Matt Guidera, rider of the Mohegan Sun/Rocklin Motorsports Buell,
debuted on the premier showing of “Jesse James is a Dead Man”, on Spike TV Sunday night May 31st.  The show airs again on June 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM PST and Sunday June 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM PST on Spike TV.

“Paramount Studios contacted us last year right after winning the
Infineon race in Sonoma wanting us to do a special show for Spike TV
with Jesse James.  We were still riding high from winning our home race
when the phone call came from the studios. The call took us all by
surprise on that Monday morning following the Sonoma race, considering
they wanted us in L.A. on Tuesday morning to shoot the new show.  We
were able to put a deal together in that short amount of time and the
show really turned out great”, said Guidera.

Australian NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car driver, Steve Harker used consistency to win rounds at this past weekend's NHRA O'Reilly Summer
Nationals. Harker competed against twenty other Top Alcohol Funny Car
teams at Heartland Park Raceway through hot temperatures and tricky
track conditions.
 
Harker paired up against west coast racer, Sean O'Bannon for the final
round at the NHRA O'Reilly Summer Nationals. This was a repeat of the
finals from here last season where Harker is the defending event
champion. O'Bannon had the starting line advantage but Harker had that
made up by the 60ft timers and held on to take the win and his 4th
career NHRA National event win with a 5.656 at 253.47 mph.

For
competitors in almost any sporting event, there are few honors that
compare to being named to an Allstar team. Each of more than 60 elite
NHRA Sportsman racers who have qualified to participate in this
weekend’s 25th annual JEGS Allstars race at Route 66 Raceway certainly
realize that they are a part of something special and each one is
determined to make the most of it.
 
Initiated in 1985 at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky., the JEGS
Allstars is a special event which features an individual and team
competition for racers representing each of NHRA’s seven geographic
divisions. Racers from all over North America will converge in Joliet
to compete in the following NHRA Lucas Oil Series categories; Top
Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Competition, Super Stock,
Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, and Super Street. At the end of the
competition, the overall winning team will share in a $20,000 bonus out
of a total purse of more than $100,000.

Competition tightens in Matco Tools Pro Mod Clash with only four races remaining
 
Competition
is heating up for qualifying in the $35,000 Matco Tools Pro Mod Clash
after five of nine qualifying events in the Get Screened America Pro
Mod Challenge presented by ProCare Rx. Beginning at the NHRA
Gatornationals in March, drivers have earned points for the
"race-within-a-race" which pits the top Pro Mods against each other
with the chance to race for a $25,000 top prize.
 
The nitrous-powered team of Al-Anabi and Awesome Motorsports with
drivers Burton Auxier and Mike Castellana has jumped out to an
impressive lead, taking the top two spots. Both drivers have won an
event this season, Castellana taking Gainesville and Auxier scoring in
Bristol.
 

Ron Capps knows better than to boast. Spouting off will get you into trouble faster than red light.

“It’s weird how Sundays go when you’re a nitro driver,” Capps said.
“It’s a roller coaster ride and to have a hunch that you’re going to
win is way too cocky and for a nitro driver to say he is better than
someone in the class … you think it … but you never say it aloud out
here. When someone says that, you think, ‘That’s the stupidest thing
you could say.”

Capps entered the final round with tons more experience that his
opponent Ashley Force Hood and considerably less than her fourteen-time
world champion dad John Force.

He’s seen first-hand how she’s developed into a driver, a proverbial force to be reckoned with … no pun intended.

Don’t know the name Mark Martino?

You soon will.

The 30-year-old driver from Stoney Creek, Ontario is a rising force in
the IHRA Elite Motorsports Pro Stock ranks and has a mission to be the
next star in the always tough Mountain Motor Pro Stock class.

“It is an awesome class and I am excited to be a part of it. I have
always loved Pro Stock. Going up against teams like Berner, Goforth,
Montecalvo and those guys who have been around for a long time is a
challenge, but I think we are up to the task,” Martino said.

But prior to the season opener in Baton Rouge earlier this year, no one had heard the name Martino.

One-third
of the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season has crossed
the finish line at more than 300 miles per hour and despite what many
prognosticators had forecast during the last off-season, six-time Top
Fuel world champion Tony Schumacher, the 2008 Driver of the Year, is
still right there, at the top of the championship points order.

It is a comfortable position for the driver of the U.S. Army dragster,
who with 59 victories is the all-time wins leader in the 7,000
horsepower category. With 91 final round appearances he is quickly
tracking the final class record that he doesn’t already own: Joe
Amato’s mark of 99 career finals.

Schumacher won’t admit it, but his body language says otherwise: that a
championship title this season would mean way more to him than any of
the others, including his unlikely first in 1999 and the five-straight
that he and super-tuner Alan Johnson reeled off together during a
remarkable run from 2004-2008.

“When the amber comes on, push down on the throttle. It sounds easy doesn't it?” said Larry Dixon
in the post race interview following his victory over Clay Millican in
the final round of the O'Reilly's NHRA Summer Nationals at Topeka
Heartland Park. That was the way it was expected to happen when Dixon
teamed up with Alan Johnson and the Al Anabi race team. Until now,
expectations were not being met.

Dixon, by his own admission has struggled this season with getting it right.

“I'm not where I want to be driving the car and it peaked out (at
Bristol). Alan took his crew chief hat off and put his driving coach 
hat on and worked on me, getting my mind right and where it needs to
be. We went and ran the car at Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday after
Bristol, just made a whole bunch of runs and that was just nice. They
learned a lot from that test and I learned a lot from that test.”

John Force, the 14-time NHRA Full Throttle Series Funny Car champion,
will be the guest on the debut of The Race Reporters radio show,
Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m. EDT, on www.PowerUpChannel.com.

The Race Reporters can be heard “live,” downloaded into an iPod, or
accessed for listening on a delayed basis by clicking on the show icon
at www.PowerUpChannel.com. Listeners can bookmark the show and sign-up
to receive a free “E card” with news on upcoming guests, at the show’s
page, http://www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549

The National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) is proud to announce Garret Race Cars as its newest contingency sponsor.

Garret Livingston (far right) watches National Guard ADRL Pro Extreme
champion Jason Scruggs launch his Garret Race Cars-built ’68 Camaro
that scorched the Memphis Motorsports Park eighth mile in a record 3.66
seconds at more than 207 miles per hour. Garret Race Cars is the
National Guard ADRL’s newest contingency sponsor.

Garret
Race Cars is a full-service chassis building shop in Marble Hill,
Missouri, and the source of two-time defending Pro Extreme champion
Jason Scruggs’ record-setting 1968 Camaro. Garret also built the 2007
Dodge Stratus in which Scruggs won the 2008 Pro Extreme title.

“This is a big step for us, but I think it’s important to support the
racers who support us,” said Garret Livingston, owner and founder of
Garret Race Cars. “The ADRL is on a huge growth curve right now and we
at Garret Race Cars want to help keep that growth going.”