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 →
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 →
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 →
Auto Imagery photographer Richard Shute has been a supporter of this website and (and its editor) from the very beginning. Many of Shute's beautiful images from the world of NHRA Sportsman racing have been featured here in an effort to help us bring stories to life. Without Shute's consistent contributions to drag racing for the... Continue Reading →
The very cool thing about folks who took photos back before the digital era is that most of them have stacks of glorious prints that capture moments of time that will live as long as the paper on which they were printed. If you're lucky, the photographers will let you ever-so-gently paw through those stacks,... Continue Reading →
It's "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" and the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors are heading into the late rounds of competition at the TascaParts.com NHRA New England Nationals presented by Bandero Premium Tequila. We took a look at the results using our handy-dandy results machine (aka DragRaceCentral.com) and put together a look at what lies ahead... Continue Reading →
The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors head to the staging lanes for the first round of eliminations today at the TascaParts.com NHRA New England Nationals presented by Bandero Premium Tequila, and before the first cars get up there to the burnout box and begin their respective battles for the trophy, we've got some kinda... Continue Reading →
Coveted class trophies have already been fought for and earned in Stock Eliminator twice this year at divisional events, but the victories at New England Dragway this weekend were the first of the season at the national level. Class racing in the Northeast is always a sight to behold, and three rounds of class eliminations... Continue Reading →
The prestigious Pro Stock category has only been contested at New England Dragway six times since NHRA sanctioned the drag strip for national events in 2013. Pro Stock's history at the charmingly historic facility, though? Well, that stretches back to the 1970s and the early years of this super-cool class of precision and skill. Last... Continue Reading →
