When the Southern Nationals resume Friday at Atlanta Dragway, Keith Murt will make his 2013 NHRA debut.
Murt is driving a Top Fuel dragster for John LaPorte.
“I do have my own car, but something happened with him and his driver Ike Maier,” Murt said. “He just called me kind of last minute and he said he wanted to take his car to Atlanta and he wanted to know if I would drive it and I said H*** yeah.”
CompetitionPlus.tv's original web reality series, Married With Dragsters, will return this summer for season three.
Mike Adcock has purchased Dallas Raceway located in Crandall, Texas and will keep the track in operation with little disruption.
The track will continue to operate as normal under the direction of Adcock and will host the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL, an event that was originally scheduled for May at Dallas Raceway, the weekend of July 12-14. The track will also host the Summit Team Finals event as scheduled in September.
Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park's Throw Down in T-Town has grown by leaps and bounds in its first handful of years, and this weekend's event is expected to be the best one yet.
"We're really excited about this race," said track co-owner Keith Haney. "We've got a little bit of everything out here for the fans. We'll have a nitro-powered Harley-Davidson making some passes, we've got a PT Cruiser that does wheelstands all the way down the track, and a $50,000 total payout to all the class winners. It's going to be non-stop excitement."
Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing series, attended the Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition hosted by AAA Missouri today at the Great Wolfe Lodge in Kansas City, Kan.
Force spoke to an audience of over 100 automotive technology students interested in developing careers in the automotive industry who are currently competing for scholarships through this program.
Texas Motorplex has been hosting championship racing and family entertainment events since 1986 and has one of the most loyal fan followings in professional sports. The Motorplex hosts more than 60 events each year including a championship playoff NHRA national event.
We have a dynamic staff that has worked as a team for several years and we are looking to add a self-starting sales leader who can be a positive addition to our team.
Ten finalists have made the cut in the “Our Everyday Heroes” Race Car Design Contest hosted by Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD), with more than $40,000 already raised for JDRF and a month left to vote.
Fifty-one children from around the country with T1D (type 1 diabetes) have been raising funds for research toward a cure for the disease they all share with the hopes of seeing their artwork on the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Shelby Mustang Funny Car driven by Bob Tasca.
Donnie Bender stood there, clutching the front rim from a dragster, awed by the rare and unexpected discovery in automotive archaeology.
"It was like you had handed that man a piece of gold," Mike Brinkley said.
What's your take on the sportsman situation?
Track prep, run schedules and pit area conditions are just a few hot button topics currently making the rounds in the NHRA sportsman pits.
The recent death of a sportsman racer and the cancellation of sportsman racing at a recent NHRA national event have likewise kept many sportsman message boards ablaze with criticism and disdain.
The recurring point these posts make is the disconnect between the NHRA and its sportsman racers gets wider and wider with each subsequent unpopular decision.
On just its own merit, Billy Glidden's 2013 season is already off to a fine start.
But when you add in all he's already had to go through, it simply gets that much more special and further indicates the type of rare talent Glidden continues to be.
Through four races, Glidden has won one NMCA is currently in the semifinal of another that is scheduled to be completed in July, and has also advanced to semifinals in each of the first two X-DRL events.
That's a start that would have Glidden excited no matter the circumstances, but add in those trying times - breaking one engine and practically rebuilding his car to run an engine he had never previously used - and Glidden is about as excited as he possibly could be.
At a recent test session at US 131 Motorsports Park Pete Berner finally began to feel like the Summit Racing Equipment Team’s hard work was producing the desired results.
“We put a tremendous amount of time and effort into our program,” told Berner, “and we’ve seen good results with this machine here and there, but the big key missing from our success was consistency. We made some pretty significant changes prior to this test session and the car was killer right out of the box. We were able to repeat our results in the following runs. Overall, this test session produced great results that boosted my confidence in this car and our ability to use consistency to turn the win light on again.
In drag racing, heat is the great equalizer. When the weather is cool and overcast, the fastest (i.e. well-funded) racer tends to win. But when the track is slimy, greasy, and slick, that's when the skill of the driver comes into play. No matter the setup, when it's hot and humid, it takes a real shoe to get to the finish line first.
At the recent MagnaFuel PSCA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Pacific Street Car Association veteran Artis Houston, a competitor in the Mickey Thompson Wild Street class, added to what has been an amazing year when he qualified No. 1 and set the class ET and speed records on his way to the victory in the heat of the Nevada desert.
In preparation for he Bash on the Bayou, May 17 - 18, X-DRL / SHRA Radio Show will stage a giveaway on May 14, when the tenth caller to answer a question will win 2 tickets to the race and an event T-shirt.
Officials from the American Drag Racing League announced today that communications leader Simply Phones has been named the title sponsor of the ADRL U.S. Drags VI, June 8 – 9 at Virginia Motorsports Park, in Petersburg, Va.
“We are excited to welcome to welcome Simply Phones to the growing family of ADRL marketing partners,” said ADRL President Kenny Nowling. “With the addition of the new Pro Drag Radial class, the U.S. Drags is poised to be one of the most memorable events in ADRL history. Simply Phones’ willingness to think outside of the box, when it comes to how they market their company, makes them an ideal partner for the ADRL.”
A representative from Rapisarda Racing contacted CompetitionPlus.com this morning to confirm crew chief Lee Beard has resigned from the team. The statement said the resignation came unexpectedly.