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Two-time FSS Champion Mark Pawuk Debuts All-new Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak
SIXPACK-powered Dodge Charger Thrill Rides Fuel up for NHRA Gatornationals
Auburn Hills, MI – The all-new HEMI?-powered Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection fires up for its drag racing debut 
this week when two-time Factory Stock Showdown (FSS) champion Mark Pawuk wheels the new machine in the 56th annual NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway in Florida, March 5-8.
For the first time ever, a race-prepared version of the next-generation Dodge Charger unites with SRT race HEMI power to create the all-new 2026 Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection. Unveiled at last year’s Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals, the Charger Drag Pak features a high-powered 354 cubic inch HEMI V-8 engine.
Only 50 serialized units of the 2026 Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection, the most technologically advanced Drag Pak race car to date, will be built. The limited-production drag car is engineered for grassroots NHRA Sportsman drag racers, with each of the 50 race cars NHRA-approved for Factory Stock Showdown competition. Continue reading
Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus
Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals
Auburn Hills, MI – After a two-year hiatus, Dodge NHRA Top Fuel standout Leah Pruett is set to make a headline-grabbing return to 
competition, climbing back into her 12,000-horsepower Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) dragster for a highly anticipated season debut at the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida, March 5–8. Pruett rejoins a powerhouse Dodge TSR lineup anchored by four-time NHRA Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan.
“The 2026 NHRA season gives Dodge and Tony Stewart Racing another chance to show what happens when pure competitive drive and Dodge muscle hit the drag strip,” said Matt McAlear, Dodge CEO. “We welcome Leah Pruett back home to her Tony Stewart Racing Top Fuel dragster and four-time NHRA champ Matt Hagan back for his 19th year behind the wheel of a Dodge Funny Car. Both Leah and Matt, as well as team owner Tony Stewart, embody the attitude the Dodge brand stands for, and together they make this season one that will push our limits in all the right ways.”
Pruett, a 12-time NHRA Top Fuel national event winner, shocked the motorsports world in 2023 when she walked away from the TSR Top Fuel car that nearly took her to the 2023 world championship to start a family with husband Tony Stewart. Stewart, a NASCAR, IndyCar and USAC series champion and motorsports Hall of Famer, continued the TSR team’s Top Fuel success by winning two NHRA events (Las Vegas and Joliet). as well as the 2025 NHRA Top Fuel regular-season title. Continue reading
First Look: Tony Stewart Racing Drivers Pruett, Hagan
Share Sneak Peek of New Dodge Livery
Auburn Hills, MI – Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) NHRA Dodge nitro drivers Leah Pruett and Matt Hagan are turning up the heat this off-
season, dropping a sneak peek of their new Dodge race car graphics as they chomp at the bit to hit the strip in less than 30 days at the 2026 season-opening NHRA Gatornationals, scheduled for March 5-8 in Gainesville, Florida.
After a two-year hiatus for the birth of her and husband Tony Stewart’s son Dominic, Pruett returns to drag-racing competition with a new Dodge livery and an all-new TSR Dodge Top Fuel Dragster after the 12-time NHRA Top Fuel event winner just missed capturing the 2023 NHRA Mission Top Fuel championship.
“I’m very excited to get back in the car for the 2026 season,” said California native Pruett. “Last 
year, I wanted to make sure I still had a passion to race after sitting out two years. After giving birth to Dominic and then being a mom for a year, I really wasn’t sure if I had the competitive level or should I sit out another year. So, we had a handful of tests. It was really the first time I was out of a race car since I began Junior Dragsters at age 8. But I’m ready to go.”
