Stanfield Secures Third NHRA Pro Stock Win Of The Season In Charlotte

2022-09-26T11:33:51-05:00September 26th, 2022|Categories: 2022, Aaron Stanfield, Pro Stock, Race Recap|Tags: , , , , |

Pro Stock standout Aaron Stanfield emerged victorious for the third time this season today at the Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals. The Elite Motorsports team is not only leaving zMAX Dragway with yet another NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series win, but also with the top three leaders in the Pro Stock Countdown to the Championship. Erica Enders continues to lead the points thanks in part to an exemplary qualifying performance in her Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Camaro. Stanfield is second in the points standings, followed by [...]

Elite Motorsports Hopes to Continue Winning Momentum in North Carolina

2022-09-21T09:44:03-05:00September 21st, 2022|Categories: 2022, NHRA, Pre Race, Pro Stock|Tags: , , |

Elite Motorsports, the largest professional race team in the NHRA, is ready to continue the momentum they gained at the first event of the Countdown to the Championship, NHRA’s version of the playoffs, as they travel to the Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX DRAGWAY this weekend. The powerful Pro Stock team dominated the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals last weekend at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa. Erica Enders Racing won her seventh event title of the season and 40th of her career in an [...]

Erica Enders and Team Capture First Victory of the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series

2018-04-30T15:35:48-05:00April 30th, 2018|Categories: 2018, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, Race Recap|Tags: , , , |

Two-Time Pro Stock World Champion, Erica Enders was the last (wo)man standing at the end of the NGK Spark Plug Four-Wide Nationals in Concord, NC this weekend. Her last visit to the Winner's Circle came in Epping, New Hampshire in June of 2017 after a dry spell of over one year without a victory. "Our team has had many peaks and valleys together in our 4 seasons together. The ride started with more peaks than valleys, and in the last two seasons the tides turned [...]

Erica Enders opens 2017 playoffs with quarterfinal showing at NHRA Carolina Nationals

2017-09-18T15:43:07-05:00September 17th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, NC — Two-time world champion Erica Enders went one-up, one-down Sunday at the first of six races in the 2017 Countdown to the Championship, the 10th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway. Enders scored a mild upset over Elite Motorsports teammate Alex Laughlin in Round 1 when the slightly higher-qualified Laughlin was forced to surrender his run. She then matched her Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro up against local Tanner Gray with Gray evening their season record against one another at 3-3. “It’s [...]

Quarterfinal finish represents a decent start to the Coutndown for Jeg Coughlin Jr.

2017-09-18T15:41:16-05:00September 17th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, N.C. — Having won six NHRA championships and 76 national events in the past, Jeg Coughlin Jr. has become used to finishing a given race day on top of the heap. But he’s also been around long enough to know that round wins are tough to come by so you sometimes have to take what you can and move on to the next race and fight another day. That was the case Sunday at the 10th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway, where [...]

Melling Performance pro Erica Enders excited about eliminations in Charlotte

2017-09-17T12:02:16-05:00September 16th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Qualifying|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, N.C. — Throughout her record-setting career, two-time Pro Stock champion Erica Enders always has done her best work in pressure-packed situations. When others wilt, she blossoms, which is one of the many reasons she’s excited about the first of six race days left in the 2017 season. “The playoffs are definitely a different animal,” Enders said. “We’ve lived it, we’ve fought down to the last round of the season, we’ve felt the most pressure you can feel in this sport and we’ve come out [...]

Playoffs begin with five-time Pro Stock champ Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking sharp in Charlotte

2017-09-17T12:00:18-05:00September 16th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Qualifying|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, N.C. — Jeg Coughlin Jr. hopes to pad his illustrious resume even more in this year’s Countdown to the Championship playoffs, which begin in earnest with eliminations for the 10th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals running Sunday at zMax Dragway. A six-time drag racing champion with 76 national event victories, Coughlin has done the majority of his winning in Pro Stock, where he’s collected five titles and 58 Wally trophies. He’ll be at it again down the stretch of this season in his powerful JEGS.com/Elite [...]

Two-time Pro Stock champion Erica Enders says ‘Don’t bet against us’

2017-09-14T13:50:37-05:00September 14th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Pre Race|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, NC — Erica Enders’ two Pro Stock championships both came in the 10-year-old playoff era so she has intimate knowledge of how the six-race Countdown to the Championship works. With the first playoff race taking place this weekend at zMax Dragway, Enders and her Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports crew know it’s time to put up or shut up. “The regular season is all about securing a spot in the top 10 so you’ve got a ticket to the playoffs,” Enders said. “We’ve done that part. [...]

Jeg Coughlin Jr.’s landmark 400th Pro Stock race represents ‘a fresh start’

2017-09-14T13:51:51-05:00September 14th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Pre Race|Tags: , , , , |

CONCORD, NC — The timing is right for Jeg Coughlin Jr. to begin his quest for a seventh NHRA national championship and sixth Pro Stock title at this weekend’s 10th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway near Charlotte. The 76-time national event winner will be entering his 400th Pro Stock race this weekend, a mark eclipsed by just two other active drivers — Greg Anderson and Allen Johnson. By chance, Coughlin’s historic start comes at the beginning of the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship, [...]

Top qualifier Jeg Coughlin Jr. runs quickest pass of the race, but loses anyway

2017-05-01T13:22:30-05:00April 30th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: , , , |

CONCORD, N.C. — Jeg Coughlin Jr. posted the quickest pass of the eighth annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in the opening round of Sunday’s eliminations but it was all for naught after a strange starting line miscue caused him to leave more than half a second after his three opponents. Jeg Jr. with dad Jeg Coughlin, Sr. “I’m not really upset,” Coughlin said. “It’s just the complexity of the four-wide format. The staging procedure is extremely important and once all four of us were pre-staged I [...]

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