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The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame will welcome 10 new inductees March 6 during a ceremony��at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in Gainesville, Fla. The event is presented by Wynn’s.

Pro Stock Motorcycle legends Terry Vance and Byron Hines, past Top Fuel and Funny Car world champion Gary Scelzi, longtime nitro team owner and driver Jim Head, former racer and racetrack owner Charlie Allen, drag racing pioneers Jay Howell and Gary Dyer, and NHRA National Dragster Editor Phil Burgess. Racetrack owner/operator Debbie Bader and Summit's Paul Sergi will also be honored alongside the Class of 2025 inductees into the Hall of Fame, which was established in 1991 by drag racing legend Don Garlits.

The Vance & Hines name is familiar to anyone associated with high-performance motorcycles, whether on a dragstrip, a road course, or the streets. Terry Vance and Byron Hines first met at Russ Collins’ RC Engineering shop and conspired on a Top Gas Honda that decimated the drag bike arena in the 1970s. By 1980, they’d left to form Vance & Hines, which over the last four decades has won scores of events and world championships across drag racing and road racing. Both also contributed to those numbers as both are past NHRA national event-winning riders, and Hines' sons, Matt and Andrew, are both multitime world champions in NHRA's Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

Charlie Allen began his racing career in Super Stock Dodges but came to national acclaim as a racetrack operator, running successful programs at famed Orange County International Raceway in Southern California and Firebird International Raceway outside of Phoenix, the latter of which he built from scratch after OCIR closed in 1983.

Gary Scelzi has been a race-winning driver in every type of car that he drove, from early sand drag racing entries through Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Top Fuel, and Funny Car. In an NHRA career that spanned more than 20 years, Scelzi won 43 NHRA national events, three Top Fuel world championships, and a Funny Car championship.

Jim Head, a self-proclaimed “mad scientist,” has been burning nitro and innovating within the sport since 1980, first as a driver in both Top Fuel and Funny Car – he’s one of the few drivers to have the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals in both classes – and later as a successful, race-winning team owner and tuner.

Jay Howell was a noted race-car driver and builder in the 1960s and ‘70s. As an employee at Dick Branstner Enterprises, he helped develop the famed Little Red Wagon wheelstander and designed and engineered many successful and innovative race cars. After opening his own business, Automotive Engineering, he continued to create and drive cars, including his own famed F Troop Willys gasser with Tom Prock.

Gary Dyer was in on the ground floor of the new Funny Car movement in the mid-1960s and for years drove the famed Mr. Norm’s Dodge Funny Car of Norm Krause on the match-race trail to great acclaim and love from the fans, and opened Dyer’s Blowers, where he began building superchargers for other racers. Dyer went on to become a nitro tuner and later the driver of a match-race Hemi Colt Pro Stocker.

Phil Burgess is NHRA's editorial director and the editor of NHRA’s National Dragster magazine, a post he has held since 1986 after joining the NHRA in 1982. As National Dragster’s long-running editor, he’s overseen the magazine's growth and changes. In 1995, he helped create and develop NHRA.com, making NHRA the first motorsports sanctioning body to have a major presence on the internet. His Dragster Insider column on NHRA.com contains more than 900 articles chronicling the history of drag racing.

Debbie Bader is the recipient of the annual Pat Garlits Memorial award. With her late husband, Bill, they transformed a humble dragstrip in Norwalk, Ohio, into one of the all-time great drag racing facilities, now known as Summit Motorsports Park, host of the annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The family raised the bar on customer experience and satisfaction and showed a whole generation of track operators how to do it.

Paul Sergi, who founded Summit Racing Equipment in 1968, is the recipient of the annual Founders Award. He went from a curious backyard tinkerer with an interest and curiosity in motors and machines to the creator of what has become one of the go-to parts source for motoring enthusiasts around the world.

The induction ceremony will be streamed live on both FloSports and CompetitionPlus.com beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
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