Stewart, the motorsports legend with series titles in NASCAR, IndyCar and USAC, replaced Pruett in the TSR Dodge dragster in 2024-2025, winning two events and capturing the 2025 Top Fuel regular season points championship. Stewart, the TSR team owner, will also be competing in the Top Fuel class in 2026, driving for Elite Motorsports. Continue reading
Hagan Finishes Second in Final Funny Car Standings, Stewart Fifth in Top Fuel after NHRA World Finals Weather Cancellation
Auburn Hills, MI – Mother Nature won the final race of the 2025 NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series Sunday when constant rainstorms 
caused the cancellation of the In-N-Out NHRA World Finals at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds. Dodge//SRT racer Matt Hagan finished second in the final Funny Car points standings and Tony Stewart took fifth in Top Fuel points.
A record rainfall in the Southern California area from Friday to Sunday restricted the professional classes from turning a wheel at the Pomona racing surface and more storms were predicted for the next three days. After exhaustive efforts by the NHRA Safety Safari and following close consultation with safety officials, NHRA made the final decision to cancel the race weekend in Pomona, Calif.
With the final event canceled, the NHRA world champions were determined from the penultimate race two weeks ago in Las Vegas at the Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals with Doug Kalitta securing the Top Fuel title and Austin Prock taking the Funny Car crown. Continue reading
Racing Legend Tony Stewart Seeks 3rd 2025 Win in His Last Top Fuel Race This Weekend in the TSR Direct Connection Dodge//SRT Dragster at Pomona
TSR Teammate Matt Hagan Seeks Another NHRA Pomona Win with 12,000-horsepower TSR Direct Connection Dodge//SRT Hellcat Funny Car
POMONA, CA – Racing legend Tony Stewart seeks his third NHRA Top Fuel victory this weekend (Nov. 14-16) In-N-Out NHRA World Finals 
drag races at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in his final race at the wheel of the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Direct Connection Dodge//SRT dragster.
Stewart, in his second Top Fuel season, has won two Top Fuel NHRA national events at Las Vegas and Chicago this year as well as the regular season points championship. Stewart, a series champion in NASCAR, IndyCar and USAC, took over the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Direct Connection Dodge//SRT dragster last year when he and wife, Leah, started a family.
Leah Pruett, who delivered son Dominic last year during the In-N-Out World Finals in Phoenix, will return to the TSR Direct Connection Dodge//SRT Top Fueler in 2026, while Stewart moves to the TSR/Elite Motorsports Top Fuel dragster next year. Pruett finished one round out of the 2023 World Top Fuel title in the TSR Direct Connection Dodge//SRT dragster at the In-N-Out World Finals in her last Top Fuel race, placing runner-up to Doug Kalitta.
Stewart was runner-up earlier this year at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona for the NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals and currently ranks fifth in NHRA Top Fuel points. Continue reading
Hagan Scores 55th Career Funny Car Win at Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals in Dodge//SRT Hellcat, Stewart Goes to Semifinal
Auburn Hills, MI – Four-time NHRA world champion Matt Hagan piloted the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) American Rebel Light Beer 
Dodge//SRT Hellcat to his 55th career NHRA Funny Car event win Sunday in the Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection in Las Vegas, and Hagan’s TSR teammate, Tony Stewart, advanced to the semifinals in Top Fuel.
Hagan, the Christiansburg, Va., veteran racer, put together an impressive display of consistency and topped it off with the low elapsed time of the event with a spectacular 3.877 run in defeating reigning world champion Austin Prock in the final round at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Hagan’s win was his third of the 2025 NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series and sixth overall at the Las Vegas racing facility to continue his quest for a fifth world Funny Car crown. The victory was Hagan’s first over Prock in three final round matchups.
In the earlier rounds, Hagan, who qualified third in the 16-car field, defeated former world champion Cruz Pedregon, Chad Green and Daniel Wilkerson before facing off against Prock in a classic duel of the top two in the current Funny Car points standings. Hagan’s 3.877 easily bettered Prock’s time of 6.424 when Prock smoked his tires off the starting line. Continue reading
Dodge Hustles Harder: Introducing First Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection, Bringing HEMI® Power to New Charger Race Car
Auburn Hills, MI – Dodge launches its first Dodge Charger Drag Pak: the all-new 2026 Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct 
Connection. The brand’s newest purpose-built race car unites SRT race HEMI® engine power with a drag-race-ready version of the new Dodge Charger.
