Clay Millican and MPE Motorsports owner Mark Pickens are embarking on a new sponsor relationship with LifeLock, NHRA and RBA Sports
Marketing that puts Millican at the controls of the LifeLockracing.com
Top Fuel dragster in time for Friday’s start of the 30th annual Mopar
Mile-High Nationals in Denver.

“This is a very exciting opportunity for our team to partner with a
company that looks out for people by protecting them from identity
theft,” said Millican.  “And our car has a cool new look.”

Millican is 10th in Full Throttle Racing Series standings, 38 points
out of ninth place.  The top 10 drivers after 18 races qualify for the
six-race Countdown to the Championship that begins in September.

Randy Kay won the latest West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association event at Champion Raceway in Medford, Oregon, which was contested over the Independence Day weekend.

Five
teams, including previous event winner Rod Burbage, Kay, Lee Smith, Jay
Diedrich and Greg Carlile from northern Washington State were in
attendence.  Parts attrition from the previous race along with the
holiday weekend kept the participation lower than expected.

Kay
led early qualifying by posting a 6.369 elapsed time at 225.90 miles
per hour, a run which would stand throughout qualifying. The No. 1
status earned Kay a first round bye run.

Beginning with the 30th annual MOPAR Mile High NHRA Nationals in
Denver, John Force Racing will be supporting the Los Angeles-based
Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program with specialty decals on their
quartet of Ford Mustang Funny Cars. The decals will help raise
awareness for an organization where John Force Racing's outside general
counsel, Michael Sherman, serves on the Board of Directors.

“Michael brought this foundation to my attention and I thought it was
really doing some great work. This kind of cancer, the kind that
attacks kids, really gets me. We see a lot of kids and families at the
races that have been affected by cancer. If putting a decal on my Ford
Mustangs will help them get more attention and maybe some more
donations then that is the least I can do,” said John Force, President
and Owner of John Force Racing, Inc.

After his debut in Pro Stock Motorcycle earlier this season, Kenny Van
Buren will again be wearing his leathers in this weekend's Mopar
Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway, piloting a Mitchel
Lippen-tuned, Vance and Hines-powered Suzuki. The two-time NHRA
Division 7 Summit Racing ET Motorcycle Champion is backed by AGP Turbo
and will be promoting "Committed to Freedom" - an organization that
provides abuse survivors with spiritual tools to help them move beyond
their circumstances.
 
The 57-year-old Van Buren said he is ready
to get back on the track after his initial outing at the O'Reilly NHRA
Spring Nationals in Houston in March.
 
"Being a professional
racer has been a dream of mine since I was 16, so getting to do this is
really a dream come true," Van Buren said.  "I'm looking forward to the
challenges ahead as our team strives to become successful in the Pro
Stock Motorcycle class."

Pappas and Handras Racing plan to debut their 2004 JBRC Top Sportsman Cavalier this weekend at Englishtown.

You would think it would be hard to fly under the radar with two wins
and four finals already under your belt by the midway point of the season, but that is just what Top Fuel driver Bruce Litton has managed to do.

And Litton, a quiet, easy-going driver from Indianapolis, wouldn’t have it any other way.

While
a number of drivers on the circuit have been busy stealing headlines,
Litton has been busy stealing valuable points and making consistent,
smart runs that has paid off with a comfortable 84 point lead over
rookie Del Cox with five races remaining on the 2009 Nitro Jam docket.

“It
is definitely a team effort from days at the shop, to traveling the
miles, to running 300 miles per hour down the track and turning on the
win light,” Litton admitted. “There are a lot of people that go into
making this a successful operation and I can’t thank them enough for
their part on this Lucas Oil team.”

Antron Brown, who leads the NHRA Top Fuel standings, is featured on the cover of the current issue of Christian Motorsports Illustrated.
Brown's DirecTV/Matco Tools dragster dons the cover of the Second
Quarter 2009 issue of CMI that will be available beginning at the 30th
annual Mopar Mile-High Nationals, July 10-12, at Bandimere Speedway.

"It's very meaningful to be on the cover of CMI," Brown said. "It's
really cool to see and spread the fellowship with other brothers and
sisters in Christ in the motorsports industry. We look forward to
seeing the magazine this weekend at Denver and to help spread the word
about CMI."

Since the International Hot Rod Association truly became a multi-national sanctioning body with the running of the Canadian Nationals in 2000, Grand Bend Motorplex has been one of the premier venues on the Nitro Jam tour.

Located
just outside the quaint village, and popular summer tourist
destination, of Grand Bend, Ontario, on the shore of Lake Huron, Grand
Bend Motorplex annually hosts large, enthusiastic, fun-loving crowds of
race fans from Ontario, Michigan and beyond.

The 2009 version of
the Great Canadian Race, the MOPAR Canadian Nationals, promises to be
bigger, better, louder, more exciting, more thrilling and more
over-the-top than ever before.

Responding to the steep demand for priority seating for the historic
50th running of the Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals, Feb. 11-14,
2010, NHRA officials announced today the availability of an online
order form.

To participate in the ticket deposit program – a deposit of $19.61,
which commemorates the first Winternationals in 1961, allows fans the
chance to participate in a special ticket pre-sale – fans can now
simply go to [http://store.nhra.com/product.asp?3=235]. Fans can also
place deposits by calling 800-884-NHRA or by picking up a deposit form
at the National DRAGSTER trailer at any NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing
Series event.

Ken
Black received a Fed-Ex letter yesterday and the contents came as no
surprise to the NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock team owner.

Inside was a notice from GM which stated they were officially cutting
ties with his KB Racing, LLC as well as with Cagnazzi Racing, Pedregon Racing and Kurt Johnson.

Black’s team consists of former world champions Greg Anderson and Jason Line.

“I knew it was coming, I was forewarned,” Black told
CompetitionPlus.com on Wednesday. “That’s why they [GM] filed
bankruptcy … to get rid of all of this stuff.”