Sportsman drag racer Kyle Cultrera believed winning was the only option for him as he competed in last weekend’s Super Comp competition at the NHRA Summit Nationals. The only issue for Cultrera; he’d never won a national event before.

He defeated John Taylor to score his first on Sunday afternoon.

Cultrera, the son of Jeg Coughlin Jr. crewman and past Modified/Competition eliminator ace Steve Cultrera, was en route from his shop in Elliot, Maine to the Norwalk, Ohio-based event when he received a phone call notifying him that friend/team co-owner Dave Macleod had lost his battle with prostate cancer.

It will be double the action, double the points, and double the purse money this weekend as the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts will hold two complete events during the AHRA Canadian Nitro Nationals at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario.
 
Rounds three and four of the six-race 2010 Quick 32 Sportsman Series season will be held at the fabled Kohler Road track, featuring the best in Top Dragster and Top Sportsman racing.
 

James Day, the 32-year old diverse nitro pilot from Orange, Calif. will return to the NHRA Nitro Funny Car ranks behind the wheel of John Lindsay’s “Impulse” Funny Car with the support of CleanBoost® PERFORMANCE MOTOR OILS at this year’s Mopar Mile High NHRA Nationals.

Day, a second-generation driver, has worked his way from being a crew member for veteran Funny Car drivers Jack Wyatt, Jerry Toliver, Del Worsham, and Gary Densham to becoming one of the more diverse nitro-pilots in drag racing today. Recently Day has piloted the "LA HOOKER" and  “Holy Toledo” Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars and “The Foothill Flyer” Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster. Day’s last NHRA National Event appearance was behind the wheel of the DLS Motorsports Top Fuel Records sponsored flopper at the 2008 NHRA Winternationals and he is anxiously awaiting returning to the NHRA.

For their difference-making performance at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, Full Throttle Energy Drink saluted the Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang team as one of this week’s recipients of the NHRA Full Throttle Hard-Working Crew Award. Other winners included Larry Dixon’s Al-Anabi team in Top Fuel, Greg Anderson’s Summit backed Pro Stock team and Steve Johnson’s WyoTech Suzuki team.

“I have a great group of guys on my Castrol GTX High Mileage team and it is not just my team that can accept this award. All three of my teams including Robert’s Auto Club guys and Ashley’s Castrol GTX guys helped us throughout the day on Sunday. We win together and that is part of the One Ford approach we have here at John Force Racing. I want to thank Full Throttle for this award and for their support of all of NHRA drag racing,” said team owner John Force.

Steve Furr is letting it fly in 2010.

The veteran sportsman racer scored his 11th final round appearance of the season when he finished runner-up in Super Gas at the recently completed NHRA Summit Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio.

Those final round appearances have come in a combination of national and divisional events in different sportsman eliminators.

During the NHRA Route 66 Nationals in Chicago, Ill., Furr drove his way to the Super Gas title and a semi-final finish in the Jegs Allstar event in Top Dragster.

Don Ness was as proud as he could be walking through the pits at Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio. He was more than willing to show off his latest creation to anyone who would take the time to look.

Ness, a veteran chassis builder known for his prowess in building Pro Stockers, no longer has a race car to showcase. He’s now in the wheelie bar business and firmly believes his carbon fiber model could become the greatest thing since sliced bread for this area of the race car.

Ness believes the carbon fiber bars, coupled with the billet hardware creates a unit that is up to 40-percent stronger, while weighing in at 30 pounds lighter.

Come July 9th, win, lose, or draw, John Nobile will be one very proud papa.

What drag racing dad wouldn't be proud to watch and work as their son or daughter makes their debut runs down the quarter-mile?  

Nobile, the 2004 IHRA mountain motor Pro Stock champion, will be in  Martin, Mich., at the MMPSA event as his son, Vincent, makes his drag racing debut in his father's 2010 Ford Mustang.

The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) has announced a scheduling change for its Saturday event schedule that will take effect at the ADRL Hardee’s Independence Drags IV at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, KS on July 2-3.

Instead of the fourth and final qualifying round starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, it will now be pushed back to an 11 a.m. start with final eliminations now set to begin at 3 p.m.

The NHRA's nitro data gathering test scheduled for the day after the NHRA Summit Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, was cancelled. There's no official word on the next session but most likely it will take place in August after the Western Swing is completed.

Charles Carpenter, an iconic Pro Modified driver, will join popular new racing radio hosts Wes Buck and Wyatt Haldin for the 11th episode of Wes and Wyatt in the Evening on Drag Illustrated Radio tonight, June 28th, at 9:00 P.M. central standard time.

Currently second in the ADRL Pro Nitrous points standings, Charles Carpenter has proven in 2010 that he’s still as relevant to the world of fast doorslammer racing as he was twenty years ago. With a new power plant under the hood of his world’s fastest ’55 Chevy, Carpenter has the performance requirements to compete with the top nitrous racers in the world.