Anticipation was in the air as drivers dove into the first round of qualifying on Friday at the NMCA World Street Finals presented by Chevrolet Performance at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana, and as always, there were many awe-inspiring passes. Among the lead qualifiers were Jason Hamstra with a 3.71 in VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro Mod,  James Lawrence with a 3.97 in Mickey Thompson Radial W...

By Michael Galimi Photos by Dom DamatoThe third day of the grueling and entertaining Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week was spent at zMax Dragway in Concord, NC. The racers didnt get to run four wide but that didnt stop them from enjoying some sunshine and drag racing. The weather has been all of the talk this week as competitors and race organizers have kept a close watch on Hurricane Florences path a...

By Mary Lendzion For the second race in a row, drivers of the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series joined drivers of the NMCA to put down palpable amounts of power with LS, LT and LLT engines under the hoods of their hot rods. This time, it was for the 17th Annual Honeywell Garrett NMCA All-American Nationals featuring the 50th Anniversary Ford Performance Cobra Jet Reunion presented b...

Last night the NMCA hosted the 50th Cobra Jet Reunion gala affair at the Saw Mill Creek Resort in Huron, Ohio, with more than 550 Cobra Jet owners, racers, Ford Motor Company and Ford Performance employees past and present, and fans in attendance. Guest speakers included Al Joniec, Carl Tasca Sr., Brian Wolfe, Mike Delahanty, Bill Barr, and it was certainly a can't miss event. This morning, we ass...

The first rounds of eliminations were every bit as exciting as expected yesterday at the 13th Annual Nitto NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing presented by Fuel Systems Technology at Route 66 Raceway, and the action will escalate today. When its all said and done, winners will form Team NMCA and Team NMRA and run off for a chance to win the specially-designed and super-dapper Nitt...

For the first time ever, Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series drivers joined hundreds of NMRA and NMCA drivers competing as part of the Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing presented by Fuel Systems Technology. This year's event on July 27-29 at Route 66 Raceway in Illinois welcomed beautiful weather and intense, quarter-mile drag racing from some of the finest LS- and...

More than 600 race cars and 250 show cars arrived for the showdown that is the 13th Annual Nitto NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing presented by Fuel Systems Technology, July 27-29 at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. The weekend of wild racing was as exciting as expected, and everything escalated when winners in each series ran off at the end of the event as Team NMCA and...

Excitement for the 13th Annual Nitto NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing at Route 66 Raceway this weekend had been escalating for months, as drivers in both series were expected to turn up the wick for the late-season points race. Thats exactly what they did during today's first and second rounds of qualifying. Don Walsh Jr. wheeled to a 3.70 to set the pace in VP Racing Fuels Xt...

The track is just about ready to go hot here at Rt. 66 Raceway for the 13th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street legal Drag Racing presented by Fuel Systems Technology. We go straight into qualifying session number one this morning and we've got over 400 race cars all looking to get down the finely honed 1320. After a wicked wreck wiped out her 1985 Mustang in 2016, Georg...

Nearly three weeks into his Pony Express trip to visit nearly dozens of race tracks across the United States, Randy Seward had successfully completed an east coast to west coast trek, raced at seven of the ten tracks he planned to visit, and was joined by his wife Muyami in California. His tour now turned east, visiting Las Vegas Motor Speedway before journeying through the Rocky Mountains for sto...

After a rain-shortened program yesterday, racers are ready to rev up and roll into eliminations on this final day of the 15th Annual NMRA Ford Super Nationals at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. They'll be focused on going rounds, gaining points and getting to the Aerospace Components Winner's Circle at this fourth of six races on this year's tour. Pictured above is Mike Ciborowski, who is ...

The NMRA Drag Racing Series presented by Keystone Automotive kicked off the second half of a six-race series with the 15th Annual NMRA Ford Super Nationals, June 7-10 at National Trail Raceway. The crowd of racers and fans dealt with weather late in the day on Friday and Saturday, but cooperation got the program completed in its entirety. NMRA officials made the call to run three rounds of qualif...

