6.36 Jack Beckman and Julie Nataas Talk St Louis, Experience, and a Top Fuel Debut
Release Date: 09/24/2024
7.1 Pulling Into The Pre-Stage Beam for the 2025 NHRA Season
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes takes a deep dive into a myriad of news, headlines, topics, rumors, and speculation for the 2025 season. After a holiday break, this show is designed to get you back into the right frame of mind to stay on top of all the stuff that is happening and is yet to come for the 2025 NHRA season. A breakdown of many news announcements that flooded the airwaves at the end of 2024 is followed by updates to the side of insider team news you won't hear anywhere else. Teams moving, personnel moving, cars...
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6.48 Closing Out 2024 With The Insiders
NHRA Insider Podcast
It's the final NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster of 2024 and your favorite insiders, Tony Pedregon and Brian Lohnes are taking you out in style. After a short monologue the two hit some of the high points of 2024 including the people and the races that really impacted the series. They begin to peek forward into 2025 and talk about who can be contending for championships, who needs to rebound from a hard season, and if the chances are good for back to back titlists in any of the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series categories. A quick one to end the year but a good one to end...
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6.47 Spencer Hyde, Jack Beckman, and a Torrent of PRI News
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Spencer Hyde and Jack Beckman. He also breaks down an incredible week of news announcements made by teams and racers during the annual PRI show. Spencer Hyde was one of the newsmakers at the show. Named the new driver of Jim Head's nitro funny car, the pro mod stand out talks about how this all came together, how earnest he is in his racing endeavors the work that lies ahead for him in a nitro funny car and how much he is looking forward to the entire experience. Jack Beckman...
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6.46 Brian Corradi and Jordan Lazic Talk Titles in Top Fuel and Pro Mod
NHRA Insider Podcast
A pair of champions join host Brian Lohnes on this week's episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster. For Brian Corradi it was the grind of a top fuel season being rewarded with an epic and hard fought finish at the In-N-Out Burger Finals in Pomona and for Jordan Lazic it was the realization of a lifelong drag racing dream to hoist a Congruity HR NHRA Pro Mod championship trophy in Las Vegas. These two conversations are interesting. Lots of talk about team, about dedication, about how communication and quality of work has to match in order to rise to this level of success....
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6.45 Young Champions Talk Trials, Triumph, and The Future
NHRA Insider Podcast
Thomas Prock and Gaige Herrera join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider powered by Speedmaster. The two who garnered championship honors in their respective roles and categories bring us inside their evolution in the sport, the work it took to earn their titles, and how 2025 is already shaping up before them. For Thomas Prock, the Assistant Crew Chief on the Cornwell Quality Tools Chevrolet Camaro at John Force Racing, 2024 was the culmination of years of work in professional racing. Prock takes us through his time at NASCAR, how he applies his learnings there to drag...
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6.44 Greg Anderson Talks Championship and Terry Vance Talks The Present and Future of Pro Stock Motorcycle
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast Powered by Speedmaster, Greg Anderson and Terry Vance join host Brian Lohnes to talk all things NHRA. For Greg Anderson,his 6th championship may be the most satisfying and meaningful yet. Winning on the last run of the season under the lights at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Drag Strip, beating a young talent that had gotten the better of him earlier in the year, and doing what many thought impossible hasn't totally sunk in yet. Anderson takes us through his magical weekend to close the season. Terry Vance is an NHRA legend, a Drag...
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6.43 Reliving The 2024 Finals - One Of The Greatest NHRA races ever
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this monologue-style episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, host Brian Lohnes takes you inside the incredible In-N-Out Burger Finals and all of the stories that helped to make it one of the greatest events in the history of drag racing. From the championship stories, the rookie debuts, the upsets, the insane emergency disruption, and a whole lot more. This is not just a cut and dried look at the event, it's insider stories and knowledge that you won't find anywhere else. Every one of the top line stories was the culmination of many factors, most that...
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6.42 The Insiders Dive IN to the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this final pre-race episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast Powered by Speedmaster season, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Tony Pedregon of the NHRAonFOX and Kevin McKenna of NHRA's National Dragster to talk about the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals coming up this weekend. The three compare notes on the championship leaders, their path to potential glory, the pitfalls they need to avoid, and any of the concerns they have about the way this final race of the season will be shaping up for them. Lohnes talks about a raft of news broken at the SEMA show, excitement for 2025, and the overall...
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6.41 Richard Gadson and Tony Pedregon Talk Rookie of the Year and All Things Las Vegas!
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, Rookie of the Year Candidate Richard Gadson and NHRAonFOX Analyst Tony Pedregon join host Brian Lohnes to talk about the last two races of the season, this weekend's upcoming battle in Las Vegas, and Gadson's rookie season in the NHRA. Richard Gadson takes us inside some really interesting elements of his first full NHRA drag racing season, the highs and the lows. He talks about his approach, the team dynamic at Vance and Hines, the challenges of the evolving rules of Pro Stock Motorcycle, and why he'd be a good...
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6.40 Austin Prock and Ida Zetterstrom Talk Points, Promotion, and Chasing Dreams
NHRA Insider Podcast
On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast powered by Speedmaster, Funny Car points leader Austin Prock and NHRA Rookie of the Year candidate Ida Zetterstrom join host Brian Lohnes to talk about their respective seasons at drag racing's pinnacle. The two youthful stars have different goals this year but they are both chasing the dreams they have held since childhood. For Austin Prock, the odds-on favorite for the 2024 NHRA Funny Car championship, it's been a season of incredible highs and some abrupt lows like the one that stopped his Cornwell Quality Tools Chevrolet Camaro in...
info_outlineOn this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, host Brian Lohnes is joined by Funny Car veteran Jack Beckman and Julie Nataas, the 2023 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Dragster Champion who will be making a Top Fuel debut at the NHRA Midwest Nationals this weekend. The two have very different stories but awesome insights to what motivates them and what they hope to achieve at Worldwide Technology Raceway.
For Jack Beckman, earning points weekly for John Force is still a dream come true. His longstanding relationships with not only the Force family but people like Chris Cunningham who is one of his JFR crew chiefs is a source of pride and comfort. Jack talks about his role in the success of the Peak Blue DEF funny car in this Countdown, what it will take to move up in the points, and how he may treat any future opportunities.
Julie Nataas is making a hotly anticipated Top Fuel debut with the Scrappers team this weekend in a second car and she talks about the long road to get to this point. Touching on her career, licensing, the business grind of drag racing, and the motivation to do it all, she paints the picture of a determined racer who has fought the good fight for this moment to happen. She does not plan to waste it.
A full throttle and fun episode to get pumped up for what should be a wild weekend at Worldwide Technology Raceway.