Houston Raceway Park has become a shareholder in the Super Chevy Show series and has set a date to be part of the 30th anniversary season in 2010. The Baytown, Texas facility will replace Route 66 Raceway on the schedule and will host a Super Chevy Show for the first time since 2005 on Sept. 10-12.

Seth Angel is Houston Raceway Park's executive vice president and general manager. He helped get Houston on the Super Chevy Show schedule and is thrilled it could happen so quickly. Houston Raceway Park held Super Chevy Show events every year between 1988-2005.

"The Super Chevy Show event is obviously another marquee event on any racing calendar and it will certainly be a signature event of our racing season," Angel said. "We're thrilled to have it back at Houston Raceway Park and I know it is going to fill a huge void in the Houston market."

Gifted writer, talented photographer, innovative editor – Steve Collison was all of that and so much more.

He passed away at age 54 nearly a decade ago, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, fittingly while hard at work at his desk, pounding out the latest issue of Drag Racing USA.

Collison, who was inducted into the Drag Racing Hall of Fame in 2003, left behind a legacy as one of the premier photojournalists in drag racing history. More important were the relationships he forged with others in the industry – photographers, writers, manufacturers, and, especially, racers. With him, it was always about the racers. Collison – "Stevie" to his friends – may have been on a first-name basis with every pro driver in the sport, but he valued his relationships with no-name little guys at least as much.

Kenny Koretsky has been intertwined with NHRA Pro Stock racing for more than 25 years, but the words championship contenders were seldom uttered when discussing his teams.

But that is about to change.

The popular team owner announced Thursday that he, driver/engine builder Greg Stanfield and Indicom Electric owner Greg Hill, another factory hot rod enthusiast, have formed a partnership. They  
are focusing on a 2010 season they believe could be as bright as the familiar multi-colored race cars that run under Koretsky’s Nitro Fish Apparel banner.

Bill Kuhlmann swears a day is coming when he’s going to write a tell-all book on what happened behind-the-scenes during Pro Modified’s formative years. And for the Wentzville, Mo.-based Pro Modified icon, if the book is as successful as his part in pioneering the class, it could be a best-seller.

“A lot of people forget who had the first big wing…I had to make that,” said Kuhlmann, speaking to Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com for the Two Decades of Thrill series. “Who had the first dual parachutes? I had to come up with that because my cars were too heavy to stop. Double frame rail car … no one had ever heard of them. Who had the first nitrous oxide on an engine that was over 615-cubic inches? Nobody wanted to take a chance and blow up their high dollar motor.”

Kuhlmann was accustomed to taking those chances.

Jason Scruggs was a terror when he raced a 1963 Corvette. And in the spirit of horror flicks, the two-time ADRL Pro Extreme champion from Saltillo, Miss, will soon unveil a new sequel aimed at being even more horrific for the competition.

Once chassis builder Garret Livingston completes Jason Hamstra’s new ride, the Scruggs machine will return to the front-burner.

“Mine will be the next one out the door,” Scruggs told ADRL.us, the official website for the doorslammer series. “We’re shooting to have it out there by Valdosta (Apr. 23-24).”

Todd Tutterow, 2009 Pro Extreme champion, is hard at work getting ready for the start of the 2010 American Drag Racing League (ADRL) season, just like he has every other season in the past.

The difference this year is a lucrative three-year contract with Al-Anabi Racing.

The 45-year-old Tutterow, is confident entering a season of competition that actually started last year. In ADRL, the 2009 title was determined on the first day of competition at the Texas Motorplex, located outside of Dallas, in October. Points for the 2010 season, were awarded on Saturday, the day after he was crowned champion.

When the NHRA originally announced the GSA Pro Modified division as a professional category last October, the intention was to allow 24 entries. Though it hasn't been officially announced yet, Attitude's CompetitionPlus.com has learned the field has expanded to 28.

NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car driver Del Worsham heads into the 2010 season confident he can make the field to compete in the Countdown To The Championship, like he did in 2009, driving for Al-Anabi Racing.

In his first season at Al-Anabi Racing, Worsham made the Countdown for the first time in his career and finished seventh in the final standings - 195 points behind eventual champion Robert Hight.

“I didn't know what to expect going into my first year at Al-Anabi Racing but we had great results and it was definitely a building block for (2010) and the future.”

Drag racers by nature know the danger present in their sport every time they get behind the wheel.

Tim Nimmo, a 25-year racing veteran, faced the danger first hand this past Saturday at Palm Beach (Fla.) International Raceway.

Nimmo was racing his dragster against Jerry Baxter, who was piloting a race-modified Corvette-looking machine, during first-round eliminations of the Super Pro class.

Leesburg, Georgia resident Wheeler Davis found his love for the sport of drag racing in 1994 when he started taking his street car, a 1971 Nova, to the local track.

It didn’t take long before Davis became a serious bracket racer. “I’ve tried a lot of other things in life, but once I got started, I found out that drag racing is for me.”

In 2006, Davis “begged and borrowed” from his wife to purchase the car he still races today, a 1973 tube chassis Nova, with a 406 small block Chevy.