Tim Tindle is an accomplished drag racer, having finished in the top ten amongst point earners on the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Modified tour. During the offseason, he’s keeping his skills sharpened by bracket racing a Mullis Race Cars dragster.

The Santa Rosa, Fla.-based driver has exemplified his natural driving in the fast doorslammers ranks but last weekend during the Emerald Coast Dragway Thanksgiving Wally Nationals in Holt, Fla., Tindle surprised himself.

Eight years ago, four-time Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. helped carry the Olympic flame to the Salt Lake City Winter Games. In 2010, he plans to help his friends with USA Bobsledding mine some precious metal at the Winter Games in Vancouver as part of the rising team's boisterous support group.

"We're heading up to Vancouver to watch these guys and girls win some medals," Coughlin said. "The team has been doing really well and everyone expects them to have a great showing so we want to add our support and be a part of it all."

LenMar Motorsports, Gaylen Smith and Mark Eddins, have built a name participating in the ADRL drag racing series.

In 2010, LenMar will expand its reach into the liquid quarter-mile with primary sponsorship of driver Randy Benson and his Fool Addiction drag boat. As a result, the boat will be renamed Texas Bounty Hunter H20 and compete on the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series.

For the last six months, 100 Ford Fiesta Agents have been taking to the streets with the Fiesta Movement, promoting Ford’s soon to be unveiled 2011 Ford Fiesta. On December 1st at the world famous Palladium on Sunset Boulevard everyone who joined the movement got a sneak peak of the 2011 Ford Fiesta and one “Agent” was recognized as the Internet’s Top Agent.

That lofty honor went to Courtney Force, of Yorba Linda, Calif. Force received thousands of comments throughout the summer-long program on her MySpace site, her YouTube Channel and on her Twitter account as she drove and then talked about the Fiesta. For the 21 year-old Cal State Fullerton student who is working towards a degree in Communication with an eye on a career as a professional driver winning the award was a thrill.

Moments after winning his seventh Top Fuel title, Tony Schumacher, driver of the ARMY dragster, made a promise – he promised to present the trophy to the soldiers at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.

History was made a month ago in the Pro Mod class.

Back on Nov. 1, the class officially joined the NHRA as part of the Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series. The Pro Mod Series will compete at 10 NHRA Full Throttle Series events in 2010 as part of multi-year deal between the Pro Mod Series and the NHRA.

The NHRA adding the Get Screened America Drag Racing Series was made possible by funding from Pro Care Rx and its current Get Screened America initiative.

If you missed Antron Brown last night on Joe Castello's WFORadio show, you can listen to it by visiting NHRA TUESDAY - 12-2-2009

NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart and CompetitionPlus.com publisher/editor Bobby Bennett are also featured guests.

The Elite Motorsports will offer complete ride and drive programs in NHRA Pro Stock in 2010, as well as house their own engine program. Elite Performance will offer several options for racer needs by providing, selling and leasing their ride and drive programs or engines.

Amalie Oil announced a multi-year partnership today with Terry McMillen and Hoosier Thunder Motorsports. McMillen will field a  Top Fuel team for the entire NHRA Full Throttle drag racing season. The announcement extends a decade long relationship for McMillen and Amalie Oil that began with McMillen's iconic Amalie Oil InstiGator Alcohol Funny Car.

"This is a big step for us and for Amalie Oil," McMillen said. "Competing full time against the biggest and best teams in drag racing is going to be challenging and rewarding. I can't thank them enough for helping us grow our program to this level. It's the perfect place to showcase Amalie's 'Better than it has to be' product line."

Amalie's racing heritage began when their red and white logo began appearing on legendary drag racing teams piloted by Gene Snow and Shirley Muldowney. A decade ago, Amalie began its relationship with McMillen continuing its commitment to showcasing their high performance oil in drag racing.

The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod Association in conjunction with Royce Miller, Maryland International Raceway [MIR] track owner and other track owners, have created a contest that has prizes that include a hospitality suite for winners and an unspecified amount of guests at one of the 2010 NEOPMA races at MIR in Mechanicsville, MD, a club Jacket, T-Shirts, and be a guest of the NEOPMA for the day.