It's a great morning at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. The weather forecast for the weekend looks pretty perfect, and we've got literally hundreds of cars on site - possibly the largest event ever - ready to battle it out at the 12th Annual NMRA/NMCA Nitto Tire Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. Will team NMCA defend their title as the Super Bowl champions Qualifying starts shortly, s...

Test and tune is underway here at Rt 66 Raceway in Joliet Illinois as we kick off the 12th Annual NMRA/NMCA Nitto Tire Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing presented by Precision Turbo. The action is poised to be intense, as we've seen over 200 racers through the gate before lunch time. The track is hot with test and tune runs and we'll be bringing you the latest news from the pits throughout th...

Anthony Manna may have motored into this year as the reigning Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series Drag Radial champion, but he's preparing to pound pavement in VP Racing Fuels Street Outlaw at the12th Annual Nitto NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing, July 27-30 at Route 66 Raceway in Illinois. Drag Radial isn't part of this race, but I wanted to race and figured it would be a g...

The Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing presented by Precision Turbo is the most recognized street car motorsport event on the planet and it always features the largest manufacturers midway of the year. The action begins on Thursday, July 27, and culminates on Sunday, July 30, when Team NMRA's class champions take on team NMCA's winners in the all-out slugfest we like ...

We are pleased to introduce a new text messaging program that will allow us to communicate better with each of you during any NMRA and NMCA Drag Racing Series events. If you would like to receive text messages during the event that include schedule updates, staging lanes calls and various other event related updates below are detailed instructions on how opt-in or opt-out. There is no fee for ...

While Gary Roeben had been racing a 1999 Mustang GT powered by a turbocharged small-block Ford in X275 across the country, he debuted a 2004 Mustang Cobra at No Mercy in Georgia last fall. Built by Chad Epperson of London Chassis Dyno in Kentucky to accommodate the driver who is six feet and eight inches tall, the car features a BES-built 400ci small-block Ford on a steel Dart block topped with...

Randy and Keith Auwarter were captivated by the sound of the engines, the scent of the exhaust and everything else they experienced as children watching their father, Don, race sprint cars near their home in Jackson, Mississippi. As the years went on, the brothers became even more fascinated by all things fast, and after high school, Randy began racing cars, motorcycles and anything else that h...

ProMedia Events is pleased to announce that there are two Racer Appreciation Parties in store for the upcoming Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing event, which takes place at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois, the weekend of July 28-31, 2016. This extra special event is billed as the "Super Bowl" because the NMRA class champions will take on the NMCA class winners for a...

While growing up in Middletown, Indiana, Camren Massengale spent a lot of time with his dad, Rodney Massengale, at tracks near their home. He would watch his dad work on his various Corvettes and wheel them down track, and at the same time, he would dream of doing the same. That day came in 2011, when a 15 year old Camren coaxed his dad into letting him climb into the driver's seat of his br...

For the first time NMRA/NMCA will offer a full Thursday Test & Tune (July 27) to all Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing competitors. The largest street car drag racing event of the year, the 12th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing presented by Precision Turbo takes place at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL, the weekend of July 27-30, 2017. This is one of onl...

Are you a "Big Dogs of NMRA" fan, or more of an "NMCA World's Fastest Street Cars" fan Watch as NMRA/Keystone class champions take on NMCA/E3 Spark Plugs event winners in an all-out slugfest we like to call the Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing! The Race for the Rings is just one more of the special events that will take place at the 11th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-...

NMCA vs NMRA START PARAMETERS / TREE HANDICAP PM Vs. SO* .4 PRO Handicapped according to Individual competitor's low elapsed time Fri. - Sun. NO breakout 1/8 PS Vs. REN .4 PRO Handicapped according to Individual competitor's low elapsed time Fri. - Sun. NO breakout 1/4 RW Vs. CM .4 PRO Handicapped according to Individual competitor's low elapsed time Fri. - Sun. NO breakout 1/8 ...

