Comp racer Taylor Chomiski killed two birds with one stone at the NHRADivision 5 event at the new Flying H Dragstrip outside Kansas City, Mo. This weekend's first of two events marked the fourth stop on the $750,000 Rooftec Competition Eliminator Bonus Fund series [CEBF]. 

Chomiski scored his first career Rooftec CEBF, and in beating Don Thomas, he kept the curse intact, which prevented a racer from winning two of the events in the same season.  

The last time Steve King raced a major Pro Modified event in Maryland, it worked out well for him. After winning Cecil County Dragway’s $50,000-to-win Pro Mod Invitational back in May, King drove his supercharged Corvette to the No. 1 qualifying position in Pro Boost at the PDRA North vs. South Shootout

Joining him atop the doorslammer-based series were Jim Halsey (Pro Nitrous) and Jeremy Huffman (Extreme Pro Stock). 

Drag racers apparently don't have the market cornered on being resourceful. When rains deluged Odessa, Missouri, the location of Flying H Dragstrip, a significant number of racers were unable to get their cars to the staging lanes, much less unloading out of their trailers. 

Flying H Dragstrip, located outside Kansas City, debuted on Thursday as part of the NHRA's Division 5 schedule. They are hosting a double-divisional, which is two events in one weekend.

Friday morning, the racers parked in the upper grassy area woke up to flooded grounds. The initial weather report offered moderate rains wrapped into a significant thunderstorm. However, the storm dropped nearly two hours on grounds where its sod was still in the curing process. 

Flying H Dragstrip, the new facility located outside of Kansas City, MO., made its NHRA debut with the first of two Division 5 (West Central) events scheduled this weekend. With temperatures reaching into the 90s, the action on the strip was just as hot. 

The Rooftec Competition Eliminator Bonus made its first divisional debut outside of Division 4, and it was series regular Clinton Neff leading the 42-car lists with an elapsed time of 6.619, -.601 under the A/Econo Dragster standard. 

A perfect steak might be the only thing that could compare to filling out a perfect bracket. When the NHRA rolls into Virginia Motorsports Park next weekend for the NHRA Virginia Nationals, those two worlds will collide. 

As Elon Werner’s Drag Race Bracket Bonanza (DRBB) continues to grow, it will add another growing company to its list of presenting sponsors. 

The Hagan Cattle Company, a venture by the renowned four-time NHRA Funny Car Champion, is set to make a unique mark as the presenting sponsor for DRBB, the first-ever dynamic bracket competition for drag racing fans at the Virginia Nationals. 

Every time Brittany Force comes to Ohio, she will have the colors and brand of a company familiar to the state emblazoned on the side of her Top Fuel dragster.

Cornwell Tools is the primary supporter for the Summit Motorsports Park’s 47th annual Night Under Fire, and with an announcement on  Thursday afternoon, will bear the colors at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals, June 28 - 30, at the same venue outside of Cleveland, Ohio. 

If sportsman drag racing icon Jeff Taylor has proven himself to be one thing besides a great driver, it's his versatility. With this said, he and team owner David Nickens are parking their cutting-edge BB/Altered Dodge Stratus and racing this weekend's NHRA Division 5 event at Flying H Dragstrip with a B/Dragster Automatic entry.

While some might double-take at the notion of Taylor stepping away from a doorslammer to run a rail, remember that the 50-plus-time NHRA national event winner has raced and won with a Super Comp dragster. 

"I've probably made more runs on a dragster than I have a door car," Taylor admitted. "I had two dragsters in the late '80s and early '90s, and I bracket raced them every weekend. And then, I won two Super Comp national events. I think it's the right thing to do."

If there's one thing Jeggie Coughlin has learned in his storied drag racing career... one must always have a plan. And, the 67-time NHRA national event winner certainly had one for archrival and final round opponent Greg Anderson. 

When two drivers race each other as much as Coughlin and Anderson, and Sunday's final round match marked the 108th time they had faced one another in eliminations, a strategy different than the other 107 times was necessary. 

Coughlin needed a plan for when the tree dropped in the Pro Stock final round at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Anderson was away first with a .001 reaction time. Shortly after the launch, Anderson pushed in the clutch after experiencing tire shake, ending what was going to be a close race. 

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