Announces Expanded 2009 Season Schedule

Turbine-engine tunes with an emphasis on afterburner base notes will make beautiful music as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University unleashes a symphony of speed on North America in 2009 when
the student-designed Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster hits the highways for
the next racing season.

The Embry-Riddle Jet Racing Team is perfectly positioned for its
biggest season ever with more than 25 major drag-racing venues already
scheduled for 2009, including major events in Bradenton, Fla., Norwalk,
Ohio, Atlanta, Chicago, and the EAA airshow in Oshkosh, Wis.

The Florida-based team is spending the off-season preparing its
equipment and spares for the fifth full season of exhibition racing of
the Embry-Riddle jet car. The Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster, driven by
veteran drag-racing driver Elaine Larsen, is powered by a Pratt &
Whitney J-60 engine and accelerates from zero to 60 mph in less than a
second and reaches top speeds approaching 300 mph in a quarter of a
mile. Larsen is one of only three women currently driving jet-powered
race vehicles in the United States.

Eddie
and Christine Ware's daughter Katelyn has become an integral part of a
vitally important fundraising effort for the world-renowned Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center. Born with five different
congenital heart defects that required two open-heart surgeries to
repair, Katelyn is featured in the Cooper Heart Project calendar, the
sales of which will directly benefit the Sibley Heart Center.

Ware had a great season on the JEGS ProMod Challenge in his Disturbed
Motorsports Firebird, winning his first NHRA race when he captured the
crown at his hometown track of Atlanta Dragway. But for all his
accomplishments on the racetrack, nothing compares to the joy he
experiences every time he looks at his "miracle baby," who is healthy
and happy thanks to the exceptional efforts of the Sibley Heart Center
medical team.

The holiday season is right around the corner, and once again John Force Racing will be giving back to Southern California with
the 11th annual John Force Holiday Car Show Dec. 7. The Holiday Car
Show began in 1997 and has gotten bigger and better every year. The car
show will continue to benefit the California Highway Patrol's CHiPs for
Kids Toy Drive.

Last year, John Force Racing received more than 8,000 unwrapped toys,
and this year, JFR's goal is to equal that number and maybe even reach
10,000 toys.

The Holiday Car Show is held at the John Force RaceStation store beside
the JFR shop in Yorba Linda, Calif. This year's show will begin at 10
a.m. and wrap up at 4 p.m. To get in for free, bring a new $10
unwrapped toy. There will be tours of the race shop and museum all day.
Fans will be able to see thousands of John Force's personal
collectibles, trophies, and race cars.

It
didn't take long before Ron Capps was back on a race track following
the completion of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, in which
he finished eighth in the point standings driving the NAPA AUTO PARTS
Dodge Charger Funny Car for Don Schumacher Racing. He buckled himself
into the seat of a Super 600 Mini Sprint last Saturday to compete
against 45 similar race cars, including one driven by his
soon-to-be-former teammate Gary Scelzi, at Park Plaza Raceway in
Visalia, Calif.

Capps drove the Wes and Gloria Shaw-owned Eric Medlen Tribute car on
the one-fifth-mile clay oval, the site where Scelzi's sons Dominic (11)
and Giovanni (6) race regularly in Mini Sprints.

After qualifying 14th, Capps came in 11th in the main event, while
Scelzi, who qualified third, saw his day end in his heat race following
a spectacular crash in which he rolled four times.

The Infineon Raceway Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities will
distribute $417,936 to 57 qualified youth organizations in Sonoma
County for the 2008 season.

This marks the fourth consecutive year the Infineon Raceway Chapter has
topped the $400,000 mark — it distributed a one-year record of $554,045
in 2005. Moreover, the chapter has distributed more than $3 million
since 2002 to 175 Sonoma County youth groups. The chapter's Board of
Trustees recently approved the distribution of funds at its annual
meeting.

Speedway Children's Charities is the charitable arm of Speedway
Motorsports, Inc., which owns and operates Infineon Raceway.     

Ten-time Pro Stock Champion Was Adversely Affected in 1979 Chrysler Bailout …

Ten-time
NHRA Pro Stock champion Bob Glidden vividly remembers the last time
Congress bailed out an American auto manufacturer. The year was 1979.

Just days after beating Bill Jenkins for the 25th anniversary NHRA U.S.
Nationals title in Indianapolis, the Chrysler Corporation petitioned
the U.S. Government for $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to avoid
bankruptcy.

Glidden was headed into the second season of a three year contract with
Plymouth when he was notified his contract was cancelled.

Hot
Rod Fuller recently completed his first season as driver of the David
Powers-owned Caterpillar dragster with consecutive final-round
appearances in Las Vegas and Pomona. The fan favorite posted a win at
the St. Louis race and earned the pole in Norwalk in June. It was a
strong finish to the season for the seven-time NHRA Top Fuel winner,
who has 20 career NHRA national event wins to his credit in Top Fuel,
Super Comp and Super Gas. In this Q&A, the popular Las Vegas racer
chats about this 2008 season, his off season plans, 1,000-foot racing,
and even makes some sports predictions. 

The final installment of the three-part 1979 NHRA World Finals features
the finals of the three professional divisions. Top Fuel features the
final round fo Don Garlits versus Rob Bruins while Gordie Bonin goes
for his third Funny Car title of the season against Tripp Shumake. Bob
Glidden meets Frank Iaconio in the final round.

Luke Bogacki of Woodville, Ala., is now two-for-two in Super Pro finals
at the Las Vegas Bracket Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway. Bogacki defeated Chris Lindsay on Friday and then repeated
the feat against British Columbia's Stefan Kondolay.

Don’t say Jim Halsey didn’t warn the competition.

Hours
after running the first five second nitrous doorslammer run in drag
racing history, the Street, Md.-based driver mentioned matter-of-factly
that he was having a special outlaw 1968 Camaro built which would be
lighter and sleeker than his present ride.