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It will be fun seeing if the NHRA's 2012 champions can put up a title fight in 2013. But that's far from the best story heading into the season opener in Pomona this weekend.

Veteran Top Fuel dragster racer Brandon Bernstein will drive for Morgan Lucas Racing in 2012, team officials announced Wednesday.

Shawn Langdon will replace three-time NHRA champion Larry Dixon in a Top Fuel dragster for Al-Anabi Racing, team officials announced Tuesday.

Larry Dixon, a three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion who won his third title in 2010 at Al-Anabi Racing, will not return to the team in 2012, sources confirmed Wednesday.

Multiple drivers are within striking distance of an NHRA championship in either Top Fuel or Funny Car. Who's got the inside track with two events to go? Well, got a dartboard?

Del Worsham's dream season just got better. He beat teammate Larry Dixon at Baytown on Sunday for his third Top Fuel win in five events.

Larry Dixon clinched his third NHRA Top Fuel championship with a first-round win Sunday at the Auto Club NHRA Finals.

We've had Garlits vs. Muldowney ... Glidden vs. Shepherd ... "The Snake" vs. "The Mongoose." Now we have Tony Schumacher vs. Larry Dixon, another legendary NHRA rivalry in the making.

Antron Brown called zMax Dragway the Disneyland of drag racing. Welcome to the theme park's marquee ride: four-wide, side-by-side racing at more than 300 mph.