New Hill Family Racing, Fuel Altered

Ryan Hill The Nitro Bandido. First to win it.

Ryan spent ten years as a machinist before he made nitro his life. In 2025 he won the first Fuel Altered race in IHRA history. Now Hill Family Racing races with Enthusiast Racing, and we're all in on them.

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Ryan Hill's Nitro Bandido Fuel Altered at the starting line at night, with header flames and Mad Maxine beside the car — The Nitro Bandido at Darana. Photo: Dragzine, Jimmy Cantrell

1stFuel Altered race in IHRA history: he won it, 2025

3.461at 226.70 mph, No. 1 qualifier at that first race

Hebron '26IHRA Spring Nationals win, 3.526 at 224.55 mph

2nd genhis dad, Dave Hill, raced nitro in NHRA and IHRA

We win and lose as a family

Hill Family Racing comes out of northwest Indiana. Ryan's dad, Dave Hill, raced a nitro dragster in NHRA Division 3 and IHRA Pro Fuel, then built a nitro funny car of his own. Ryan started in Junior Dragsters with his brother, Josh, and won three straight track championships at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan.

He moved up to Top Sportsman and Pro Mod, and he worked ten years as a machinist before joining his dad's business, which repairs recycling and metal-processing equipment. A machinist at the wheel. That's what we mean by nitro, built by the trades.

The Hills started building the Nitro Bandido two years before there was a class to run it in. When IHRA brought Fuel Altered into the Outlaw Nitro Series in 2025, Ryan qualified No. 1 at the first race, at Darana Dragway in West Salem, Ohio, and won it with a 3.512 at 211.47 mph over Pete Dove, who races with us now too. In May 2026 he won the IHRA Spring Nationals at Darana Raceway in Hebron, Ohio, with a 3.526 at 224.55 mph.

Ryan Hill and Shannon Hill smiling on a road trip in their truck — Ryan and Shannon, on the road

All in with the Hills

“It's a team sport. These guys are all my family, and we win and lose as a family.”
Ryan Hill, after the first IHRA Fuel Altered win, 2025

Built by the trades

A machinist in the seat

Ten years running machines before nitro. Our races put the people who build these cars in front of the people who hire them.

Skilled Works

Mad Maxine

Shannon Hill

Shannon is Mad Maxine: she backs the car up after the burnout, in sequins and boots, and she's the team's ambassador. She's also a pastry chef who built her own bakery and food truck.

The help we bring

The work between rounds

Sponsors and decks, travel and stays, and photos and recaps from every race the Bandido runs.

Racing services

Hill Family Racing

At the track

Pete Dove's corn car and Ryan Hill's Nitro Bandido side by side at night with header flames — Under the lights with Pete DovePhoto: Dragzine

The Nitro Bandido launching at Darana with header flames — Leaving the line

Shannon Hill as Mad Maxine, running down the track in blue sequins and boots — Mad MaxinePhoto: Midwest Speed Kings / Lowdoller Motorsports

Mad Maxine guiding the Fuel Altered back after the burnout — Backing it up

Photos courtesy of Hill Family Racing, except where marked. Tap any photo to see it full size.

For sponsors

We don't sell stickers. We sell Enthusiasm in Action.

All inA family team that built its car before there was a class for it, and won the first race when there was.
Extra effortWe work the pits, the paperwork and the photos, so your partnership shows up at every race.
Never quitIt's how the Hills race, and it's how we work for the companies behind them.

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The story so far

Enthusiasm in Action All in. Extra effort. Never quit.

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