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

Sid Waterman’s Waterman Racing
Components (WRC) was, at 

Hillary Will first visited an IHRA
eMax Drag Racing Series national event earlier this season in Milan, Mich. She
came to support teammate Doug Kalitta, who was driving cousin Scott Kalitta’s
Nitro Funny Car at the Suzuki Motor City Nationals.

Week four of Atlanta Motor
Speedway’s new Friday Night Drags series brought a record car count.

With week four in the books, new and past champions were crowned
and unique vehicles could be found in the Show-N-Shine area.

Jackson, Ga.’s Clint Abbott and his 1967 Chevelle claimed the Pro
series championship.

For a second consecutive year, JESEL
Valvetrain Innovation is posting contingency awards for the Mopar Hemi Challenge
at the ‘06 Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, Indiana, this Labor Day
weekend. The winning car will be awarded $1,000, contingent on running a JESEL
shaft rocker system and displaying the JESEL decal throughout the weekend.

Point standings (top 10) for IHRA professional categories following the
Skull Shine World Nationals presented by ACDelco at Norwalk Raceway Park, the
eighth of 11 events in the 2006 eMax Drag Racing Series -

Top Fuel

1. Clay Millican, 560; 2. Doug Foley, 545; 3. Rick Cooper, 441; 4. Bruce
Litton, 418; 5. Bobby Lagana Jr., 396; 6. Andrew Cowin, 261; 7. T.J. Zizzo, 260;
8. Louie Allison, 248; 9. Chris Karamesines, 240; 10. Mitch King, 157.