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Cuadra Jr. Powers to First Final Round of His Pro Stock Carrera at Big Go
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Cuadra Jr. Powers to First Final Round of His Pro Stock Carrera at Big Go

Aaron Stanfield, Cuadra Boys, Pro Stock, Race Recap

Cuadra Jr. Powers to First Final Round of His Pro Stock Carrera at Big Go

Elite Admin2023-09-05T08:58:17-05:00September 5th, 2023|Categories: Aaron Stanfield, Cuadra Boys, Pro Stock, Race Recap|Tags: Indy, Pro Stock, Race Recap|

Stanfield Named Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty Challenge Overall Winner in Indy INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 4, 2023) - The Elite Motorsports Pro Stock team made a fantastic showing this week at the Dodge Power Brokers U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Not only did Fernando Cuadra Jr. race his way to an impressive runner-up finish for the first time in his career, but Aaron Stanfield nabbed his second Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty challenge victory to become the overall season winner of the specialty event. Cuadra Jr. raced [...]

Elite Fleet Ready to Race at U.S. Nationals
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Elite Fleet Ready to Race at U.S. Nationals

2023, Pre Race, Pro Stock

Elite Fleet Ready to Race at U.S. Nationals

Elite Admin2023-08-30T08:50:58-05:00August 30th, 2023|Categories: 2023, Pre Race, Pro Stock|Tags: Indy, Race Preview|

INDIANAPOLIS (August 30, 2023) - Elite Motorsports, the largest professional team in NHRA drag racing is prepared to take to the track for the world’s biggest drag race, the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, this week at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Affectionately known as the “Big Go,” this is the final event of the regular season for competitors in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series. Fans come from around the world to witness this cacophony of combustion as the best tuners and [...]

Elite Motorsports Race Teams Prepared for Powerful Performance at NHRA U.S. Nationals
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Elite Motorsports Race Teams Prepared for Powerful Performance at NHRA U.S. Nationals

2022, NHRA, Pre Race, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Sportsman

Elite Motorsports Race Teams Prepared for Powerful Performance at NHRA U.S. Nationals

Elite Admin2022-08-31T11:01:39-05:00August 31st, 2022|Categories: 2022, NHRA, Pre Race, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Sportsman|Tags: 2022, Aaron Stanfield, Bo Butner, Cuadra Boys, Erica Ender, Indy, Lyle Barnett, Mike DePalma, Royce Lee Freeman, Troy Coughlin Jr., US Nationals|

INDIANAPOLIS - Having claimed victories at 10 of the 12 NHRA Pro Stock events contested so far this season, the Elite Motorsports Pro Stock team is fired up and ready for the most intense and iconic race of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. The Elite team knows that they are coming into Indy with a target on their collective back and they welcome the challenge. Coming off of back-to-back Pro [...]

Erica Enders starts chase for third championship after Indy
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Erica Enders starts chase for third championship after Indy

2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Race Recap

Erica Enders starts chase for third championship after Indy

Elite Admin2017-09-05T05:25:56-05:00September 4th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: Erica Enders, Indy, Melling Performance, Race Recap|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Two-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion Erica Enders has been to the winner’s circle at the sport’s biggest race — the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals — in 2015, but she could not return to the hallowed ground at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis this year as the fan-favorite racer bowed out in the opening stanza of eliminations. Enders, a Houston native and the most acclaimed female racer in the history of Pro Stock, qualified her Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro in the [...]

JEGS.com Pro Stock racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. looks beyond Indy for title run in the Countdown
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JEGS.com Pro Stock racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. looks beyond Indy for title run in the Countdown

2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Race Recap

JEGS.com Pro Stock racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. looks beyond Indy for title run in the Countdown

Elite Admin2017-09-05T05:29:25-05:00September 4th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: Indy, Jeg Coughlin Jr, JEGS.com, Race Recap|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Five-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion and three-time Pro Stock victor at the sport’s biggest drag race, the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis, Jeg Coughlin Jr. unexpectedly made an early exit in today's eliminations of the 63rd annual running of "the Big Go". Coughlin’s JEGS.com/Elite Performance Chevrolet recorded a best run of 6.625 seconds at 207.88 mph in time trials to land in the No. 14 qualifying slot for Labor Day eliminations. He rolled to the starting [...]

