Moses had Mt. Sinai. Kenny Nowling, President of the ADRL Series, has the retaining wall at Memphis Motorsports Park.

After a weekend of racing attended by 112 spectators, Nowling, somewhat
depressed, rested on the wall as personal assistant Jessica Alcoke
walked up. Looking up at the Memphis sky, Nowling pondered the future
of the fledgling sanctioning body.

Alcoke approached Nowling and commented, “We might as well give the
tickets away. At least we can make some money on t-shirt sales.”

Nowling looked at the near two dozen spectators in the grandstands,
half of which were Elvis impersonators in town for a convention, and
once he got past the initial anger over what he initially considered a
ludicrous and untimely statement, he realized Alcoke's words made
sense. Certainly things couldn't get any worse.

Rocky Mountain Raceways will be hosting their annual Jet Car Spring Nationals on Saturday, May 23.

Chuck Haynes in his Volcano Jet Car will be racing at Rocky Mountain Raceways on Saturday, May 23.

According to Ron Craft, Drag Strip Manager for Rocky Mountain Raceways,
the Jet Car Spring Nationals is an amazing motorsports spectacle with
some of the fastest racing on the drag strip.

“I am expecting large car counts, fantastic weather and a great show for spectators,” said Craft.

With Jet Car racers from all over the United States and Canada coming
to Rocky Mountain Raceways, the jet-powered dragsters will run more
than 250 miles per hour on the drag strip.

To enhance the online experience of its fans and racers, the National
Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) is rolling out an

“Big Don” Ellison will be hosting the new National Guard ADRL Online
Radio show as part of enhanced Internet-based coverage of the National
Guard ADRL Quarter-Max Memphis Drags II this weekend at Memphis
Motorsports Park.

expanded
and improved Internet-based reporting package, beginning May 21-23,
from its Quarter-Max Memphis Drags II at Memphis Motorsports Park.

The weekend coverage kicks off Thursday night from Silky O’Sullivan’s
Pub (183 Beale St.) in downtown Memphis, where host “Big Don” Ellison
will debut National Guard ADRL Online Radio at 7 p.m., featuring
interviews with drivers and crew members from all five National Guard
ADRL professional classes as part of an open-to-the-public, pre-race
party. A prominent link on the official National Guard ADRL Web site
(www.ADRL.us) will connect listeners to the show.

Robert Patrick remembers Memphis Motorsports Park as a track that has teeth, complete with atmospheric conditions capable of delivering a nasty bite. Depending on the time of the year, the weather in Memphis can also provide an exhilarating experience.

The last time the Purvis Ford-sponsored Patrick, from Fredericksburg,
Va., competed on the famed Memphis quarter-mile was in September of
2001 in the Autozone NHRA Nationals.

Patrick was the only Ford driver to make the sixteen-car field.
Unfortunately, he lost in the first round to eventual winner George
Marnell.

An old and accepted adage in NHRA championship drag racing says that to
win a national event you must first qualify. But before Kurt Johnson
can make even one qualifying attempt down the track, the transporter
hauling his ACDelco Chevrolet must arrive there, safe, secure, and
ready to operate as a rolling race shop as soon as it enters the gates.
That's where Bobby Wunderlich, a crew member on Johnson's ACDelco team
comes into play.

For the past three years, Wunderlich and crew chief Justin Belfance
(and on occasion, crew member Mike Smith), have shared the
oft-overlooked, yet extremely important task of driving the ACDelco
Racing team hauler to each national event. The ACDelco transporter, in
addition to its primary function of carrying Kurt Johnson' Pro Stock
Chevy Cobalt to and from each venue, is an 18-wheel, high-performance
garage that functions as the team's on-site race shop. Getting this
million-dollar unit (and everything in it) to the track, and back home
again, is understandably a job Wunderlich takes very seriously.

While most of his rivals on the NHRA tour take a weekend off before the season's first stretch of three races in a row,
rookie-of-the-year candidate Shawn Langdon is spending Memorial Day at
the track, fighting for big money in the Huntsville Engine Great
American Bracket Race at No Problem Raceway Park in Belle Rose, La.

"I just love to drag race," said Langdon, the back-to-back and reigning
Super Comp world champion. "Even though the Tree is different, it can't
hurt to use it like a practice session for my Top Fuel car. You can
practice at home all you want but nothing compares to real competition
when your adrenaline is pumping."

This isn't the first off-weekend that Langdon has used to make some
extra money and sharpen his skills. Earlier this year in March, he
scored $10,000 at the Tenn-Tucks event in Bowling Green, Ky., in the
same Lucas Oil Super Comp dragster he'll pilot this weekend.

Andy McCoy Race Cars (AMRC) generated a buzz in the drag racing community with the debut last year of its 1970 Plymouth Duster-bodied
race car and is currently building one for veteran racer Thomas Myers.
Myers will drive the car in the ADRL Pro Nitrous series.

“Thomas is an excellent driver and this is a great opportunity for us
to showcase our car so we are working hard to get it to him as soon as
possible,” Andy McCoy said. “He has a strong engine and drivetrain
combination and I believe when they are joined together with our
chassis he will see an immediate increase in performance. That’s why we
have agreed to supply this car for him.”

The former Texas Outlaw Pro Modified champion from Granbury, Texas is
currently 12th in the ADRL standings and is slated to be piloting the
new car in that series this summer.

Doug Herbert and Ray Evernham have announced the launch of www.lsrproject.com ,
the website dedicated to the Herbert-Evernham Land Speed Record
Project.  The site is designed to give fans information about the
project as well as updates on the progress of the car itself.

“There has been a lot of interest in the car we’re building, so we
wanted to have a site where people can go to check it out,” said
Herbert, who began work on the car in 2008 as a project with his
father, Chet Herbert, who passed away in April 2009.  “My dad was
involved with land speed cars for many years and I’ve got a lot of
respect for the sport of land racing and the guys that do it.  He was
really excited about the car.  Even though he won’t be there with us to
see it, I still can’t wait to get out to Bonneville and run this car. 
It was a project I was doing with my dad, now it’s something I’m doing
for him.”

Top Fuel pilot Brandon Bernstein, Funny Car driver Jack Beckman and Pro
Stock Motorcycle world champion Eddie Krawiec will attend this weekend’s Coca-Cola 600, as special guests of NHRA’s series sponsor, Full Throttle Energy Drink and The Coca-Cola Company.

The drivers will make a guest appearance on the Coca-Cola Stage at
Speed Street, participate in an autograph session and conduct a fan
meet-and-greet on Saturday, May 23, as part of Lowe’s Motor Speedway’s
Speed Street in downtown Charlotte.   In addition, the three will
participate in the pre-race driver’s meeting prior to the 50th running
of the Coca-Cola 600, followed by a visit to the media center.

Veteran motorsports journalists and longtime members of the NHRA press corps, Susan Wade and Will Lester,
were named top winners today in the Aflac Motorsports Journalism Awards
of Excellence in honor of Russ Catlin, an annual contest that
recognizes outstanding coverage in major auto racing since 1985. The
announcement was made today in Concord, N.C. at Lowe's Motor Speedway
as part of the Coca-Cola 600 festivities.

The awards are among the most coveted in motorsports journalism.
Reporters from USA Today, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated and the
Washington Post, among others, have been past winners.