Wednesday, November 30, 2011

IHRA to add more benefits for sportsman racers at Nitro Jam events in 2012



Upcoming Nitro Jam season to feature double the sportsman racing

NORWALK, Ohio (November 30, 2011) – In an effort to add to the benefits of IHRA sportsman racing on the national level the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is pleased to announce a new sportsman structure at most IHRA Nitro Jam national events in 2012.

Beginning next season select IHRA Nitro Jam events, which for now includes San Antonio Raceway, State Capitol Raceway, Pittsburgh Raceway Park, Rocky Mountain Raceways, Castrol Raceway and U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, will feature a double Summit Pro-Am held in conjunction with the Nitro Jam professional show with a chance to qualify for the Summit Tournament of Champions and national event contingency still a major part of the racing weekend. The move will allow the IHRA to further feature its sportsman classes on the national level and give racers more racing opportunity for their travel budget.

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NASCAR 2011 Season Ends -- Thursday Night NHRA Drag Racing Goes on at the ...
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IRWINDALE, California — - As the NASCAR oval track goes dark for a few weeks (except for testing, tuning, movie and TV shoots, and the track's own exciting, on-site LARacingX stock car driving school) the Speedway's NHRA Drag Strip will continue to ...
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Brooks, Centorbi take over GEICO dragster
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Both men have extensive experience in drag racing, most notably alongside multi-time world champion Alan Johnson. Brooks will head the operation. His most recent stint came at R2B2 Racing where he tuned the In-N-Out Funny Car driven by Melanie Troxel ...
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INDRC third round this weekend
The Hindu
The third round of the FMSCI Indian National Drag Racing Championship (INDRC), conducted by Spitfire Motorsports Pvt. Ltd., in association with Speedway Motorsports (Hyderabad), will be held at the Kari Motor Speedway in Chettipalayam here this weekend ...
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Revving up to help
Ocala
Hawter, the president of the car club, and Spatola, the vice president, are planning this year's Toys For Kids car show at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. BY MARIAN RIZZO There's a good reason why Steve Hawter's Christmas spirit goes beyond his ...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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National Trail Raceway says racing league liable for 2009 crash
The Newark Advocate
NEWARK -- The American Drag Racing League should be liable for damages caused by a crash at National Trail Raceway during its race, according to court documents filed by the racetrack's attorneys. On Aug. 21, 2009, Kenneth Doak Sr.'s 1970 Chevrolet was ...
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eBay Find of the Day: Drag Racing Fun for the Whole Family
Hot Rod Magazine (blog)
According to the eBay auction, this '88 Astro has a 355 small-block, a Powerglide, and a full rollcage. The engine looks like it's got factory iron heads, so it's likely not as quick as it was when it sported a 406 small-block, but it looks like it ...
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Biondo's sixth championship is one of his most memorable
NHRA.com
... A rare combination of talent and motivation that only comes along once in a generation, Peter Biondo added another chapter to his already impressive résumé this season by winning the 2011 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Gas championship. ...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Quarter Mile Foundation at PRI Trade Show - Where we are

The Quarter Mile Foundation will have a sizeable footprint at the 2011 Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, December 1-3 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
Working in conjunction with the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show staff, the Foundation will have a strong floor presence with the display of Don Garlits’ iconic Swamp Rat XIII in booth 801. The legendary front-engined Top Fuel dragster has been loaned to the Foundation and the Show, marking the first time it has appeared outside of Garlits’ Drag Racing Museum in Ocala, Fla. following its reconstruction after the transmission explosion at Lions Drag Strip on March 8, 1970.
Joining the Swamp Rat XIII will be the Foundation’s “Vintage Rat” 555 inch Chevy raffle engine, the last engine built by the legendary Joe Mondello at the Mondello Technical Center in Crossville, Tenn. The engine will be displayed in the Foundation booth on Thursday and Friday, before it is moved to the World Products booth (2523) for the drawing at 3:00 PM on Saturday, December 3.
The Foundation will also be conducting interviews for the PROJECT 1320 documentary in an interview room provided by the PRI Trade Show management. The interviews will expand the collection of 86 completed first person interviews, comprising over 100 hours of recollections from the pioneers of drag racing and the performance aftermarket.
WHERE TO FIND US...
See the attached map for our location. Please use the link below to see our location (West Side) on the larger floor plan: http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?SHOW_ID=PRI11&alt_entry=true&curr_pri=facility
Visit Quarter Mile Foundation - Project 1320 at: http://project1320.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

