With stringent aviation-quality regulations driving innovation for its automotive performance pumps and components, Weldon has fueled championship-winning racers with the highest-quality products for nearly five decades.

Life is not a spectator sport, which is why your friends at NMRA and NMCA have worked hard to make the True Street classes friendly for first-time or novice racers.

Few prizes in drag racing are more coveted than the special edition Christmas Tree ring that Nitto Tires awards to the champions of the Testo Superbowl Shootouts, which will be held during the upcoming NMRA/NMCA Superbowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing at Worldwide Technology Raceway May 4-7.
 

Anytime racers from the NMRA and NMCA series have an opportunity to compete head-to-head, it brings out the best from each series. That was certainly the case when Open Comp racers clashed during last weekend’s 7^th annual Jason Dietsch Trailer Sales Open Comp All-Star Showdown presented by Autokraft Racecars. 

Rockingham Dragway was built in 1969 by developers Bill Land and L.G. Dewitt as a companion to the NASCAR oval track that occupied real estate across U.S. Highway 1.

Dating back to the inaugural season of NMRA’s history, the Renegade category remains the series’ longest continuously ran category still in contention today.

Sharp racer minds have been around a long time. And once such group spent their days dressed in white and black skinny ties in dyno cells, drafting rooms, and endless catacombs of Chrysler’s Highland Park Engineering Facility located in Detroit.

With the advent of the Internet, attention spans have shortened and news cycles hastened. Though it is not on the cutting edge, it is worth reflecting on the announcement that Dodge was sending off its modern HEMI muscle cars with a big bang. Huge in fact. We are talking four-digit factory muscle.

A little more than two decades ago, National Muscle Car Association, the National Street Car Association, and Fun Ford Weekend, as well as a few other smaller sanctioning bodies, serviced street-based drag racers.

A special feature of the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Mahle this upcoming weekend (April 13-16), is Innovation Performance Technologies Jr. Street, a class designed to get 13-16-year-old racers on track and competing in a safe environment.

Drag racing is a sport where success is measured in inches and mere fractions on the clock. And while a typical race takes just seconds to complete, hours of preparation are commonplace, whether it’s at the shop or at the track.

It might not be fair to call it an overnight success, but there is no doubt that the Suncoast Performance 8.60 Street Race class is growing rapidly, and it has quickly become one of the highlights of any Holley NMRA Drag Racing series event.

Despite the effort, there’s a thrill to heads-up racing that magnetizes people. We’re aware of this and thankfully, NMCA has made it easy for racers to get involved in a true heads-up class where a smart racer can find him or herself competitive without breaking the proverbial bank.
 

NMRA and NMCA drag racing action returns to Rockingham Dragway next weekend (April 14-16) for the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Mahle Motorsports. This is the first of three events on the tour where NMRA and NMCA racers compete at the same venue.

If ever there’s a category that fits the National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) mantra, it’s Quick Fuel Technologies Nostalgia Super Stock.

Justin Ashley and the Phillips Connect Toyota Top Fuel dragster powered by National Debt Relief roared to victory at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals in front of packed grandstands and a host of sponsor representatives from Phillips Connect, Phillips Industries, Toyota, Lucas Oil, Mac Tools, KATO Fastening Systems and National Debt Relief.

The multi-time champion climbed out of his COPO Camaro and into Scott Guiler's former Oldsmobile 442 for NMCA Edelbrock Xtreme Street competition.

Each year, for good reason, the BBK Spring Break Shootout is one of the most highly anticipated events in the Holley NMRA Drag Racing Series.

In what was billed as the final NHRA Arizona Nationals 2022 NHRA Rookie of the Year Camrie Caruso wrote her name into the record books winning her first Pro Stock race at the historic venue.

Growing up in Michigan with a family employed by General Motors, it was inevitable that Keith Seymore would follow the same path and that he would wind up campaigning a Chevrolet of his own.

In Orlando, AJ Berge of HEMI Tuner Performance, drove his Whipple Superchargers, Revolution Paradox, Security Dodge Power Brokers sponsored RAMCHARGERS Challenger Drag Pak to victory, topping class standouts including the top qualifier Chuck Watson II.

The Red Line Oil NMCA Muscle Car Nationals season kicked off in grand fashion at Orlando Speed World Dragway this past weekend with intense quarter-mile and eight-mile action at the SDPC NMCA Muscle Car Mayhem event presented by Holbrook Race Engines.

Just one week after the season-opening NMRA Spring Break Shootout in Orlando, the NHRA kicked off its season just a couple hours north at 54^th Annual Gatornationals.

Florida is a hotbed for drag racing in March and the heat was turned up last weekend as NHRA season kicked off at the 54^th Annual Gatornationals. The Gators falls in between the NMRA season-opener and the NMCA kick-off, where this weekend racers take to the track at Orlando Speed World.

