NHRA reveals 2017 schedule

FOX Sports, through its national broadcast network and Fox Sports 1, will provide exclusive television coverage in 2017, with live coverage of many of the events, featuring action from Friday and Saturday qualifying rounds and Sunday finals.

The season will once again open and close at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif., with the ‘regular season’ ending with the 63^rd US Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on Labor Day weekend.

This will settle the 10 drivers eligible for the championship in each of the four Pro categories – Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcyle. NHRA’s playoffs, the six-race NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship, gets underway in mid-September with three consecutive weeks of racing, followed in October by the NHRA FallNationals at the Texas Motorplex near Dallas (Oct. 12-15).

The season concludes out west in Las Vegas and Pomona, where world champions will be crowned in Nov. 9-12.

The Pro Stock Motorcycle class will once again compete in a 16-race schedule, with six of those races in the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship.

The full schedule is as follows 

2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Schedule

Regular Season

Feb. 9-12  Circle K NHRA Winternationals  Pomona, Calif.
Feb. 24-26  Advance Auto Parts NHRA Nationals  Phoenix
March 16-19  Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals*  Gainesville, Fla.
March 31-April 2  DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals  Las Vegas
April 21-23  NHRA SpringNationals  Houston
April 28-30  NHRA Four-Wide Nationals*  Charlotte, N.C.
May 5-7  NHRA Southern Nationals*  Atlanta
May 19-21  NHRA Kansas Nationals  Topeka, Kan. 
June 2-4  NHRA New England Nationals Epping, N.H. 
June 8-11  NHRA Summernationals*  Englishtown, N.J.
June 16-18  NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals  Bristol, Tenn.
June 22-25  Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals*  Norwalk, Ohio
July 6-9  Route 66 NHRA Nationals*  Chicago
July 21-23  Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals*  Denver
July 28-30  Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals*  Sonoma, Calif. 
Aug. 4-6  NHRA Northwest Nationals  Seattle
Aug. 17-20  Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals*  Brainerd, Minn.
Aug. 30-Sept. 4  Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals*  Indianapolis

Countdown to the Championship

Sept. 15-17  NHRA Carolina Nationals*  Charlotte, N.C.
Sept. 22-24  AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals*  St. Louis
Sept. 28-Oct. 1 NHRA Keystone Nationals*  Reading, Pa. 
Oct. 12-15  AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals*  Dallas
Oct. 26-29  NHRA Toyota Nationals*  Las Vegas
Nov. 9-12  Auto Club NHRA Finals*  Pomona, Calif.

* event includes Pro Stock Motorcycle