It is Battleground: Ohio for the NMRA Drag Racing Series, presented by Keystone Automotive, as the series begins the second half of the season in the six-race championship competition. The NMRA SuperNationals goes down this weekend at National Trail Raceway, located just outside the city limits of Columbus, Ohio. Pictured above, the NMRA crew lays down a fresh layer of VP Racing Fuels Lane Choi...

Giraffe wrangler, (retired) exotic dancer, and internationally recognized commercial hair model Glenn Pushis has been having a pretty decent week overall. A new engine from SAM Tech has helped him find a lot more horsepower in his '16 Camaro which he is learning to handle through adjusting launch rpm and other variables, but Pushis was more excited last night about what chef Stevie (pictured) ...

Back for another great rendition, the 17th Annual NMCA Quick Fuel Technologies Bluegrass Nationals presented by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center featuring the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series blew into Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, over the weekend of May 18-20, 2018. With a wet forecast dimming racers hopes initially, the weekend took a turn for the better and sunshine wa...

Mother Nature was all talk and no action as rain threatened the second round of the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series held during the 17th Annual NMCA Quick Fuel Technologies Bluegrass Nationals presented by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center at Bowling Green, Kentuckys Beech Bend Raceway Park. Fortunately, the event went off with only minimal delays and there was some great heads-up LS-powered, dra...

The track is going hot shortly and we'll have everything from Xtreme Pro Mods to first-time racers with street cars getting on track. It should be a great show! Elizabethtown, Kentucky's Chris Goode is competing in his first NMCA race with his 1998 Camaro in Edelbrock Xtreme Street. The Fourth-Gen F-body runs a stock 6.0-liter iron truck block with the coil packs and electronic control module...

Test and tune is underway for the 17thAnnual NMCA Quick Fuel Technologies Bluegrass Nationals presented by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center and while some race are getting some early laps in, others, like ATI Performance Products Nostalgia Super Stock racer Dave Schultz are making some last minute preparations before getting on track. This event plays host to a number of races within a race, as it is h...

We had a bit of rain overnight, but the NMRA and NMCA staff was up bright and early this morning to start the drying process. Today's forecast is looking good, teams are busy getting ready for eliminations, and we expect to be rockin' and rollin' shortly. Above, NMCA Holley EFI Factory Super Cars superstar Scott Libersher and his team help with a little last-minute welding on Ricky Pennington's ...

What was originally expected to be a disappointingly wet weekend wound up being unexpectedly epic. The 10th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by MAHLE Motorsport kicked off the second stop on the NMRA Keystone Automotive Drag Racing tour for 2018 at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia, and had a few good surprises in store for racers and fans. The rain stayed minimal, and the race “...

The forecast is looking a little iffy for today, but rest assured all the NMRA/NMCA racing officials will be working quickly to dry and prep the track for final Qualifying and Eliminations all afternoon and evening... including Saturday Night Under the Lights! Unofficial spokesman for NMRA Steeda Limited Street, Michael Washington, has high hopes of getting into the 8s with FSC Magazines Pure...

When rain began to fall over the 16th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem at Bradenton Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon and the final rounds of qualifying were cancelled, drivers turned their focus to diving into eliminations on Sunday morning, and as the reaction-times and elapsed-times throughout the weekend have proven, they're ready to rumble. Among them is Daniel Pharris, who drove to a 4...

The racing was extraordinary at the 16th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem, March 8-11, 2018 at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida. In VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro Mod, where the quickest cars on the property pounded pavement, Randy Adler ran a personal best of 3.70 in his Bel-Air on his way to the top in qualifying. While he was poised to make it past copious amounts of cutthroat competition,...

It may be the first race on the highly anticipated 2018 NMCA Muscle Car Nationals presented by E3 Spark Plugs tour, but the drivers and their cars are already flying at the 16th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Among those setting the pace in yesterday's first round of qualifying was Randy Adler with a 3.73 in VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro Mod, Daryl Hameetman with a 4...

