Tommy Gray and the Undertaker Team set a new Pro Mod record at Maryland
International Raceway last weekend at The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod
Association running a record setting 5.90, 243mph.

"We
are so thrilled with Our Vanishing Point Race Car and our Jan Cen power
plant," Gray said. "We have run 2 NEOPMA events and been to the final
in both. With a record setting crowd waiting for the final round the
rain came and unfortunately the race was canceled.

Jamie Stoneman takes commanding TNT Super Series points lead at Toronto Motorsports Park

Jamie
Stoneman ruled the field at the Joe's Transmission TNT Super Series
events this past weekend at Toronto Motorsports Park (TMP).  A regular
in TNT Super Series competition, the Cheektowaga, New York racer found
his way to the winner's circle in both Saturday and Sunday's events
presented by Rosehill Auction House.

"I can't believe it," said Jamie in the TMP Winner's Circle.  "Two
weeks ago, the cab, engine and transmission weren't even in the
chassis.  We thrashed to get the truck ready for the season opener last
week and got a runner-up finish.  Here we are winning the next two in a
row.  Awesome!"  The 555 cid big block Chevy-powered 1993 S10 qualified
third Saturday, first on Sunday and then busted up the field all
weekend long.

Bandimere Speedway, located outside of Denver, Co., kicked off its 2009
racing season recently with the “Night of Fire and Thunder” presented
by NAPA auto parts.

Among the thousands of race fans who packed the grandstands, were
several kindergarten through sixth grade students from 64 schools, who
participated in Bandimere’s “Race to Read”® program. “Race to Read”®,
which is lead by Tami Schrader, is a six-week reading program, designed
to encourage literacy by providing an exciting race-themed incentive
for elementary-age students. This year approximately 25,000 students
read over 170,000 hours in six weeks to earn a free ticket to the
“Night of Fire and Thunder”.

Highlighting the racing portion of the event were exhibition runs by some of the most exciting vehicles in drag racing.

NAPA Auto Parts stepped up to the plate to sponsor the new Quick 32 Sportsman Series with the season’s first race this past weekend at Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario.
 
The Hyde Racing Team was ready for a great weekend and it proved to be just that.
 
Driver Spencer Hyde did not disappoint, along with crew chief Rich
Ingram and his team of Jim McCann, Ron Hyde, Jack Hyde and Peter. This
was a big weekend for Spencer. It was the first race in his new car in
the new division (for him) of Top Dragster, and he competed in the
first race of this brand new series, pulling out a win against Mitch
Elliott of Woodstock with a 6.854-second, 199.85 mph pass down the
Cayuga quarter-mile.

John Force Racing East, the Midwest  headquarters of the most
successful team in Funny Car drag racing history, will open its doors
to the public Saturday, May 23rd , from 10 a.m.-to-2 p.m. as part of
the 3rd annual Brownsburg Motorsports Network Open House.

Fans will be permitted to tour the spacious team race shop that
includes the race shop, machine shop, fab shop, and paint shop.  John
Force’s Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang, Ashley Force Hood’s
Castrol GTX Ford Mustang, Robert Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang, Mike
Neff’s Ford Drive One Mustang and Eric Medlen’s Castrol Syntec Ford
Mustang will be on display in the shop for fans to view and snap photos.

Classic. California. Cool.

From the classic images of Harrison Ford in American Graffiti to James
Dean to The Fonz in Happy Days, the car – the hot rod – has always been
at the center of Hollywood’s projection of what it means to be Cool in
California.

Off the big screen, the roots of the southern California car culture
are deepest at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, where in February
of 1961 NHRA founder Wally Parks hosted the first-ever running of the
now-historic and iconic Winternationals.

Fast forward half a century and hot rodding’s past will meet its
present when the 0-to100 mph in less-than-a-second, 7,000-horsepower
hot rods of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series descend on Auto
Club Raceway at Pomona Feb. 11-14, 2010 for the 50th running of the
Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals.

Harry “Uncle Harry” Hoppes never drove a race car or attended the drag
races for the matter, yet he was one of CompetitionPlus.com's biggest
supporters.

Uncle Harry, brother of Diane Cartee, CompetitionPlus.com office
manager, and uncle of publisher/editor Bobby Bennett, passed away this
morning after a brief illness. He was four days shy of his 76th
birthday.

Elite group in the running for JEGS Crown trophy

An
elite field of 15 highly skilled sportsman drag racers are in the
running for the coveted JEGS Crown trophy, a special award which could
be bestowed upon one or more of them at the upcoming JEGS NHRA Northern
SPORTSnationals, Sept. 25-27. The JEGS Crown is a specially designed
trophy that was painstakingly handcrafted by Dan Dreisbach, of Naked
Sculpture (www.naked-sculpture.com). It is considered by many to be
drag racing equivalent to an Olympic Gold Medal simply because it is so
difficult to obtain. The only way to win the JEGS Crown is to win an
eliminator title at two of the three JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals events
held each year; the JEGS NHRA Cajun SPORTSnationals in Belle Rose, La.,
the JEGS NHRA Pacific SPORTSnationals in Fontana, Calif., and the JEGS
NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals in Columbus, Ohio. Since it’s creation in
2005, the JEGS Crown has been claimed just once, by former Pro Mod
racer and current Top Fuel team owner Mike Ashley.

Mayse Motorsports Looks to Build on Strong Start to 2009 Season

The
father & son team of Robbie and Rustin Mayse has enjoyed a
successful, albeit frustrating start to the 2009 NHRA campaign. While
the duo, which boasts numerous NHRA and big dollar bracket victories
and championships in recent years, has enjoyed repeated success in NHRA
competition this season, they have yet to hoist the coveted NHRA Wally
in 2009.

“It’s hard to say we’re not off to a good start,” said defending NHRA
Division 4 Super Gas champion Rustin Mayse. “Dad and I have both had
some success. We’re driving well, our cars are great, and we’re going
rounds. We just haven’t finished the job and put one in the winners
circle yet.”

Legendary Pro Mod racer Charles Carpenter has made a huge impression on
the Pro Street community by tuning Palm Desert, Ca.-based Randy Walker
to consecutive wins and the points lead in PSCA's top class, Hughes
Performance Pro Street class.
 
Walker's 1974 El Camino used the last qualifying session on Saturday of
the Probe Industries California Nationals to leap past Clint Hairston
and Tim Henry with an impressive 6.376, 219.72 blast down the very hot
Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Ca., to take the pole going into Sunday's
eliminations.