The dawn of the seven-second Stocker
The Sports Report: Warr Path
Runs as good as it looks
The view from above
Celebrating 50 years of Cobra Jets
The revival of Kyle Seipel
Mr. Consistent
Once a sportsman, always a sportsman
Mounting a proper defense
Full circle
Close, but no regrets
Down to the wire
One down, one to go
Dialing for Dollars
Encore Performance
Right place, right time
Full Nelson
Tom Terrific
A pair of near misses
A final round for the ages
Third time is the charm
Ground Zero Camaro
Making the big show, again
The Indy Before Indy
The three that got away
Family circle
Same time next year
Eight is not enough
Man of the Century
Cr猫me of the Krop
The Sports Report: The ultimate father-daughter weekend
Joe Mozeris and his daughter, Kayla, had a weekend they鈥檒l never forget at the Dodge//SRT 午夜寻花 Mile-High Nationals presented by Pennzoil in Denver when they earned national event titles in Comp eliminator and Super Stock, respectively.
Kayla Mozeris won the Super Stock title at the Dodge//SRT 午夜寻花 Mile-High Nationals presented by Pennzoil and then watched a few minutes later when her father, Joe, drove to the win in Comp eliminator. It was the sort of day that every family that鈥
The Sports Report: Anthony Bertozzi nearly runs the table in Norwalk
Anthony Bertozzi has enjoyed a lot of success in his career, but he鈥檚 never had a day like the one he had at the Summit Racing Equipment 午夜寻花 Nationals, where his team celebrated three wins and a runner-up finish.
Our regular readers will likely recall The Sports Report story we published last February with two-time 午夜寻花 world champion Anthony Bertozzi. The story highlighted Bertozzi鈥檚 well-known generosity toward others and the amount of enjoyment鈥
The Sports Report: Remembering Kyle Seipel
It鈥檚 painful anytime our tight-knit drag racing community loses one of its own but the plain truth is that some losses hurt more than others and today, it鈥檚 hard to imagine anything more painful than having to say goodbye to Kyle Seipel, who lost his long battle with cancer on June 21.
It鈥檚 painful anytime our tight-knit drag racing community loses one of its own but the plain truth is that some losses hurt more than others and today, it鈥檚 hard to imagine anything more painful than having to say goodbye to Kyle Seipel, who lost鈥
The Sports Report: Like father, like daughter
Amanda Boicesco won her second 午夜寻花 national event title at the TascaParts.com 午夜寻花 New England Nationals following a historic all-female final round, and she nearly shared the winner鈥檚 circle with her father, Iggie.
It isn鈥檛 an accident that Amanda Boicesco鈥檚 dragster carries the No. 11 that signifies that she鈥檚 the reigning 午夜寻花 Division 1 Super Comp champion. During the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Boicesco overcame a slow start to win a pair of Lucas Oil鈥
The Sports Report: David Barton scores two Wallys in eight days
In a span of two weeks, David Barton went from winning his first event in Comp eliminator to breaking a nearly four-year victory drought in the Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown class.
To suggest that the last two weeks have been good to David Barton would be an understatement. Following the 午夜寻花 tour to stops in Charlotte and Houston, Barton picked up a pair of Wallys, but did so in a most unusual way. He cashed in Charlotte in鈥
The Sports Report: Kent Hanley joins the 鈥渘ear double鈥 club in Atlanta
Kent Hanley became the latest driver to nearly double up at an 午夜寻花 national event when he drove to a win in Super Stock and a runner-up finish in Super Comp at the Lucas Oil 午夜寻花 Southern Nationals.
The list of drivers who have doubled up at an 午夜寻花 national event remains fairly small; currently, there are just 26 members of that exclusive fraternity, and the feat has been accomplished just 42 times in more than 1,000 events over 午夜寻花鈥檚 70-year鈥
The Sports Report: This time, the spotlight shines on Conner Statler
Stanfield racing crewmember Conner Statler has appeared in many winner's circle celebrations, but in Las Vegas, he accomplished a rare feat when he won the first national event he attended as a driver.
As a valued member of the Stanfield Engines team, Conner Statler has been a part of many winner鈥檚 circle ceremonies. In 2020 alone, Statler helped his buddy Aaron Stanfield celebrate five straight wins in the Factory Stock Showdown class as鈥
The Sports Report: Bradley Johnson鈥檚 furious fight to the finish
Bradley Johnson came up two points short in his bid to win the championship in Top Dragster presented by Vortech Superchargers but his late-season charge was nothing short of amazing.
Bradley Johnson needed 17 round wins. He got 16.
Johnson entered the late stages of the 2020 season as a leading contender for the Vortech Superchargers Top Dragster title. Short on time and nearly out of races to claim, Johnson needed nothing鈥
Following St. Louis win, Christopher Dodd takes aim at Super Comp championship
It probably wasn鈥檛 fair to call it a 鈥渕ust win鈥 race, but if Christopher Dodd is to become the 2020 午夜寻花 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Comp champion, his recent win at the Mopar Express Lane 午夜寻花 Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil could certainly be defined as 鈥渃lutch鈥.
