IHRA has announced more of the broadcast schedule for the Knoll-Gas Nitro Jam™
Drag Racing Series. Next weekend’s Spring Nationals presented by Advance Auto
Parts and Castrol will air on SPEED Saturday, May 5 at 2:30
p.m.
(eastern) with Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car coverage. That show will air again
Wednesday, May 9 at 3 p.m.

The Flowmaster American Drag
Racing League and Camp Motorsport, a racing-based educational program
located at VIRginia International Raceway, today announced a multi-year partnership
that includes Camp
Motorsport becoming the
title-rights sponsor for the ADRL's annual Georgia Drags event. That event, scheduled for May 4 and 5 this year at Valdosta,
Ga., is now officially known as
the Camp Motorsport Georgia Drags.

"Camp Motorsport
is thrilled about this new partnership," said Camp Motorsport
founder Ken Martin, who formerly was Director of Camps for the U.S. Space Camp,
an educational experience for youngsters interested in space travel and
exploration. "We are looking forward to introducing Camp Motorsport
to the millions of fans that ADRL reaches each year."

8-year-old Kaylee Greer suffered life threatening injuries while making her very first pass in a Jr. Dragster at Ohio Valley Dragstrip near Louisville, Kentucky last week. According to reports, after turning off the track her car veered left and hit a retaining wall head-on. Kaylee either tore or broke the muscles and tendons in her neck which holds the head in place. The only thing keeping her head attached was her skin and spine. When help arrived, Kaylee was unconsious and not breathing, and the paramedic at the scene is credited with saving her life.

NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series stars Ron Capps,
Gary Scelzi, Cruz Pedregon and Tommy Johnson Jr. will race in Thunder Roadsters
at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night.  The four Funny Car
drivers will compete against each other in a special “grudge match” and also
will attempt to qualify for the regular Thunder Roadster feature.  The drivers
are in town for the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals at The Strip at LVMS Friday
through Sunday.  There will be no increase in admission for this special
attraction.

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, Tom “The Mongoose”
McEwen and Wildlife Racing, Inc., offer a unique and rare look back at the sport
of drag racing with the DVD release of “Once Upon A Wheel” – featuring short
films, guest interviews, historical footage and classic TV commercials from the
glory days of the widely popular “Mongoose vs. Snake” match race
era.

Before reality shows became the norm and Corporate America realized the
value in motorsports sponsorship, Prudhomme and McEwen granted all-access to
camera crews as they barnstormed the country in search of trophies, prize money
and bragging rights on the match race circuit. 
The short film “Match Race” features unscripted, behind-the-scenes
footage from the early 1970s of both legendary drivers as they travel from
Indiana to Michigan, tune their cars in the pits and compete on the drag
strip.

2006 PSCA Pro Street Champion Steve Paulauskis, is pleased
to announce he has entered into an innovative marketing agreement with Tom and
Yvonne Nelson of Team Transit Mix Inc. of Bakersfield,
CA for the remainder of the 2007
racing season. The WFO Motorsport Cavalier will debut as the Team Transit Mix
Cavalier at the upcoming West Coast Hot Rod Association (WCHRA) Team Transit
Mix Inc. Spring Nationals at the Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield on April 13-15. The Nelson’s
intend to use their association with Paulauskis to promote their new plant in Bakersfield and introduce
their employees and customers to the sport of drag racing and the ‘Team’ philosophy.

Tom
Nelson had this to say about Paulauskis “I have toyed with the idea of getting
involved with Steve for quite a while. He and his team are great
representatives of a team going out and being successful. Our whole business
philosophy is about being a ‘Team’ and the WFO crew is a great example of that.
With our new facility in Bakersfield
I needed an innovative way to showcase what we do, the WCHRA came along and I
had the solution to my two problems solved. I get to partner with Steve and I
get to showcase Team Transit Mix on the quickest Pro Street car on the West Coast. Steve
is the ideal guy for the job. The big plus for me is signing this deal with
Steve before the first WCHRA event at Bakersfield.
We are now going to use the event as a customer/employee Appreciation Day with
Steve and his team being the focus. We will have a hospitality area for our
guests and look forward to making their drag racing experience one to remember.
It will be great for my customers and employees to have their own car to cheer
for!”

During today’s teleconference team owner John Force emphatically stated
that his entire team of three Funny Cars and two Super Comp dragsters
would compete in this coming weekend’s Summitracing.com Nationals at The
Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Prior to the opening of the gates on Thursday Force will have made a
series of untimed, 300-foot runs to determine whether or not the
substantial changes that have been made to all of his team’s cars have
rendered them undriveable.  This testing will take place tomorrow,
Wednesday, at LVMS.  Acknowledging that “testing” within a seven day
period at a national event site is prohibited, NHRA senior vice
president Graham Light explained that an exception is being made due to
not only the circumstances, but the unavailability of another suitable
testing site prior to this weekend’s race.

Among the changes that were made at Murf McKinney’s shop in Indiana are
a widening of the roll cages, the addition of significant amounts of
additional padding around the helmet area (Force suggested the padding
is close enough to his helmet to keep his head from moving side-to-side
under racing conditions) and new safety R-3-type seven point
harnesses.  Other changes include the permanent mounting of the safety
belts to the frame rails so that they can no longer potentially slide
along the tubing in the event of a crash.

Kalitta Motorsports, a professional drag racing team based in Ypsilanti, Mich., is pleased to announce that DHL will be a new sponsor of the Scott Kalitta-driven Nitro Funny Car currently competing in the 23-event, 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

Matt Hagan Racing is proud to announce a multi-year position
for Todd Tutterow to crew chief for the Matt Hagan Racing Pro Modified
program. Mr. Tutterow accepted the position over the weekend and the team is
busy getting organized to welcome him aboard.