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Fellow Drag Racers, NHRA Premier Crew Chief Tony Shortall and NHRA Funny Car team driver / owner Jeff Diehl have built on an “Ideal Opportunity” to become NHRA Funny Car Team Owners.
The team of Shortall and Diehl, being formally introduced here as Ideal Racing, will make their NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series debut as Funny Car Team Owners on February 11, 2010 at the 50th Annual NHRA Winter Nationals in Pomona, CA.
Jeff Diehl drove for ROCKSTAR Energy Drink... [Read More]
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Steve Torrence’s NHRA media guide information lists hunting as one of his hobbies, and its season happens to come at a time when the Top Fuel driver from Kilgore, Texas has some spare time.
“Over the last few years, I’ve become an avid hunter,” he said. “I started hunting with my friends. My dad didn’t hunt at all, but last year I took him hunting for the first time. I like spending time in the woods; it’s life at its simplest . . . and that’s an enjoyable... [Read More]
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BAYTOWN, Texas – Despite the rescheduling of the season-opening ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza VI, Houston Raceway Park officials would like to clarify that the DragRaceHose.com Warm Up presented by Goodridge Hoses & Fittings will remain on the originally scheduled date, Mar. 5-7.
Last year was the first for the event and featured over 100 cars during the three day test. More entries are expected this year.
“Many of the racers in the region and beyond are... [Read More]
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Dote Racing, headed by Mike Dote, has announced today that Doug Foley will be the driver of their Top Fuel Dragster for 2010 and beyond. We know our first weekend in NHRA Drag Racing was a little rocky, which is never what we intended, but after seeing how the team did their job and not allow the distraction to affect their performance, it was a real credit to what they are about. Even though we were only able to make four runs, it started good and only got better, our last run on Sunday was... [Read More]
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» IHRA News
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IHRA returns to its roots as sportsman racing takes center stage
IHRA is pleased to announce that Top Sportsman and Top Dragster will be featured during the professional elimination rounds at all Nitro Jam events in 2010.
Since the mid-1970s sportsman drag racing and the International Hot Rod Association have walked hand in hand and in 2010 that relationship is going to become even stronger as the IHRA returns to its roots and places its... [Read More]
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Greg Slack’s courageous triumph over cancer
In his successful twenty-five-year career as a racer, Greg Slack has faced numerous challenges, fought tough adversaries, and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to win races and championships, but when he rolled his dragster into the Rockingham Dragway winners circle last June, he celebrated a triumph monumentally greater than the Summit Pro-Am Quick Rod victory he had just driven to.
On that... [Read More]
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From local racers to the national stage, drivers doing their part to help find a cure for one of world’s fastest growing diseases
Chances are at some point in your life you or someone you know has been directly affected by one of the world’s fastest growing diseases – diabetes.
In the United States alone a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 30 seconds and if that trend continues it is estimated that some 380 million people worldwide will... [Read More]
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With the first Nitro Jam of the New Year approaching in a hurry members of the IHRA are hard at work preparing for what could be one of the biggest events in International Hot Rod Association history.
With 20 nitro dragsters and funny cars, the first ever IHRA showdown between jet trucks, wheelstanders, hundreds of sportsman racers and more fireworks than the Fourth of July, next month’s nitro extravaganza at Palm Beach International Raceway is shaping up to be... [Read More]
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» ADRL News
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DeMotte, IN (Dec. 19, 2009) – With quiet determination and a cool demeanor, Jason Hamstra has repeatedly shown drag racing fans that he is accustomed to setting records. But when at just 22-years-old he became the youngest recipient to win the National Guard ADRL Rookie of the Year award in December of 2009, his exuberant smile while accepting suggested this time he may have even surprised himself.
“Hamstra, hands down!” said National Guard ADRL Director of... [Read More]
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O’FALLON, MO (Nov. 6, 2009) — The National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) is pleased to announce its Racer Appreciation and Awards Gala II will be held Dec. 12, in the Citrus Ballroom at the luxurious Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. The semi-formal event punctuates the final day of the massive three-day Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show at the Orange County Convention Center just down the street from the newly renovated resort.
