• Founded in 1951 in Southern California, the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was originally founded as a means of getting hot rodders off the streets and into a safer environment
• Today, NHRA is the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body (80,000 members & 300,000 participants) and the largest promoter of drag racing in the world, entertaining millions of racing fans with the fastest and most spectacular form of entertainment on wheels
• There is a network of 130 sanctioned tracks in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico; over 5,000 events are hosted under the NHRA umbrella each year
• 16.7 million people in the United States are avid fans of NHRA Drag Racing
• ESPN2 is the exclusive broadcast TV partner of the NHRA.  Dedicated broadcasts on ESPN2 / ESPN2 HD reach over 1.0 million viewers each race weekend.

Source: NHRA