NHRA Insider Podcast
263 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 166 ratingsthe NHRA Insider Podcast Presented by Speedmaster is an inside look at the world of the NHRA and all things drag racing. Hosted by Brian Lohnes.
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6.16 The NHRA Insiders ON FIRE Before Charlotte 4-Wide
April 23, 2024 22:07 - 52 minutes - 52.6 MBOn this high-octane episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by National Dragster's Phil Burgess and Tony Pedregon to talk about the electric running of the Las Vegas 4-Wide Nationals as well as the upcoming Carolina 4-Wide Nationals this week. The conversation ranges from driver performances, driver attitudes, what a hole shot actually is, the process and procedures of top-end interviews for TV, and a whole lot more. There are flying sparks, hot takes, deep di...
6.15 Jasmine Salinas, Bob Tasca, and Del Worsham Talk Command and Control Post Vegas Powered by Speedmaster
April 17, 2024 20:14 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Jasmine Salinas, Bob Tasca, and Del Worsham to discuss the Las Vegas 4-Wide Nationals, growth, strategy, and how great teams get their cars back on track. Jasmine Salinas is the first guest on the show and a great conversation ensues about her early period in Top Fuel, what she has learned so far, how she has evolved as a racer, and how her competitive personality was formed in the sport of drag racing where s...
6.14 The Insider Recap of Phoenix, Paul Lee on Funny Car Success, and A Vegas Preview
April 09, 2024 17:34 - 45 minutes - 46.4 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster, funny car ace Paul Lee joins host Brian Lohnes to talk about the rapid growth of performance and success his team has experienced under the leadership of John Medlen and Jonnie Lindberg, how well Phoenix went before a mechanical problem, and what his outlook is for the rest of the NHRA season. Lee brings some great insights as a racer and an owner on how things are shaping up in nitro funny car. Lohnes recaps Phoenix and the ...
6.13 The Insiders Convene To Talk Phoenix and Early Results
April 02, 2024 17:47 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBThis week on the NHRA Insider, Tony Pedregon and Kevin McKenna of NHRA National Dragster join host Brian Lohnes for a wide-ranging discussion on the early season, well, very early season results we have seen so far in NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing, what the seemingly beautiful Phoenix weekend could look like, and who's trying to emerge from the pack in this first small sampling of 2024. Working class by class for the upcoming race, the topics touch on everything from the strength of ...
6.12 A Hail-acious Pomona Recap and Phoenix Primer With Travis Shumake and Lyle Barnett Powered By Speedmaster
March 26, 2024 21:46 - 59 minutes - 63.5 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes recaps an insane Lucas Oil Winternationals and is then joined by Travis Shumake who will make his Top Fuel career debut in Phoenix and Lyle Barnett who will make his Arizona drag racing debut at the same event as the pro mods will be competing in the desert for the first time. Shumake has been working for three years to achieve this moment. He has a one car operation, has raised the funding himself, and has ...
6.11 Two Drivers, 11 Championships - Steve Torrence and Jeg Coughlin Jr Dive Deep! Powered By Speedmaster
March 20, 2024 00:07 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Steve Torrence and Jeg Coughlin Jr to talk about not only the start of the 2024 Mission Foods NHRA Drag Racing Series but their careers, their approach to drag racing, and how the mental aspect of this sport is its most towering challenge. For Steve Torrence, a strong running car in Gainesville has buoyed his spirits and placed him back in a competitive mindset that he will carry into th...
6.10 Austin Prock and A Post Gainesville Breakdown To End 'Em All!
March 12, 2024 16:14 - 45 minutes - 51.4 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Amalie Oil Gatornationals funny car runner up Austin Prock to discuss his weekend and his rapid rise to funny car stardom. There's also a class by class breakdown and analysis of the action from the Gators and what it means for the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series going forward. Austin Prock is candid, thoughtful, and reflective in this conversation. The topics range fom getting han...
