For the second consecutive year, GoldenWest Lubricants and its Prolong® brand
will be the title sponsorship for the Prolong® Twilight Cruise Nights at the
Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, presented by the Automobile Club of
Southern California.

"We're pleased with the results we've seen from our
marketing efforts at the Museum's Twilight Cruise Nights," said Dan Griffiths,
president of GoldenWest Lubricants.  "Our sales to this important performance
car market have increased as has our brand recognition, as we support the Parks
Museum."

"GoldenWest Lubricants is an important marketing partner for
us," said Tony Thacker, executive director of the Parks Museum.  "We're pleased
that their marketing and sales results reflect the depth of their commitment. 
This renewal shows that they're getting tangible results from their Museum
connection."

Seven-time IHRA Champion Rickie Smith signed Bailey Trucking
to an associate sponsorship on his 1963 nitrous-injected Pro Mod Corvette for
the 2008 racing season.

Smith will compete at the season-opening ADRL Drag Illustrated
Dragpalooza IV in Houston, Texas, March 7-8. 

IHRA PRO STOCK CHAMPION LOOKING FOR STRONG TIMES WITH SPRING
TUNE-UP

Joe Signorelli was on a qualifying run in his Toyota Celica at the
recent Summernationals event at Western Sydney International Dragway when things got ugly rather abruptly.

Signorelli was entered in the Super Sedan class and on Friday afternoon had
this wild ride. He walked away okay and we believe that the
car didn't come out of the crash too bad either.

The RJ Race Cars built Toyota Celica is the former Titan car that
competed on the NHRA Sport Compact tour. The ride now belongs to Gary
Goodman and Joe Signorelli (Gas Motorsport).

In
December, the car represented one-half of the first side-by-side six
second pass for a Sport Compact vehicle in Australia alongside of Tony
Wedlock. 

NHRA announced today that it has signed a marketing partnership with
Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) that will enhance the automotive
division’s return to professional drag racing.

As part of the agreement, FCSD, through its Motorcraft parts brand and
growing national network of Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center
retailers, will have major presence at 10 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing
Series events in 2008 with an on-site promotional display in the NHRA
Manufacturers Midway, public address announcements and video display
advertising spots during event weekends. In addition, Motorcraft will
participate in NHRA’s contingency sponsorship program at the major
sponsor level.

The strategic marketing partnership increases Ford’s presence in NHRA
Drag Racing. Motorcraft and Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center is the
primary sponsor for rookie driver Bob Tasca’s Ford Shelby Mustang in
Funny Car competition. Ford Motor Company is also aligned with all four
Funny Car teams that compete in the John Force Racing stable, and is
primarily responsible for the innovative Blue Box safety program in the
sport.

The season opening IHRA Division 9 Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Series event kicks off this weekend at Rockingham Dragway.

The Carolinas’ fastest racetrack will play host to more than 400 IHRA
racers competing in eight Pro-Am categories including Top Dragster, Top
Sportsman and, new to the series this season, three classes of Jr.
Dragsters.

The track will open at 10 a.m. Friday for a test-and-tune session
restricted to Summit Series drivers.  Qualifying, time trials and IHRA
national record runs are scheduled Saturday with final eliminations
starting at 10 a.m. Sunday.

The Summit Pro-Am event, first of five IHRA  Raiders Divisional races,
kicks off a March schedule that also will include the season’s Spring
Carolina Coalition event (March 8-9), the first Holcomb Motorsports
Fastest Street Cars Shootout (March 15), the first of four Phantasm
Motorsports Street Wars featuring Insane Performance Real Street (March
16), the first race in the Mickey Thompson Performance Tires MiRock
Superbike Series (the Honda-Suzuki of Sanford Spring Bike Open, March
29-30).

In case you haven’t noticed, Kurt Johnson’s ACDelco Chevrolet Cobalt has a nasty disposition in

 (Roger Richards Photo)

2008. So nasty is this attitude, that Johnson has been using the attitude-laced Chevrolet to lay down some impressive runs.

“We just paid a little bit better attention to details is all it was,”
Johnson said when asked what he’s done to the car to make it respond
positively. “The dyno said we were a little bit better but to come out
here and run down the race track it was a little bit added bonus.  We
didn't expect to go as fast as we did.  I thought it was just my car
being new too, but obviously the GM Performance Parts car [driven by
his dad Warren Johnson. He is just as fast as I am so it seems to be
happy.  We're kind of scratching our heads right now.”

Johnson admitted that his engine program picked up about four horsepower during the off-season.

Sidelined Top Fuel pilot Brady Kalivoda snaked his way though the large
Saturday crowd at Firebird Raceway. He’s optimistic that he’ll return
to competition this season with Tim and Renee Coglan.

“It almost sounds like a cliché to say we're working on it and we've
got irons in the fire,” Kalivoda admitted. “All that stuff that us out
of work drivers say that all the time.  It's true though.”

Kalivoda and the Coglans ran four races in 2007 before the loss of
their crew chief curtailed their efforts. Despite being forced out of
competition when crew chief Keith Adams joined Don Schumacher Racing,
the Coglans kept all of their equipment.

“We’re actively seeking sponsorship,” Kalivoda added. “In fact, we have
a visit in two weeks from right now.  We're going down to do a
Celebrity/Charity golf tournament and a Blackjack tournament at Pearl
River Resort which was our sponsor in Atlanta last year.  We're also
going to take that time to hopefully iron out a partial package for the
remainder of 2008 while we're working on 2009.  All those things are
still in play it's just that I don't have anything to show for it yet.”