David Reher couldn't help but take it personally.

Bob Glidden, the undisputed heavyweight Pro Stock champion of the world, likely wasn't making a statement in a hateful, degrading way. Reher didn't take it that way, but it did signal the challenge of challenges.

It was 1978, and Glidden was undefeated, and likely not even Big Daddy Don Garlits could have beaten him. The team of Reher, Morrison, and Shepherd, while competitive in NHRA's Division 4, was nowhere near the level Glidden was at this late in the season.

Nitro Chaos, the spinoff series from Funny Car Chaos, has been a staple in the nitro entertainment community. Still, this weekend's Mo-Kan Dragway event has opened its stage to another prominent entertainment drag racing venue - The Street Outlaws.

Mo-Kan Dragsway, the 62-year-old drag strip in Asbury, Mo., will open its anniversary event, July 19-20, to the Nitro Chaos Series and two stars of the Street Outlaws, Farmtruck and Azn.

Freddie Scriba picked an opportune time to win his first one.

The veteran Pro Modified racer, who competes in the PDRA’s Pro Nitrous division, captured his first career win in the series, stopping defending series champion Tommy Franklin in the PDRA ProStars final round as a part of the Virginia Motorsports Park’s PBR Night of Fire.

Just getting the event in was a battle in itself, as heavy rains on Friday forced the PDRA crew to rebuild the soaked racing surface. 

Competition Eliminator Pied Piper Rodger Brogdon last won an NHRA national event in 2015, when he raced Pro Stock. On Friday, that stat became a thing of the past.

Brogdon driving a B/Altered Planetary Camaro, a former NHRA Pro Stocker, returned to the winner's circle on Friday at the Jegs SportsNationals outside of Columbus, Ohio. He made a clean sweep of the event, qualifying No. 1 and beating bellhousing specialist Brian Browell in the final round. In his third final of the season, Brogdon was able to seal the deal with a .001 reaction time and only -.391 under in the final. He had taken some permanent index hits over the course of eliminations. 

Brogdon said the key to success has been to leave the past in the past. This season has been an extreme lesson of Murphy's Law. 

Steven Edward Hutcheson, 81, the last surviving Gordie Bonin's 1979 U.S. Nationals championship team member, has died. He passed at 8:15 AM, July 11, 2024, at the home of his son, Ted Chavarria, and Rita Chavarria, his daughter-in-law, following a brave battle with cancer.

Pacific Raceways President Jason Fiorito would like to take credit for doing something no other promoter has yet to do at the drag strip outside Seattle, WA, but he won't.

For the first time in history, drag racing will run under the lights at the strip, and the experience is likened to August 9, 1988, when iconic baseball venue Wrigley Field played its first game at night hours.

NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying will feature two rounds at 3:30 PM and 8:15 PT on Friday, July 19.

The 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series schedule will feature multiple milestone anniversaries within a 20-race schedule. Drag racing’s longest-running professional series revealed its 2025 schedule this morning. 
 
Three races will celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2025 and culminate with the 60th annual In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals in Pomona. The NHRA revealed weeks ago that the 2025 season will begin in Gainesville, Fla., for the third straight season.

The three silver anniversary events will be both events at The Strip in Las Vegas and the Route 66 Nationals in Chicago. Older milestones include the 65th anniversary of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals in Pomona and the 40th anniversary at Firebird Motorsports Park in Phoenix, Texas Motorplex in Dallas, and Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa.

Once again, the conspiracy theorists are wrong. The pins were not left in the parachutes. The parachute cables were, but not because of any negligence.

Though not an official NHRA statement, NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart provided insight during Joe Castello's WFO Radio Show as to why the parachutes on John Force's Funny Car failed to deploy during a horrendous accident on June 23, 2024, in Dinwiddie, Va. 

Reinhart revealed in a conversation with NHRA's Lonnie Grim that the Leahy Device, that safety system that automatically triggers the parachute under specific scenarios worked as it was supposed to. However, in this instance, extreme damage to the area surrounding the parachute mechanism caused it not to work as designed.  

The last 15 days have been challenging for 17-time Funny Car champion John Force. But in the last week, the results have been encouraging for Force, who suffered a horrendous crash on June 23, 2024, in Dinwiddie, Virginia.