6.9 Go Time - The Insiders Talk Gainesville And The 2024 Season Ahead
March 05, 2024 19:31 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBIt's Gainesville week! On this show host Brian Lohnes is joined by NHRAonFox Analyst Tony Pedregon and the two go in-depth looking at the upcoming Amalie Oil Gatornationals as well as the full 2024 Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season to come. The conversation is wide ranging and travels from class to class with a heavy concentration on top fuel, which presents itself on paper as perhaps the most challenging of all the professional categories to name favorites in. From the new team...
6.8 The Florida Men Cometh - Josh Hart and Dave Richards Talk 2024
February 26, 2024 23:38 - 44 minutes - 44.2 MBThis episode of the NHRA Insider concentrates on two fascinating story lines developing in the home state of the Amalie Oil Gatornationals. Josh Hart and Dave Richards are at their center and both men join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the show. For Josh Hart 2023 was a string of disappoints following a shining moment at the Gators when he won the Pep Boys All-Star Call Out. After that things were a pretty rough uphill slog all year. Hart talks about that, working through the f...
6.7 Jonnie Lindberg Talks Funny Car Tuning and Leah Pruett Talks All-Star Callout Craziness!
February 15, 2024 20:55 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, Jonnie Lindberg and Leah Pruett join host Brian Lohnes to talk about their pre-season testing successes and what's coming for Gainesville, which could be a watershed weekend for both of them. For Jonnie Lindberg, he has the shot of a lifetime as a young crew chief. Working along side John Medlen in tuning Paul Lee's funny car, he gets to call from his own experience and that of a man who has been tuning longer than he has been alive. Lindbe...
6.5 Lyle Barnett Talks Full Time Pro Mod in '24 - Justin Ashley Talks SCAG, Strategy, and Success
February 06, 2024 16:11 - 46 minutes - 50.7 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast re-minted full-time Pro Mod racer Lyle Barnett and top fuel Ace Justin Ashley join host Brian Lohnes to talk off-season moves, big expectations for 2024, and how, as individuals, they plan on making a measurable impact on the upcoming season. Lyle Barnett had a whirlwind of an off-season. Initially tagged as the replacement driver for Leah Pruett, the situation changed and he was left without a ride. A single conversation with Pro Mod team...
6.4 Eddie Krawiec Talks About Getting Off The Motorcycle
January 24, 2024 23:30 - 55 minutes - 56.3 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast host Brian Lohnes dives into the big news of the Pro Stock Motorcycle category of the last week with four time champion and 49 time race winner Eddie Krawiec. National Dragster Senior Editor Kevin McKenna also joins the show to talk about motorcycles along with other brewing NHRA stories. In this candid conversation, Eddie Krawiec talks about his career, his decision to abdicate the seat of the second Vance and Hines Suzuki, who Richard Gadso...
6.3 Funny Car: The Next Generaton - Daniel Wilkerson and Austin Prock Talk 2024, More
January 17, 2024 19:32 - 56 minutes - 59.2 MBIf the Mission Foods NHRA Drag Racing Series off-season comes in waves, consider this the second one, and it's the central focus of this episode of the NHRA Insider. Host Brian Lohnes has Daniel Wilkerson, the newly minted driver of the SCAG Power Equipment Ford Mustang, and Austin Prock, the even newer named driver of the Cornwell Tools, AAA, John Force Racing Chevrolet Camaro on as guests. Both guys will be fresh to the funny car category as full-time competitors, both will be tuned...
6.2 Schumacher and Wendland Tell All On Team Building, Sponsorships, More
January 09, 2024 18:31 - 58 minutes - 52.6 MBOn this fired up episode of the NHRA Insider host Brian Lohnes talks with Shawn Reed Racing crew chief Rob Wendland and JCM Top Fuel pilot Tony Schumacher about a multitude of behind the scenes topics in professional drag racing. Wendland talks about the massive undertaking of getting a new Top Fuel operation off the ground. From the literal nuts and bolts, to the work, how the labor is divided, how a new team functions together, and the expectations he has for the 2024 season. This i...
