Long an innovator on the race track, six-time Australian Top Doorslammer champion Victor Bray will introduce a unique and exciting feature to Team Bray's website.

Beginning with the May 31st test session at Queensland's Willowbank Raceway, fans will be able to hear Victor reporting on the team's progress within minutes of each and every pass he and son Ben, make in their supercharged hot rods.

After a week of non-stop rain, drag racing fans in North Carolina took
advantage of Saturday's beautiful race day conditions, filing into O'Reilly
Farmington Dragway to enjoy an open field Pro Modified shootout. Local
racer Steve Vick went the distance behind the wheel of his new Alan
Pittman-built 1968 Camaro beating Todd Tutterow in a thrilling blower
verses nitrous final round.

Clay Millican stated emphatically before the NHRA O’Reilly Summernationals the time for the MPE Motorsports Top Fuel team to make something happen was at Heartland Park Topeka. Going to the final round is making something happen.

Millican’s Topeka runner-up to Larry Dixon was his fourth career NHRA final round and first since May 2004.

The multi-time IHRA Top Fuel champion has never won an NHRA event and though he entered the weekend as 11th in points, 105 behind Joe Hartley, his first round Sunday foe.  Now, he is within 38 points (360-322).

Ashley Force Hood’s bid to succeed her father as champion of the
O’Reilly Auto Parts Summer Nationals came up just short Sunday at
Heartland Park-Topeka where points leader Ron Capps sped to his fourth
victory of the season.
 
The No. 1 qualifier, Force Hood was victimized in the final round by
something her Castrol GTX team has avoided much of the season – a loss
of traction.
 
With her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang ahead near half track, Ashley
suddenly had her hands full as the 8,000 horsepower hybrid darted
toward the left side guard wall.  For all intents, that ended the
26-year-old’s bid for her third pro victory.

Even though there are unwritten rules in drag racing which mandate one doesn't cheer for a rival, the fact is blood is thicker than nitro.

And, the blood between a father and a son is the thickest of all.

Ed and Jason McCulloch will go down in the annals of drag racing
history as the first father and son nitro crew chiefs to win an NHRA
Full Throttle National event on the same weekend as they guided their
respective teams to victory at the O’Reilly NHRA Summernationals in
Topeka, Kan. Three months earlier they were the first to guide their
drivers to No. 1 positions during the same event, this time in Phoenix,
Az.

One thing Allen Johnson had working for him headed into the final round of the O’Reilly
NHRA Summernationals is that he knew his opponent. The Mopar-sponsored
driver has raced against Mike Edwards for enough years to know what to
expect when the sixteen-car field whittled down to the two of them.

“Mike always makes a good run against us,” Johnson said, as he spoke to
the assembled media following his seventh career NHRA Full Throttle Pro
Stock victory.

“In the finals he did. The right lane came around for us with the cloud
cover but we didn’t take Mike lightly. We knew he had it.”

Johnson admitted that he felt a measure of pressure and for the
seasoned factory-backed racer, one could assume the news of Chrysler’s
bankruptcy along with a dry spell between national event victories has
been overwhelming.

Second
generation nitro Funny Car driver Daniel Wilkerson was more than
capable of being a player in the O’Reilly NHRA Summernationals but as
the up-and-coming rookie driver learned on Sunday, one of the more
important lessons to be learned is how to be a team player.

Wilkerson was a strong contender, having run a 4.215 elapsed time to
land in the eighth spot of the 16-car field, unfortunately that put him
up against Bob Tasca III, his father's teammate. It was time to learn a
valuable lesson.

At the light, Wilkerson hesitated and then lifted early ensuring Tasca would have a clear path on the run.

When one gets beaten by the track it’s usually because something happens beyond the starting line and not behind it.

Langdon's crew struggles to get his Lucas Oil dragster into reverse.

Rookie Top Fuel driver Shawn Langdon acknowledges the mistake, a rare
mistake, which overshadowed an otherwise impressive semi-final finish
by the Lucas Oil-sponsored driver at the O’Reilly NHRA Summernationals
in Topeka, Kan.

Pro Mod racer Tim Tindle found his way through the uncharted fields of
Heartland Park Topeka all the way to the winner's circle in the Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge presented by ProCare Rx.
 
Marking the first time the Challenge has visited the O'Reilly NHRA
Summer Nationals, the drivers and teams were greeted with full stands
of fans and treated them to a show of fast runs and close races all
under the sunny skies of Kansas.
 
Tindle made good on his purpose when he said at the beginning of the
race "I'm here to win" by besting Chip King, Danny Rowe and even number
one qualifier Joe Baker en route to the final-round matchup against Jay
Payne. Payne had beaten Mike Knowles and then single-handedly took out
the nitrous-burning teammates Burton Auxier and Mike Castellana to earn
his berth in the money round.

Ron
Capps continued his dominance over the Funny Car field with his win at
the 21st annual O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka.

Larry Dixon and Allen Johnson also visited winner’s circle after
dominating their respective classes at the race that marks the halfway
point of the regular season for the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing
series.