European Top Fuel racer Andy Carter will team with drag racing's Big Daddy Don Garlits next season on a one-race deal.

Carter will run backing from Don Garlits anbd the Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum at the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., March 11 - 14, 2009.

Celebratory Robert Hight NHRA Full Throttle 2009 Funny Car Champion t-shirts are available now at the John Force RaceStation (www.JohnForceRaceStation.com) for immediate order. In addition to the traditional adult sizes the shirt is also available in 2XL, 3XL and 4XL t-shirt sizes. Sweatshirts and lady t-shirts will be available in about a week.

ADRL Pro Nitrous champion Khalid Al-Balooshi will enter this weekend’s Round 1 of the Arabian Drag Racing League with a pair of new tuners, both with championship experience.

His Highness Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Thani has hired Jeff Perley and Justin Elkes to add to the performance of his Pro Nitrous operation both in the pits and on the drag strip.

“Jeff Perley is a great addition to our arsenal and will add to the solid foundation we have established, building the core structure of our team that has already produced two world championships,” said Sheikh Khalid, checking in via phone from his office in Doha. “His track record in NHRA Pro Stock as a multi-time world championship crew chief speaks for itself, and combining his tuning expertise with the horsepower provided by Shannon Jenkins and David Reher - we are continually adding to our entire program.

Weld Racing's Kyle Fickler contacted CompetitionPlus.com to let our readers know of their inaugural Weld Racing Beadloc®Conversion Sale.

According to Fickler, genuine Weld Racing Beadloc® conversions are now available with black or polished Beadloc® rings for a limited time only.  Prices start at $499 each for 15” and $549 each for 16”.

US 131 Motorsports Park’s racing surface is undergoing a facelift during its off season in preparation for the 2010 racing season.  Specialized equipment has begun milling out 16 feet sections in each lane of the racing surface in preparation of an additional 500 feet of concrete to be poured, replacing the current asphalt.

Larry Morgan knows what makes every part on his Pro Stock Dodge work.

However, the one-inch in diameter, silver patch he’s been wearing on his shoulder for the past few weeks remains a mystery. Morgan has suffered with a rotator cuff issue for years and now it feels new.

“I’m not exactly sure what’s in it and what it does, but I do know it takes the pain away,” said Morgan, who two weeks ago at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals won his first Pro Stock event in seven years.

The 17-time national event winner said he drove at Vegas for the time first time without pain. He wasn’t skeptical of trying it either.

Super Stock racer Alex Denysenko has a problem with the IHRA’s logic of completing the 2009 season on April 30, 2010.

That’s when Denysenko and 177 of his fellow sportsman racers are scheduled to finish off the 2009 season through the IHRA’s Tournament of Champions competition. The competition to determine the world champion in each sportsman division was postponed last month due to weather.

The event will be completed during the IHRA’s 2010 Nitro Jam event in Rockingham, NC.

“I think the idea of crowning a 2009 champion in 2010, three months into the season, just stinks,” Denysenko, the IHRA’s Div. 5 Super Stock champion said. “I know a lot of my fellow competitors feel the same way.”

Whit Bazemore doesn’t even try to mask his feelings. The former nitro racer, sidelined since mid-2007, seeks a ride for 2010 and on Sunday in Pomona, he was job-hunting.

“I’m a little itchy and ready to come back to driving again,” Bazemore said.

Bazemore is so itchy to return that whether he races a Funny Car or Top Fuel dragster is an afterthought. Besides, as Bazemore puts it, “I have unfinished business in both.”

Unfinished for Funny Car would be an NHRA world championship. In Top Fuel, he’d like to get a national event win to go alongside the 20 he earned in the flopper.

Bob Glidden says he’s feeling fine.

The ten-time NHRA Pro Stock champion recently underwent a heart procedure to upgrade his pacemaker and thus far, he’s doing well.

“The surgery was just a piece of cake,” said Glidden, on Tuesday evening from his home in Whiteland, Ind. “I had to go from a two magneto to three mag combination.”

NHRA Full Throttle Series world champion Tony Schumacher, will headline tonight’s worldwide debut of NHRA Tuesdays, 7 -8 pm ET (4-5 pm PT) on WFO Radio with Joe Castello.  To listen live, on demand, or to download as podcast, go to http://www.wforadio.com
 
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