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Track record reduced to ashes
The Nelson Mail
The Southland drag racer laid siege to the record books at Motueka's The Rock 94.4FM Dragway on Saturday, pushing the boundaries to a point undreamed of by the organisers, the Nelson Drag Racing Association. The Motueka track, which serves for 361 days ...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

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The drag racing wreck that refuses to end
Autoblog (blog)
By Jonathon Ramsey RSS feed When's the last time you watched a wreck that took nearly two minutes to conclude? Driver Eric Peterson's XDR Firebird got out of shape almost immediately during a solo dragstrip run and crashed almost head-on into the wall. ...
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Virginia car event is no drag
Adelaide Now
Picture: Tait Schmaal Source: AdelaideNow PROMOTER Rino D'Alfonso has vowed to make drag racing a regular event in South Australia. More than 10000 car enthusiasts filed into the Adelaide International Raceway for the Fuchs Centennial 1/8 mile ...
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Stinnett becomes premiere name
Emporia Gazette
By himself, Stinnett loads and unloads his racing trailer with his Super Comp dragster, whatever of his four stock-car drag racing Chevrolet Camaros he owns and his golf cart that he uses to navigate the race sites. He has no pit crew and even on long ...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

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Fred Ristagno and Mike Buckel on Racin & Rockin November 28!

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Racin' and Rockin': Fred Ristagno and Mike Buckel on Racin & Rockin November 28! by Bill Pratt. Join us on Monday, November 28, as we visit with two of the baddest Mopar doorslammer guys in history, Fred Ristagno and Mike Buckel! Hemi Fred owns and races (!) the legendary Sox & Martin Plymouth Duster Pro Stock. Mike Buckel is the legendary driver of the Ramchargers Dodge -- the first funny car in the 8-second zone! John Bockelman will pick the best tunes from a certain year and we will play them all on the Racin & Rockin After Party!

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Biegler favours Canadian drag racers
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For the past 30 years, Bruce Biegler has helped fans of drag racing with words and pictures. “I read a story about Connie Kalitta (a former Top Fuel driver) in Hot Rod Magazine when I was young, and that changed my life,” said Biegler, ...
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Racing fuels business plan
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By Laura McFarland Crumpler, owner of Tar Heel Powder Coatings, and his family love drag racing. More than a decade ago, he became aware of a form of dry powder coating used on car wheels, bumpers, door handles and engine parts. ...
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Krawiec Delivers For Harley-Davidson in 2011
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Unlike his 2008 title, Krawiec's 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championship was stamped by the sense of accomplishment that only one-two-three-four national event victories can bring. “Yes, it has,” Krawiec said during a season-ending National ...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

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LOUIS BREWSTER on MOTORSPORTS: Top Fuel driver Worsham goes out in grand style
Los Angeles Daily News
Not only is Worsham retiring as a full-time driver in drag racing, but he's returning to his Orange County roots. The 44-year-old is leaving San Bernardino County to move to Villa Park. Quite suddenly, the dots have been connected. ...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

