NHRA Top Fuel Points Leader Visits DFW Children’s Hospital

Larry Dixon spends off day in Dallas preparing for Fall Nationals

NHRA: You’ve Got To See It To Believe It!

NHRA has created a spectacular video showcasing your favorite sport. To see all of the excitement of an NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event, click now to watch “NHRA: You’ve Got To See It To Believe It!”

Kalitta, Johnson get first season wins; Hight, Hines also score

Sunday, July 25, 2010

by Phil Burgess, National DRAGSTER Editor

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Doug Kalitta in Top Fuel and Allen Johnson in Pro Stock broke through for their first wins of the season and were joined in the winner’s circle by Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway outside of Denver.
During the course of the event – the final leg of the three-race Western Swing and the second to last in the Countdown to the Championship’s 17-event regular season – nine drivers locked up berths in the playoff fields that will pit the top 10 drivers in all four classes in a six-race fight to the finish that begins Labor Day weekend at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. [Story: Nine more lock up playoff berths; Dixon clinches top seed ]
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NHRA adds its 100,000th fan on Facebook

GLENDORA, Calif. (July 22, 2010) — The fastest sport on the planet also has one of the fastest growing pages on Facebook.
Today, just 16 months after the NHRA page debuted on Facebook, it added its 100,000th fan, culminating a seven-month run in which it has quadrupled in size.
“This really validates what we’ve known all along, that NHRA fans are among the most passionate, most dedicated and most socially-connected fans in all of sports,” said Gary Darcy, NHRA senior vice president, sales and marketing.
After growing at a steady rate of close to 3,000 fans per month from its debut in March of 2009 through the end of the year, the NHRA page on Facebook has exploded in 2010, growing by 281.5 percent from 26,208 fans on Jan. 1 to 100,000 fans on July 22. In July alone, the page has grown by nearly a thousand fans a day, or 23.3 percent.
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NHRA drag racing is the quickest and fastest form of motorsport in the world

When we say NHRA drag racing is the quickest and fastest form of motorsport in the world, we’re not kidding. ESPN Magazine couldn’t agree more. How does a Top Fuel dragster stack up to other speed demons? Check it out for yourself. Then come visit with Schumacher – a seven-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion – when the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals comes to the Texas Motorplex Sept. 23-26, 2010.

Greg Morris Memorial Golf Tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 22

Longview, Texas native Steve Torrence is signed up and ready to play a round of golf. The NHRA Top Fuel driver has committed to playing in the Greg Morris Memorial Golf Tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at the Old Brickyard Golf Course in Ferris. The tournament precedes the 25th annual O’Reilly Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals. Check out the entry form and sign up to play as Torrence and other NHRA stars will be swinging clubs to help a great cause.
Click here for the entry form.