The first of three JEGS Sportsnationals for 2010 is in the books with three Louisiana racers taking big wins at this weekends 7th Annual NHRA JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals at No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, La.  Just under 500 racers from across the country made the trip to No Problem in search of the coveted NHRA National Event Wally Trophy.

Stephen Rosen of Harahan, La., blasted to a 7.935 second pass at 168.45 mph for the win against Adam Hickey, Hammond, La., in the final of Comp Eliminator.

“We’ve worked so hard on the combination” voiced Rosen. “Everything just came together today. This is so exciting to win the JEGS event here at our home track.”

“Hot Rod” Fuller was the big winner on day two of the Yas Drag Festival taking two of three races against teammate Tommy Johnson, Jr. Both Fuller and Johnson finished the inaugural event at Yas Drag Centre with three wins each.

“There are so many people who made this great event a success,” Fuller said. “The Yas Marina team and everyone at DSR all worked together and now we have thousands of new Top Fuel fans. This is a great start for NHRA drag racing in Abu Dhabi.

In the final rounds of qualifying for the NHRA JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals at No Problem Raceway Frank Aragona, John Benoit, and Tom Elliott all held on to their No. 1 qualifying positions from Friday’s day one action.

Aragona, Freehold, N.J., leads in Comp Eliminator, Benoit, Montpelier, Vt., has his ’68 Camaro on top in the Sunset Racecraft Top Sportsman class, and Brooks, N.Y., racer Elliott heads up the TCI Comp Cams Top Dragster field.  Benoit covered the quarter-mile in 6.473 seconds at 211.89 mph while Elliott clocked in at 6.149, 226.09 mph.   Both Benoit and Elliot will pocket $1000 for their No. 1 qualifying efforts courtesy of Motorvation, Garrison Construction and Southland Fire.

Mother Nature has blessed the ADRL with a 10th event on the 2010 schedule.

Rain, cooling temperatures, and the prospect of strong crosswinds on Sunday forced the postponement of the season-opening ADRL Universal Technical Institute Dragpalooza VI at Houston Raceway Park. And, brought about the inclusion of a tenth event to be run July 23rd and 24th, which will include the final qualifying for the Pro Extreme class and eliminations for all classes.

Kenny Nowling, President and CEO of the ADRL, announced to a gathering of drivers the ADRL's plans. In previous years, when the final day of an event was postponed it was completed at the next regularly scheduled event.

Working for the owners of Houston Raceway Park, Nowling was able to put together the extra event giving teams already on property the chance to make the tow back to HRP more palatable.

Billy Glidden’s Mickey Thompson-sponsored race car has no idea its sporting a true all-Ford combination for the first since Glidden started frequenting the ADRL series almost a year ago.

Neither does the car know the pressure its under to help its driver regain a championship lost opposite higher funded and equally championship-minded teams.

This is why Glidden has been burning the midnight oil to provide the car with the weapons necessary to return an Extreme 10.5 championship to Whiteland, Ind.

Jason Scruggs was powering down the track in his '68 Camaro on a monster run before his effort went up in flames during the second round

of qualifying for the Pro Extreme class in the ADRL Universal Tech Institute Dragpalooza VI at Houston Raceway Park.

As the crew worked to repair the race car, Scruggs took time to talk about reason for the fire and the damage done to the race car.

Mitchell Scruggs, father of Pro Extreme driver Jason Scruggs, grew up the son of a poor sharecropper in Tupelo Ms, in a house doctor's deemed too cold for a new baby. On the day he was born, 14 year old Elvis Pressley, living four miles down the road, was doing what ever teenagers did back in 1949.

Today, Scruggs builds the engines for his son's Pro Extreme Camaro while Elvis rests in eternity at Graceland.

Thirty seconds led to the longest five months of Jason Hamstra’s life.

Hamstra was crossing the finish line during the Speedtech Battle for the Belts competition last October when he lost control of his Camaro and drove head-first into the retaining wall at Texas Motorplex [Ennis, Tex.] before sliding to a stop in the shutdown area.

Hamstra was transported by helicopter to nearby Parkland Hospital, where doctors checked him and save for some bumps and bruises was given a clean bill of health.

The one area the doctor’s couldn’t check was the young driver’s psyche and the mental issues associated with a devastating high speed crash.

Joshua Hernandez of nearby Conroe, Texas, leads the Pro Extreme field at Houston Raceway Park (HRP) after three of four scheduled qualifying sessions for the American Drag Racing League’s (ADRL’s) season-opening Universal Technical Institute Dragpalooza VI presented by Safety-Kleen are in the books.

Also on top of their respective classes are Burton Auxier in Pro Nitrous, reigning Flowmaster Extreme 10.5 World Champion Spiro Pappas, Ashley Owens in Pro Extreme Motorcycle and Extreme Pro Stock racer Cary Goforth.

Hernandez steered his supercharged ’57 Chevy to a 3.68-seconds pass at 208.17 miles per hour in his second attempt on the HRP eighth mile. He can secure the official ADRL speed record for the class by running within one percent of his pole-sitting pass this weekend.