The NMCA is pleased to announce the release of its all-new baseball style t-shirt (#622-G), which is now available for purchase on PowerMallStore.com. Show your support of the NMCA and the World's Fastest Street Cars when you wear this shirt at events and around town. This sport grey with black 3/4 sleeves t-shirt features a stylized NMCA logo split in half with a bolt of lightning. This 100% cott...

In accordance to the NMCA Technical Department guidelines, 2016 rules have been reviewed at the mid-season point, and where necessary, adjustments have been made. To see those adjustments, follow the link >>HERE<<.

Dart Machinery is pleased to be the title sponsor of Dart NMCA Pro Stock drag racing once again in 2017. This quarter-mile, heads-up class is designed to showcase the horsepower potential of a naturally- aspirated small-block engine. Don't miss excitement of Dart NMCA Pro Stock drag racing at the following events: July 27-30, 2017 NMRA / NMCA Super Bowl Of Street Legal Drag Racing Route 6...

With each year that has passed since he bought his 1972 Nova as a teenager, John Warren has become more and more attached to it, and that's why he'll stay in the driver's seat of the car he calls the Nuke as he moves from NMCA Edelbrock Xtreme Street to NMCA Mickey Thompson Radial Wars and Limited Drag Radial. Warren, who competed in NMCA Edelbrock Xtreme Street from 2010-2016 and has been as q...

As a longtime and legendary driver, Don Walsh, Jr. has wheeled to wins in NMRA, NMCA, NHRA and other series in his Mustangs and Harry Hruska's Precision Turbo & Engine-backed Mustang and Camaro, but he'll soon set sail in the Corvette C7 that he recently purchased from Jose Gonzalez. The opportunity Harry Hruska gave me to drive the Precision cars was amazing, and as much as I enjoyed it, ...

BoostLine Connecting Rods, from Wiseco, has become the exclusive sponsor of the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series premier class, Drag Radial, in 2017. The BoostLine Connecting Rod Drag Radial class is the premier Drag Radial class in the country for LS-powered machines, which compete in the four-race CP Challenge Series. "We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the launch of our Boo...

NMRA & NMCA are pleased to announce the release of their all-new Circle Heart Christmas Tree V-neck t-shirt for women. Sure to become a favorite t-shirt for any drag race minded lady racer or fan, this Circle Heart design stands out from the crowd with the iconic NMRA/NMCA Christmas Tree logo front and center. Show your support of the racing lifestyle ...

The weather forecast for today's tire-burning, turbo-boosting, nitrous-injecting, drag-racing activities here at Beech Bend Raceway Park has greatly improved overnight, and we are underway with class eliminations. If you're local, come on down and get ready for some great racing. Adam Flamholc continued his winning ways on Saturday with a first-round defeat of Craig Sullivan and his fan fav...

Mother Nature tried her best to prevent the race with tons of rain delays, but the NMCA staff was patient and eventually the storms passed and cars were able to get down the track at the 16th Annual NMCA QuickFuel Technology Bluegrass Nationals featuring the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A monumental effort was made by all to get the ...

At first, it seemed like the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series at the 16th Annual NMCA QuickFuel Technology Bluegrass Nationals at Bowling Green, Kentucky's Beech Bend Raceway Park may not get run to completion due to the extreme amount of rain, but Sunday's weather was a sunny surprise and the race went off without a hitch. Glenn Pushis pushed his 13 Camaro to a 10.246 at 128.77 mph run ...

Racing is under way here at Beech Bend Raceway Park as the Nostalgia Super Stockers of the Dave Duell Classic are burning up the 1320. The weather looks far better than the challenging situations we encountered yesterday, but we eventually got through round one of qualifying and even got some True Street test hits in before winding it down for the evening. Today brings more qualifying and round on...

       

Friday morning started off with a bang as an intense thunderstorm rolled through the area around 5:30am. The heavy rains abated, but we've been trading punches with mother nature this morning as we attempt to get some cars down the track and get into qualifying today. Stay tuned for an updated run schedule. In the meantime, here is some news from the pits. Chevrolet Performance Stock racer ...

