This classic video piece comes from what we believe to be the Flames of
Fear video on YouTube.com and features a few ugly racing accidents from
the 1970s. Among the mishaps are Bob Mayer’s tree wipe out, Raymond
Beadle’s Indy body separation and an ex Gene Snow flopper meets its
demise.

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Shawn Gann will be riding a new S&S-powered Buell owned by Lister Harrell
for the remainder of this season and all of 2009. 
 
X-Treme Rebellion, a
new brand of boardsports equipment and clothing produced by Oakley, will sponsor
the team along with XXX Racing Fuel. Gann’s father Blake will serve as crew
chief. Optima Trailers and Golf Cart World will be associate
sponsors. 
 
“This is a great opportunity for me and my family,” said
Gann. “We have always raced on a very tight budget. Finally we have a budget to
really race hard. “I am getting ready to jump off the hook. We are going to go
all-out.” 
 
Harrell owns Lister’s Outdoor World, a sporting goods
retailer focused on hunting, fishing and camping based in Eastman, Georgia.
Lister’s Outdoor World is one of the leading sellers of the Oakley brand
nationwide. X-Treme Rebellion, which will produce skateboards, snowboards and
wakeboards in addition to lifestyle clothing and eyewear, is a partnership
between Harrell and Oakley

Mopar®, longtime sponsor of NHRA drag racing, has renewed its multiyear
entitlement agreement through 2011 with the NHRA POWERade Series race
held annually at Bandimere Speedway near Denver.

The 30th annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, which represents the
traditional launching point for the three-races-in-three-weeks Western
Swing through Denver, Seattle and Sonoma, will be held July 10-12, 2009
at Bandimere Speedway.

“This ensures that one of the longest continuous title-rights
sponsorships in motorsports will continue on and it speaks volumes to
the value proposition in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series,” said
NHRA senior vice president, sales & marketing, Gary Darcy. “It’s
also a credit to the entire team at Bandimere Speedway for their
commitment to nurturing, growing and retaining such a marquee sponsor
as Mopar for so many years.”

As the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series winds down, along with the
Countdown to 1 playoffs for the class championship contenders, the Don
Schumacher Racing driver entourage will participate in numerous
activities in Las Vegas in advance of next weekend's Las Vegas NHRA
Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the penultimate
event of the year.

Beginning with a visit to the Nellis Air Force Base hospital and an
autograph session at the Base Exchange on Wednesday, Oct. 29,
Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger R/T driver Jack Beckman
will also play in the Speedway Children’s Charities poker tournament at
7 p.m. at the Cannery Hotel & Casino that evening, where he'll be
joined by DSR teammate Cory McClenathan, driver of the FRAM Top Fuel
dragster.

Bristol Dragway officials are proud to welcome VP Racing Fuels as its Official Fuel for the next three years, beginning in 2009.
 
“Combining two great brands like Thunder Valley and VP Racing Fuels
just makes sense,” said Brandon Cross, manager of Bristol Dragway. “The
way we do business in achieving our goals is the same. VP Racing Fuels
has a reputation for quality products and unsurpassed service and we
work every day to provide the same at Bristol Dragway.”
 
"Bristol is a fantastic, state of the art facility and we’re thrilled
with our new partnership,” said Jim Kelly, Eastern Regional Manager for
VP. “There are a tremendous number of racers from Tennessee, Virginia
and North Carolina that make Bristol their home track. A lot of them
already fuel with VP products and we're looking forward to showing the
racers that bought the track fuel there in the past just what VP power
can do in their engines.”

Pro Stock veteran Robert Patrick has put in more than his share of laps
in Pro Stock. The Purvis, Ford-sponsored driver from Fredericksburg,
Va., has driven mountain motor IHRA Pro Stockers and even did a lengthy
tour of duty in the NHRA 500-inch Pro Stock ranks.

Patrick has won a world championship and has at one time held the title
as driver of drag racing’s quickest naturally aspirated doorslammer at
6.266 seconds.

Earlier this week he added yet another chapter to his storied career.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that on November 10, the assets of Evan
Knoll will be auctioned off to satisfy a mountain of outstanding debt.
The article cited a court document filed by Foley and Lewis Racing,
Inc. as its source.

Any details, according to the report, could be hard to find since the
future of Knoll’s businesses were reportedly sealed by Van Buren County
Circuit Judge William Buhl in an agreement reached by parties in one
bank's attempt to recover $15 million it loaned Knoll to purchase a
private jet. Buhl was not quoted in the newspaper report.

Mickey
Thompson has just introduced a new feature to its company
web site – the “Buy Now” feature. This new feature will allow consumers
access to easy, one-click shopping, instant price and shipping cost
comparisons, and a simple shopping-cart style check out that makes
purchasing tires and wheels quick, easy and fun.
 
Here’s how it works: Once a tire or wheel category is selected, a page
is displayed reflecting a list of products in the category along with
the corresponding part number for each tire or wheel, and a unique “Buy
Now” button for each product. When the “Buy Now” button is selected, new search engine technology searches the top Internet sales
locations for pricing, and links the user to the shopping cart for that
unique part number. 

Big Money Racing Heads to Ennis to do “Battle”
 
Southern
legend “Big Money” Bil Clanton is no stranger to competing on the ADRL
tour’s biggest stage. Clanton will once again take the family owned ’53
Studebaker to Ennis, TX this weekend for the 4th Annual LenMar
Motorsports ADRL World Finals, an event which includes the championship
deciding Battle For The Belts. The “Battle” pits the top eight points
earners during the 2008 season in a winner take all race for the Belt
and a $20,000 winners share. Clanton is in the field for the special
event which will take place Friday evening, making him one of only two
drivers to qualify for every Pro Extreme Battle For The Belts since the
inaugural 2005 season.
 
“We are very proud of the fact that we have qualified for the Battle
For The Belts every year,” said Clanton. “I think that says a lot for a
low budget team such as ourselves to remain competitive against these
guys in Pro Extreme.”