Stories from the Dragstrip
The Bo Butner Racing Sportsman team, flying the colors of Jim Butner Auto Group, Summit Racing, Mickey Thompson, and JHG, had an outstanding outing at the 69th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals. Racing in four categories with husband-and-wife drivers Bo and Randi Lyn (RL) Butner, they came up aces twice to etch a... Continue Reading →
The first trophies of the 2023 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season were handed out this past weekend at Orlando Speed World Dragway, where Race 1 of the six scheduled for the NHRA Southeast Division (Division 2) took place. Wes Leopold, Kevin Helms, Jeff Longhany, Doug Foley Jr., Sherman Adcock, John Rollins, Clint Riley, and... Continue Reading →
Peyton Januik likes to go fast, whether it's in her SilverState Refrigeration-branded Super Comp dragster or in the Plan B Motorsports Top Dragster. The former Jr. drag racer has grown up in a world that revolves around competitions of speed and skill, and so hitting the 200-mph mark four years ago at Bandimere Speedway at... Continue Reading →
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 →