With a line of trucks and trailers a half-mile long or more leading out of Beech Bend Raceway Park, it's looking to be a killer weekend of racing at the 16th Annual NMCA Quick Fuel Technology Bluegrass Nationals this weekend. This event features the Dave Duell Classic, which will bring in 50 or more wheel-standing Nostalgia Super Stock machines, and it's the first time that the NMCA Bowling Green ...

Among the drivers with high-revving naturally aspirated combinations and hard-launching cars who dove into NMCA Dart Pro Stock when it debuted last year was Nino Cavallo. He was fresh off of earning the Australian National Drag Racing Association's 2016 Pro Stock championship when he traveled from his home in Melbourne, Australia to test the waters in the newly-formed class at the 11th Annual N...

A strong manufacturers midway is in store for the 15th Annual Quick Fuel Technology NMCA Bluegrass Nationals Presented by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 18-21. The following companies/brands will have displays set up at the NMCA Bluegrass Nationals: Chevrolet Performance, Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center, VP Racing Fuels, Trailer World, WyoTech, M...

Having grown up around a dad who was into open-wheel and late-model stock cars, Doug Thompson spent a lot of time at tracks near their home in Indiana watching him race. As the years went by, he discovered that he, too, was interested in racing, but even more interested in making race cars run faster. He went on to work at automotive machine shops where he bored blocks, assembled engines and...

One of the largest Nostalgia Super Stock races in the country, the Dave Duell Classic, will return to Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the weekend of May 18-21, 2017, as a part of the Quick Fuel Technology NMCA Bluegrass Nationals Presented by Scoggin-Dicky Parts Center and Chevrolet Performance. Doug Duell and fellow racers organized the Dave Duell Classic over twelve years ago as a...

The NMCA Muscle Car Nationals is pleased to announce that Chevrolet Performance and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center have both put major support behind the upcoming NMCA Bluegrass Nationals event at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, KY, the weekend of May 18-21. NMCA, Chevrolet Performance, and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center have worked together promoting LS drag racing since the first LSX Shootou...

The Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series will join the Quick Fuel Technology NMCA Bluegrass Nationals at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the weekend of May 18-21, 2017. Presented by Scoggin-Dicky Parts Center and Chevrolet Performance, this event features the World's Fastest Street Cars of NMCA as well as one of the largest gatherings of LS-powered monsters in the U.S. Heads-up...

The NMCA Rules Committee has announced rules changes in the following classes: Factory Super Car, Pro Stock and Street Outlaw. To review these, follow this link and then click on the 2017 Rules Revisions & Clarifications link at the top of the page.

With two races complete in the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals presented by E3 Spark Plugs, championship points have now been updated through the All-Star Nationals. Find them >>here<<

The NMCA/CPCS Tech Committee has made a rule change in the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series Real Street Class. This class will be contested in the Eighth (1/8) mile format for the entire 2017 season. This change is effective immediately. CPCS Rule Revisions/Clarifications link: https://www.nmcadigital.com/dl/rules/cps/rev.pdf Real Street Rules can be found at: https://www.nmcadigital.c...

Huffing black smoke at the front end and whit smoke at the back end is Ryan Millican's diesel-powered '66 Chevy II Nova. Yes, that is a Cummins diesel in a muscle car, running in VP Racing Fuels Street Outlaw competition. Millican qualified 12th out of 13 cars, but was still creeping up on the setup leading into eliminations. In the first round of competition on Saturday, he came very clos...

Waiting for drivers who rolled into the 9th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Steeda Autosports on April 6-9 at Atlanta Dragway was new asphalt from the eighth-mile to the quarter-mile, and they used every inch of it to lay down rousing and record-setting runs. In the NMCA's quickest and fastest category, VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro Mod, Sweden's Adam Flamholc led qualifying with ...

The third round of qualifying is now underway here at Atlanta Dragway for the 9th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Steeda Autosports. Saturday brings in the awesome car show and True Street class, and we'll get into eliminations this afternoon. Scotty Guiler came out strong at the season opener in Bradenton, scoring an event win and setting the pace in Edelbrock Xtreme S...

