As the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series gets closer to its opening debut at Gainesville Raceway for the AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, March 6-9, Drag Race Bracket Bonanza (DRBB) is officially announcing that they will once again be back for the entire season. And to kick off this season in a major way, Summit Racing Equipment will be a premium sponsor for the year, where their logo will be included on the popular Drag Race Bracket Bonanza event plaques.
“Summit Racing Equipment was one of our first sponsors to come on board last year,” said DRBB founder Elon Werner. “They were a terrific partner to us all throughout 2024, so we are thrilled to have them back this year in an even bigger and better way. We saw terrific growth during our first full season in 2024, and with the help of sponsors like Summit, we know our free game will continue to improve during our second full season.”
Since launching the free bracket game for drag racing fans at the 2023 U.S. Nationals, Drag Race Bracket Bonanza has sent prizes to 42 states and five countries outside of the U.S. Those prizes include the DRBB event plaques that are sent to the Overall winner, Top Fuel winner, Funny Car winner, Pro Stock winner and Pro Stock Motorcycle winner at each national event. So far, all DRBB event plaques have been signed by the drivers who won each event. This is an element of personalization that Werner plans on maintaining in 2025.
2024 prizes also included three trophies designed by Katie Buttera of @applegirlart for winners of The Majors series, a custom Impact Racing helmet signed by all drivers in the Countdown, certificates for players who picked better U.S. Nationals brackets than our legends, as well as many others.
“We were able to send out some pretty incredible prizes in 2024,” said Werner. “We plan to keep the ball rolling in 2025 by continuing to offer up other special prizes. The drag racing community is full of creative people and passionate fans. One of the best parts about DRBB is connecting those two groups. And because DRBB is a free game, anyone of any age can play, which means our young fans also have the opportunity to win some pretty cool prizes.”
In addition to having their logo on the DRBB plaques, Summit Racing Equipment will be providing each plaque winner with a $25 gift certificate. Summit gift certificates were a huge part of the sponsorship program in 2024, and DRBB fans saw a huge value in them. Paul S., a DRBB player from Stacy, Minnesota who placed 17th overall in 2024, said this on social platform X, “Big thanks to [Summit Racing] for the “Top 20” $25 gift certificate. My oldest son needed new racing gloves [for the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League] so we put it to good use!”
“Our initial sponsorship experience with Drag Race Bracket Bonanza was so positive, that I knew we would want to continue it in some way in 2025,” said Jim Greenleaf, Summit Racing Motorsports and Events Manager. “When Elon came to us with the idea of us sponsoring the plaques and providing even more players with gift certificates, we jumped at the opportunity. We love getting to directly tie the fun element of a free, unique prize like the DRBB plaques to the Summit Racing Equipment brand.”
Drag Race Bracket Bonanza will have many more exciting announcements coming out during the lead up to the Gatornationals. Fans can follow DRBB on social media for cool stats, prize updates, and info on Twitter/X at @dragracebb or @DragRaceBracketBonanza on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
DRBB players will have the chance to fill out their brackets for the first time in 2025 during the Gatornationals when qualifying ends at Gainesville Raceway on Saturday, March 8. They will then have until the first round of eliminations begins on Sunday, March 9 at 10:30 a.m. EST to submit their picks. Fans can watch the NHRA broadcast on FS1.
This story was originally published on February 26, 2025. 
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