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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.

Brittany Force is not following the footsteps of sisters Ashley and Courtney. Brittany is entering the family business and changing it as the same time.

Del Worsham, who retired after winning the 2011 NHRA Top Fuel championship, is returning to the driver's seat in 2013.

Juan Pablo Montoya's jet-dryer crash ... Shoe-gate at Montreal ... Tony Stewart goosing DeLana Harvick ... the brawl at Phoenix. Yes, it was one memorable year in motorsports.

Antron Brown and teammate Jack Beckman pulled through Sunday with championships in Top Fuel and Funny Car, respectively. Emotions on this day were intense.

Top Fuel driver Antron Brown started Sunday with a losing effort and burned hands. He ended the day as the NHRA Top Fuel champion, the first African American driver in history to win a major auto racing title.

POMONA, Calif. -- If you have listened to or watched an auto racing event a time or two over the past 40 years, I can just about guarantee Paul Page has guided you, entertained you, informed you and enriched the moment more times than you realize. ...

NHRA Funny Car driver Todd Lesenko was unhurt Saturday when his engine exploded on a qualifying run and shot the body off the car more than 50 feet in the air before it landed in the return lane at Auto Club Raceway.

Antron Brown understands why his winning an NHRA title -- the first for an African-American -- would be such a big deal, but he doesn't see it that way. He just wants to own that trophy.

Don Schumacher has known greatness as a team owner. He's on the verge of it again as his drivers vie for the Top Fuel and Funny Car titles at Pomona.

Jack Beckman, who is hoping to win his first NHRA Funny Car championship this weekend, came out unscathed when his car exploded near the finish line of his first round qualifying run Thursday at Auto Club Raceway.

Don Schumacher ordered a crew swap between Ron Capps and Jack Beckman to help kick-start Capps' season. Well, Beckman benefited, too. The result? Let the best man win.

If Jack Beckman is going to win the 2012 NHRA Funny Car championship, he'll have to beat his own team to do it. Confused? Yeah, we thought so. Terry Blount spells it out for us.

Steady rain in Indianapolis has forced the NHRA to postpone Monday's U.S. Nationals until next weekend, Sept. 8-9 at Lucas Oil Raceway.

Only one Funny Car champion has failed to make the NHRA's Countdown playoffs the following season. Matt Hagan heads to Indy this weekend to make sure he's not the second.

The NHRA will increase from 23 to 24 events in 2013, along with a new series name to go with a renewed title sponsorship agreement for Coca-Cola.