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ADRL Releases Rulebook for 2012 Racing Season
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The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) has released its official rulebook for the 2012 racing season, which goes into effect at the first race of the 2012 ADRL Tour. The eighth ADRL season starts on March 30-31 with Dragpalooza VIII at Royal Purple ...
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EKKanoo Racing Team Sets World Elapsed Time Record En-route to Podium Finish ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Ebrahim M Kanoo, 35 of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain drove his EKKanoo Racing Outlaw 6 Cylinder Toyota Supra to a World Elapsed time record of 7.333 Seconds and a top speed of 314.85 kilometers per hour at the Bahrain Drag Racing Club Round 2 Event ...
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These turkeys are flying the coop
Drag Racing Online Magazine
In the meantime, here are the latest notes from the drag racing world. [11/23/11] A source close to NHRA says the organization most likely will not replace Rick Stewart as starter for all national events, but instead will use their divisional starter ...
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Mopar® V-10 Competition Off-Road Race Engine Wins in Debut at Baja 1000 in Class 8
Sacramento Bee
23, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Just two-and-a-half weeks after Mopar® introduced the new 800 horsepower V-10 Competition Race Engine for drag racing at the 2011 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, the off-road racing ...
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Force To Go For Title No. 16 With New Knee
RacinToday.com
Drag racing icon John Force answered any lingering questions about his level of commitment to winning a 16th NHRA Funny Car world championship by undergoing post-season surgery to repair a damaged right knee originally injured playing high school ...
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Burk's Blast - At this time of the year I am thankful
Drag Racing Online Magazine
He is a true drag racing philanthropist. I'm grateful… That there are still promoters like George Howard, Steve Earwood, Scott Gardner, Carl Weisinger and Ron Leek (just to name a few), who were hardcore racers before they were promoters and still ...
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Force Recovering From Post-Season Knee Surgery
Motor Authority
Read More Funny Car champion driver John Force had a noticeable limp to his gait as the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series wound to its conclusion a weekend ago on the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. Force, the 15-time champion who earned his most ...
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The fastest man in Mataura
Nelson Mail
Neilan's Digga dragster is the star attraction at Saturday's meeting, the second of the Nelson Drag Racing Association's summer season. He and fellow Southland traveller Bruce Smith will perform at least three exhibition passes each, while Neilan has ...
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KC seeks ideas for park at race track site, but race fans not happy
Kansas City Star
Bridges said he felt the city did not negotiate in good faith and missed a chance for a situation in which, given more time, it could have gotten a new park and found a new drag racing site. The track, which has operated since 1967, has until Jan. ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

ADRL Releases Rulebook For 2012 Racing Season


O'FALLON, MO (November 21, 2011) – The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) has released its official rulebook for the 2012 racing season, which goes into effect at the first race of the 2012 ADRL Tour.
The eighth ADRL season starts on March 30-31 with Dragpalooza VIII at Royal Purple Raceway in Houston, the first of 10 events on the 2012 ADRL schedule.

The full set of 2012 rules can be downloaded at www.adrl.us/competition/rules or by clicking on the "2012 Rules and Regulations" dropdown under the "Competition" tab on the ADRL homepage, www.ADRL.us. The entire 2012 rulebook is available for download, as are individual PDF versions of each of the ADRL's eight classes.
The rulebook also includes a full listing of rules and policies for Pro Modified, which will become an official class in the ADRL in 2012.

There have been changes, additions and modifications made in each of the eight ADRL classes, helping ensure an even greater racing experience for fans, teams and competitors during the 2012 ADRL season.

"We spent a great deal of time coming up with our rulebook for the 2012 racing season with the goal of providing the safest and most competitive racing experience for the ADRL's talented competitors," ADRL Director of Competition Tom Grooms said.
"With the rule additions and modifications we have instituted, there has been a premium placed on safety and entertainment value."

The 2012 ADRL General Regulations are scheduled to be released in early December, or right after the ADRL is slated to be in attendance at booth 725 at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show in Orlando on December 1-3.
A mid-November release of the 2012 ADRL rulebook will also allow teams and competitors to make the necessary changes before the start of the racing season.

"Competitor safety is our paramount concern when coming up with a rulebook and there were a number of rules and policies we have instituted for the 2012 season with each team's safety as our primary concern," ADRL Director of Technical Services Chris Bell said.  

