Timothy Fletcher
Charlotte 4-Wide Recap
The NGK Spark Plug 4-Wide Nationals is something racers and fans from the east coast look forward to every year, as one of the best, if not the best facility in drag racing hosts every single category (but 1) the NHRA has to offer. The event started out with some rain for racers in the holding lot that continued into “parking day” but eventually subsided for a beautiful weekend ofRead More
Houston SpringNationals Recap
Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, TX was home this past weekend for the NHRA circuit and although the racers were small in terms of categories, they were the opposite in competition with many drivers running dead on in final rounds with very competitive lights. The weekend started out great on Friday with time trials for everyone and class eliminations for Super Stock, but eventually the weekend succumbed to mother natureRead More
Las Vegas 4-Wide Recap
As the inaugural DENSO Spark Plug 4-wide Nationals kicked off this past weekend, the 1st Las Vegas event was definitely a bigger success than anticipated as NHRA was able to have its 3rd sell out of the year and the 1st sellout at LVMS spring event since 2010. Racers flocked from all over to be apart of history and to take a crack at the beautiful new racing surface forRead More
Gatornationals Recap
The 49th annual Amalie motor oil NHRA Gatornationals this past weekend was everything that racers thought it would be, well at least everyone from the North. With cold temps and what seemed like nonstop snow storms hitting the NY, NJ, and PA region, racers couldn’t get the Florida fast enough hitting the rapidly growing “baby gators” then the national event for a great start to the year. With temps atRead More
Phoenix – Arizona Nationals Winners
A sold out crowd at the NHRA Arizona Nationals enjoyed some great sportsman racing. First time winners and veteran heavy hitters share the winner circle at the 34th annual race in Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. Super Stock: Justin Lamb over Mike Cotten Mr. Justin Lamb continues his 2017 success with another win just 2 races into the 2018 season, showing everyone why the #1 is on the sideRead More
Pomona 1 – Winternationals Winners
As always the weather at the 57th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals was perfect. With mostly sunny skies and temps in the lower 80’s racing was at its best. Heads up battles in Stock and Super Stock were alive and well. The winning-est driver in NHRA sportsman history wins another, brother’s battling it out in the finals and a heads up final in Stock. Comp: Dan Fletcher over ClintRead More
Predicting the 2018 Sportsman World Champions
Comp: The first name that comes to mind when thinking of this category is the already 5-time champ David Rampy. After practically dominating the 2017 season, Rampy should be running a full schedule and trying to defend his title again in 2018. But aside from Rambo, with previous champion names such as Alan Ellis, who was retiring after the 2017 season, Dan Fletcher who has scaled back to only 4Read More
Jeffrey Barker 2017 Top Sportsman National Champion
After taking a year off from the top spot, Barker is right back at it with a completely dominate performance for the 2nd time in 3 years for his 2nd World Championship. By starting the year out red hot in Gainesville, FL at the divisional and national with back to back wins, Barker was able to get 190 points and start the year pretty much prefect. But, 2 weeks laterRead More
Lynn Ellison 2017 Top Dragster National Champion
And another 2017 Champion was crowned that is no stranger to winning, Lynn Ellison has won in other NHRA categories such as Super Stock and Super Gas but over the past few years has turned his sights to Top Dragster and has been rewarded with the #1 for the scoop of his dragster for the 2018 season. His season would start out on the east coast at Atlanta, GA forRead More
John Labbous Jr. 2017 Super Gas National Champion
John Labbous Jr. has won pretty much every kind of race you can think of over his career, besides an NHRA World Championship. Between big money bracket races, national events, top bulb, pro tree, he can do it all and can now check this accomplishment off his bucket list. Labbous put on a huge score early in the season when he drove Anthony Bertozzi’s Super Gas Corvette to 4 winsRead More
Austin Williams 2017 Super Comp National Champion
As hard as it is winning 1 World Championship in any drivers career, Williams has now added a Super Comp title to his resume, only 3 years after winning the Stock World Championship. Austin Williams started his Championship season off relatively slow, with his first event being Houston, TX divisional where he would fall in rd1. Headed over to Belle Rose, LA for a divisional then back to Houston forRead More
Justin Lamb 2017 Stock & Super Stock National Champion
Justin Lamb entered the 2017 season as a two-time NHRA Lucas Oil World Champion, with hopes of potentially adding a third title to his resume. And well, I guess you can say he went above and beyond, finishing the season as a four-time Champ after winning both the Stock and Super Stock Championships, becoming just the 3rd driver ever to double up by winning 2 Championships in a single season.Read More