Only 50 serialized units of the 2026 Dodge Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection, the most technologically advanced Drag Pak race car to date, will be built. The limited-production drag car is engineered for grassroots NHRA Sportsman drag racers, with each of the 50 race cars NHRA-approved for Factory Stock Showdown (FSS) competition.
The Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak is the first race car to be included under the umbrella of the newly reestablished Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Performance division, responsible for SRT high-performance models, Direct Connection performance parts and American brand motorsports initiatives, including Dodge competition in NHRA and the Ram brand’s recently announced plans to return to the NASCAR Truck Series in 2026. Continue reading
Short Day for Stewart, Hagan at NHRA Texas FallNationals, TSR Dodge//SRT Racers Prepare for Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals
Auburn Hills, MI – The Texas Motorplex has been a very successful track for the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge//SRT nitro team with 
three wins in the last two years at the NHRA Texas FallNationals drag races, but Tony Stewart and Matt Hagan had early exits Sunday with first-round losses in Top Fuel and Funny Car, respectively.
It was an unusual outing for the TSR Dodge//SRT effort after Leah Pruett (Top Fuel) and Hagan (Funny Car) scored the first “Double Up” wins for TSR in 2023 at the Texas Motorplex, and Hagan took Funny Car honors again last year for his fifth NHRA Texas FallNationals title.
Stewart, the NHRA Top Fuel regular season champion, qualified eighth in the TSR Mobil 1 Dodge//SRT dragster at Texas, but the Motorsports Hall of Famer had a tough matchup with veteran Clay Millican in the first round of eliminations. Millican’s 3.700 bettered Stewart’s 3.774 to advance to the quarterfinals.
The first-round loss for Stewart moved him to sixth in the NHRA Mission Top Fuel points standings with two races remaining in the 20-event NHRA national series. The next NHRA national race is the Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Oct. 30-Nov. 2. Continue reading
DODGE NAMED TITLE SPONSOR OF FAN-FAVORITE NHRA NEVADA NATIONALS IN LAS VEGAS
The 25th annual Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is the fifth of six playoff races
LAS VEGAS – NHRA officials announced today that Dodge and Direct Connection have been named the title sponsor of the upcoming fall 
race at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The 25th annual Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection serves as the penultimate event of the 20-race season in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. It takes place Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the standout facility in Las Vegas and also serves as the fifth of six races in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, promising plenty of excitement during a can’t-miss weekend.
For a quarter-century, the fall race in Las Vegas has produced an incredible weekend and atmosphere as the championship contenders in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle look for a memorable late-season win. With several tight championship races in 2025, fans can expect another amazing weekend in Las Vegas at the Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection. Continue reading
Hagan Drives TSR Dodge//SRT Hellcat Funny Car to 54th Career Win and Closes on Points Lead at NHRA Midwest Nationals, Stewart Exits Early
Auburn Hills, MI – Matt Hagan, the four-time NHRA World Champion, continued his trek to a fifth Funny Car championship Sunday by 
driving the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge//SRT Hellcat to his 54th career NHRA national event victory at the NHRA Midwest Nationals, while his TSR teammate Tony Stewart lost in the first round of eliminations.
After placing runner-up last Sunday at Charlotte, Hagan and his American Rebel Light Beer Dodge//SRT Hellcat looked strong immediately with a spectacular 3.868 qualifying pass on Friday to take the second position in the 16-driver field at World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis, which enjoyed several sold-out crowds during the three-day NHRA national event.
The Virginia driver then ripped off 3.90s in each of the four rounds of eliminations to score his second 2025 NHRA victory after taking top honors at the Seattle event. The victory moved Hagan within 20 points of leader Austin Prock with three races remaining in the 20-event national tour. Continue reading