6.1 2024 Is ON - The Insiders Talk Ownership Controversies, Passing of Legends and More
January 02, 2024 18:21 - 45 minutes - 45 MBOn this first 2024 episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon to talk about the news of the last couple of weeks, the passing of legends like Don Schumacher and Roland Leong, the wild news about JCM Racing, the new SCAG factory drag racing team, and a whole lot more. What is normally a quiet stretch of time between Christmas and New Year's Day was far busier than normal this year. Lohnes and Pedregon take time to reflect on the lives and careers o...
5.53 Championship Crew Chief Alan Johnson, A Wrap On 2023, and Some Final Rumors!
December 19, 2023 17:45 - 34 minutes - 37.3 MBOn this final 2023 episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, host Brian Lohnes talks to championship crew chief Alan Johnson who worked with a talented team to achieve a Top Fuel world championship with the Kalitta team. He talks about the building process, the end of the season run, and a lot about the inner workings of a top fuel drag racing team. It's a fascinating chat with one of the most decorated minds in drag racing history. The other section of the show is a monologue wrap up of t...
5.52 An NHRA PRI News Avalanche and New Funny Car Driver Buddy Hull!
December 12, 2023 16:37 - 46 minutes - 50.5 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider host Brian Lohnes takes you through the absolutely astonishing torrent of news that came from the 2023 PRI show in Indianapolis and is later joined by a guy who helped to make some headlines in the form of Buddy Hull, who is moving into the Jim Dunn Racing nitro funny car for the 2024 season. The first 20 minutes of this show is nothing but headlines, analysis, and breakdown of a relentless 2023 PRI show. The news was all positive from drivers changi...
5.51 The Insiders Talk More Crew Chief Moves and a Monster Week Ahead At PRI
December 05, 2023 17:43 - 34 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week on the NHRA Insider Podcast host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon. The pair talk about the continuing news around crew chief moves in the NHRA and they preview what will be the largest and most exciting week of drag racing news in years at PRI. From the announcements of new teams, new drivers, the NHRA National Dragster All-Star Team, new sponsors, and more, this will be a week long remembered by NHRA fans and a week that will supercharge an already busy off-season. ...
5.50 Crew Chief News and Rumors, Matt Smith, Chad Green, and More!
November 28, 2023 18:19 - 50 minutes - 53.3 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider, host Brian Lohnes drops the puck on the silly season with a load of news from behind the scenes of NHRA drag racing. Crew chiefs moving around, brewing controversy with one announcement, perhaps, longtime unions busted up, and new ones formed. This is wild stuff! The guests on the show are funny car racer and Pomona winner Chad Green who talks about his weekend, his season, his ability to help decide a title, and how he feels going into the 2024 cam...
5.49 The Insiders Talk Pomona, Champions, Failures, and The Future!
November 20, 2023 21:58 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, Tony Pedregon and Phil Burgess host Brian Lohnes to talk all things past, present, and future in NHRA drag racing. The trio have a class-by-class championship breakdown with loads of insight, loads of information, and loads of behind-the-scenes knowledge only they can bring. This wide ranging discussion moves to the teams and people that struggled during the countdown after strong regular season efforts and the potential reasons for why and...
5.48 NHRA Insider LIVE: Soothsayer and the Spoilers
November 12, 2023 00:32 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBOn this live edition of the NHRA Insider Podcast, hosts Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon are joined by National Dragster Editorial Director Phil Burgess, top fuel driver Josh Hart, and funny car pilot Chad Green. The guy will get inside the head of drag racing’s most knowledgeable journalist and get his take on early qualifying and how the weekend is laying out in the performance realm and championship storylines. Josh Hart sawed his way through tough competition to go rounds in Las Vegas...