“All... [Read More]
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O’FALLON, MO (Oct. 30, 2009) — The National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) regrets the decision announced today by Dover Motorsports Inc. to close Memphis Motorsports Park (MMP), site of this year’s ADRL Quarter-Max Memphis Drags II, but already is taking steps to replace the venue for its 2010 season.
“I’m saddened by this news, not only because Memphis Motorsports Park hosted one of our most exciting events this season before being cut short by rain,... [Read More]
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Jason Hamstra back home and healthy after violent crash at ADRL World Finals
“He’s in good shape. He came out of the ordeal without even a concussion.”
DEMOTTE, INDIANA (October 29, 2009) – While competing in a semi-final round of the ADRL Speedtech Battle of the Belts Final at the Texas Motorplex over the weekend, Pro Extreme star Jason Hamstra lost control of his 1968 Camaro near the eighth-mile finish and... [Read More]
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» PMRA News
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HAMILTON, ONTARIO (November 11, 2009) – There was no stopping Bruce Boland in Pro Modified Racing Association competition this year.
The veteran took another new car at the start of the season, winning four of the six PMRA events in 2009 to claim his third consecutive PMRA Point Award Series Championship.
“Nothing went wrong,” Boland explained about his success this year. “The car went better and better each weekend.”
After winning... [Read More]
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STRATFORD, ONTARIO (November 11, 2009) – There was a fair bit of thrashing with a new car, and some mechanical gremlins, but Kevin Wicke and his K&K Racing Dodge Stratus came out on top, winning the 2009 NAPA Quick 32 Sportsman Series Point Award Championship.
“We won rounds when we needed to,” explained Wicke, driver of the 604-cubic inch with B1 Heads - 2 stage NOS system-powered Stratus. “This was a new car for us, and we spent a lot of late nights with... [Read More]
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Mark Nielsen – Second Place
BRANTFORD, ONTARIO (November 4, 2009) – Even though he placed second in the 2009 Pro Modified Racing Association Championship Point Award Series, Mark Nielsen is looking for bigger and better next season in Pro Modified competition.
“I know we finished second,” said Nielsen, of Brantford. “But I don’t think we did that great ourselves. We didn’t get enough clear runs.”
Driving the G-Force Race Cars... [Read More]
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Jamie Bridge – Second Place
NAPANEE, ONTARIO (November 2, 2009) – Jamie Bridge has mixed thoughts about his first year with the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts, in which he placed second in the Championship Point Award Series.
On one side, the driver of the 2008 Undercover Dragster was pleased to place second for the Series’ inaugural season, but added he wanted to do better on a personal level.
“Well,... [Read More]
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» Promod News
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DALLAS (November 09, 2009) - For the second year in a row, Quain Stott put an exclamation point on the season ending ADRL event in Dallas. Stott piloted his 1963 LeeBoy Equipment split-window Corvette to the number 1 qualifying spot and raced his way into the final round. Stott fell short of victory by just .0215 seconds. His opponent Alex Hossler scored his first victory.
In semi-final action, Stott recorded a new personal best when he clocked in at the end of his... [Read More]
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Kitchener, ON – November 6, 2009 – Jim Roth, the owner of J Roth Racing, is proud to announce the launch of his Pro Modified racing team’s new website -- J Roth Racing | Landing
This is the first of many marketing initiatives to come from the winners of The Fourth Annual “Thunder by the Beach PMRA Challenge” at the Grand Bend Motorplex last September.
Earlier this year, J Roth Racing debuted... [Read More]
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FONTANA, CA - Randy Walker’s ninth final round appearance overall in 2009 came during the Pacific Street Car Association’s Mickey Thompson Tires Fall Nationals, and now only the formalities remain in crowning Walker the 2009 Hughes Performance Pro Street Champion depsite the fact that this weekend’s Edelbrock World Finals has yet to be contested.
After struggling with the change in track preparation compound used on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s surface... [Read More]
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LAS VEGAS - Joe Baker drove his Joe Baker Homes '68 Camaro Pro Mod to a third-consecutive semifinal finish last weekend in the Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge presented by ProCare Rx at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals and jumped into fifth place overall for the 2009 season. Baker had five semifinal finishes on the season and qualified No. 1 one time.
In the weekend's main event, Baker took the No. 5 spot at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a powerful 5.998 at... [Read More]
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