The cars have fired up for the last time in 2018. Theyʻre now parked for the winter so they can be stripped down and prepared for 2019 over the next few months. The haulers are parked, the team members and drivers are back home with their families. The motorhomes can …
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Nitro Shots: For Your Viewing Pleasure
Just one more race left in the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, and that means that very soon, you will have no new NHRA drag racing to watch. Drivers and teams will begin testing in January and be back on the track to kick off 2019 in …
Read More »Nitro Shots: How Do You Make Championships Exciting?
There’s still one more race left in the 2018 Mello Yello Series season, but one championship has already been awarded and a second is really just a matter of the driver just showing up in Pomona. Steve Torrence collected his Top Fuel championship trophy in Las Vegas, while Tanner Gray …
Read More »Nitro Shots: All Things Big & Small
Most of the time, the big teams, which tend to have the most corporate support and money, tend to rule the roost. The little teams, with less support and money and fewer resources, struggle to keep up. And yet, for the moment, it seems that this is not quite the …
Read More »Carolina Nationals Qualifying Is In The Books
Qualifying is complete for the NHRA Carolina Nationals from zMAX Dragway outside Charlotte, North Carolina. After two rounds on Friday (Oct. 12) and two more on Saturday (Oct. 13), the field has been set for all four Mello Yello Series classes, as well as the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod …
Read More »Nitro Shots: The Tough Guy Award
How about your Funny Car points leader Robert Hight? He’s won two in a row and pulled away from hard-charging J.R. Todd to lead by 50 points. But wait, there’s more. The first of those two wins, a few weeks ago in St. Louis, came in spectacular (and perhaps a more …
Read More »NHRA: Countdown Phase 2
After a week off to regroup, two Countdown races loom in the coming weeks for the NHRA Mello Yello Series drag racers. First up is the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals from Texas, followed the next weekend by the NHRA Carolina Nationals from Charlotte. Just two-wide this time. None of …
Read More »Nitro Shots: 5 Races to Go
It seems like the 2018 season just started, and now there are just five more races to go before it’s all over — five races left for drivers to make their championship dreams come true this year. Four capitalized on that opportunity by winning the first event of the Countdown …
Read More »Nitro Shots: The Countdown Is On
Everyone is anxious to get off to the best possible start for the Countdown. At this point, with just a 20 point lead for the top seeds, a dominant regular season no longer matters. What matters is a dominant Countdown. It’s also a new life for the drivers in the …
Read More »Nitro Shots: US Nationals in the Books, Countdown Field Set
The biggest racing weekend of the NHRA year has passed, and after the dust settled, it was Terry McMillen, J.R. Todd, Tanner Gray and LE Tonglet holding the big trophies and the bragging rights. For McMillen, it was just his second career Top Fuel win, but it was something he …
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