The track here Atlanta Dragway is going hot at 10am this morning and the cool, sunny weather should prove favorable for fast elapsed times. We'll start the day with the first round of qualifying for NMCA/NMRA Open Comp and continue with the rest of the index classes before jumping into the heads-up categories around noon. A special feature of this weekend's event is the 2nd Annual NMRA/NMCA...

Everyone gets excited when new cars roll out of the trailers, and we spied Chris Cantrell's Beautiful '67 Mustang as it emerged from it's transport. Cantrell is here to shake down the car, which he plans to run local LDR and ODR competitions near his home in Anderson, South Carolina, and will be entered into Mickey Thompson Radial Wars this weekend. The Mustang features a billet 600ci ...

Wednesday, April 5th 8AM OVERNIGHT - Racer and Vendor Stacking in Designated areas (see map) and follow signs to proper areas for stacking   Thursday, April 6th 9AM Vendor and Racer Gates Open 7 PM - Racer Gate Closes. (remains open overnight for already credentialed folks only) 7 PM OVERNIGHT - Stacking in Parking Lot west of the track. (See map for entry and stac...

In the event that by now you still aren't aware of the I-85 cluster in Atlanta, keep in mind that it is closed in both directions just North of downtown. Granted most of you already avoid that area, but you still need to be aware of alternate routes. Obviously if you're coming from the Northeast you don't have an issue. For those of you coming directly from the North if for some reason you took...

  The 9th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Steeda Autosports is always one of the largest events on the NMRA and NMCA series schedule. The 2nd stop of the NMRA Keystone Automotive Ford Nationals and the NMCA E3 Spark Plugs Muscle Car Nationals series tours, the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals is one of only two events where you can see all the cars and all the stars of both ser...

While we regularly see Rich and Nick Bruder bring the heat in their blue Fox body Mustang in X275, Rich Bruder climbed into the driver's seat of Manny Buginga's red Fox body Mustang for the first time last fall. It was during the 18th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA All-Ford World Finals at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky, and Bruder like Buginga, who was in his red New Edge Mustang was entered in V...

There will be a special test and tune session available to racers next Thursday (April 6th) at Atlanta Dragway in preparation for the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Steeda Autosports. Please look at the attached schedule for specific times.   Pricing is as follows: PURCHASE TEST AND TUNE RUN CARDS AT REGISTRATION TRAILER Heads up classes (PM, PS, RW, SO, XS, NPS, N/A 10...

For the past several years, multi-time NMCA VP Racing Fuels Street Outlaw and NMCA West ProCharger Street Outlaw champion Eric Gustafson and his crew chief, Cameron Hensley, have proven with Gustafson's white 1989 Mustang that they're part of a powerful team, but they're set to make sweeping changes and focus on finding even more success. Gustafson has hired Gary Naughton Race Cars in ...

The 9th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals is fast approaching and the 2nd Annual NMRA/NMCA Sealed Stock All-star Showdown featuring Coyote Stock vs Chevrolet Performance will be held during qualifying rounds of the event. Here are the Qualifiers for NMRA and NMCA that have gained an automatic berth into the Showdown. Racers will compete for major bragging rights, $1,000 cash, a Manufacturers Cup...

Adding to the escalating excitement and energy of the 9th Annual NMRA/NMCA All Star Nationals presented by Steeda Autosports, April 6-9 at Atlanta Dragway, is the revelation of the recent repaving of a portion of the track surface at the facility nicknamed Georgia's House of Speed. According to Mike Savage, the track's manager of operations, crews spent a'day in February grounding up a...

ProMedia is thrilled to announce Steeda Autosports as the Presenting Sponsor of NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals, in Commerce GA, April 6-9, 2017. For over 29 years, Steeda has been committed to providing the best in high performance vehicles, as well as parts for drag racing, street racing and road racing. Dario Orlando, owner of Steeda Autosports is passionate about sponsoring 3 talented racers t...

The first set of 2017 Championship Points have been calculated and are available >>HERE<<