The prices for the NHRA's competition fees, including license,
permanent numbers, and chassis inspection according to the the
sanctioning body's official website.

The new fees for these services are reflected in the forms available online at www.nhra.com/competition/forms.aspx .

Robert Patrick has made many withdrawals from the bank of good fortunes
over the course of 18 years in mountain motor Pro Stock racing. In the
last two years the majority of his banking has been done at South
Georgia Motorsports Park [SGMP] located outside of Valdosta, Ga.
 
Last March, Patrick drove his Purvis Ford-sponsored, Shelby Cobra to
the quickest and fastest mountain motor Pro Stock run at the time, an
incredible quarter-mile 6.266 elapsed time at 223.84 miles per hour.
His SGMP mark held until the latter part of the season.
 
Since Patrick now runs the ADRL’s eighth-mile format, his 4.05 eighth-mile would have been a milestone as well.

Jason Scruggs described what could be the quickest and fastest pass in drag racing history as one he had to “drive a little bit”.

The two-time ADRL Pro Extreme champion from Saltillo, Ms., in only his
second pass in a new Garrett Race Cars Camaro, turned in a 3.687
elapsed time at 206.61 miles per hour. This testing run at Alabama
International Raceway in Steele, Ala., though unofficial, eclipses his
previous best of 3.70 at 205 in Rockingham, N.C.

“If the clocks are right, I guess we did,” Scruggs said with a laugh,
describing unofficially the quickest and fastest Pro Extreme run ever.

SPEEDT Original PINKS All Out to Hold First-Ever Nationally Televised
Four-Wide Drag Race Competition at zMAX Dragway on April 25

SPEEDT officials today announced that the first four-wide, nationally televised, official drag racing
competition will take place during the PINKS All Out television shoot at
zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C., on Saturday, April 25. The episode, which is
being shot for Season Three, is scheduled to tentatively premiere on Aug. 6,
and is presented by NAPA.
    
Traditionally, the show's technical advisors evaluate a field of
450-plus grassroots drag racers through two time trial sessions and a 32-car
runoff to select a field of 16 finalists. The cars are chosen by an
objective set of criteria including closeness of competition, consistency in
performance and an adherence to the rule of running "All Out." Once
revealed, the cars are lined up in the staging lanes, rigged with cameras
and microphones, and run through a competitive eliminator commencing around
dusk.

Matco Tools announces an opportunity to win its latest service cart,
the MSC11. Enter the "Matco's Toolbox Plant Wants to Give You a Service
Cart" sweepstakes for a chance to win a MSC11 Service Cart and MSC11TT
T-Top Drawer Accessory valued at $1,125.00. The promotion ends on May
15, 2009.

"Matco's latest service cart, the MSC11, offers flexibility so that
choice-hungry techs can make buying decisions that best fit their
purposes.This cart is designed to be exactly what the technician wants
at the time, while also being designed to grow and change as a
technician's needs evolve," said J.P. Camardo, Matco's marketing
product manager for Tool Storage. "It's about paying for what you want
and skipping what you don't. Every tech works a little differently, and
rather than trying to pass down one standard cart, this one is
customized for each individual order."

Champion
drag racers John and Mike Coughlin have good reason to be excited about
competing in Division 3 in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series this year.
The famous racing brothers, two of four siblings that own and operate
JEGS Mail Order, have new pipe and new powerplants to help them chase
the title in the competitive Top Dragster class.

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The Champion Speed Shop in association with Miramar Events is proud to announce a return to the Pebble
Beach of Drag Racing. The Pacific Coast Dream Machines show will host
the 50th Reunion of the Half Moon Bay Drag Strip on April 26th, 2009.

The Folk Race Cars team will present their inaugural driving school at
Byron Dragway in Byron, IL June 26-27. The class, which will be hosted
by Brian and Nick Folk, along with guest instructor Luke Bogacki, will
be split into four main segments: two classroom sessions, and two
on-track sessions on the fabled Byron Dragway quarter mile.

While the school is open to any interested parties, the curriculum has
been designed for current racers who hold a basic understanding of the
principles of bracket and/or class racing, but are looking to improve
their game, and take their racing to the next level. The classes
instructors have assembled enormous credentials and accomplishments
between them, in all forms of sportsman drag racing competition. Brian
Folk is a former IHRA Super Rod World Champion, and a two-time Moroso
5-Day points champion. His brother Nick Folk has a pair of IHRA World
Championships to his credit, in Top Dragster and Stock Eliminator.
Bogacki has a pair of DragRaceResults.com Bracket Series World
Championships on his resume, and was voted the 2008 IHRA Sportsman
Driver of the Year. Additionally, the trio has assembled countless
national, divisional, and big dollar bracket wins and several
divisional championships.

This past weekend at the John Gates Memorial Race held at Barona Dragstrip in Lakeside, CA, the 2008 defending CIFCA Series Champions,
Jam-Air Motorsports, led by driver Will Martin began their 2009 season
by debuting a brand new 1969 Chevy Camaro RS Alcohol Funny Car and
defeated Jamie Leppanen in the Arizona Thunder Firebird in the final.
In testing on Friday night, the team shattered the Barona eighth-mile
ET record with a 4.18 ET at over 162 MPH.