The 16th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem is here and yesterday's test session showed lots of promise from racers looking to get started on their runs at the class championships. As the session wound down yesterday, there was a scramble among the Holley EFI Factory Super Cars racers to get to the lanes. We saw ever-improving performances in the 8.0 range, and then Geoff Turk clocked a 7.97 at ...

             

VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro Mod driver Adam Flamholc is back after suffering a crash late last season and having to take some time away from the driver's seat. He's got a new Chris Duncan Race Cars chassis underneath the Corvette's body that's been fitted with a few parts from the old car, and an updated Hemi engine that's been topped with a new PSI C-rotor twin screw blower. Flamholc recently ...

  The track is hot and the action is, too, here at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Today eliminations begin and the stye is set for the championship points chases. On Saturday, we saw the largest QA1 True Street class in the history of the NMRA with 152 cars entered. After the three runs had been averaged, Randy Seward (pictured above) drove his Calypso Green, twin-turbocharged notchback M...

The 2018 NMRA Drag Racing season, presented by Keystone Automotive, debuted with beautiful weather, thousands of spectators, and all of the hot, record-breaking racing that one could want. QA1 True Street took center stage at Bradenton Motorsports Park this weekend, with a record 152 cars entering True Street. At the conclusion of the hotly contested, 16-car eliminator that is the JLT Performance ...

It's just about go time here at Bradenton Motorsports Park and the racers and fans are lining up to kick off the 2018 NMRA racing season. Today we'll be full hot into qualifying, as well as eliminations for the Watson Racing Cobra Jet Showdown. The UPR Products Car Show is jam-packed today and the hardware on display is impressive to say the least. Marty Quadland spends his summe...

It is day two of the 24th annual Nitto Tire NMRA Spring Break Shootout, presented by Steeda and yesterday's test and tune was filled with plenty of action. The talk of the day were the wheelies turned in by Chet Caminita (shown above) with his Steeda Limited Street entry and the dramatic one by Carlos Sobrino. The class comedian wasn't joking around when he put his G-Force Racing Transmission Coyo...

It is a race of stamina and speed as competitors in the upper ranks of small-tire drag racing spent nearly a week, testing, waiting, and racing hard for a chance at big money payouts and the prestige that goes along with winning Lights Out 9. There are two races put on by Duck X Productions, the first is Lights Out and it happens in February and the second act is No Mercy, which generally goes dow...

Lyle Barnett is driving the "Tooth Jerker" 1969 Dodge Dart, owned by Jason Digby. It goes 4-teens with a Precision 118mm turbocharger on a 547ci Chrysler engine with Predator cylinder heads, which was built by Harrell Engine & Dyno DeWayne Mills had some major updates performed on the Golden Gorilla over the winter. Larry Jeffers Race Cars redid the front-half of the Camaro. Also new are ...

Written by Ainsley Jacobs, Photos by Ainsley Jacobs For Ford fans, there are a select few events that really encompass the family element of owning a beautiful blue oval ride. The annual National Parts Depot Ford & Mustang Round Up event, held at the idyllic Silver Springs Nature Park in Silver Springs, Florida, is one of them. For its 2018 running, the event was bittersweet “ attendee...

By Mary Lendzion Photos by Team Race Pages Remarkable racing and records were all the rage for this year's NMRA series, which began in March and boiled over at the 19th Annual Nitto NMRA All-Ford World Finals, Sept. 28-Oct. 1 at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky. That's where the chase to the championship in each of the very competitive categories concluded, and among those claiming the ...

Story by Mary Lendzion | Photos by NMCA Editorial Staff   Drivers of the NMCA delivered exciting and extraordinary racing at the 12th Annual NMRA/NMCA Nitto Tire Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing, July 27-30, 2017 at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois, where the winners in the two series were pitted against each other to battle it out for the Super Bowl championship and the Ni...

19th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA All-Ford World Finals | September 28th - October 1st, 2017 | Beechbend Raceway | Bowling Green, KentucyThe final stanza to the 2017 NMRA points-earning race season¦the 19th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA World Finals takes place the weekend of September 28-October 1, 2017, at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This event wraps up the points battles in all of t...