Stories from the Dragstrip
In mid-1994, NHRA announced that Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) would be the newest sanctioned facility to host a national event. It was the first new national-event destination since Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka made the schedule in 1989. According to a series of articles in Virginia’s Daily Press in 1994 and 1995, Pro Stock driver... Continue Reading →
Bo Butner is known to hop in a different racecar here and there, and his propensity to mix things up has resulted in a fairly diverse scorecard, replete with victories in six different categories. The 2006 Comp Eliminator champion and 2017 Pro Stock world champ showed up with a real stunner, though, for the NHRA... Continue Reading →
Walters, Oklahoma, is a little town just 15 miles north of Wichita Falls, Texas. The city's motto is said to be "small town, big heart," and Tripp West is a fine example. The third-generation drag racer carried heart and skill to Ardmore Dragway over and over again in 2021, and it paid off as he... Continue Reading →
Brian McGinnis is an unassuming man. The drag racer who hails from Kent, Washington, isn't particularly fond of the spotlight, but throughout 2021, he kept finding himself right in front of it as he picked up multiple wins at his claimed home track, Bremerton Raceway, and ultimately earned the Bottom Bulb national championship in the... Continue Reading →
The 2021 ThisIsBracketRacing.com Driver Series brought national-scale competition to local racers at nearly two dozen dragstrips across the country. As the season concluded at each of these specially selected facilities, final races were claimed, points were tallied, and champions were crowned. Ultimately, Tripp West, of Ardmore Dragway, claimed the Top Bulb title, and Bremerton Raceway's... Continue Reading →
For Super Pro racer Joseph Bagwell, it turned out that winning the Summit Series Finals at Atlanta Dragway earlier this month was the easy part. When he got to Las Vegas, lady luck turned up the flame, and Bagwell was forced to overcome incredible challenges during the Dodge//SRT NHRA Nationals. His efforts equated to earning... Continue Reading →
The NHRA Summit Racing Series championship battle took place last weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where bracket racing's cream of the crop in each of NHRA's seven divisions stepped onto the national stage with proven equipment and firm intentions of claiming the prestigious trophy. Drivers in Super Pro, Pro, Sportsman, and... Continue Reading →
The talented photographers of Auto Imagery have collected images from every NHRA national event for nearly five decades. The long-standing, widely respected group continues to accumulate an incredible visual catalog of drag racing history with each event, and this gathering of images allows the team to put together a commemorative poster collage for each of... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Sin City. Pull up your lucky socks and let's get to work! The Sportsman categories are full of skilled drivers who can't help but lean into the Las Vegas dream. Something odd happens in Vegas. You'll catch perfectly capable folks blowing on dice and talking to their racecars and the Lord above about... Continue Reading →
The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been a destination for drag racers since opening in 2000, but long before the birth of this unique racetrack that sits adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base in the middle of the Nevada desert, there was Stardust International Raceway. Stardust Raceway was built in 1965 on land... Continue Reading →