A lifelong entrepreneur and hardcore racer, UPR Products founder Mark Mainiero laid the foundation for his successful Ford Mustang parts supply business more than three decades ago.

The season-opening Holley NMRA Ford Nationals series’ 25th Anniversary tour kicked off in fine style in Orlando this past weekend.

NHRA Funny Car driver and entrepreneur Paul Lee understands the power of marketing at a national event with national television coverage.

The Internet is buzzing with racers in all classes testing new engines and setups. Soon they’ll be heading south for warm Florida weather and hot drag racing that’s set to take place at Orlando Speed World Dragway March 16-19.

At any given Holley All Ford NMRA event, you’ll find women of all ages competing in every class, including the top ranks of Renegade, to gear-jamming Coyote Stock, 8.60 Street Race, Open Comp, True Street and more.

The GT500 class was a big hit as fans saw some of the quickest GT500 Mustangs in the country ripping in stock and modified trim. With 760 horsepower from the factory, Ford has made it easy for anyone to hop in and runs 10s at 130-plus mph.

Chris Parisi is a glass half-full type of guy, so he’s not the least bit embarrassed or even disappointed to look at his bestbet 2020 Mustang and see a big No. 2 plastered on the side windows.

Now one of the leading crankshaft suppliers, SCAT Crankshafts got its start in the humble junkyards of Southern California more than 50 years ago.

Like many of the NMRA teams, me and my wife, Becky Moldenhauer, have been working hard all winter on our SN95 Coyote Stock Mustang. We made the switch this winter to new front struts, new steering column and the big change going to a 9-inch rear end.
 

The Texan takes things one step at a time to come out on top in competition.

During high school and college, I lived the Mustang dream vicariously through the pages of magazines. Eventually, I bought my first Fox and started modding it as best as a college kid could, but I lived for the days when the magazines would arrive in my mailbox.

We started a few years ago with a naturally aspirated combination and have upgraded to a supercharger and that has allowed us to run mid-8s.

After getting back into Factory Stock racing with the NMRA this past year and attending three races, my goal for the winter, and into the 2023 race season is to find at a minimum the 2 mph and two-tenths I'm lacking from being mid-pack in the class.

From his youth spent terrorizing the streets of suburban Chicago to his current career dominating the Dodge // Mopar HEMI Shootout with the NMCA, Tony DeMaio Jr. has always pushed the limits of his Mopar-powered machines.

Bob Barker, The Price Is Right’s beloved former host, made famous the concept of “closest without going over.” The newly minted NMRA SunCoast Performance 8.60 Street Race class, however, took the iconic idea and reversed it — the closest in the heads-up category to run the number without going under gets the win.

Now in its second year, Sick Week has established itself as a premier Drag-and-Drive event, featuring five days of racing on four track that include Orlando, Bradenton, Valdosta and Gainesville as destinations.

Born into a racing family, owner/operator of Turn Key Automotive and the COPO COPO Parts Direct, Richard Rinke dedicated his career to crafting perfectly race-ready Chevrolet COPO Camaros on behalf of General Motors to help enthusiasts achieve their drag racing dreams.

The time is right to add horsepower under the hood of your Chevy, GM or Brand-X project car. It could be a drag racer, road racer, street machine or show machine, but when you think about the plethora of options your head begins to spin.

The Holley EFI Factory Super Cars racer gives it everything he has and goes for glory

Dan Jesel used his decades of experience to converge on an idea that the perfect V8 would have eight equal cylinders free of compromise.

Drag racers don't pay much attention to the rearview mirror. There is only time to execute the run at a high level, win the round and move on. It is only after the final runs are made that they can truly appreciate their accomplishments. 

High performance runs in the Skillman family as three generations have competed successfully in NHRA, NMCA and NMRA drag racing. Grandfather Ray, along with his son Bill and his son Drew, have won races in a wide range of categories, from Stock to Pro Stock and Bill Skillman, who is a regular at NMCA events, won the Holley EFI Factory Super Cars championship in 2021.

Renowned Moparnatic David Hakim Shows How East It Is To Get Into NMCA Competition With Old- Or New-School Muscle

The mission, undertaken roughly six years ago, was to build a competitive car for the NMRA Series, specifically the FSC Ford Muscle and HP Tuners Super Stang index classes. We wanted a car that not only ran in the 10-second zone, but had to be reliable with a minimal amount of required maintenance, and most importantly, could win races.

RC Components offers a complete line of front and rear wheels for drag racing and street/strip applications.

With the series celebrating its silver anniversary in 2023, it was only fitting to bring something a little extra special to the festivities courtesy of Vaughn Gittin Jr. and his band of merry Fun-Havers that will join the party on Saturday, March 4th.