One of NHRA’s long-established events — the race celebrated its 27th
anniversary last season — this belle of the South has gained a
reputation as one of the tougher events on the tour to win. With summer
approaching, warm temperatures can turn the event into “Hotlanta”. 

Keep up with this weekend's IHRA Spring Nationals by reading our
behind-the-scenes event notebook. We bring you the stories behind the numbers
and win-lights throughout the course of the weekend. Tune in daily for the
latest news from the pits
 

The IHRA Spring Nationals has remained a staple of the Knoll Gas Nitro
Jam Series since the sanctioning body's formation in 1971. Originally
contested in Bristol, Tenn., the event was moved to Rockingham, NC., in
1999. This event showcases IHRA drag racing's penchant for quick
elapsed times and blazing speeds.

Read another side of this weekend's NHRA Summit
Nationals by four-decade drag racing journalist Jon Asher's behind-the-scenes event notebook. He'll bring you the inside skinny and the not-so-politically correct [not that the rest of us do] stories behind
the numbers and win-lights throughout the course of the weekend. 

Keep up with this weekend's NHRA Summit
Nationals by reading our behind-the-scenes event notebook. We bring you the stories behind
the numbers and win-lights throughout the course of the weekend. Tune in daily
for the latest news from the pits.

As if Las Vegas weren’t loud and ostentatious enough in its own right,
the city hosts the fire and fury of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing
Series twice each year, this event in the spring and the crucial
penultimate stop on the schedule in the fall.

Keep up with this weekend's IHRA Texas Nationals
by reading our behind-the-scenes event notebook. We bring you the stories behind
the numbers and win-lights throughout the course of the weekend. Tune in daily
for the latest news from the pits.

Each year, the IHRA Drag Racing Series travels to San Antonio, Texas
for the first of 12-races and the end result promises phenomenal
performances and packed grandstands. This season's opening event features the scheduled eighth-mile national event in drag racing since 1974 in Charlotte, NC.

Houston Raceway Park benefits from incredible atmospheric conditions
because of its proximity to Trinity Bay, which feeds the facility cool
air. The track’s first NHRA national event, in fall 1988, established
HRP as one of the sport’s quickest with NHRA’s first four-second Top
Fuel pass and a new national record. 

In all my almost forty years of attending races, I have never known
such arctic conditions that befell the season opener at Santa Pod
Raceway. Dedicated nitro starved fans arrived regardless of weather
predictions and struggled in muddy fields, some even succumbing to
hypothermia overnight as temperatures dipped well below freezing. How
race teams managed to even start motors let alone get down track on the
two days that did not suffer rain, sleet and snow is beyond me.
Everyone at the racetrack over that weekend needs an endurance medal
and help in thawing out. Many teams decided the weather too adverse and
wisely sat out or went home to keep warm whilst the slightly depleted
fields managed to complete the eliminations between show showers on
Easter Monday.