5.47 The Insiders Talk Vegas Controversy, Winners, and The In-N-Out Burger Finals!
November 08, 2023 04:41 - 59 minutes - 59.9 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon talk all things Las Vegas and about the upcoming In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals. It was a controversial and hardcore weekend in the desert paradise of lights and glamour where a handful of racers set their course for potential championships. Gaige Herrera dominated, Erica Enders got her 10th victory at the facility, and the already tight nitro ranks got even tighter leading into this last race. The two talk about...
5.46 NHRA Insider LIVE at Vegas: Pro Mod Championship Edition
October 28, 2023 18:28 - 36 minutes - 50 MBJoin hosts Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon in the pits at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as they talk to the three leading contenders for the 2023 NHRA FuelTech Pro Mod championship. Mike Castellana, Justin Bond, and Kris Thorne are racing to the wire. Thorne is the defending series champion, and both Bond and Castellana are seeking their first world title. The conversation will be lively and both Lohnes and Pedregon will get deep into the realm of NHRA drag racing and this championship chase...
5.45 Controversy, Rules Changes, and The NHRA Nevada Nationals Preview
October 24, 2023 16:47 - 59 minutes - 61.6 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon dive into the hot topics of the week in the world of NHRA drag racing. There's controversy coming from the Pro Stock Motorcycle ranks with a weight adjustment, there's some behind the scenes anger in the Funny Car category, Clay Millican's team was disqualified and fined from the Dallas race, and a whole lot more. The end-of-season tensions are at a high! After working through all that, the guys take a deep dive ...
5.44 Insider Crew Chief Edition: Neal Strausbaugh and Mark Ingersoll Talk Winning In Dallas
October 17, 2023 16:27 - 55 minutes - 65.7 MBOn this crew chief edition of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Dallas-winning Top Fuel crew chief Neal Strausbaugh and Dallas pro stock-winning crew chief Mark Ingersoll for two revealing discussions. Both of these crew chiefs talk about pressure, leadership, the team dynamic in drag racing, and how they stuck to their respective programs even when things were not always going according to plan in the 2023 season. For Strausbaugh, the proof is in the results. A...
5.43 Special Episode: Live from the NHRA Fall Texas Nationals
October 14, 2023 21:22 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBWe're going LIVE from the pits at the NHRA Fall Texas Nationals with three big guests at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon will play host and co-host on a beautiful Saturday with guests Phil Burgess, the Editorial Director of NHRA's National Dragster Magazine, three-time and defending NHRA funny car champion Ron Capps and fellow three-time funny car champion Matt Hagan, who is coming off a big win in St Louis. The weekend has been historically fast already, ...
5.42 An Insider's Stampede of Hot Takes and News For The Stampede Of Speed
October 11, 2023 01:46 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBThe NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series heads to the Texas Motorplex for the Fall Texas Nationals, and on this week's episode of the NHRA Insider Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon to break down what fans should expect to see, what racers need to do, and how championship hopes will be bolstered or crushed in Ennis, Texas. The pair have a class-by-class breakdown of not only the leaders and their positions post St Louis but also of the cars and drivers on the bubble of still bei...
5.41 Hot and Heavy - Greg Anderson and Clay Millican Tell Their St Louis Stories
October 03, 2023 16:35 - 1 hour - 73 MBNHRA Midwest Nationals winners Clay Millican and Greg Anderson join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast. The race changed the face of the points in all professional categories and Lohnes opens up the show talking about just that. For Greg Anderson, back-to-back wins in this late-season stretch have juiced his chances of winning a title. Now sitting number two in the points, he is in a place that many had thought impossible for him to find earlier in the seaso...
