Team Press Releases

Cody "The Flash" Perkins earns TAD licence Salt Lake City, UT.- 20 year old Cody Perkins made the three passes needed to upgrade his NHRA competition licence over the past weekend at Rocky Mountain Raceway, driving his dad's current Top Alcohol Dragster. Cody accomplished a best of 5.78 at 248.96 MPH at 7200' corrected altitude. "It was great to have a good car I could trust to make the runs. I've got to thank my dad (Bob Perkins) for giving me the opportunity." Cody definitely felt comfortable getting into a car that had just qualified number 2 and out run TAD standout Sean O'bannon at the Fontana Ca. Division 7 race two weeks prior. In only his second run in the car, Cody bettered his career best E.T. by 2 full seconds with a...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/Jerry_GB1.jpg"align="right"borders="0"/>Jerry Bowles Making Strides in 2006 Top Sportsman racer Jerry Bowles from Gadshill, Ontario has made a smooth transition from a nitrous oxide combination to a blown alcohol 481 x Alan Johnson headed Chevy with the help of Darren Mayer and his talented staff at DMPE Inc. After a weekend at US 131 in Martin, Michigan, where Bowles got the hang of doing burnouts and launching the car, he made a couple full runs and got the hang of mid-six second runs at over 200 mph. Two weekends later Jerry, and his wife Gerri and there sons Jay and Justin decided to load the1941 Willys in the trailer and head to the IHRA race in Grand Bend...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/a_hines.jpg"align="left"borders="0"/br><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/G_Tonglet.jpg"align="left"borders="0"/>SCREAMIN' EAGLE TEAM LOOKING TO RETURN TO WINNING WAYS AT BANDIMERE SPEEDWAY IN MILE-HIGH CONDITIONS Hines and Tonglet Looking for Redemption from 2005 MILWAUKEE (July 10, 2006) – When Matt Hines says that the Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines V-Rod team has some experience with winning at Bandimere Speedway, he's just being modest. The current crew chief of the two-bike factory supported Harley-Davidson team earned four wins in five final round appearances throughout his NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Motorcycle career. This week Hines and the rest of...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/P_Burkart.jpg"align="right"borders="0"/>BURKART'S "GOTTA BELIEVE" IN BLUE AT BANDIMERE DENVER (June 10, 2006) -- The catch phrase seems to have been brought to national prominence by the late Tug McGraw, a tough major league relief pitcher who urged on his 1973 New York Mets teammates and their fans with the saying "Ya Gotta Believe!" Though Mr. McGraw is now probably just as well known as the father of country singer Tim McGraw, the rallying cry from his halcyon baseball days has outlived him, and is consistently used by all manner of teams or competitors who are looking for that edge, that extra bit of self confidence. Phil Burkart, and his Checker, Schuck's, Kragen blue...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/D_Worsham.jpg"align="left"borders="0"/>WORSHAM HEADS TO THE MOUNTAINS FOR A FRESH, CLEAN, START DENVER (June 10, 2006) -- The first half of the 2006 NHRA POWERade season is over, and Del Worsham won't even pretend to be sad to see it go. Having battled through one of the most frustrating 12-race runs of his illustrious career, Worsham can only hope that continued perseverance, as well as the confidence built by 21 lifetime race victories, will finally put his Checker, Schuck's, Kragen team over the top and back into the lofty reaches of the sport's elite. His first half was full of incomprehensibly close losses, most of which came against a short list of drivers who are...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/T_Wilkerson.jpg"align="right"borders="0"/>Wilkerson looks to the mountain for the start of something good Denver, prerace: Time goes by too quickly, and once again it's time for the famous, yet grueling three race Western Swing, marking the second half of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing season. Springfield, Ill. Funny Car veteran, Tim Wilkerson looks for the 5200 mile trek to be a turning point in the struggling performance of his Levi, Ray & Shoup Chevrolet Monte Carlo. The first stop on the demanding trip is Bandimere Speedway for the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals. Set 5,860-feet high in the Rocky Mountains, the thin air at that altitude makes Bandimere a challenge for...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/R_Stevens.jpg"align="left"borders="0"/>Mopar driver Stevens looking for Mile-High sensation MORRISON, Colo. (July 10, 2006) - Richie Stevens Jr. is hoping to run the gamut on a season of highs and lows by securing his first Pro Stock win of the 2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series season at this weekend's Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway, just outside of Denver. Stevens, driving the Team Mopar/Valspar Dodge Stratus R/T, has been on a roll of late, reaching at least the quarterfinals in each of his past three races (first time for him since Topeka, Kan., Joliet, Ill., and Englishtown, N.J., in 2005). This consistency has elevated him from 14th to 11th in...

<img src="http://gallery.nitromater.com/files/6/5/andrew_cowin_2.jpg" alt="andrew_cowin_2" align="right"borders="0"/>Serta Team Puts Competition to Sleep at Milan Dragway Andrew Cowin captures first career Top Fuel Ironman at Suzuki Motor City Nationals The Scott Griffin Motorsports/Serta Mattresses Top Fuel team has only been inexistence for seven months. At the Suzuki Motor City Nationals he accomplished something other teams have spent years failing to do. Cowin defeated Bobby Lagana, Jr. in the Knoll Gas-Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Top Fuel final at Milan Dragway to chalk up the first victory for the fledgling Wilmington, N.C.-based racing operation. Scott Griffin hired Cowin to drive his car in December of ’05, Sunday the...

<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/DannyRowe.jpg"align="left"borders="0"/>Rowe Continues Climb up IHRA Standings with Final-Round Finish MILAN, Mich. (July 9, 2006) - Danny Rowe's steady climb up the IHRA eMax Drag Racing Series Pro Mod points standings continued Sunday at the Suzuki Motor City Nationals, where he fell just shy of scoring his first career IHRA Pro Mod event win but jumped from fourth to third in the points race. After qualifying No. 3 in a 36-car field Saturday, Rowe, driving a '63 Corvette tuned by Jimmy Rector, won three eliminations rounds on Sunday before coming up just short against Mike Janis in the final, 6.18 to 6.20. The margin of victory in the final, which was close the entire...