History-makers will witness history in the making at zMAX Dragway when the gold medal-winning four-man U.S.bobsled team will serve as Honorary Grand Marshals for the inaugural NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, March 25-28.
   
As Honorary Grand Marshals, the crew of the famous Night Train bobsled will be honored during pre-race festivities with a commemorative
plaque, participate in a question and answer session during opening ceremonies and experience 32,000 horsepower first hand as they stand on the
starting line for the first four-wide-pass during Sunday's eliminations.
   
"It's an honor to be named Grand Marshal for this event," said Steven Holcomb, pilot of the gold medal winning bobsled. "The support of the racing community has been instrumental in our success and it's great to have this opportunity. Now I get to cheer for some of our biggest advocates that have supported us over the last few years. They've earned this gold medal too."  

In an unprecedented move for drag racing, 10-year-old American Drag Racing League (ADRL) Pro Jr. Dragster star K.J. Nowling has signed a lifetime performance contract with Al-Anabi Racing.

“I had the pleasure of hosting K.J. at two of our recent Arabian Drag Racing League events in Qatar and found him to be an incredibly bright young man who clearly understands the mechanics of racing,” Al-Anabi team owner Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani said. “Being a two-time ADRL national-event winner, he’s obviously a talented driver, so I thought I’d better get him under contract now before someone beat me to it.”

John Force Racing has been one of the leading teams in promoting itself over the internet and through social media, mainly Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Today they launched an official JFR team Facebook page that will feature behind the scenes photos, videos and updates on the 16-time Funny Car Full Throttle championship organization. Fans of all three Funny Car drivers John Force, Ashley Force Hood, and Robert Hight will get all the up to date info on the team. Alcohol Dragster pilots Brittany and Courtney Force will also be featured as well as many of the behind the scenes crew members.

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.