The conversation will be more than drag racing when NHRA Funny Car driver – and cancer survivor – Jack Beckman is the Newsmaker of the Week guest on The Race Reporters radio show, Wednesday, July 7, 7 p.m. EDT, on www.PowerUpChannel.com.
 
Beckman, a race winner and Full Throttle championship contender in the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger fielded by Don Schumacher Racing, is fourth in points heading into NHRA’s Western Swing of three consecutive events. A drag racing instructor, he debuted in Top Fuel in 2005 before getting the Funny Car opportunity with Schumacher the following season. Beckman quickly set national elapsed time and speed records and won his first event in Las Vegas. He was third in 2008 points.

The conversation will be more than drag racing when NHRA Funny Car driver – and cancer survivor – Jack Beckman is the Newsmaker of the Week guest on The Race Reporters radio show, Wednesday, July 7, 7 p.m. EDT, on www.PowerUpChannel.com.
 
Beckman, a race winner and Full Throttle championship contender in the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger fielded by Don Schumacher Racing, is fourth in points heading into NHRA’s Western Swing of three consecutive events. A drag racing instructor, he debuted in Top Fuel in 2005 before getting the Funny Car opportunity with Schumacher the following season. Beckman quickly set national elapsed time and speed records and won his first event in Las Vegas. He was third in 2008 points.
 
Beckman, a retired U.S. Air Force sergeant, will talk racing in the show’s third segment, then share his personal story in the last segment.
 
Media panelists will include NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart; and Stan Creekmore, of CompetitionPlus.com.  
 
Host Michael Knight and The Race Reporters won the first-place prize in the Best Podcast category in the 2009 American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association annual journalism competition. It is the top-rated show on the Power Up Channel and is now in its second season offering a “good, hard, honest Constitutionally-protected conversation on the motorsports issues of the day.”

Recently, Knight won a gold and silver medal in the International Automotive Media Awards, making a total of more than 40 awards for journalism, public relations and contributions to motorsports received in his career.

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