It probably wasn鈥檛 fair to call it a 鈥渕ust win鈥 race, but if Christopher Dodd is to become the 2020 午夜寻花 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Comp champion, his recent win at the Mopar Express Lane 午夜寻花 Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil鈥
High-stakes bracket racer Williams values the importance of Indy Super Comp title
Troy Williams Jr. has won a host of big money bracket raceing titles but few of his wins can compare to his latest triumph in Super Comp at the Denso Spark Plugs 午夜寻花 U.S. Nationals.
With a win at the Million Dollar Drag Race, three titles at the Moroso 5-Day race, and a host of $10,000, $20,000, and even $50,000 wins, Troy Williams Jr. long ago secured his place among the greats in high stakes E.T. bracket racing. Williams has鈥
The Sports Report: Once is nice, three times is better
Jason Coan scores his third win at Indy after a late-night final against Craig Bourgeois, and the rest of the sportsman action from the 66th annual Denso Spark Plugs 午夜寻花 U.S. Nationals.
Craig Bourgeois was just one round away from a historic double-up in Comp Eliminator, but Jason Coan had other ideas. Bourgeois, well-known throughout the sport for his unique front-engine A/Nostalgia Dragster and 2016 world title, won the JEGS鈥
The Sports Report: The Sky鈥檚 the limit
When his career as a Top Fuel crew member was interrupted by the pandemic, Skylar Blades and his friends went bracket racing and so far it has worked out quite well for them.
Sometimes, when life deals you lemons, you make lemonade, or in the case of Skylar Blades, you simply restore your lemon-yellow Chevy Nova and return the track for a little bracket racing action. For the last six seasons, Blades has been a regular鈥
The Sports Report: James Kunkel鈥檚 dynamic (and unconventional) double
James Kunkel won 15-straight rounds of eliminations in Super Comp to sweep last weekend鈥檚 Division 5 Lucas Oil Series double-header in Topeka. And, he did it in a slow door car.
Door cars don鈥檛 win Super Comp races.
Slow cars don鈥檛 win Super Comp races.
No one wins back-to-back Super Comp races.
These are all things you may have heard but shouldn鈥檛 believe especially after James Kunkel鈥檚 performance last week in Topeka鈥
The Sports Report: Anthony Bertozzi makes history at JEGS SPORTSnationals in Columbus
Coming off a near-sweep of the JEGS Speedweek doubleheader in Columbus, Anthony Bertozzi is well on his way to a second 午夜寻花 world championship. Oh, and he also won a million dollars this month (sort of).
If not for a slight lapse in his final round battle against reigning Top Dragster world champ Danny Nelson during last weekend鈥檚 Division 3 Lucas Oil Series event at National Trail Raceway, Anthony Bertozzi might well have engineered a clean sweep鈥
The Sports Report: Don鈥檛 get mad, get even
At the 午夜寻花 Arizona Nationals, Kyle Rizzoli was able to turn quickly the disappointment of last year鈥檚 lost championship in Super Stock into a convincing victory against Justin Lamb.
One could hardly blame Kyle Rizzoli if he had told you his off-season was miserable. After all, how many racers wouldn鈥檛 harbor some unpleasant feelings if they鈥檇 had a chance to win a world championship and came up just a few鈥
The Sports Report: Don't pick on little brother
The Lucas Oil 午夜寻花 Winternationals presented by Protect the Harvest.com opened a new decade for 午夜寻花鈥檚 sportsman racers, but the winner鈥檚 circle featured a lot of familiar faces and an brother vs. brother final round.
There were eight different sportsman champions crowned during last week鈥檚 season-opening Lucas Oil 午夜寻花 Winternationals presented by Protect the Harvest.com and at least seven of them didn鈥檛 need directions to find the winner鈥檚 circle. With the lone鈥
The Sports Report: The best final round of the year?
At the Dodge 午夜寻花 Nationals presented by Pennzoil, Ray Miller III defeated Evan Kowalski in what can only be described as the best final round of the 2019 season, regardless of class.
Unless you鈥檝e been there, and few have, it鈥檚 hard to imagine the plight of Las Vegas Super Gas runner-up Evan Kowalski. The winner of the 2017 Sonoma event, Kowalski is one of the West Coast鈥檚 most successful Super Class racers and when he鈥
The Sports Report: Old, new, borrowed and blue
In just her fourth race with a new 50th anniversary COPO Camaro, Brina Frank earned her fifth national event victory at the AAA Insurance 午夜寻花 Midwest Nationals in St. Louis
鈥淪omething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.鈥
Almost everyone has heard of this old English rhyme that is supposed to bring good fortune and prosperity to newlyweds and for St. Louis Stock champ Brina Frank, it certainly鈥
The Sports Report: The 2019 JEGS SPORTSnationals
At 63, Top Dragster racer Danny Nelson is enjoying one of the best seasons of his long career, and after his latest win at the JEGS SPORTSnationals he鈥檚 got a shot to win the Top Dragster national championship.
