Mid-Season Rule Updates for NMRA Racers in Renegade, Limited Street, Factory Stock and 8.60 Street Race

One of the most coveted awards in all of drag racing is the Nitto Diamond Tree ring that is awarded to racers in the Holley All-Ford NMRA Series and the Redline Oil NMCA Series. There are only a couple of ways for racers to earn one and none are easy. 

Known around the globe for producing some of the baddest manual transmissions in drag racing, TREMEC is a leading manufacturer of torque transfer solutions that surprisingly got its start thanks to government regulation.

When the NMRA All-Ford Nationals rolls into Summit Motorsports Park July 8-11, Blue Oval fans will have endless activities where they can participate.

Here’s a quick reminder to NMRA racers that the 2023 points have been updated following the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing.

This past weekend racers in the Holley All-Ford NMRA series rolled into to the Gateway to the West and they laid down the horsepower at World Wide Technology Raceway for the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street legal Drag Racing.

As the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals series honors its 25^th anniversary, the midpoint of the racing season serves as a celebration of NMRA’s past and present.

Attention NMRA Drag Racing competitors, we just passed the mid-season point of our 2023 season. It is that time of the year that the Tech Department has requested that all Mid-Season Rule Requests be turned in by the May 14^th Deadline. 

Race wrap from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Daily coverage from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Elimination results from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Daily coverage from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Daily coverage from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Qualifying results from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

Daily coverage from the 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing

The ProMedia team is sad to report the passing of Barry Shepard at 83. Barry was a long-time drag racer from the Detroit area who set several IHRA national records, competed in many Ford events, including NMRA, and was the 1999 Fun Ford Weekend world championship in the Modular Motor category.
 

From humble beginnings a quarter century ago, the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals series grew to become one of the longest-running, most successful racing series in the nation.

Design Engineering Inc.’s (DEI) AN-sized Heat Shroud™ Sleeves for 20, 16 and 12 AN sizes are an ideal way to reduce heat strain and abrasions on lines, hoses and wires, damage that could result in failure of all three of these components.

With stringent aviation-quality regulations driving innovation for its automotive performance pumps and components, Weldon has fueled championship-winning racers with the highest-quality products for nearly five decades.

The event on June 9-11 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio will celebrate everything from track and series anniversaries to amazing on-track action.

Attention Racers and Vendors: NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl Racer & Vendor Stacking and Parking Schedule (St. Louis)

Those who race or attend events on the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals and Red Line Oil NMCA Muscle Car Nationals schedule know these automotive extravaganzas bring a lot of action and excitement to the racetrack.

Life is not a spectator sport, which is why your friends at NMRA and NMCA have worked hard to make the True Street classes friendly for first-time or novice racers.

The NMRA Renegade & NMCA Xtreme Street racer has made many memories among fellow racers over the years, and he is looking forward to a rewarding 2023.

With Orlando and Rockingham in the rear-view mirror, NMRA and NMCA drag racers are preparing to battle at the upcoming Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing in St. Louis at the popular World Wide Technology Raceway May 4-7.

Few prizes in drag racing are more coveted than the special edition Christmas Tree ring that Nitto Tires awards to the champions of the Testo Superbowl Shootouts, which will be held during the upcoming NMRA/NMCA Superbowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing at Worldwide Technology Raceway May 4-7.

The Holley All-Ford NMRA series was back in action at the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport at Rockingham Dragway and fans were treated to a bevy of muscle Fords from the classics to the most modern machines.
 

Anytime racers from the NMRA and NMCA series have an opportunity to compete head-to-head, it brings out the best from each series. That was certainly the case when Open Comp racers clashed during last weekend’s 7^th annual Jason Dietsch Trailer Sales Open Comp All-Star Showdown presented by Autokraft Racecars. 

The NMRA/NMCA event team continues to grow and evolve with some promotions within and new additions in key positions over the last four months.

Stay Up To Date With Your Favorite NMRA Racers As They Battle For The 2023 Championship

Rockingham Dragway was built in 1969 by developers Bill Land and L.G. Dewitt as a companion to the NASCAR oval track that occupied real estate across U.S. Highway 1.

Dating back to the inaugural season of NMRA’s history, the Renegade category remains the series’ longest continuously ran category still in contention today.

The NMRA and NMCA family lost a great friend and champion racer, as Don Bowles Sr. has died at the age of 83. Bowles was the NMRA 2009 Hot Street world champion driving his familiar “Coal Digger” Ford Maverick.

With the NMRA having firmly established itself both as a sustainable single-make series, as well as a powerful player in the drag racing industry throughout its creation and growth phases, the third segment of the sanctioning body’s first 25 years, was focused more on solidifying its development.

In celebrating the 59^th anniversary of the Mustang, Ford Motor Company is rolling out new and interesting information on the upcoming 2024 Mustang. Ford fans already aware of the power-improved GT and the 500-horsepower Dark Horse; today Ford is showing off the impressive color palate that you’ll find on the EcoBoost, Mustang GT and the all-new Mustang Dark Horse.

In Honor of April 17th, which is widely known as the Birthday of the Ford Mustang, Saleen Automotive, the Southern California vehicle manufacturer founded in 1983 by legendary racing driver and vehicle builder, Steve Saleen, gives the public a glimpse of its upcoming 2024 302 model.

Ford Performance recently unveiled the continued evolution of its electric-powered motorsports efforts with the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800, an aggressive revision to the NHRA world record-holding Mustang Cobra Jet 1400. It is targeted to best the Cobra Jet 1400’s standing world record for full-bodied electric vehicles in the quarter-mile, 8.128 seconds at 171.97 miles per hour. 

Complete coverage of the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Daily coverage from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Eliminations results from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Daily coverage from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Qualifying results from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Daily coverage from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

Daily coverage from the 15th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals Presented by MAHLE Motorsport.

We reached out to several of them to ask what they are looking forward to, and what they hope to achieve at the track affectionately known as The Rock.

A little more than two decades ago, National Muscle Car Association, the National Street Car Association, and Fun Ford Weekend, as well as a few other smaller sanctioning bodies, serviced street-based drag racers.

As the saying goes, “timing is everything,” but it’s especially true when talking about extracting maximum output from an internal combustion engine. Ignition timing and camshaft timing are two very important things to consider whenever building and tuning and engine.

A special feature of the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Mahle this upcoming weekend (April 13-16), is Innovation Performance Technologies Jr. Street, a class designed to get 13-16-year-old racers on track and competing in a safe environment.

Charlie Booze Jr. has filed an Appeal of the two race suspension handed down from NMRA Competition committee March 15, 2023.

Important Information for Racers and Vendors attending the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals at Rockingham Dragway April 13-16