Drag Queen Crowned at The Big Go

Google/National Hot Rod Association ^ | 2025-09-01 | NHRA

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

After a tumultuous regular season, Pro Stock’s Erica Enders persevered at The Big Go, snapping a 30-race winless streak and winning her 50th national event after going 6.564 at 209.95 in her Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage/Melling Performance car to hold off Matt Hartford.

It’s the fourth Indy win for the six-time world champion, but this one will certainly rank as one of the most memorable. Her last victory came at the opener in 2024 and this season has been particularly tough, as Enders entered the weekend 12th in points. But Enders and the Elite Motorsports team has shown promise as of late, and she made it happen in a major way on Monday in Indy, moving all the way to eighth in points as well.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Drag queen Erica Enders earns her 49th tiara in Pro Stock (50 overall with one Sportsman win at a national event, Super Gas, which is the drag genre where you are faster than 9.90 seconds or you lose; if both go faster, whoever is slower wins) at The Big Go.

[Flavious_Maximus]

A female racer? Or is it a homosexual pretending to be a woman?

Hard to tell now-a-days.

[woweeitsme]

She’s a woman...I watched the video. I can’t believe I even typed the first part of that sentence.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Of course! Drag Queen always is a real woman who wins an NHRA event.

[IYAS9YAS]

This is why I want to go back to a time when saying you blew a tranny at a drag race unambiguously meant you had a mechanical failure at a speed contest.

[cymbeline]

“The Big Go”

Wasn’t that slogan stolen from a toilet paper commercial?

[Rastus]

Those red bears really like to s**t.

[yesthatjallen]

That's not the headline of the video.

You're not supposed to change the headline.

[Carriage Hill]

That cartoon idiot bears ad.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

"The Big Go" is the nickname for the U.S. Nationals. The NHRA has used it in marketing.

The 2022 header from the NHRA.