Final round-by-round results from the 24th annual Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance at Route 66 Raceway, the sixth of 20 events in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series:

The blue-collar Top Fuel favorite from Chicago finally has his yellow hat. 

T.J. Zizzo, who had previously scored a provisional No. 1 on a Saturday, sealed the deal at the Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance.

He is joined atop the leaderboard by Austin Prock (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) in the sixth of 20 races during the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.

In the Mission Foods 2Fast2Tasty Challenge series, Justin Ashley is shaping up to be the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time). He scored his latest win, knocking off Clay Millican in the final round of the specialty series Saturday afternoon at the NHRA Route 66 Nationals outside of Chicago. 

J.R. Todd (Funny Car) and Gaige Herrera (Pro Stock Motorcycle) joined Ashley on the winner’s podium.

Ashley, who in two seasons has won the event a whopping eight times, scoring his best run of the weekend in the final round. It is his second #2Fast2Tasty win of the season,

Matt Smith has broken Gaige Herrera’s stranglehold on NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class – at least in qualifying.

Smith clocked a 6.708-second elapsed time at 201.40 mph Friday on his Buell, and the time held up for him to take the No. 1 qualifying spot at the Gerber Collision & Glass NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented by Peak Performance May in Joliet, Ill.

Smith collected his first No. 1 qualifier of the season in the third event of the season for the Pro Stock Motorcycle and the 53rd of his decorated career. Smith is a six-time NHRA PSM world champion (2007, 2013, 2018, 2020-22).

Greg Anderson cashed in in quite a big way Saturday.

Anderson, the all-time NHRA Pro Stock wins leader, added another victory when he took home the title at the GETTRX Pro Stock All-Star Callout at the Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance.

Anderson, who drives the HendrickCars.com Chevy Camaro for KB Titan Racing, clocked a 6.595-second elapsed time at 208.36 mph to defeat Matt Hartford’s 6.641-second lap. Anderson collected a $40,000 check from GETTRX.

Chicago native Don Schumacher rekindled his drag-racing involvement in 1998, because son Tony wanted to step up to a Top Fuel dragster and Dad wanted to ensure he competed in safe equipment.

But that passion snowballed into an empire that fielded the most race cars for a single team, claimed 19 championships, and featured some of the biggest names in the sport. Don Schumacher Racing elevated Tony Schumacher to his status as the Top Fuel’s all-time leader in victories (86) and series championships (eight).

Don Schumacher called them his “cast of characters,” but he, too, was a leading character on NHRA’s premier stage. And five months after his final act played out, before qualifying began for the Gerber Collision and Glass Route 66 Nationals on Friday at Joliet, Ill., came an emotional curtain call. Drivers, team owners, and associates gathered at the Schumacher Family Tent next to the Nitro Mall for a Celebration of Life ceremony to remember the 2019 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee.

The last time Adam Hickey found himself in a final round at the Texas Motorplex was a race to determine whether he pocketed $100,000 or $25,000. 

Hickey not only won the race, he also clinched the second season championship of the Rooftec Comp Eliminator Bonus fund. After a forgettable 2023 season, Hickey has reinserted himself in the conversation again.

If Competition Eliminator standout Rodger Brogdon had known that adding shingles to his B/Altered Planetary-classified Camaro was all it took to put a season of mayhem on the right track, he might have wrapped his car back in February. 

Brogdon, who owns Rooftec, Texas' largest roofer, debuted a new wrap sporting the likeness of Owens Corning shingles and went to the top qualifying position during the first of two events in the NHRA Division 4 weekend at the Texas Motorplex. 

This was quite the emotional day that Top Fuel driver/owner T.J. Zizzo will likely never forget.

Zizzo, racing at his hometown track – Route 66 Raceway outside Chicago -- captured the provisional No. 1 qualifying spot Friday at the Gerber Collision & Glass NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented by Peak Performance.

Zizzo had the quickest elapsed times in Q1 and Q2 and the second one – a 3.735-second elapsed time at 331.77 mph in his Rust-Oleum sponsored dragster -- kept him in the No. 1 spot.

The highlight reel that has been Austin Prock in NHRA’s nitro Funny Car class this season kept rolling Friday.

Prock, who pilots the Cornwell Tools Camaro for John Force Racing, clocked the two quickest elapsed times in qualifying Friday at the Gerber Collision & Glass NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented by Peak Performance May in Joliet, Ill.

Prock’s quickest run came in Q2 and kept him on top of the qualifying ladder with a 3.907-second time at 332.43 mph.