Melanie Troxel, a winner in both the NHRA Funny Car and Top Fuel classes, will be the Newsmaker of the Week on The Race Reporters radio show, Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m. EDT, on www.PowerUpChannel.com.

This season, Troxel is driving the In-N-Out Burger Dodge Charger in select Funny Car events as well as in the Pro Mod class. She was runner-up in last weekend’s Pro Mod race, near Houston. In 2006, she won two Top Fuel races and finished fourth in points. She won twice again in TF the next season and then moved into Funny Cars in 2008 and got one victory.

Troxel will be racing this weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Melanie Troxel, a winner in both the NHRA Funny Car and Top Fuel classes, will be the Newsmaker of the Week on The Race Reporters radio show, Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m. EDT, on www.PowerUpChannel.com.

This season, Troxel is driving the In-N-Out Burger Dodge Charger in select Funny Car events as well as in the Pro Mod class. She was runner-up in last weekend’s Pro Mod race, near Houston. In 2006, she won two Top Fuel races and finished fourth in points. She won twice again in TF the next season and then moved into Funny Cars in 2008 and got one victory.

Troxel will be racing this weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Host Michael Knight will be joined for the journalists’ roundtable by John Sturbin, of RacinToday.com; and Bobby Bennett, of CompetitionPlus.com.

Plus, Peter De Lorenzo, of Autoextremist.com, will talk with Knight in the last segment about the state of automakers’ involvement in motorsports.

The Race Reporters can be heard “live,” downloaded into an iPod, or accessed for listening on a delayed basis by clicking on the show icon at www.PowerUpChannel.com. Listeners can bookmark the show and sign-up to receive a free “E card” with news on upcoming guests, at the show’s home page, http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549 . The show also re-airs several times later in the week (check PowerUp’s daily programming listing.)

Knight is a 40-year motorsports industry insider and award-winning publicist and journalist. The one-hour show’s format is a “good, hard, honest, Constitutionally-protected conversation on the issues of the day.” Previous Newsmaker guests have included Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, John Force, Ashley Force Hood, Dario Franchitti, Joey Logano, Gil de Ferran, Tony Schumacher, Brad Keselowski, Scott Pruett, Adrian Fernandez, Graham Rahal, Larry Dixon, Ron Capps, Antron Brown, Robby Gordon, David Reutimann, Hurley Haywood, Max Papis, AJ Allmendinger, Bob Tasca III, Bryan Sperber, Terry Angstadt, Scott Atherton, John Daly and Chris Economaki.

PowerUpChannel.com was launched last June by VoiceAmerica.com, the largest producer and distributor of live Internet-based talk radio. There are over 1,000 hours of weekly programming on its VoiceAmerica and WorldTalk Radio Networks.  

For more information on The Race Reporters, go to: http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549 .

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