5.40 NHRA Insider LIVE: Steamin’ In St Louis with Rob Flynn and Andrew Hines
September 30, 2023 17:35 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBBrian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon welcome a pair of crew chiefs on this episode of the NHRA Insider LIVE from Worldwide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Rob Flynn will talk about the factors that led him to tune a 300mph eighth mile run at zMax Dragway just one week ago. He’ll also answer questions about the Scrappers top fuel season and 2024. Andrew Hines has tuned Gaige Herrera to a historic first season. The number one qualifiers and victories have come in hot and heavy. Can the...
5.39 Three In A Row Makes 'Em Go - Lohnes and Pedregon Review The Coutdown And Look At St Louis
September 26, 2023 20:19 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by NHRAonFOX analyst Tony Pedregon to talk about the first two races of the 2023 NHRA Coundown To The Championship and preview the upcoming third race at Worldwide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, this weekend. The NHRA Midwest Nationals will mark the halfway point in the playoffs and will present the clearest picture yet about who can actually hoist a championship trophy at the end of the year. The guys ...
5.38 NHRA Insider LIVE at zMax Dragway!
September 23, 2023 16:26 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBThe NHRA is at zMax Dragway for the second race of the Countdown To The Championship and that means hosts Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon are sitting down with some of the drivers who made big headlines at Maple Grove where the playoff series of drag racing began. Matt Hartford and Doug Kalitta will be the featured guests along with plenty of news and analysis to go along with the interviews. Matt Hartford took the win and the pro stock points lead in Pennsylvania after a challenging c...
5.37 Lohnes and Pedregon Preview The 2023 Countdown
September 13, 2023 01:21 - 56 minutes - 60.7 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by his right hand man in the broadcast booth, Tony Pedregon and the two look critically at the upcoming NHRA Countdown to the Championship. Starting with this weekend's race at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania, they systematically go through the cars and drivers who are leading the conversation, who are potentially falling behind, and lastly, those that can spoil the party for the front runners. There...
5.36 The Post US Nationals Show - Antron Brown and Erica Enders Tell All
September 07, 2023 17:33 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBOn this post US Nationals NHRA Insider podcast, Brian Lohnes speaks with Top Fuel Winner Antron Brown and Erica Enders who enters the Countdown To The Championship third in the pro stock points. Lohnes gives a post-race monologue and then dives right into the conversations with two multi-time champions. For Antron Brown, Indy was a study in perseverance. Qualifying, which was hard scrabble for the team led them to a 15th spot on race day and they ran with it, defeating some of the spor...
5.35 SPECIAL EDITION: Live from the U.S. Nationals
September 03, 2023 11:48 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBThe NHRA Insider LIVE! is back! Hosts Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon will lay out the 2023 Dodge Power Brokers US Nationals as they have unfolded so far and welcome guests Antron Brown, Angelle Sampey, and the legendary Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. The show will be live from Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and feature an audience inside the track’s Top Eliminator Club. From early qualifying, the Pep Boys All-Star Funny Car Call Out, and more, these guys will cover a lot of ground and...
5.34 Indy Week 2023: Looking Ahead To The World's Greatest Drag Race
August 29, 2023 00:59 - 37 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week's NHRA Insider is a relatively quick one as host Brian Lohnes goes monologue style, looking forward to the 2023 Dodge Power Brokers NHRA US Nationals which are set to kick off in the coming days. As there is a planned NHRA Insider LIVE coming on Saturday at Indy, consider this a warm-up act for the event and what listeners can expect to see during the week. Lohnes shares some of the major storylines coming into the race, from the new programs that have been announced, racers...
5.33 Brainerd's Best: Top Fuel's Brian Corradi, Pro Mod's Jason Lee and Eric Gustafson Talk Work and Victory at BIR
August 22, 2023 16:36 - 58 minutes - 76.8 MBOn this episode, Antron Brown's Crew Chief Brian Corradi, pro mod's Jason Lee and Eric Gustafson all join host Brian Lohnes for a conversation about how they set about winning their respective categories at Brainerd, Minnesota. The weekend was a challenge for everyone and there were some interesting bumps in the road for each team to endure and overcome. They talk about 'em all here. Corradi joins the conversation at the helm of a very hot top fuel team. Maturing through the season, t...
