Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbert has been a regular on the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series for more than a decade.
A California native, Herbert’s team is headquartered in Cherryville, N.C. One of the eight qualifiers for the NHRA’s inaugural Countdown to the Championship this year, Herbert won at Maple Grove Raceway in August.
He has nine-career NHRA national event victories to his credit.
Before joining the NHRA circuit full time, Herbert was a kingpin on the IHRA drag racing tour, winning 20 national events and claiming the Top Fuel title three-consecutive years (1994-96).
Featured here (clockwise from top left): Launching down the line at Infineon Raceway in July; With a fan at the 1996 USA Drag Festival in Japan; Taking care of business in his North Carolina office in the ’90s; Heading for a Top Fuel victory and a Countdown berth at a rain-plagued Maple Grove Raceway in August; Snap On’s Top Fuel driver at the track; The IHRA hopeful in 1993; With his Snap On Top Fuel dragster in the pits in 1999; Making sure everyone knows he made the inaugural Countdown to the Championship at the U.S. Nationals at O’Reilly Raceway Park in August. — NSSN Archives