The latest update as of March 24, 2024

64th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals

Things have been pretty quiet here for quite a while, but we're back in gear with the first part of our report from the Winternationals. We're starting with Saturday's second (final) qualifying sessions for Top Fuel and Funny Car, as they were two of the few categories that ran in between rain showers. Pro Stock and Top Alcohol (Dragster and Funny Car) also managed to squeeze in a second qualifier before the weather shut down action for the day. We've got the Top Fuel and Funny Car pics posted below, with captions and details to follow tomorrow.

We can also report that today's eliminations got through the semifinal rounds for the three Pro categories and to the semifinals for the Top Alcohol cars. However, the Sportsman categories and the Legends racers (Nostalgia Funny Car) only managed to complete one round of their eliminations. The latest report from NHRA states that the Pro cars will run their final rounds at the NHRA Arizona Nationals in two weeks time. At this time, no decisions have been made about when, or if, eliminations will be completed for any of the other categories.

With two races more or less completed, and both being weather affected, it's been somewhat of a rough start for NHRA's 2024 national event season.

TOP FUEL Qualifying - Session #2 (FINAL)

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FUNNY CAR Qualifying - Session #2 (FINAL)

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