I'll follow up with the '80s and '90s next week and 2000s and 2010s the week after. In the meantime, here's great moments from the history of the Winternationals from the 1960s and '70s. I'm also sitting on a treasure trove of swell video from the 60 years of the Winternationals, which we'll roll out on in the days leading up to the event.

The magazine-style layout really brings it home with huge photos and an artistic layout, but I thought the Insider Nationals might also enjoy seeing which moments made the list, We paired them with a selection of some of our best Winternationals photos to present a thick, 26-page guide to the history of this special event that you have to see to really enjoy.

Nationals in those categories.īeing a hometown boy with a deep personal history for the event, it wasn't very hard to pull together, It started out as a couple of top-10 lists, but the deeper I slipped into my memory banks and into old back issues, the more the hits just kept on coming. There have been more wild crashes, broken records, and incredible drama than any race deserves, and I’d rate it right up there with the U.S.

It’s been the site of career-launching wins and upset victories that later turned out to be not so surprising. It’s where rear-engined Top Fuelers and 500-cid Pro Stockers first made headlines. It’s the official national event birthplace of Top Fuel and Pro Stock. Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme, Bill Jenkins, and Connie Kalitta all first stood in an NHRA winner’s circle in Pomona. The first 2020 issue of National Dragster contains a wonder feature saluting the upcoming 60th Lucas Oil NHRA NHRA Winternationals, a race is so steeply ingrained in the history of the sport as to sometimes be inseparable.

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