News & Notes
KALITTA TO RACE GYWNN DRAGSTER
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – (Feb. 25, 2010) – Twenty years after his final National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) national event win as a driver, Darrell Gwynn’s famed Coors Extra Gold Special Top Fuel dragster colors will again streak down the Gainesville Raceway 1,000-ft track during the upcoming Gatornationals. This time, though, champion driver Doug Kalitta will be in the cockpit.
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S&W RACE CARS WEEKEND WARRIOR
S&W Race Cars has simplified the task of building your new dragster. Now, with the introduction of our new WEEKEND WARRIOR line of dragsters, you can load your trailer with a new, turn key, running, Big Block powered dragster. The Weekend Warrior makes it easy to get started in racing. All you add is the paint job.
LAS VEGAS SHOOTOUT
Police Officers and Firefighters from around the United States and Canada will converge on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway March 25th – 28th 2010 for the third annual “Las Vegas Shoot Out”. The event will be hosted by LASD Motorsports and the Las Vegas Team F.I.R.E. in conjunction with the Mopars At The Strip Event.
The various agencies represented will ba...
MIDWEST MOPARS IN THE PARK
If you liked the 2009 show, you will love 2010 version of the Midwest Mopars in the Park National Car Show & Swap Meet June 5-6 in Farmington, Minnesota. There will be more featured displays than ever before. Plans are well underway and some of the race cars to be displayed will be the Sox & Martin rig, the Hawaiian Funny Car, the Chi-Town Hustler, Miss Mighty Mopar Judy Lilly and her race...
FOUR-WIDE RACING IS ALIVE
CONCORD, N.C. (Jan. 21, 2010) – For the first time in NHRA national event history, qualifying and eliminations for Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle at an NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event will be conducted four-wide instead of two, NHRA officials announced today.
The inaugural NHRA Four-Wide Nationals is scheduled for March 25-28 at...
K&N HORSEPOWER CHALLENGE SWEEPSTAKES UNDERWAY
In late June, NHRA racers and fans alike will be headed to Norwalk, Ohio for the Fourth Annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. While NHRA Pro Stock competitors will be looking forward to their chance to vie for the largest single payday available in the class, the $50,000 awarded to the winner of the 2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge Race, they aren’t the only ones who can win big du...
ADRL UPDATES 2010 SCHEDULE
O’FALLON, MO (Jan. 19, 2010) — Today, the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) released an updated 2010 schedule featuring a return to familiar territory and some date changes for established races.
“Creating a season schedule is one of the most challenging tasks we face every year as there are so many variables and individuals to consider,” ADRL President and CEO Ke...
CALVERT RACING PARTNERS WITH NEW SCEDA CATEGORY
Fontana, Calif. - The Southern California Drag Racing Series (SCEDA) is pleased to announce a marketing partnership with Calvert Racing Suspensions for the 2010 racing season. The SCEDA Series Stock - Super Stock Combo class will now be known as the Calvert Racing Suspension Stock – Super Stock Combo class effective at the series first event this year to be held at Auto Club Dragway in Fonta...
MASGA SUPER GAS SCHEDULE
The Mid Atlantic Super Gas Association announced it’s 2010 schedule today. The season will consist of a 5 weekend / 10 race schedule that will start off in New Jersey in June and end in Southern Maryland in late September.
The series will kick off the season on June 5th & 6th at the ever popular Atco Raceway in Southern New Jersey. This will be a great test and tune date for an...
MOUNTAIN MOTOR PRO STOCK CORRECTION
In the News & Notes of our March 2010 issue we spoke of the Mountain Motor Pro Stock Association coming to terms with the IHRA. Apparently things didn't go as planned and the following release was received:
CRETE, Ill. December 14, 2009: Rumors are laid to rest as the Mountain Motor Pro Stock Association (MMPSA) announces a five event schedule for 2010. The fastest Mountain...
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MARCH '09 - ON SALE NOW
Our March '09 issue is currently on the newsstands. It's our annual Best Of issue which is chock full of awards and our usual line-up of articles. Pick up your issue on the newsstand today or use our handy Subscribe button to add your name to...
MIKE AIELLO AWARD TO EDWARDS
POMONA, California (Nov. 17, 2009) -- Pro Stock driver Mike Edwards was named the third recipient of CompetitionPlus.com's Mike Aiello Spirit of Drag Racing Award Saturday at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
The award honors Aiello, a longtime drag-racing fan and former Pro Stock crew member for Jerry Yeoman, who spent his final years confined to a wheelchair after a workplace injury. Des...
SCEDA STOCK/SUPER STOCK COMBO RACE
In the inaugural SCEDA Stock/Super Stock Combo race on October 17th, it was Kyle Rizzoli taking the win over Mike Johnston. These two were No. 5 and 6 in the Division 7 wars last year respectively and the final lived up to all expectations. Rizzoli had the reaction time advantage, but Johnston ran closer to his dial. Rizzoli’s margin of victory was .0041. Congrats to Kyle Rizzoli on bei...
NOWLING NAMED GRAND MARSHALL
O’FALLON, MO (Oct. 22, 2009) — National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) President and CEO Kenny Nowling knows as well as anyone the havoc wet weather can play on a motorsports event. But opportunity can sometimes sprout forth from a downpour, as happened for Nowling with the rain-postponed 7th annual Al-Anabi Racing Shakedown at E-Town, an independent drag race recently moved...
GREG MORRIS MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT
In 2001, Greg Morris was doing consulting work at North Star Dragway in Texas when he was diagnosed with cancer. A year earlier, his wife Annette and young daughter Heather were in a car accident which took the life of Annette. Greg succumbed to the disease in 2003, leaving Heather to be cared for by Greg’s girlfriend Debi Feaster.
Six years ago, Morris’s friends got together...
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