Charles "Boogie" Scott said he has no idea where he got his nickname from. 'I've
had since I was a baby," the Louisiana native said in his distinctive drawl. "I
grew up with it." Boogie has also earned the title of being a "racer's racer."
His career is the envy of all hot rodders: for some 50 years, Boogie has built
and driven championship quality cars for the street, the strip and the salt.
Still active, Boogie was a recent inductee into the exclusive Bonneville Salt
Flats 200 MPH Club, and continues to construct a variety of cars at his
Covington, La. shop. In fact, he's building a Cacklefest car (a remake of the
Cupit and Cunningham dragster). He'll take a break when he visits Beech Bend
Raceway Park as an Honoree at the 6th annual Holley National Hot Rod Reunion,
June 13-15.

Still healing from a devastating crash in Dallas, John Force thought
about quitting. Then a voice of reason spoke up.

Longtime crew chief
Austin Coil told Force quitting simply wasn't an option.

With a victory Sunday in Topeka, Force realized winning is just as
therapeutic as physical training. And, more rewarding not just for
himself but for his entire organization.

“It’s huge for me mentally,” Force said of the win. 

The Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals returns to O'Reilly Raceway Park for the
20th time this weekend bringing over 4,000 ’72 and earlier rods and
customs as well as 300 vintage drag racing machines to the historic
facility just outside Indianapolis.

Headlining the racing portion of the event will be a booked in show of
nitro burning Nostalgia Funny Cars pitting the Midwest’s finest
nostalgia fuel floppers against one another. Set to make its national
debut is Justin Grant’s “Wonder Wagon.” Grant’s Wonder Wagon is an
exact replica of Don Schumacher’s Buttera version that barnstormed the
country in 1973 as part of the Coca Cola Cavalcade of Funny Cars. A
full field of eight 250mph nitro burning vintage funny cars will
participate in the event including Steve Nichols’ Mill Road Boys ’71
Camaro, John Dunn’s Dunn & Gone ’72 Nova, Kyle Wertzel’s Motown
Shaker ’73 Vega, Danny Miller’s Rear Gears ’73 Maverick, Greg
Jacobsmeyer’s All Star ’71 Dodge Challenger, Shawn Bowen’s Violator ’78
Trans Am and Rocky Pirrone’s “Screamin’ Eagle” ’77 Trans Am.

Five times in the last 24 years, Sherman Adcock has earned the right to compete
in the prestigious JEGS Allstars competition and each time, the Columbus, Ga.,
racer has come up short of his ultimate goal of reaching the winner’s circle.
Adcock, a two-time NHRA world champion, will be back for his sixth attempt at
JEGS Allstar glory when the special event kicks off at Route 66 Raceway on June
7, during the Torco Race Fuels NHRA Nationals. Adcock will be one of eight
competitors in the Super Comp category who will be vying for the $4,500 top
prize.

The
JEGS Allstars is a special event that is open only to the best sportsman racers
from each of NHRA’s seven geographic divisions, based on a year-long points
battle. In addition to the individual championships in eight eliminators,
Allstars competitors will also be competing for the $20,000 bonus that is
awarded to the overall team champions. Adcock, who represents the Southeast
Division (Division 2), was part of the winning team in 1991. He also qualified
for the prestigious event in 1986, 1995, 2002, and 2007.

Former world champion Funny Car driver Cruz Pedregon was pleased with the
progress his Advance Auto Parts race team made in its inaugural outing with the
group's slick new Toyota Solara body. Pedregon made five consecutive runs down
Heartland Park Topeka, which made him one of the most consistent drivers in the
class for the entire weekend.

"Our crew chief Rahn Tobler was focused all
weekend on finding the consistency we had at the start of the year," said
Pedregon, a 27-time national event winner. "We had a great meeting (Sunday) and
we both realized we're in a really good place with the car and the tune-up right
now. The plan is to keep doing what we're doing.

Gary Scelzi had a strong, solid weekend at the NHRA Summer Nationals driving the
Mopar/Oakley Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car to his first semifinal finish of the
2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

No. 10 qualifier Scelzi saw his
round-winning streak end when he and opponent Tim Wilkerson had a pedalfest down
Heartland Park Topeka's quarter-mile. With track temperatures reaching 130
degrees, Scelzi took off with a stellar reaction time of .056 to Wilkerson's
.080 (.000 is perfect), then struck the tires first, while Wilkerson hazed his
later. As both scrambled to regain traction, Scelzi recovered, but the finish
line came too soon as Wilkerson claimed the win with a 6.009/194.32 to Scelzi's
6.138/210.70. Margin of victory: .1051 of a second.

En route to the
semifinal, Scelzi defeated Robert Hight with a 4.927/305.70 and Bob Tasca III
with a 4.997/298.14.

Jeg Coughlin Jr. showed why he's a four-time champion Sunday at Heartland Park
Topeka, racing from the No. 13 position and upsetting two higher-slotted drivers
to card a strong semifinal showing that lifted him two spots in the world
rankings. The extraordinary effort after a trouble-filled qualifying session
placed him second in the points, just 20 markers behind new leader Kurt
Johnson.

Coughlin's JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt looked good during his two
victorious runs. The 52-time national event winner beat Greg Stanfield with a
6.751 at 203.52 mph to Stanfield's 6.770 at 203.00 mph in Round 1, before
knocking off Mike Edwards in the quarterfinals with a 6.774 at 204.17 mph to
Edwards' 6.793 at 203.28 mph.

"You always want to win but we're pretty
pleased with the weekend and how it turned out," Coughlin said. "I can't say I'm
too surprised. We didn't look that great in qualifying but that was more of a
result of how things fell into place. We hurt a motor in Q2 and that was the
session everyone was putting up the big numbers.

Tim Wilkerson increased his POWERade points lead today at the O’Reilly Summer
Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka by taking his Levi, Ray & Shoup
Chevy Impala SS all the way to the final-round.

The very talented Wilkerson put his qualifying struggles
behind him as he charged his way through the ranks.  In the first-round,
Wilkerson sent Frank Hawley packing with a holeshot as Wilk’s .072 reaction time
gave his 4.889 the win light against Hawley’s 4.849.  In the second round,
Wilkerson beat Jerry Toliver with a 5.005 to Toliver’s 5.021.  In the semi’s
Wilkerson faced Gary Scelzi.  This round was a pedal-fest, and when the dust
settled, Wilkerson again had the win light.

WILL BECOMES 11TH WOMAN TO WIN A NATIONAL EVENT; FORCE, KRISHER ALSO WINNERS AT HEARTLAND PARK TOPEKA

Hillary Will (near lane0 ran 4.744 seconds at 304.53 mph to defeat Larry Dixonin the Top Fuel final round.

Hillary Will became the 11th woman in NHRA history to win a
national event when she raced to the win in the Top Fuel category at
the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals.

John Force and Ron Krisher also won in their respective categories at
Heartland Park Topeka in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event.