Articles in NHRA

By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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Funny Car championship-leader Robert Hight continued “point-racing” without apology Saturday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where qualifying concluded for today’s 22nd annual NHRA Nevada Nationals.
Hight held onto …

His first season as an NHRA team-owner has driven home this fast fact about Anthony Wayne Stewart.
“If you follow my career, I don’t have a history of being a very good spectator,” Tony Stewart said …

By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacnToday.com
ENNIS, Texas – When Greg Anderson and Erica Enders stage opposite one another in an NHRA Pro Stock final, drag racing history typically morphs into “herstory.”
That’s been the case since …

ENNIS, Texas _ Drag racing icon John Force says his “happy place” _ at age 73 _ is strapped into the cockpit of his nitromethane-burning Funny Car.
“But I ain’t going to last forever,” Force said …

By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
ENNIS, Texas – Billy Meyer’s Texas Motorplex is stampeding into the future with guidance from its “generation next.”
Meyer and Motorplex co-owner/daughter Christie Meyer Johnson will mark the end of the …

ENNIS, Texas – NHRA Funny Car point-leader Robert Hight is in the midst of a self-proclaimed “career year” that doesn’t add up whenever he sits down and does the math.
On cue, High sat down and …

By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
ENNIS, Texas _ Day 6 of the second annual Stampede of Speed at Texas Motorplex featured launch of an event envisioned to become a champions tradition, and one champion’s untraditional …

NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship has reached its halfway mark with the usual Professional suspects poised for repeat title runs.
That group is led by Steve Torrence and his bid for a fifth consecutive Top Fuel …

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MADISON, Ill. – On the strength of the fastest Funny Car run since 2019, point-leader Robert Hight held onto the No. 1 qualifying position Saturday at World Wide Technology Raceway during the 11th annual NHRA …

CONCORD, N.C. – On Friday night, two-time NHRA Funny Car champion Ron Capps received a telephone call he never expected. A handicapped young man with whom he had become a close friend had died.
Brett Hewson, …