For further information or if there are questions regarding, competitors are encouraged to call the ADRL offices at 1-855-277-ADRL (2375), e-mail ADRL Director of Technical Services Chris Bell at chris@adrl.us or ADRL Director of Competition Tom Grooms at tom@adrl.us.  
To download an ADRL Rulebook, please visit www.ADRL.us, click on the "2012 Rules" tab and click on either the entire 2012 Rulebook or any particular class you wish to view.

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Drag Racing Event in Montreal Canada
GTspirit
A mix of track racing with American muscle cars, and the 'classic' drag racing with euro tuners. This results in heated up battles between three continents. The cars you regularly see at the drag strip in Montreal are usually heavily modified Japanese ...
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Drag racings ready for the green light
Adelaide Now
Promoter Rino D'Alfonso, in his doorslammer Commodore, has helped to oversee the comeback of drag racing to Adelaide on Saturday. Source: The Advertiser FULL-BORE drag racing is finally back in town on Saturday, the first big feast of pro action for ...
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Young Boise drag racer gets big Chance
KBOI-TV
By Troy Oppie Published: Nov 22, 2011 at 8:41 PM MST BOISE, Idaho - The jump from Junior Drag Racing to the pro ranks wasn't just a step five years ago, it was an Evil Canevil Snake River Canyon sized leap. A new kind of car has changed that step and ...
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2011 NHRA Top Fuel champion Del Worsham retires
San Antonio Express (blog)
Del Worsham, who recently won the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Top Fuel championship, announced today that he has decided to retire from drag racing. Worsham, who drove the Al-Anabi Top Fuel dragster, capped off a 21-year driving career ...
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Worsham retires following title run
San Bernardino Sun
With confetti still on the ground at Pomona Raceway where he celebrated his first NHRA championship less than eight days ago, Del Worsham has opted to end his drag racing career. The 44-year-old Chino Hills resident, who won eight nationals events in ...
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Quick alky/nitro times in Australia by Phillips and Cowin
Drag Racing Online Magazine
(Jon Van Daal file photos) [11/22/11] Velocity Composites, whose products are distributed through Tim McAmis Performance Parts in Missouri, will acquire the drag racing assets of Cynergy Composites, Inc., a Canadian company. Included in the acquisition ...
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Drivers, Start Your Engines
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"American Graffiti," "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Fast and the Furious" are all staples when it comes to featuring adrenaline-pumping drag-racing scenes incorporated into a film plot. But these movies are nothing in comparison to experiencing the ...
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Watch a drag racer crash, catch fire and then lay a scary burnout
Jalopnik
According to those on the scene, Peterson had been knocked out in the crash, the brakes locked up and the throttle was stuck open — the recipe for a helpless, smoky and ultimately fiery burnout. Drag racing in a seven-second Firebird? ...
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Racetrack saved with new partnership
Tulsa World
The 45-year-old drag-racing venue, 3101 N. Garnett Road, will continue to host drag races, officials said, but in addition patrons can expect a varied lineup of carnivals, concerts and other family-friendly events. "We want to utilize the area for more ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Top Fuel champion Del Worsham retires on top
USA Today
By Gary Graves, USA TODAY Reaching the top of his drag-racing career made it easy for Del Worsham to go out that way. By Mark J. Rebilas, US Presswire Del Worsham celebrates after winning the NHRA Top Fuel championship Nov. 13 in Pomona, Calif. ...
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Kenny Bernstein Remembers A Legendary Career
SpeedFreaks Radio and TV
Kenny BernsteinEvery history of drag racing must include a chapter on the King of Speed, Kenny Bernstein. He was the first to top 300 MPH. And he was the first to win season championships in both Top Fuel and Funny Car. But while Kenny Bernstein became ...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

2011 Atlanta Dragway spotlight on the Champions

Three of the four regular category 2011 champs, Jeremy Hancock (Super Pro), Chad Brewer (Pro) and Jim Burford (Sportsman), were repeat champions from the 2009 season.