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<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/Deby706/MoparMile-Highlogo.gif"align="right"borders="0"/>MOPAR LEGEND BUDDY MARTIN OF SOX & MARTIN DUO TO APPEAR AT MILE-HIGH NATIONALS Race Fans Can Leave Tributes to the Late Sox and Geoffrion</br> Center Line, Mich. - Mopar is proud to announce that Buddy Martin, half of the famous Sox and Martin duo that took the NHRA, IHRA and AHRA Super Stock and Pro Stock division by storm in the 1960s and early 1970s, will attend the upcoming Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals event. Martin will be reunited with the 1968 Super Stock HEMI Plymouth Barracuda that Ronnie Sox piloted during the 1968 and 1969 racing seasons. Sox won the 1969 NHRA U.S. Nationals Super Stock championship behind the wheel of...
<img src="http://gallery.nitromater.com/files/6/5/andrew_cowin_2.jpg" alt="andrew_cowin_2" align="left"borders="0"/>Cowin Vaults to Top of Qualifying Sheet Sets Milan Dragway speed record in Friday qualifying at Suzuki Motor City Nationals</br> Andrew Cowin made a big splash in his return to IHRA competition. The driver of the Scott Griffin Motorsports/Serta Mattresses Top Fuel Dragster, returning to the eMax Drag Racing Series for the first time since advancing to the final of the Spring Nationals in Rockingham, set the Milan Dragway Top Fuel speed record and claimed the provisional pole position with a 4.659 pass at 319.90 mph during the Friday qualifying session of the Suzuki Motor City Nationals.</br> Cowin broke the previous...
<img src="http://gallery.nitromater.com/files/6/5/d_worsham06.jpg" alt="d_worsham06" align="right"borders="0"/>Del Worsham Sends Message During Nitro Funny Car Qualifying at Suzuki Motor City Nationals</br> Milan, Mich. (July 7, 2006) – Del Worsham is the reigning IHRA Knoll Gas-Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Funny Car World Champion. He won the title in 1992, the last season IHRA ran the class in national event competition.</br> It might be 14 years later, but Worsham showed things haven’t changed that much. He claimed the provisional #1 qualifying position at the Suzuki Motor City Nationals presented by GM Performance Division and the Heritage Newspapers in Milan, Mich. when he posted a 4.910 pass at 316.82 mph. Worsham ( Chino Hills...
<img src="http://gallery.nitromater.com/files/6/5/d_schumacher.jpg" alt="d_schumacher" align="left"borders="0"/>DON SCHUMACHER CONFIRMS ERICA ENDERS HAS JOINED DSR PRO STOCK TEAM </br> BROWNSBURG, Ind. (July 7, 2006) - Multi-team owner Don Schumacher officially confirmed that Pro Stock driver Erica Enders has joined the Don Schumacher Racing Pro Stock operation for the remainder of the 2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series and beyond.</br> Under a partnership agreement with Don Schumacher Racing, Enders will team up with DSR Pro Stock pilots Richie Stevens Jr., who drives the Team Mopar/Valspar Dodge Stratus R/T, and Shaun Carlson, driver of the Team Mopar/SRT Dodge Stratus R/T, beginning at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals July...
<img src="http://gallery.nitromater.com/files/6/5/kalitta1ihra.jpg" alt="kalitta1ihra" align="right"borders="0"/>Kalitta joins Nitro Funny Car Fray in Milan</br> Milan, Michigan (July 7, 2006) – Doug Kalitta has a solid season going in NHRA Top Fuel competition. The Ypsilanti, Michigan-based racer has four national event victories under his belt this season and currently sits second behind Melanie Troxel in the 2006 NHRA points chase.</br> Kalitta is stepping away from NHRA for a weekend, and he will use his cousin’s car to do so.</br> Doug Kalitta will drive Scott Kalitta’s Nitro Funny Car at the IHRA Suzuki Motor City Nationals presented by GM Performance Division and the Heritage Newspapers at Milan Dragway this weekend. </br>

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