{"id":28088,"date":"2026-01-08T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/?p=28088"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:12:50","slug":"rumor-mill-is-ihra-planning-the-first-true-global-drag-racing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/rumor-mill-is-ihra-planning-the-first-true-global-drag-racing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"RUMOR MILL: IS IHRA PLANNING THE FIRST TRUE GLOBAL DRAG RACING SERIES?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Earlier this season, a newly energized International Hot Rod Association<\/span><\/span> quietly planted a flag on foreign soil, officially taking control of its Australian property and, in the process, igniting far bigger conversations than a single acquisition. While the IHRA has spent much of the year methodically snapping up racing facilities and rebuilding its domestic footprint, whispers around the pits and in sanctioning-body boardrooms suggest something far more ambitious may be taking shape. A world series with stops in Europe and the Middle East as well?<\/p>

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Those rumors point toward a bold, once-unthinkable idea: an honest-to-goodness global drag racing series. Under the leadership of Darryl Cuttell<\/span><\/span>, the IHRA is rumored to be exploring a schedule that would stretch beyond U.S. borders, linking American events with international stops and turning drag racing into a truly worldwide championship rather than a regional export.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Earlier this season, a newly energized International Hot Rod Association quietly planted a flag on foreign soil, officially taking control of its Australian property and, in the process, igniting far bigger conversations than a single acquisition. While the IHRA has spent much of the year methodically snapping up racing facilities and rebuilding its domestic footprint, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[1468,2652,2647,2649,1049,2655,2643,2651,2644,2650,2641,2642,2653,1054,2648,1241,2645,2654,2656,2646],"class_list":["post-28088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rumor-mill","tag-darryl-cuttell-ihra","tag-drag-racing-abroad","tag-drag-racing-global-schedule","tag-drag-racing-international-series","tag-drag-racing-rumors","tag-drag-racing-world-tour","tag-global-drag-racing-series","tag-global-motorsports-series","tag-ihra-australia-property","tag-ihra-expansion-plans","tag-ihra-global-series","tag-ihra-international-expansion","tag-ihra-leadership-strategy","tag-ihra-news","tag-ihra-overseas-events","tag-ihra-rumors","tag-international-drag-racing-championship","tag-international-nitro-racing","tag-motorsports-globalization","tag-worldwide-drag-racing-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competitionplus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}