2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season
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The 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season was announced on August 31, 2023.[1]

It will be the 69th season of the National Hot Rod Association's top drag racing competition. The NHRA will have 21 Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock events, marking the first time since 2018 that Pro Stock car will compete the full season.[2] There are typically 15 Pro Stock Motorcycle, ten Pro Modified, and ten Factory Stock Showdown races during the season, and the rounds which all three will compete will be announced at a later date.[1] 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.[3]

On October 25, 2023, Camping World, which had been the title sponsor of the series since late 2020 in a four and a half year contract, and the NHRA agreed to relinquish naming rights sponsorship in renewing its NHRA professional category sponsorship while expanding to premier partner status that includes professional and sportsman series sponsorship for the next three seasons through 2026.[4] That allowed the NHRA that day to announce Mexican food producer Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V. will become the new naming rights sponsor of the series.[5] Gruma will promote their Mission Foods brand, which also expands their Mission Foods Challenge to all 14 regular season rounds in 2024, unlike 2023 when the event was not scheduled for the two four-wide rounds.

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.

20 of the 21 races have been officially announced, with one unannounced date tentatively set for I-70 Motorsports Park in Odessa, Missouri, that will host the Heartland Nationals, which moves from Heartland Motorsports Park in Shawnee County, Kansas, which closed because of land and tax disputes between circuit ownership and the local government. The Odessa round was announced on July 27, 2023, but was not officially announced on the 2024 Mission Foods Drag Racing Series schedule because the drag strip, which during development was called the new Kansas City International Raceway and later Central Power Raceway, is still under construction.[6] As of November 10, 2023, circuit posted on its Facebook page the drag strip and return road have been paved, with grandstands installed. The circuit is pending homologation.


Schedule

Schedule released August 31, 2023. First revision November 9, 2023.

2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Schedule[1]
Date Race Site TV Winners
Top Fuel Funny Car Pro Stock Pro Stock Motorcycle
Mar 7-10 NHRA Gatornationals FX PM TFCO Gainesville, FL FS1
Mar 21-24 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals PM Pomona, CA FS1 N/A
Apr 5-7 NHRA Arizona Nationals PM Chandler, AZ FS1 N/A
Apr 12-14 NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 4 Lanes FX Las Vegas, NV FS1 N/A
Apr 26-28 Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 4 Lanes FX MM Concord, NC FS1
May 17-19 Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance FX PSCO Elwood, IL FS1
May 31 - June 2 NHRA New England Nationals PM Epping, NH FS1 N/A
Jun 7-9 NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals MM Bristol, TN FS1
Jun 21-23 Virginia Nationals PM MM Dinwiddie, VA TBA
Jun 27-30 Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals FX Norwalk, OH Fox
Jul 12-14 TBA [lower-alpha 1] TBD FS1
Jul 19-21 Flav-R-Pac NHRA Northwest Nationals Kent, WA Fox
Jul 26-28 DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals PSMCO Sonoma, CA Fox
Aug 15-18 Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals MM Brainerd, MN Fox N/A
Aug 28 - Sep 2 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals 1.5 FCCO FX PM Brownsburg, IN Fox
Countdown to the Championship
Sep 12-15 Pep Boys NHRA Nationals MM Mohnton, PA TBA
Sep 20-22 betway NHRA Carolina Nationals PM Concord, NC TBA
Sep 27-29 NHRA Midwest Nationals FX PM Madison, IL FS1
Oct 10-13 Texas NHRA FallNationals FX Ennis, TX TBD
Oct 31 - Nov 3 NHRA Nevada Nationals PM MM Las Vegas, NV FS1
Nov 14-17 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals 1.5 Pomona, CA FS1

Additional rules for specially marked races

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).

Special Categories:

    • FX: Factory Experimental
    • PM: Pro Modified
    • MM: Mountain Motor Pro Stock
    • TF/FC/PS/PSM CO: Pep Boys Call Out for that category.

Reading/Charlotte: The Reading and Charlotte race television coverage will be determined after the 2024 NFL season is announced. The weekend where Fox has the single game week will have Fox coverage, while the week with the doubleheader will have FS1 coverage.

Ennis': The Ennis race television coverage will be based on the 2024 National League Division Series if a Game 5 is necessary.

Notes

  1. ↑ NHRA has a contract with I-70 Motorsports Park, but is unable to announce until homologation is completed.

References

  1. 1 2 3 National Hot Rod Association, "2024 Camping World Series schedule includes returns to Phoenix and Chicago", Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  2. ↑ https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/pro-stock-compete-all-21-races-during-2024-mission-foods-series-season
  3. ↑ Wade, Susan. "How NHRA Is Thinking Outside the Box for Big-Money Callout Specialty Race". AutoWeek. Hearst Publications. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  4. ↑ https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/camping-world-and-nhra-announce-partnership-extension-through-2026
  5. ↑ "Mission Foods enters multiyear deal as title sponsor of NHRA's premier series". NHRA.com. National Hot Rod Association. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  6. ↑ "NHRA Adds Flying H Dragstrip to 2024 National Schedule". Speed Sport. Turn 3 Media/NASCAR Digital Network. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
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