NHRA and FOX Sports activities introduced at this time the tv schedule for the upcoming 2025 NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Collection season, which incorporates eight broadcasts on the FOX broadcast community.
All 20 races, together with the NHRA All-Star Callout occasions in High Gas and Humorous Automotive, and the GETTRX NHRA All-Star Callout race in Professional Inventory and Professional Inventory Bike, will likely be broadcast on both FOX or FS1 in the course of the 2025 marketing campaign. The NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Collection season opens March 6-9 with the 56th annual NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. The race contains the NHRA High Gas All-Star Callout, which will likely be broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 8 on FS1 and eliminations from the season opener airing from 7-10 p.m. the next day.
For the fifth consecutive season, a September occasion within the Countdown to the Championship playoffs may also air on FOX adjoining to an NFL broadcast, offering NHRA to an enormous viewers throughout its playoffs. That chance has repeatedly led to spectacular viewership numbers, together with a mean of greater than 1.2 million viewers on FOX final yr in the course of the broadcast from Maple Grove Raceway.
That marks the ultimate race of the season showing on the FOX broadcast community, following a summer time crammed with racing motion on the printed community. Races scheduled to look on FOX embody the NHRA New England Nationals from New England Dragway in Epping, N.H. (June 1), the Summit Racing Gear NHRA Nationals from Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk (June 29), the Muckleshoot On line casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals from Pacific Raceways (July 20), a particular exhibiting of the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Problem from Sonoma Raceway (July 26), and the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals from Brainerd Worldwide Raceway (Aug. 17), main into the world’s largest drag race.
The Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals, which takes place Aug. 27-Sept. 1 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, will air on each FOX and FS1, together with eliminations on FOX on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1 from the Huge Go. The Humorous Automotive All-Star Callout may also air on FOX on Sunday, Aug. 31, making certain two days of protection on FOX for NHRA’s largest occasion. Eliminations will obtain 5 hours of protection on Monday, beginning with two hours (12-2 p.m. ET) on FS1 earlier than transferring to FOX.
Together with the nitro Callouts, each the GETTRX NHRA Professional Inventory All-Star Callout and the GETTRX NHRA Professional Inventory Bike All-Star Callout will obtain particular Saturday broadcasts. The Professional Inventory model, which takes place Saturday, June 28 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, will air at 3 p.m. ET that day on FS1, whereas the PSM Callout from Sonoma Raceway will air at 9:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 26 on FS1.
The NHRA and FOX relationship started in 2016, and NHRA and FOX Sports activities introduced a multiyear extension of their settlement in 2021, together with expanded protection, the NFL adjoining occasion in the course of the Countdown to the Championship, and intensive finals protection on the Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals over Labor Day Weekend annually. The partnership has additionally led to quite a few improvements on the printed lately, with the NHRA on FOX crew gathering quite a few Telly awards in 2024.
FOX Sports activities and NHRA are additionally scheduling NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Collection broadcasts, in addition to exhibits that includes the NHRA Professional Mod Drag Racing Collection throughout the FOX Sports activities networks.
NHRA races may also seem in Canada and the Caribbean via FOX Sports activities Racing as nicely, in addition to via the FOX Sports activities app.
