The latest update as of March 25, 2025

65th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals

The tire smoke has barely cleared from yesterday's test session at Firebird Motorsports Park, following the NHRA Arizona Nationals which concluded on Sunday. Now the travelling acceleration show heads a few hundred miles west to In-N-Out Burger Dragstrip at Pomona for the 65th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. Entries for the event closed yesterday, for the event which starts on Thursday with a full day of qualifying for the Sportsman racers, followed by the Pro and Pro Sportsman classes on Friday.

While we still have a huge amount of work to do on our coverage of the NHRA Arizona Nationals, we received a large batch of photos from yesterday's test session. We'll try to get some of them posted this evening, but it's going to be a long week of slow progress on the website. As always: stay tuned!

Here's a few "chute shots" from our intrepid lensman, BIG Bob Snyder at the far end of Firebird raceway yesterday.

(LEFT) Testing out the fairly new combination was Cody Coughlin. He failed to qualify at the Arizona Nationals, but just missed the cut by one hundredth of a second with a solid 6.600 - 207.15 best in qualifying. Cody and crew made several passes in preparation for this week's Winternationals.

(RIGHT) Sophomore Pro Stock racer Brandon Foster was out testing too. He ran an abbreviated schedule in 2024, but the plan is for a full pull this year. He got his season off to a good start by making into eliminations, from the bump spot, with a good 6.590 - 207.40. He followed that up in the first round, leaving on Matt Hartford, but coming up half a car length short at the finish line.

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