The 2016 IHRA Drag Racing Series Pro season was a long but successful one, filled with challenges and rewards. Here are six things those of us at the IHRA were thankful for this year:The best track crew in the business. Scooter Peaco and his staff – including, of course, the...

This past season, Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio, was scheduled to host a round of the IHRA Drag Racing Series, but the event was canceled after weather forced the delay of some major improvements at the facility.We're happy to say that judging from information and photos posted on Dragway...

As you'd guess from the IHRA Good Vibrations Motorports Texas Nationals at San Antonio Raceway, the second event in the 2016 IHRA Drag Racing Series season, as well as being a presenting sponsor at the Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals in Edmonton, Alberta's Castrol Raceway, the California-based parts supplier has been...

This is the second of four profiles of the 2016 IHRA Drag Racing Series champions. Billy Harper pulls to the starting line in his sinister-looking, jet-black Dodge Viper, vents the nitrous oxide over and over in a cloud of vapor that makes the Viper seem almost like something alive.With Sonny...

This is the first of four profiles of the 2016 IHRA Drag Racing Series champions.Cary Goforth, 2016 IHRA Pro Stock champion, wrapped up his title in a close battle in the rain-plagued season finale at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan.But, Goforth said after the race, the weekend wasn't...

It came down to the last race of the season, and among the four Pro classes in the IHRA Drag Racing Series, by far the closest points battle was in Pro Stock, a tight battle between defending champ Cary Goforth in his AMSOIL-sponsored Chevrolet Camaro, and his top challenger, Trevor...

The IHRA traveling track crew, in conjunction with the in-house crew at the drag strips the IHRA Drag Racing Series visits, have had a challenging 2016: Strong winds, torrential rains, substantially higher than forecast track temperatures – giving the competitors a fast, consistent and safe track surface every time is...

Above: Jason RupertThe tally is in for the IHRA Drag Racing Series four Pro categories – Pro Stock, Pro Mod, Nitro Motorcycle and AMSOIL Nitro Funny Cars. Here's how the season shaped up:PRO STOCK: It came right down to the final race, the Northern Nationals at US 131 Motorplex in...

It was clear early on that no one was going to take the first IHRA Pro Modified championship away from Billy Harper and his black 2000 nitrous-injected Dodge Viper.But in the 2016 points battle for the IHRA Drag Racing Series, Ruben Tetsoshvili came closest with his second-place finish, one spot...

At every IHRA Drag Racing Series event this year, Frank Capone, half of the two-motorcycle team at Bad Apple Racing, has been out there working toward his first win, getting more experience with each run, and learning from his teammate, Tracy Kile.At the Northern Nationals season finale at U.S. 131...