5.32 SPECIAL Episode! Live from the pits in Brainerd
August 18, 2023 21:12 - 38 minutes - 53 MBFor the first time ever, the NHRA Insider podcast hits the road! The pits of Brainerd International Raceway will serve as the backdrop for host Brian Lohnes, co-host Tony Pedregon and guests Erica Enders and Justin Ashley. Dealing the same deep cuts, hot takes, and snappy opinions NHRA Insider fans have gotten for the last three years, Lohnes and Pedregon will chat with the racers, get you up to speed on this second to last race of the regular season, and bring you deep inside the NHRA world...
5.31 Back to Back and Head to Head -A Topeka Wrap Up and Brainerd Preview
August 15, 2023 22:20 - 46 minutes - 61.2 MBOn this quick turnaround episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon to talk about the pure madness of the Topeka weekend and what can be expected out of the teams competing at the Lucas Oil Nationals this weekend. The two delve into the results of Topeka and talk about the rise of Erica Enders in the points and in her personal performance, how the Justin Ashley team looks eerily similar to Steve Torrence in his prime, and why Bob Tasca's 3.885 fi...
5.30 NHRA Insider BONUS Edition - Let's Talk About SRX With Ron Capps
August 09, 2023 19:18 - 27 minutes - 37 MBIn this bonus edition of the NHRA Insider, host Brian Lohnes talks with Ron Capps on the day before he is set to compete in the SRX stock car series on the dirt of Eldora Speedway in Ohio. This is a huge moment not only for Capps but for the NHRA community as he will become the first representative to appear in a series where NASCAR, IndyCar, WorldofOutlaws, and other racers mix it up. Capps talks about the nerves, his dirt racing experience, his goals for the event, and how he plans o...
5.29 Talking Topeka With Tony Pedregon and Jim Epler
August 08, 2023 21:41 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast Tony Pedregon and Jim Epler join host Brian Lohnes to talk about the upcoming Menard's NHRA Nationals presented by Pet Armor. Lohnes and Pedregon put a fine point on the western swing and break down, by class, where people are coming into this home stretch of the regular season, culminating at the Dodge Power Brokers US Nationals. The discussion on the western swing centers not just on the races and teams themselves but on the true look we g...
5.28 Jon Oberhofer, Todd Smith, and Chase Van Sant - Of Victory, Tenacity, and A Long NHRA Season
August 02, 2023 16:22 - 1 hour - 76 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast host Brian Lohnes is joined by Jon Oberhofer and Todd Smith, the winning funny car crew chiefs from the Denso Sonoma Nationals as well as rookie Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Chase Van Sant. In the case of Oberhofer and Smith, the conversation centers around the long and systematic rebuilding process of their tune-up and race car after the disaster weekend they had in Pomona with a crash followed by a horrible explosion. It is a fascinating thin...
5.27 Torrence and Todd Talk Seattle, Turnarounds, and Tumult
July 25, 2023 20:14 - 52 minutes - 67.1 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Seattle Top Fuel winner Steve Torrence and Funny Car runner up JR Todd join host Brian Lohnes to talk about the race, the Western Swing, and all the fun that comes with the intense competition of professional drag racing. JR Todd is on the show first and he talks about how his DHL team has managed to make three semi-finals and a final round over the course of the last five races. This forward march has changed the team's fortunes after they hit a lu...
5.26 From The Mountain Tops to the Tree Tops - Denver Wrapped, Seattle Previewed
July 18, 2023 17:07 - 41 minutes - 56.2 MBOn this monologue-style episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, host Brian Lohnes takes you through all the news and storylines from Denver and looks forward to this weekend's Northwest Nationals at historic Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington. The last Mile High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway will be marked by three things. A weekend sellout, seemingly impossible track records, and dramatic victories across the Camping World Drag Racing Series classes. There were moments of sheer frus...
