvick made a special appearance with his family in Tony Stewart's pit with his family, and in the broadcast booth at the 2024 NHRA Carolina Nationals, joining Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon.

Clay Millican enters this weekend’s NHRA Midwest Nationals as the defending Top Fuel champ and is right in the thick of the championship hunt and still feeling the momentum of his massive Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals victory.

​​​​​​​Bob Tasca III and Matt Hagan face unrelenting pressure in the Funny Car points battle from two different John Force Racing Funny Cars.

The NHRA Carolina Nationals, the second of six Countdown to the Championship playoff races, had quite a few eye-opening moments. Here's a look at our five big takeaways from the event.

There may only be one John Force, but his young protégé, Austin Prock, is closing in on some of the GOAT’s single-season Funny Car class records.

When Erica Enders rolled to her 49th career win to start the season in Gainesville, few doubted that her milestone 50th win was right around the corner. Fourteen races and three runner-ups later, she’s still looking for the big 5-0.

Reigning Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan enjoyed a memorable weekend at zMAX Dragway earlier this year, picking up his 50th career Funny Car victory during the four-wide race in April, and knows he'll need more of the same in pursuit of a fifth world championship.

Following the first race of the 2024 NHRA Countdown to the Championship, Pro Stock has a new points leader in Aaron Stanfield, who will look to increase his lead in Charlotte as he continues to enjoy a career-best season.

In the comic books, Spiderman’s nemeses include Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, but for Larry “Spiderman” McBride, it’s Mitch Brown who has his attention as the inaugural four-race Pingel NHRA Top Fuel Motorcycle Series rides to its conclusion this weekend at the NHRA Carolina Nationals.

Go behind the scenes with the winners of the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals as they celebrate with their teams and accept congratulations from their defeated final-round opponents.

Force = mass x acceleration: The science of acceleration drives the heart-pounding thrills of NHRA Drag Racing — see just how much more intense this sport is — even compared to a rocket launch!

Justin Ashley is the Top Fuel points leader heading into this weekend’s NHRA Carolina Nationals, but it’s hardly a huge advantage, as Ashley leads by just a single point over Reading winner Antron Brown and has never won this event.

The Pep Boys NHRA Nationals kicked off the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Countdown to the Championship at Maple Grove Raceway with a wild weekend of racing. Enjoy this video look back at the event.

Not a rocket launch, not the Times Square ball drop, not even the start of a Taylor Swift concert — nothing compares to the kickoff of an NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event.

A thrilling qualifying run secured Smith's spot despite a fiery setback at the 2024 Pep Boys NHRA Nationals

A centerline infraction by Joe Morrison helped Beckman move forward to the Funny Car final against teammate Austin Prock

The first race of the Countdown featured everything one would hope for: an indisputably intense energy, points shakeups, stoked rivalries, and a bright glimmer of the future. Here are five takeaways from the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway.

From leaping off the track to knocking moisture out of the air, Top Fuel dragsters push the limits of physics. See how in this NHRA On FOX slow-motion

Gaige Herrera is just one win away from winning at all the tracks on the Pro Stock Motorcycle circuit, and Dallas Glenn is hoping to ride his spot as the top seed to Pro Stock glory as the Countdown to the Championship opens this weekend at the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals.

Austin Prock has enjoyed a terrific 2024 regular season in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, and Prock doesn’t plan on adjusting his mindset or his approach as the Countdown to the Championship playoffs open.

The most recent race didn’t go the way reigning Top Fuel world champion Doug Kalitta planned, but it would be hard to deny that the current points leader still has plenty of momentum heading into this weekend’s Pep Boys NHRA Nationals based on last year’s results at Maple Grove Raceway.

In the twilight of his sophomore season, Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chase Van Sant has been gathering experience and valuable points as he marches toward the 2024 NHRA Countdown to the Championship. This time around, he's prepared for whatever comes his way.