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Austin Prock, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders, and Angelle Sampey all held onto their Friday qualifying leads through a hot day of racing at the Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex and will led their respective fields into battle on Sunday.

Winning championships is all about adapting to ever-changing conditions, and whichever drivers walk out of Texas Motorplex after today with victories at the Texas NHRA FallNationals will have proved that as Sunday will present yet another weather challenge.

Suffering his first bump in the road in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs, Top Fuel points leader Justin Ashley will look to bounce back at a track that served him well just a season ago when he won the Texas NHRA FallNationals.

WRC2 frontrunner Kajetan Kajetanowicz is counting on a strong result at next week’s RallyRACC - Rally de España to carry his title bid through to the season finale in Japan.

FIA Junior WRC regular William Creighton will make his Rally2 debut at WRC level next week at RallyRACC - Rally de España (20 - 23 October).

Two-time Supercars champion and current series leader Shane van Gisbergen believes Repco Rally New Zealand provided the perfect preparation ahead of his biggest race of the year.

Legends Nitro Funny Cars — Funny Cars with 1979-or-older body styles, blown nitromethane-fueled engines, two-speed transmissions, and 21-gpm fuel pumps harkening back to a wildly popular era of Funny Car racing — will be part of the action at the NHRA Nevada Nationals, Oct. 27-30. 

At every NHRA national event, NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart offers fans the chance to send him an email with technical questions about the race cars, the tracks, and the procedures. As part of a semi-regular feature, we’ll share those questions and answers on NHRA.com.

Robert Virves has become the first-ever Estonian FIA Junior WRC champion after winning the M-Sport Poland Ford Fiesta Rally3 category at EKO Acropolis Rally Greece.

Emil Lindholm remained unchallenged at EKO Acropolis Rally Greece to secure back-to-back victories in WRC2.