To the NHRA’s credit, it is responding to fans’ suggestions and the success of February’s PRO Superstar Shootout at Bradenton Motorsports Park by trying a two-day event.
Since 1991, the Professional Racers Owners Organization Inc. has served drag racing’s elite teams and drivers as a nonprofit organization that promotes and addresses a specific common business interest among its members.
Austin Prock was thrust into the NHRA Funny Car class in mid-January when three-time champion Robert Hight unexpectedly announced he needed to step aside to address an undisclosed medical issue.
No one should have been surprised at Austin Prock’s Funny Car victory from the No. 1 qualifying position during the PRO Superstar Shootout drag-racing specialty event in early February.
With the start of a new season approaching, even the title sponsor of the NHRA Drag Racing Series has changed — from Camping World to Mission Foods — and that ushered in a flurry of fluctuations among teams and drivers.
The purpose of the inaugural SCAG Power Equipment PRO Superstar Shootout presented by Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage goes far beyond the impressive payouts that await the winners during the Feb. 8-10 event at Florida’s Bradenton Motorsports Park.
MESA, Ariz. — Tyler Crossnoe is in a unique position as the NHRA is on the edge of seismic change. In addition to being vice president of Virginia Motorsports Park, Crossnoe is the series director of the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series. And, as his track in Dinwiddie,…
But it took Doug Kalitta 26 years — more than a quarter century — to earn the NHRA Top Fuel championship. Specifically, it took him 587 races, and in the drag-racing world, that headline from the In-N-Out Burger Finals in Pomona, Calif., ranked right up there with “Man Bites Dog.”