5.25 Denver Preview Show High Altitude and High Intensity
July 12, 2023 19:54 - 58 minutes - 76.3 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider, the discussion turns to the lingering effects of Norwalk and the upcoming Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals in Denver. The race will be a big one as it will be a national event send-off for the venerable Bandimere Speedway, and it will, as it always does, provide the ultimate test of racer and machine with its substantial physical altitude that's always pumped up with summer temperatures and sunshine. This podcast ranges from an analysis of...
5.24 Alexander, Freer, and Force: 3 Norwalk Wallys and an ESPY Nomination
June 28, 2023 18:58 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider, Blake Alexander, Lauren Freer, and Brittany Force join host Brian Lohnes to talk about awesome success at Norwalk, making history as an NHRA drag racer, and the potential to win the first-ever Driver of the Year ESPY for an NHRA competitor. Two-time NHRA Top Fuel winner Blake Alexander had a manic weekend in Ohio. Abject disappointment on Friday night gave way to perhaps the most satisfying and emotionally charged victory of his career on Sunday af...
5.23 Buckeye Banger: A Summit Racing Equipment Nationals Preview
June 20, 2023 17:52 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBTony Pedregon and Todd Veney join host Brian Lohnes for this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast. The three guys talk about many of the interesting elements that Bristol brought to the table and how the results there may have an influence on what happens in Ohio. From Gaige Herrera turning on a red light in the final against Steve Johnson to Erica Enders hole-shotting herself to a win over the pro stock field, it was a weekend that just didn't quit. In the nitro categories the guys di...
5.22 Masters of the Valley: Mike Green, Tommy DeLago, and Dean Antonelli
June 13, 2023 21:26 - 1 hour - 116 MBIt's a crew chief-heavy episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast this week. Bristol-winning crew chiefs Mike Green, Tommy DeLago, and Dean Antonelli join host Brian Lohnes to talk about the ins and outs of succeeding at Thunder Valley, the unique pressures of two races in one weekend, and the systematic approach that they took to earn their respective victories. Mike Green and Tommy DeLago had a dream weekend, sweeping every available contest in Bristol. They won the rain-delayed New Engla...
5.21 A Soggy Bottomed Epping Monologue and Bristol Explainer
June 07, 2023 19:56 - 20 minutes - 33.7 MBOn this short and sweet episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes delivers a monologue on the race that never was, the New England Nationals in Epping, New Hampshire. The event was a testament to the heartiness of the New England region fans who battle searing temperatures on Friday and then rainy, frigid temperatures for the rest of the weekend, all the way until nothing more could be done on Monday afternoon. Lohnes talks about the event, the people, and the implication...
5.20 Northward Bound! The New England Nationals Pre-Race Show
May 31, 2023 03:27 - 1 hour - 105 MBOn this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, Tony Pedregon and Todd Veney join host Brian Lohnes to talk about the major stories and trends coming out of the Chicago Rt 66 Nationals and to preview the weekend ahead at New England Dragway. The event this weekend is unique as it centers around Top Fuel and Nitro Funny car, with the Pro Modified class also a showcase during the event. The three touch on some really interesting topics like how talent is recognized and snatched up the rank...
5.19 Andrew Hines and Joe Castello Talk Chicago - Starting Line to The Stripe
May 24, 2023 15:19 - 1 hour - 128 MBOn this post-Rt66 Nationals episode of the NHRA Insider podcast, NHRA's Joe Castello joins Brian Lohnes along with Vance and Hines chief tuner Andrew Hines. The talk is centered on an incredible race weekend at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. The fans came out by the 10s of thousands, the car counts were fantastic, and the competition through the event was off the charts. Sunday was one of the most incredible race days that anyone has ever seen and you'll get it from the perspective of...