With the talk of NHRA Pro Football
player Duce Staley soon to field an NHRA Pro Stocker, yet another team has
unvieled their NHRA connection. Morgan Lucas Racing will unveil a tribute to the
construction and the 2008 grand opening of the Lucas Oil Stadium in the form of
a special Mac Tools U.S. Nationals paint scheme.

 The NHRA has followed the lead of
NASCAR with a new multi-tiered “Countdown to the Championship” in all four
professional categories of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series which mimics
NASCAR’s Nextel Cup Chase.

NHRA announced its new 23-race NHRA
POWERade Drag Racing Series schedule for 2007 Aug. 30.  During the announcement,
the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body announced the addition of
Norwalk Raceway Park, which sits between Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, to the 2007
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series schedule.

Also announced was the addition of a 16th event for the Pro Stock
Motorcycle category, to take place at Texas Motorplex near Dallas.

Tradition means a great deal when it comes to certain activities.  That first pitch by a celebrity or politician at a baseball game.  The coin toss before a football game.  The grand entry parade at a rodeo.  In drag racing it’s the firing of the first pair of fuelers following the national anthem, among other things.

UPDATE: Torco's CompetitionPlus.com obtained
these spy photos of Larry Morgan's Indy ride.

Current Top Alcohol Dragster points
leader Bill Reichert will debut Bar’s Products’ Rislone Engine Treatment as a
major sponsor at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. Rislone joins Bar’s Leaks, Lane
Automotive, and NGK Spark Plugs as backers of the Owosso, Mich.,
resident.

State-of-the-art facility to be
constructed adjacent to NASCAR CraftsmanTruck Series track