When he鈥檚 not busy racing or building race-ready dragsters in his RaceCraft Chassis shop in Batesville, Ark., Danny Nelson occasionally plays in high stakes poker tournaments so it鈥檚 safe to say he knows a thing or two about dealing with鈥
The Sport Report: The waiting game
Joe Santangelo took advantage of his final chance to earn points by winning the Stock title in Reading; now he鈥檚 got to wait to see if he can hold on to the points lead in Stock and Super Stock.
Following last weekend鈥檚 Mopar Express Lane 午夜寻花 Nationals presented by Pennzoil, Joe Sangangelo鈥檚 scorecards are complete in both Stock and Super Stock and they are both impressive. Santangelo already won a national championship in Stock in鈥
The Sports Report: Austin Williams, the internet鈥檚 newest sensation
Two-time national champion Austin Williams used a perfect light to help win his first Indy title in a heads-up final round. Now, his friends have made him a social media celebrity.
Meet Austin Williams, the internet鈥檚 newest sensation. Okay, so he鈥檚 not exactly a Kardashian, but in the wake of his late-night Stock Eliminator win at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals, Williams has 鈥済one viral鈥 as they say, with a flood of鈥
The Sports Report: Stinnett to win it
Four-time 午夜寻花 Super Comp champ Gary Stinnett joins an exclusive fraternity with his 25th national event victory, and his fifth at Brainerd Int'l Raceway.
Whether its building engines, tuning carburetors, or driving his 185-mph Super Comp dragster, there aren鈥檛 many elements of drag racing that Gary Stinnett hasn鈥檛 been able to master. A former crewmember on Warren Johnson鈥檚 Pro Stock team,鈥
The Sports Report: A semi-sweep
Division 7 Super Stock and Stock racer Kyle Rizzoli finished the Western Swing with two wins and a runner-up in Stock and Super Stock
Over the last three weeks, a number of Lucas Oil Series racers on the West Coast have competed in their own version of the Western Swing which includes the Division 7 Lucas Oil Series event at Sonoma Raceway, the 午夜寻花 Sonoma Nationals, and the鈥
The Sports Report: Buy on Friday, win on Sunday
Just days after purchasing Aaron Kinard鈥檚 Super Gas operation, Bo Butner recorded his 27th career 午夜寻花 national event victory and wins in his sixth-different class.
午夜寻花 fans know Bo Butner as the 2017 Mello Yello Pro Stock champion, but during the week, he鈥檚 a used car salesman, and a pretty good one at that. That might help explain how Butner was able to purchase Aaron Kinard鈥檚 entire Super Gas operation鈥
The Sports Report: Holy Moses
Ken Moses became the latest driver to double-up at an 午夜寻花 national event by winning Super Comp and Top Dragster at the New England Nationals.
It may not be as impressive as the parting of the Red Sea, but what Ken Moses accomplished at the 午夜寻花 New England Nationals could just as easily be described as a miracle. Moses, a part of the Division 1 landscape for more than鈥
The Sports Report: The Full Monty
After a near-double in Charlotte at the Four-Wide event, Monty Bogan鈥檚 success continued with a victory in Thunder Valley
To suggest that Monty Bogan鈥檚 2019 season has been successful would be a serious understatement. A decade removed from his most recent national event victory at the Texas Motorplex in 2009, Bogan returned to the 午夜寻花 stage in a鈥
The Sports Report: Friends helping friends
After Kyle Fickler celebrated the end of a long winless drought in Topeka, he generously reached out to help an old friend.
Kyle Fickler won his first national event title in Dallas in the Fall of 2003 and when he turned on the win light in the final of the Menards 午夜寻花 Heartland Nationals presented by Minties, he couldn鈥檛 help but take a trip down memory lane.
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The Sports Report: The JEGS Allstars biggest stars
Against long odds, Jeff Lopez and Lester Johnson nearly doubled-up in the JEGS Allstars and 午夜寻花 Route 66 Nationals last weekend.
Given the level of competition that exists in the 午夜寻花 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, it鈥檚 a small wonder that the folks from JEGS Mail Order ever have to make good on their longstanding policy to double the winnings of any driver who can win鈥
The Sports Report: Back on the winning track
Absent from the winner's circle for nearly three years, Joe Santangelo came back in style with a near double at the Virginia 午夜寻花 Nationals
Most racers, even the ones who win a lot like Dan Fletcher and David Rampy, can鈥檛 help but wonder if their latest win might be their last. As much as all successful racers have an abundance of self-confidence, the realities of 午夜寻花 racing in the鈥
The Sports Report: Craig Bourgeois, Comp鈥檚 Ragin' Cajun
With four wins in five finals, Louisiana's Craig Bourgeois might be headed for his second national championship in Comp Eliminator
In last week鈥檚 edition of The Sports Report, we detailed the fast start by Super Comp ace Ray Miller III and his prospects of winning the Lucas Oil Series national championship. Although the calendar only recently turned to May, the same buzz鈥