MAHLE Motorsport, the premier performance division of MAHLE North America, is pleased to announce the addition of former Hot Rod Magazine editor, Rob Kinnan, as the company’s marketing manager.
As the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals series honors its 25th anniversary, the midpoint of the racing season serves as a celebration of NMRA’s past and present.
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.
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.
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.
In celebrating the 59th 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.
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 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.
As NMRA celebrates its 25th Anniversary season, the 3rd Annual Mickey Thompson NMRA Ford Homecoming will delight Ford fans with several special features. Presented by TREMEC, Coastal Dyno, ZPE Griptec, Beefcake Racing & Palm Beach Dyno, the 2020+ GT500 Shootout pits the factory’s most muscle machines against one another in a battle for bragging rights at Summit Motorsports Park from...
As NMRA’s silver-anniversary season reaches its midpoint, there won’t just be straight-line action on the drag strip during the 3rd Annual Mickey Thompson NMRA Ford Homecoming.
If you’re into Fords no matter where they flex their muscle, the 3rd Annual Mickey Thompson NMRA Ford Homecoming is filled with a wide range of Blue Oval displays and activities, including the first-ever Anderson Composites Ford Off-Road Alley, which brings four-wheel-drive Fords to the forefront at Summit Motorsports Park from June 9-11.
The NMRA Coyote Stock racer keeps comprehensive records for each pass, and will use current information at the NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by MAHLE Motorsport.
Each year racers from the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals and Red Line Oil NMCA Muscle Car Nationals join forces for an epic event. This year’s 18th Annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Muscle Car Drag Racing brings back the fabled Super Bowl Shootouts with a new twist and backing from portable test and measurement instrumentation specialists, Testo.
Saleen Automotive, the Southern California vehicle manufacturer founded by legendary racing driver and vehicle builder, Steve Saleen, debuted its SA-40 model at the 2023 “Ponies In the Smokies” show in Sevierville, TN, March 20-25th.
Created by Ford Motor Company to engineer halo performance vehicles that would have a trickle-down effect of adding excitement to the company’s full vehicle lineup, Ford created the Special Vehicle Team. Embarking on that mission, known internally as “polishing the oval,” SVT released its first vehicles, which included the Mustang Cobra and F-150 Lightning, with the 1993 model ye...
Four decades ago a man took his vision for a performance Mustang and drew it while sitting at his dinner table. From that sketch, Saleen Autosport was born, and founder Steve Saleen started a run of building performance vehicles that continues to this day. He and his company will celebrate that legacy at the 40thAnniversary Saleen Reunion during the NMRA Ford Homecoming event at Summit Motorsports...
On any given race weekend, you will see a wide array of Blue Oval muscle machines roaring down the racetrack, but only one class is dedicated to Ford’s powerful pickups.
Built to extend traction from the street to the drag strip, the Nitto NT NT555RII drag radial is a natural choice for NMRA & NMCA’s wildly popular True Street categories as well as NMCA’s HEMI Shootout class.
The Wharton Automotive Group recently announced the promotion of Will Baty to product development manager. The Wharton Automotive Group consists of McLeod Racing, FTI Performance, Silver Sport Transmissions, and PowerTrain Technology. Off-Road and car enthusiast and trail blazer, Will Baty, will assume the new role immediately.
With great sadness NMRA learned our good friend, Dallas Jones, 82, of Bowling Green, Ky. has passed away. Dallas was a true giant in the sport of drag racing and a supporter of NMRA and NMCA since the very beginning.
For the 2023 season, the first Holley NMRA Ford Nationals index racers who achieve that goal at each event while covered by Laris Motorsport Insurance are eligible for the $1,000 Perfect Package bonus.
A restored 1968 Ford Bronco, with Eaton’s Detroit Truetrac differentials front and rear, and a Roush supercharger with Eaton’s TVS® 2650 technology, was the grand prize of a sweepstake that benefited the Special Operators Transition Foundation.
Attention all racers and vendors, the season-opening NMRA Spring Break Shootout is set to kick off March 2-5 so we’re providing critical stacking and parking information to help you navigate your entry into Orlando Speed World.
Kicking off its 25th Anniversary season, the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals series is bringing more excitement to its season opener with more tire smoke by adding the Ford Drift Invitational.
With a long history of making fuel-injected performance vehicles fasters and more powerful, BBK Performance knows what it takes to build an elite street/strip ride. With that in mind, the company continues its support of the NMRA season opener’s namesake class — the Spring Break Shootout.
“Circle D Specialties is excited to sponsor NMRA’s wildly popular True Street class first and foremost because supporting this program allows us to help keep motorsports thriving while also providing a unique opportunity to give back to the racing community that has given so much to us,” Pete Nichols of Circle D Specialties explained.
Combining power adders and street-based engine combinations, NMRA’s Limited Street class is a true showcase of the potential offered by Ford’s pushrod and Modular small-block engines.
As NMRA kicks off its 25th Anniversary season at Orlando Speed World from March 2-5, 2023 a popular class returns. There’s nothing more fun or exciting than banging gears down the drag strip, and that’s just what the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout delivers.
With 500 horsepower, Mustang enthusiasts are anticipating big things from the 2023 Dark Horse. But in addition to power, Ford is amplifying the track handling precision of the all-new 2024 Mustang Dark Horse Mustang, as the design team has created a distinctive collection of colors and materials to amplify its dark aura and digital-age style.
VP Racing Fuels, Inc., Official Fuel of the NMRA, is regarded worldwide as the leader in racing, performance fuel products, and branded retail, and today it announced the launch of a new identity for the corporation, its products, and programs.
It’s February and that means we’re just four weeks away from the 29th Annual NMRA Spring Break Shootout. As always, we’ll be kicking off the season in the Sunshine State, as the Spring Break Shootout is set for March 2-5 at Orlando Speed World.
This week, we lost one of the most likeable and well-known members of our automotive community when “Smitty” Smith of Edelbrock died of a heart attack.
The SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund offers financial assistance of up to $5,000 to foster future leaders and innovators in the automotive aftermarket industry.
On what would have been Carroll Shelby’s 100th birthday, Goodwood is delighted to announce that the legendary American driver, car manufacturer and entrepreneur will be celebrated at this year’s Goodwood Revival, over the weekend of September 8-10, 2023.
Shane England and his Fun-Haver-backed Big Kahuna Monster Truck will be on hand meeting and greeting fans at the NMRA Spring Break Shootout on Saturday, March 4.