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The 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season was announced on July 10, 2024. [1] It will be the 70th season of the National Hot Rod Association's top drag racing competition. This season will also feature the 60th anniversary of the NHRA Finals. The NHRA will host 20 events this season. Top Fuel and Funny Car will compete at all 20 events.
With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world. [1] The association was founded by Wally Parks in 1951 in California to provide a governing body to organize and promote the sport of drag racing. NHRA's first Nationals was held in 1955, in Great Bend, Kansas.
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The NASCAR Cup Series returns in early February to begin its 2025 season.. The season kicks off with The Clash exhibition race, which moves to Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ...
Gainesville Raceway, which has a capacity of 30,000, opened in 1969 and held its first Gatornationals event in 1970. Long considered one of the fastest tracks on the NHRA circuit, [citation needed] it was from this launch point that drivers clocked the first 260-, 270- and 300-mph Top Fuel runs.
Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) is a 1/4 mile (0.402 km) dragstrip in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, just outside of Petersburg. [1] It opened in 1994 and originally hosted the NHRA's Virginia NHRA Nationals. It has a seating capacity of 23,000 spectators. After a brief time with IHRA beginning in 2010, the track returned to NHRA in 2012.
The NASCAR Cup series weekend at Nashville Superspeedway in 2025 will have the earliest date since Nashville was added back to the Cup Series schedule.
On November 9, 2023, the NHRA announced Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Virginia will return to the schedule to fill the June unannounced date that replaces Denver on the schedule. Originally planned to be a three-day event, the NHRA announced on April 2, 2024 that the event would be modified to a two-day format with three qualifying ...