Gary Naughton accomplished a feat Sunday that's known in drag racing as "running the table."
 

Lined up on the roof of Dave Hance's fancy black '93 Mustang were three World Street Nationals trophies.
 
One was for being the $3,000 Mickey Thompson Drag Radial class winner -- and recipient of a championship jacket that will make him the envy of racers and fans and his friends in his Long Island neighborhood of Inwood, N.Y.
 
Another was for the "Clean Sweep Award" -- along with a $1,000 bonus -- he earned for being the winner, No. 1 qualifier, and driver to set low elapsed time at the 17th annual door slammer extravaganza at Orlando Speed World Dragway.

Andrew Hines felt he had nothing to lose heading into the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals.

The three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion from Brownsburg, Ind., entered the event fifth in the championship point standings with no realistic chance of pulling off a fourth title.

“I was relaxed today,” Hines said. “For some reason, I get all caught up into these races and the points and the battles … the rivalries. I had nothing to lose today. I knew I needed to get into the final round.”

Reliable sources reported to CompetitionPlus.com that Ford Motor Company and NHRA were unable to retrieve any data from the “crash box” installed on Daniel Wilkerson’s Funny Car following his wreck in Memphis.  Daniel’s father, Tim, confirmed that this was the case, blaming the problem on the fact that his team had but one charger for the system that had to be shared between the two cars.  “We charged the unit completely on Thursday (of race week),” Wilkerson said, “but by Sunday it must have run down.”

Jeff Dobbins might have been kidding when he spoke to newly crowned Extreme Pro Stock champion Matt Hartford, but then again, he may have been serious.

Hartford stood on the roof of the Billy Dingman Racing Chevrolet Cobalt, the same Wilson Manifolds-sponsored Extreme Pro Stocker celebrating his third career world championship.

Hartford won't drive the car next year, Dobbins will.

Chevrolet unveiled five dramatic Camaro concepts at the annual automotive aftermarket extravaganza known as the SEMA Convention, each representing a different vision of style, personalization and performance.

The Camaro concept vehicles include:

• A race-ready, twin-turbocharged V-6 concept built for talk show host and auto enthusiast Jay Leno
• The Camaro Synergy concept that reveals a new, limited-production exterior color for spring 2010 and is accented with a number of production accessories and custom touches
• The Camaro Chroma, an SS-based concept with a number of future accessories
• The Camaro Dusk, which incorporates current and proposed accessories to create a contemporary tuner aesthetic
• Camaro Graphics, highlighting six proposed accessory graphics packages, with online voting by the public to gauge interest in potential future production of one or more of the packages.

Tony Schumacher has become accustomed to winning the crucial rounds. On Sunday at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals, when matched against the No. 3 points earner Cory McClenathan, Schumacher lost by .008 of a second.

Adding the pain is the fact that McClenathan is Schumacher’s teammate.

There were a lot of signs on display during the Las Vegas race, but none caught our attention as much as Linda Smedley’s.

The NHRA will not allow the AHRA to host their 2010 Reunion tour events on tracks they sanction.

On Monday, the reincarnated AHRA announced a five-race tour schedule to be conducted on three NHRA facilities and two IHRA. The NHRA contacted their three member tracks on Friday, October 30, to inform them that staging one of these events would put them in violation of the NHRA track member agreements.

“They informed these tracks that they were in violation of their member agreements with NHRA and could not allow these events to take place,” said Troy Moe, President of the AHRA. “AHRA has left unreturned messages for Graham Light, NHRA VP of Operations, in an attempt to resolve this matter but has yet to receive a return call."