Two-time Pro Stock world champ Erica Enders remains bullish on her chances in Indy
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Two-time Pro Stock world champ Erica Enders remains bullish on her chances in Indy

2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, Qualifying

Two-time Pro Stock world champ Erica Enders remains bullish on her chances in Indy

Elite Admin2017-09-04T07:56:23-05:00September 3rd, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, Qualifying|Tags: Erica Enders, Indy, Melling Performance, Qualifying|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Erica Enders has been to the top of the drag racing world twice, finishing as Pro Stock world champion in 2014 and 2015. She’s the most decorated female racer in class history and she even has a victory at the sport’s biggest race — the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals — in 2015. Maybe that’s why she sounds so bullish on her chances of winning drag racing’s crown jewel for a second time Monday when eliminations begin at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indy. [...]

Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for Y2K magic as Indy drag race turns to eliminations
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Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for Y2K magic as Indy drag race turns to eliminations

2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., Qualifying

Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for Y2K magic as Indy drag race turns to eliminations

Elite Admin2017-09-04T07:52:53-05:00September 3rd, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., Qualifying|Tags: Indy, Jeg Coughlin Jr, JEGS.com, Qualifying|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Five-time Pro Stock world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. made a little drag racing history in 2000 when he became the first driver to win an NHRA race from the No. 16 qualifying position. It just so happens he accomplished the feat at the sport’s biggest drag race — the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals. Now the 58-time national event winner is hoping to recapture some of that same magic as he enters race day for the 63rd running of the event in the [...]

Native Houstonian Erica Enders heads to U.S. Nationals with her heart firmly in Texas
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Native Houstonian Erica Enders heads to U.S. Nationals with her heart firmly in Texas

2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Pre Race

Native Houstonian Erica Enders heads to U.S. Nationals with her heart firmly in Texas

Elite Admin2017-08-29T21:10:53-05:00August 28th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Erica Enders, NHRA, Pre Race|Tags: Erica Enders, Indy, Melling Performance, Race Preview|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals is drag racing’s biggest event, but native Houstonian Erica Enders admits it will be hard to focus on the task at hand when the weekend arrives considering the epic devastation in her hometown. “My heart is broken,” Enders said. “It’s impossible to get your mind around this catastrophe. I watch the news and see so many areas I know and they are under 10 feet of water. Most of the people I grew up with around [...]

Six-time world champ Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for ninth victory in Indianapolis
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Six-time world champ Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for ninth victory in Indianapolis

2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Pre Race

Six-time world champ Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking for ninth victory in Indianapolis

Elite Admin2017-08-29T21:09:09-05:00August 28th, 2017|Categories: 2017, Chevrolet, Jeg Coughlin Jr., NHRA, Pre Race|Tags: Indy, Jeg Coughlin Jr, JEGS.com, Race Preview|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Six-time world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. has collected a whopping eight trophies on the hallowed ground of Lucas Oil Dragway In Indianapolis. He’s hoping to move that mark to nine this weekend at the 63rd annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals. “Indy has been a home race of sorts for my family for as long as we’ve all been drag racing,” said Coughlin, the driver of the JEGS.com/Elite Performance Chevrolet Camaro who hails from Delaware, Ohio. “Dad won there, all my brothers have [...]

Erica Enders clinches playoffs spot, will battle for another Pro Stock championship
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Erica Enders clinches playoffs spot, will battle for another Pro Stock championship

Erica Enders, Mopar, NHRA, Race Recap

Erica Enders clinches playoffs spot, will battle for another Pro Stock championship

Elite Admin2016-12-09T13:09:42-06:00September 5th, 2016|Categories: Erica Enders, Mopar, NHRA, Race Recap|Tags: Erica Enders, Indy, Mopar, Race Recap|

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Erica Enders and her Elite Motorsports/Mopar Dodge team secured their chance to race for a third consecutive championship during the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway. Enders, who won the 2014 and 2015 NHRA Pro Stock titles, wrapped up a spot in the six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs when teammate Jeg Coughlin Jr. lost in the first round. Coughlin got some good news in the second round when Alex Laughlin lost, landing Coughlin in the Countdown as well. "This is pretty [...]

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