Edelbrock is excited to announce the Cylinder Head $50 Cash Rebate and Racing T-shirt promotion. Consumers will receive a $50 cash rebate and (2) Racing T-shirts with the proof of purchase on any pair of new Edelbrock cylinder heads - April 15 through June 30, 2010.

Edelbrock's VP of Marketing, Jason Snyder states, "With this promotion, Edelbrock is offering a little something back to our loyal customers who look to Edelbrock for American made quality and performance. This promotion also reinforces that when it comes to cylinder head selection and choice, consumers can still afford American produced, high-quality cylinder heads at a good market value."

Mark’s Tax Consulting LLC has signed on as the latest sponsor of Xtreme 275 Drag Radial at Maryland International Raceway. We welcome Mark’s Tax Consulting to our ever growing list of sponsors that include Mickey Thompson, Induction Solutions Nitrous, Goodyear Tire, Holeshot Performance Wheels, McKeown Motorsport Engineering Inc. and TRZ Motorsports.

MTC is offering $200 at each of the 7 Xtreme 275 Drag Radial Races to be used for the Second Chance Shootout 9-16 racers. The winner will receive an extra $100, the runner up will receive an extra $50, and for the first time ever the semi-finalist in the Shootout will get $25 at all events scheduled for Maryland International Raceway for running the company’s decal/logo on the passenger side window.

In the final results from Texas Motorplex and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Kristen Wootton, Magnolia, Texas, and Tony Bartone, Long Island City, N.Y., took home the wins in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car respectively.

Wootton saved her best run of the day for the finals as she covered the quarter mile in 5.336 seconds at 262.13 mph against Monroe Guest, Mannford, Okla., who clocked in at 5.462 seconds, 265.27 mph.

In a who’s who matchup in Top Alcohol Funny Car it was No. 1 qualifier Bartone facing off against No. 2 Jay Payne and taking the win with a lap of 5.625 seconds, 257.33 mph in his ’09 Mustang.  Payne slowed to an 8.598 second, 101.65 mph lap for his runner up finish.

Once the hours of work are finished and a Top Fuel dragster pulls to the starting line for a race, the focal point becomes the driver, who pilots the 8,000-horsepower machine through a 3.8-second pass.

A key task is leaving the starting line ahead of the opposing driver, which shifts the advantage squarely into the lane of the pro with the quickest reaction time. In 2010, no one has proven more lethal at the line than sophomore racer Shawn Langdon, who has gotten a jump on all 16 men he's faced thus far in his Lucas Oil/Speedco dragster.

"It's a fun deal and I understand the media attention this little streak is creating but my focus has to stay on doing the best job I can when I'm in the car," Langdon said. "It's really just a fluke. It's impossible to keep something like that going forever.

After a grueling wait and months spent staring at the April 30 date the drivers making up the 2009 Tournament of Champions have less than a week left before returning to Rockingham Dragway where the first champions under the new format will be crowned giving the IHRA its first ever sportsman champions decided via on-track competition.

Currently 170 of the best drivers from 2009 are gearing up for a trip to Rockingham Dragway to compete in an event several months in the making. Champions in IHRA’s seven sportsman classes were slated to be crowned in October of last year, but a vicious storm forced the postponement of the event to the Spring Nitro Jam this weekend at “The Rock.”

Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School will return to hold its most popular course, the two-day Super Class, at Houston Raceway Park for one session in 2010, June 22 and 23.

“We love working with Seth Angel and the rest of the staff at Houston Raceway Park,” said school founder and instructor Frank Hawley. “They always give us a fantastic racing surface and their facility offers our staff and students yet another first-class location to conduct our classes.”

The two-day Super Class allows drivers of all backgrounds the opportunity to earn their NHRA competition driver’s license in the school’s NeSmith GMPP 572/720R equipped Super Comp Dragster or Super Gas Firebird, with some drivers even leaving the class with both licenses, all while being able to take in Hawley’s reaction time clinic.

“They call it the 'best appearing burnout car in Super Gas',” said Kurt Busch, a bit of pride in his smile, as he relaxed on the flight back to Talladega Superspeedway after a day of racing at zMAX Dragway in his 1970 Dodge Challenger outfitted with a 1200 horsepower 427 cubic inch hemi engine.

That's 1199 more horsepower than his wife, Eva's, Andalusian named Lauro; which, according to Busch cost more than his 1200 horsepower to purchase, and also maintain.

Seems the perfect match, they both love horsepower.

In the final results from SRCA Dragstrip and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Jim Whiteley, Grand Junction, Colo., and Kirk Williams, Glenwood, Iowa, took home the wins in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car respectively.

Whiteley worked his way through the field and ran 5.444 seconds at 258.52 mph in his final round victory over Edwin Schmeeckle, Gothenburg, Neb., who clocked in at 5.659 seconds, 249.21 mph.

Williams faced off against Lance Van Hauen, Reinbeck, Iowa, and posted a winning run of 5.801 seconds, 246.39 mph in his ’02 Camaro. Van Hauen drove to a 5.881 second, 239.74 mph lap for his runner up finish.

Point leader has struggled at Gateway in the past ...

For the last 13 seasons Gateway International Raceway has been Larry Dixon’s own personal Bermuda Triangle on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series circuit.

His racing history at the multipurpose motorsports complex just across the Mississippi River from the famed St. Louis Arch is at best an unexplained mystery.