The National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) is proud to announce Garret Race Cars as its newest contingency sponsor.

Garret Livingston (far right) watches National Guard ADRL Pro Extreme
champion Jason Scruggs launch his Garret Race Cars-built ’68 Camaro
that scorched the Memphis Motorsports Park eighth mile in a record 3.66
seconds at more than 207 miles per hour. Garret Race Cars is the
National Guard ADRL’s newest contingency sponsor.

Garret
Race Cars is a full-service chassis building shop in Marble Hill,
Missouri, and the source of two-time defending Pro Extreme champion
Jason Scruggs’ record-setting 1968 Camaro. Garret also built the 2007
Dodge Stratus in which Scruggs won the 2008 Pro Extreme title.

“This is a big step for us, but I think it’s important to support the
racers who support us,” said Garret Livingston, owner and founder of
Garret Race Cars. “The ADRL is on a huge growth curve right now and we
at Garret Race Cars want to help keep that growth going.”

When Ike Maier won the recent Victoria Day Weekend PMRA race at the Cayuga Dragway, he became the 15th different winner in 21 Pro Modified Racing Association races held since 2005.
 
Maier also became the sixth different winner at the track, which is the oldest operating drag strip in Canada.
 
While the Pro Modified Racing Association has raced at many tracks
throughout Ontario, Quebec, and New York State, the Cayuga Dragway at
Toronto Motorsports Park has been one of the mainstays in the Pro
Modified series. Carl Spiering of Jordan Station, Ontario, beat Al
Billes of Barrie, Ontario to win the very first PMRA race back in May
of 2005.
 

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.