A full list of 60 drivers will fight for the right to race in the 32-car, $32,000-to-win M&M Transmission Pro Mod presented by Carmack Engineering field at the U.S. Street Nationals presented by Diamond Pistons at Bradenton Motorsports Park this weekend. The race serves as the kickoff of the 2022 outlaw drag racing season, with a host of small-tire classes set to join the headlining Pro Mod show.

Kicking off the 2022 season with nonstop action and the biggest names in doorslammer drag racing, the 17th Annual U.S. Street Nationals Presented by Diamond Pistons is going down at Florida’s Bradenton Motorsports Park on January 28-30 and has served as the “Outlaw Winter Warm-Up Since 2005.”

A field of 50 Pro Mod drivers entered qualifying on Friday at the 50th annual Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks, and after five rounds of eliminations on Sunday, Melanie Salemi was left standing as the $50,000 winner of the Bradenton Motorsports Park event. In the final round, Salemi recorded a 3.65-second pass at 206.83 mph to defeat Ken Quartuccio and his 3.692 at 198.12.

After 50 Pro Modified entries took to the Bradenton Motorsports Park eighth mile in qualifying for the 50th annual Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks, Daniel Pharris ended up the No. 1 qualifier with a 3.616-second pass at 207.50 mph. Pharris and 31 other drivers go into eliminations in M&M Transmission Outlaw Pro Mod presented by Carmack Engineering on Sunday morning.  Along with Pro Mod, the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals include a number of other big-tire, small-tire and sportsman classes. The No. 1 qualifiers are Manny Buginga (Pro 275 presented by FuelTech), Daryl Stewart (Voss Wheelie Bars Outlaw 632 presented by $hameless Racing), Justin Palmer (X275 presented by Precision Shaft Technologies), Matt Bell (Limited Drag Radial presented by Mickey Thompson Tires), Brian Keep (Ultra Street presented by TRZ Motorsports), Jerry Norton (5.50 Index), Pat Nanney (6.50 Index), Mark Oakes (7.50 Index), and Spencer Allen (4.60 Bike).  Driving the ProCharger-boosted GALOT Motorsports ’69 Camaro, Pharris shot to the No. 1 spot in the first qualifying session on Friday night with his 3.616. He held the top spot over two more qualifying sessions on Saturday, holding off the 3.618 at 211.86 of Mike Decker Jr. in his screw-blown Decker’s Salvage “Big Change” ’17 Camaro. Eric Dillard (3.62 at 208.04), Randy Weatherford (3.636 at 207.75), and Scott Wildgust (3.638 at 207.78) rounded out the top 5.  The No. 1 and No. 32 qualifiers were separated by just a tenth of a second, as former small-tire star Tim Slavens recorded a 3.717 at 215.41 in his new twin-turbocharged “Wolverine II” ’69 Camaro to sit on the bump spot of the 32-car Pro Mod field.  Manny Buginga led the Pro 275 qualifying order with a 3.669 at 202.73 in his ProCharger-fed ’03 Mustang.  Daryl Stewart in his nitrous-assisted Chassis Engineering ’15 Camaro went around 2021 PDRA Pro Outlaw 632 world champion Wes Distefano with a 4.163 at 171.23 to take the No. 1 spot in Outlaw 632.  In X275, Justin Palmer drove his small-block-powered ’90 Mustang to a 4.198 at 166.70 to qualify No. 1.  Matt Bell earned the No. 1 spot in Limited Drag Radial on the strength of a 3.948 at 195.25 in his turbocharged ’93 Mustang.  Florida’s own Brian Keep kept the Ultra Street No. 1 qualifier award in the Sunshine State with his 4.476 at 153.95 in his ProCharged ’98 Camaro.  The 50th annual Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks continues Sunday with final eliminations in all classes.  For qualifying sheets and other results, visit the Bradenton Motorsports Park Facebook page.

There’s always a certain excitement surrounding the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals, as it typically comes as the last major event of the drag racing season.

Two-time NHRA Pro Mod event winner Lyle Barnett is one of the 50 Pro Modified drivers locked in to race for the celebratory $50,000 payday at this weekend’s 50th annual Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Along with Pro Mod, the event will feature Outlaw 632, radial racing, jet cars and more.

The season-ending capstone of doorslammer drag racing, the 50th Anniversary Snowbird Outlaw Nationals Jet Jam Night of Fire Presented by Motion Raceworks, is going down on December 3-5, 2021, at Florida’s iconic Bradenton Motorsports Park.

The 17th running of the COMP Cams Street Car Super Nationals presented by FuelTech kicks off Thursday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and grassroots racers and racing fans are ready.

The legendary throwdown in Sin City known as the Street Car Super Nationals (SCSN) returns to Las Vegas on November 18-21, 2021 for a huge heads-up extravaganza with showstopping fanfare and more.

Paying out $25,000 to win in Pro Mod and $20,000 to win in Pro 275, the World Street Nationals XXVIII at Orlando Speed World Dragway in Florida on November 11-14, 2021, will surely be one for the history books as the best of outlaw drag racing go all-out in hopes of claiming the cash.

Since Donald “Duck” Long first started banging his drum and rallying racers and fans around drag radial racing the focus has largely been on his events’ marquee eliminator Radial vs. the World.

In the world of small tire radial racing, there’s nothing bigger than Donald “Duck” Long’s famous events at South Georgia Motorsports Park. The Duck X Productions’ Dart No Mercy 12 “United We Stand” and DXP Magic 8 combination race is scheduled as a wild double-hitter for the weekend of October 13-17.

The grand finale of the 2021 PDRA drag racing season is scheduled for October 14-17 as the series kicks off the PDRA Brian Olson Memorial World Finals Presented by ProCharger at the picturesque Virginia Motorsports Park.

GALOT Motorsports Park hosts the PDRA Pro Line Racing DragWars Presented by Modern Racing on September 30-October 2 as the PDRA season points battles come down to the wire.

The largest Ford-focused motorsport event of the year, the 23rd Annual Whipple Superchargers NMRA World Finals Presented by Competition Clutch Featuring the Holley Intergalactic Ford Festival at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is scheduled for October 1-3 and has tons of wild bonus special features in addition to the exciting conclusion of the NMRA Holley Ford Nationals drag racing season.