Scott Griffin Motorsports has completed the purchase of the Cory
McClenathan driven, Honeywell/Fram sponsored Top Fuel dragster from
Carrier Boyz Racing.

McClenathan and Griffin, good friends and fierce competitors in both
the IHRA and NHRA, will now join forces in the NHRA Countdown to the
Championship with what fans and observers believe to be an odds - on
chance to finish high in the money. For Cory Mac, one of the most
accomplished, celebrated  and respected  drivers in NHRA history (No. 3
among active drivers with 29 event wins) it marks the start of a march
to the coveted POWERade Series championship that has eluded him, albeit
by the smallest of margins, so far.

NHRA has announced the continuation of the Screamin' Eagle NHRA Nitro
Harley-Davidson exhibition tour to be held at three national events in
conjunction with the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

The three NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events in 2007 that will
showcase the NHRA Screamin' Eagle Nitro Harley-Davidson exhibitions will be the
O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.), June 1-3; the
O'Reilly Thunder Valley NHRA Nationals at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway, July 6-8; and
the Torco Racing Fuels NHRA Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park near
Richmond, Va., Oct. 5-7.

Call it youthful exuberance. While many of her peers are lamenting the upcoming
stretch of eight races in nine weeks, including an unprecedented six races in a
row, 23-year-old Pro Stock driver Erica Enders is excited about an endless
summer on the strip.

Well rested after nearly a month on the sidelines
and wheeling a brand-new Dodge Stratus R/T from chassis builder Jerry Haas,
Enders sees the next two-plus months of non-stop racing as the perfect chance to
secure her place in the Countdown to the Championship. Just 44 points out of the
field of eight that will fight for this year's championship, Enders is ready to
make her mark beginning this weekend in Topeka. 

When the first of five Pro Modified Racing Association events for 2007
was completed at Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario May 20,
the win by John Russo was the tenth in as many PMRA races.
 
And with his win, the Camaro Pro Modified driver from Massachusetts
presently leads the PMRA Point Series sponsored by Wix Filtration
Products, Valvoline, a division of Ashland Inc., Uni-Select, and Moen
Incorporated with 351 points.
 
Another new PMRA team for 2007 is Ike Maier of Tottenham, Ontario and
Maier with his Camaro is in second place with 332 points. Driving the
Kirk Silbermann 1957 Chevy Pro Modified out of Ajax, Ontario, is Scotty
Wildgust, who is third in the standings with 330 points.

Today, Pedregon Racing announced a partnership with Toyota for team
support including supply of transportation vehicles for the 2007 NHRA
POWERade Drag Racing season.
 
Cruz Pedregon, driver of the Advance Auto Parts Nitro Funny Car, and
Tony Pedregon, pilot of the Q Power Nitro Funny Car, will each receive
team support vehicles from Toyota.
 
Toyota will support each team with key product for use throughout the
remainder of the 2007 season. This product support includes the Sequoia
Full Size SUV and the all-new Tundra CrewMax pick-up truck. The Tundra
Full Size CrewMax pick-up is equipped with a 5.7 liter V8 engine which
will provide a towing capacity of over 10,000 pounds. While providing a
functional addition to the Pedregon Racing teams, this product support
will also offer tremendous exposure for the Toyota Tundra and Sequoia
models.

Knoll-Gas Nitro Jam officials have announced the schedule for the
postponed Skull Shine Sooner Nationals presented by Wolverine and
Academy Sports + Outdoors.
 
The event, rescheduled for Saturday, June 23, will kick-off
professional racing at 12 noon with a time trial for all qualified
cars. Qualifying was completed prior to postponement, so the
professional category fields are locked. The professional classes are
Top Fuel, Nitro Funny Car, Pro Modified, Alcohol Funny Car and Pro
Stock.
 
Professional eliminations will begin at 4:30 p.m. Second round is scheduled for 6 p.m., third round 8 p.m. and finals at 10 p.m.

Pro Stock team owner
Victor Cagnazzi says that he used the same principles to build a successful
drag racing operation that he did to develop a high-tech business that netted
in excess of $70-million dollars worth of sales annually.

Cagnazzi quickly points
out that it’s just a matter of applying the right people, resources, and
technology to a clearly defined goal. Then you supplement it with hard work and
the rest falls into place.

A New York Institute of
Technology graduate, Cagnazzi made a career out of building small companies
into large ones. The same could be said for his drag racing endeavors. It all
began with an amateur start that eventually graduated to professional status.

Cagnazzi took a single Pro
Stock team and built the program into one of the forerunners of the class with
drivers Dave Connolly and Jeg Coughlin Jr.

Steve Johnson, who is currently No. 8 in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series
Countdown to the Championship on his Snap-on Tools Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle,
recently held a special gathering for WyoTech students and their families at his
race shop in
Alabama.

WyoTech (the official technical
school of
NHRA) representative Craig Fiddler
directed approximately 50 students, friends and family members to Steve Johnson
Racing's facility, with participants coming from regions in
Alabama,
Georgia,
Mississippi and
Tennessee. "When new students
enroll at WyoTech we like to create an opportunity from them to meet and get to
know each other," said Johnson. "Doing it in this kind of racing environment is
the kind of level and standard we want all students to get a taste of."

HD Partners Acquisition Corporation ("HD Partners") and the National Hot Rod Association ("NHRA"), the world's preeminent drag racing organization, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which HD Partners will acquire all of NHRA's professional racing assets, including the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing series, together with a broad set of rights to commercialize the NHRA brand.

Junior looks more and more like his dad every time
he cranks his 1968 Pontiac Firebird Pro Modified.

Junior is the nickname Scott Cannon, Jr. answers to.
However, these days he performs a great impersonation of Senior.

Case in point, refresh your memories to Saturday’s
final Pro Modified session at the IHRA SKULL Shine Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Scott jumped from 11th
place on the 16-car grid following Saturday's first session to the top spot for
the second straight race. A dozen times in his career, Scotty went from outside
the field to the top spot in the final session.