2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series
| 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season | |
|---|---|
| League | NHRA |
| Sport | Drag racing |
| League champions | TBA (Top Fuel) TBD (Funny Car) TBA (Pro Stock) TBD (Pro Stock Motorcycle) |
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. The events in which the Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle classes will compete are to be announced. Top Fuel and Funny Car are expected to compete in all 20 events. There will be All-Star Call Out races, which are based on a format used by the Discovery television program Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings, where the drivers select their opponents in early rounds.[2]
The Arizona Nationals and Winternationals have swapped positions on the schedule, otherwise the schedule remains unchanged from the 2024 season. The event at Virginia Motorsports Park will continue to use a modified to a two-day format with three qualifying sessions taking place on Saturday.
Schedule
[edit]Schedule released July 10, 2024.
| 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Schedule[1] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Race | Site | TV | Winners | |||||
| Top Fuel | Funny Car | Pro Stock | Pro Stock Motorcycle | ||||||
| Mar 6-9 | NHRA Gatornationals TFCO | Gainesville Raceway Gainesville, FL | |||||||
| Mar 21-23 | NHRA Arizona Nationals | Firebird Motorsports Park Chandler, AZ | |||||||
| Mar 27-30 | Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals | In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip Pomona, CA | |||||||
| Apr 11-13 | NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 4 Lanes | Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV | |||||||
| Apr 25-27 | NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 4 Lanes | zMAX Dragway Concord, NC | |||||||
| May 16-18 | Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK PerformancePSCO | Route 66 Raceway Joliet, IL | |||||||
| May 30 - June 1 | NHRA New England Nationals | New England Dragway Epping, NH | |||||||
| Jun 6-8 | Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals | Bristol Dragway Bristol, TN | |||||||
| Jun 20-22 | Virginia NHRA Nationals | Virginia Motorsports Park Dinwiddie, VA | |||||||
| Jun 26-29 | Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals | Summit Motorsports Park Norwalk, OH | |||||||
| Jul 18-20 | Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals | Pacific Raceways Kent, WA | |||||||
| Jul 25-27 | DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals PSMCO | Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, CA | |||||||
| Aug 14-17 | Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals | Brainerd International Raceway Brainerd, MN | |||||||
| Aug 27 - Sep 1 | Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals 1.5 FCCO | Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Brownsburg, IN | |||||||
| Countdown to the Championship | |||||||||
| Sep 11-14 | Reading NHRA Nationals | Maple Grove Raceway Mohnton, PA | |||||||
| Sep 19-21 | NHRA Carolina Nationals | zMAX Dragway Concord, NC | |||||||
| Sep 26-28 | NHRA Midwest Nationals | World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway Madison, IL | |||||||
| Oct 9-12 | Texas NHRA FallNationals | Texas Motorplex Ennis, TX | |||||||
| Oct 30 - Nov 2 | NHRA Nevada Nationals | Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV | |||||||
| Nov 13-16 | In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals 1.5 | In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip Pomona, CA | |||||||
Additional rules for specially marked races
[edit]4 Lanes: The Nationals in both Las Vegas and Charlotte in the spring will compete with cars on four lanes.
- All cars will qualify on each lane as all four lanes will be used in qualifying.
- Three rounds with cars using all four lanes.
- In Rounds One and Two, the top two drivers (of four) will advance to the next round.
- The pairings are set as follows:
- Race One: 1, 8, 9, 16
- Race Two: 4, 5, 12, 13
- Race Three: 2, 7, 10, 15
- Race Four: 3, 6, 11, 14
- Semifinal One: Top two in Race One and Race Two
- Semifinal Two: Top two in Race Three and Race Four
- Finals: Top two in Semifinal One and Semifinal Two
- Lane choice determined by times in previous round. In first round, lane choice determined by fastest times.
- Drivers who advance in Rounds One and Two will receive 20 points for each round advancement.
- In Round Three, the winner of the race will be declared the race winner and will collect 40 points. The runner-up will receive 20 points. Third and fourth place drivers will be credited as semifinal losers.
1.5: The U. S. Nationals and In-N-Out Burger Finals will have their race points increased by 50% . Drivers who qualify but are eliminated in the first round receive 30 points, and each round win is worth 30 points. The top four receive 10, 9, 8, and 7 points, respectively, for qualifying positions, with the 5–6 drivers receiving 6 points, 7–8 drivers receiving 5 points, 9–12 receiving 4 points, and 13–16 receiving 3 points. Also, the top four, not three, drivers after each session receive points for fastest times in each round (4-3-2-1).
TF/FC/PS/PSM CO: All-Star Call Out competition for that category.
References
[edit]- ^ a b National Hot Rod Association, "NHRA announces 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series schedule", Retrieved November 12, 2024.
- ^ Wade, Susan. "How NHRA Is Thinking Outside the Box for Big-Money Callout Specialty Race". AutoWeek. Hearst Publications. Retrieved 2023-11-01.