Don Schumacher announced today
that NHRA Super Comp champion and Top Fuel racer Jack Beckman will replace Funny
Car driver Whit Bazemore at this weekend's Toyo Tires NHRA Nationals at Maple
Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa., and for the remainder of the 2006 POWERade Drag
Racing Series.

Beckman, 40, of North Hills, Calif., recently earned his
NHRA Funny Car license driving the Matco Tools Funny Car, which will retain the
Matco Tools sponsorship through the end of 2006.

Chris Hollingworth will be the first to tell
you that his entrance to the Top Alcohol ranks has so far gone pretty much the
way he imagined it would. With a new car, new team, and two years of experience
as a crew member on Ben Bray’s championship-winning Funny Car, he knew that the
learning curve would be daunting.

Big Daddy" Don Garlits, number-one
drag racer of all time, will bring Swamp Rat VIII to the Southern Nostalgia
Shootout at South Georgia Motorsports Park, October 27-29. Garlits will be
making smoky blasts (restricted by safety rules to less than one-eighth mile)
and participating in the Cacklefest event on Saturday night.  

Come and see Big Daddy on track and meet him in the pit area. Come
and see how drag racing was in the past.

The NHRA POWERade Drag Racing
Series Awards Ceremony will be held at The Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho
Mirage, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 13, 2006.

Normally the “Night of Fire” at
eMax Drag Racing Series events is closed with a fire works display. Not so in
Epping, as the IHRA has decided to try something new. A laser light show was
used as a preamble to Bob Motz’s jet truck and was greeted by a sound ovation
from the fans..

Bruce Litton is still a patient at
Massachusetts General in Boston following his accident on Sunday. The Top Fuel
driver from Indianapolis underwent surgery on his shoulder Monday and is
expected to stay two more days as doctors ponder whether or not to perform a
skin graft on the gash to his right arm.

Litton is extremely sore but in good spirits despite a cracked
bone in his elbow and the effects of a concussion. He could be released as early
as Wednesday.

Fulfilling a commitment he made in
mid-June, Mach 1 Air Services Top Fuel driver David Baca will honor the victims
of 9/11 with two very special helmet presentations Sunday morning at Maple Grove
Raceway.

The biggest event in Outlaw Pro
Mod racing just keeps getting bigger, with this weekend's American Drag Racing
League Eastern Race Fuels DRAGSTOCK III event expected to outshine its two
predecessors in terms of both car count and attendance.

Remember that dreadful day in
September 2001 when the United States was attacked by cowardly terrorists?
Please join us in a moment of silence for those who lost their lives and the
families who suffered a loss.

Writer Steve Ramirez spoke with a few drag racers who remember
that day vividly.

THE DAY
WHEN RACING BECAME UNIMPORTANT

The following individuals have
been selected for the induction into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame
on March 15th 2007. You may use this as a press release.

1-Kenny
Bernstein
2-Frank Bradley
3-Donnie Hampton
4-Ted Jones
5-Jim
McLennan
6-Dale Pulde
7-Don Schumacher
8-Dave Uyehara
9-Dave
Zeuschel
10-Darrell Zimmerman