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Numidia,
PA – Numidia Dragway is
getting ready to close out its 2018 series of big-money
races and its season in big-money style with OctoberBucks.
The first three weekends of October will have $5K Super
Pro and $3K Footbrake gambler races. The dates are Saturday
and Sunday, October 6 & 7, 13 & 14.
Boiling
Springs, PA - For the second time, weather has
forced South Mountain Raceway to
reschedule its 2018 Quarter Aces Glory Days
Nostalgia Drags. The new-new date is Sunday,
September 30, 2018.
WEST
PALM BEACH, Fla.- Due to weather predictions
of Hurricane Florence impacting the Carolinas this
weekend, the International Hot Rod Association
(IHRA) is rescheduling the Summit Team Finals to October
10-14 at Darlington Dragway, Hartsville, S.C.
September
5, 2018, St. Louis Region – Schedule for
the Fall Bracket Battle weekend at
Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois.
The Fall Bracket Battle features the annual
NHRA National Dragster Challenge, VP Racing Lubricants
Mid-American Super Car Showdown, bracket racing, box
and no-box bonus races and Jr. Dragster competition.
Epping,
NH - New
England Dragway hosts the NHRA Division
1 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Friday – Sunday,
September 7 – 9, 2018 and presents its
Night of Fire the same weekend on Saturday
night, giving racers and fans a double dose of awesome.
Gates
open Friday at 7:30 am with NHRA tech inspection starting
at 8:00 am and time trials starting at 9:00 am.
I've
gotten to know many great independent racing organizations
from around the country. The thing they have in common
is a never-ending passion for our sport. They all try
to put together a great racing package for their members
and for the tracks that host them. They all do a good
job of marketing themselves, but my friends at
The Rocky Mountain Superchargers have set the
bar pretty high with their excellent fan guide. This
32-page magazine is printed on heavy, ultra-glossy stock
and includes full page profiles of each driver, fantastic
photography and information about the group. If I were
a track operator and received this as part of a presentation
to book them in, my impression would be 'here's a group
that has its act together and takes my business seriously.'
Great job, Rocky Mountain Superchargers.
We
were on location at the 30th Annual Performance Racing
Industry Show, held December 7th
- 9th, 2017 in Indianapolis, IN, and it was bigger than ever.
Performance Racing Industry does a great job every year, with
seminars and conferences to help you grow your performance
business, lots of networking opportunities, and tons of racing
products on the show floor. 
A
message from our friends at Stroud Safety:
check your SFI labels on a regular basis to ensure
that you are compliant and that your safety equipment
is at peak performance in case of an accident. Nothing
is more disappointing than to discover your SFI certification
has expired during a technical inspection at your
next event!
Xenia,
OH - Loose Rocker Promotions is
calling all of you no-box racers to Kil-Kare
Raceway for the Labor Day No-Box Classic, Friday –
Sunday August 31 – September 2, 2018
for three days of bottom-bulb, 1/8th mile bracket racing.
Mockville,
NC - Farmington Dragway’s Money Tree
Top Bulb Triple $20Ks is coming up Friday-Sunday, August
31-September 2, 2018.
Baltimore,
MD — ATI Performance Products, Inc.
announces the 4th Annual “Jim Beattie
Stock/Super Stock Memorial Race” to honor
its founder, James Beattie, Sr.
The
Xtreme Dragbike Association (XDA) takes
motorcycle drag racing back to Virginia Motorsports
Park (VMP) for the Inaugural Superbike
Showdown on August 24-26, 2018.
NEW
ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (Aug. 6, 2018) — Nick
Bowman and Mitch Shomber scored
key wins in the International Hot Rod Association
(IHRA) Summit Spectacular races at Keystone
Raceway Park.
How
many times have you heard somebody proclaim that drag
racing needs to be fixed? Maybe you’ve even said
it yourself. Surprisingly enough, even though those
cries can still be heard on a weekly basis, drag racing
has been fixed; it’s just that very few people
have yet to realize this to be true.
If
you’re an Arizona drag racer, you’ve undoubtedly
heard of American DRAGCAR. But unless you are a DRAGCAR
racer, you likely don’t know all that there
is to know about this one of a kind organization.
Even after 6 years of statewide competition, there
still are racers asking what it is and how it works.
Unfortunately, the complexity of the rules when you
start to read into them tends to scare today’s
racers off into the bracket lanes but the actual goal
of DRAGCAR is to revive the original “first
one there wins” concept while opening up the
competition to...
Gulfport,
MS – Gulfport Dragway has
a big weekend coming up on Friday, May 11 and
Saturday, May 12, 2018.
Fontana,
CA - Autoclub
Dragway would play host to rounds 3 and 4 of the K&N
8.90 Series series and the Team Fischle duo
of Matt and Brian Fischle came into
the weekend looking to build on a solid but unfulfilling
first two rounds. Their weekend would start off on the
wrong foot as neither driver had the day they were looking
for.
Atco,
NJ - The Mid Atlantic .90 Association
kicked off its 2018 season at Atco Dragway on Saturday
April 28th, 2018. An action-packed day of racing and
blue skies greeted racers for Race # 1 of the 10 race
series.
April
28, 2018, St. Louis Region – Scott
Cook of Festus, Missouri won the Super Pro
finale in the Carl’s 4WD Bracket Series meet held
today at Gateway Motorsports Park’s NHRA-sanctioned
Dragplex in Madison, Illinois. Cook defeated Jon
Tignor of Hillsboro, Missouri with an .004
sec. reaction time on a 4.827 sec./136.07 mph run to
his opponent’s .033 6.158 sec./108.25 in the ...
Montgomery,
AL - The 2018 Southern Outlaw Tour kicks
off the weekend of Friday – Saturday, April 27-28
at Montgomery Raceway Park. Classes
include Southern Outlaw Tour Pro Mods, Super Pro, Outlaw
Bottom Bulb, 5.0/6.0/7.0 Index and Jr. Dragster.
Super
Pro pays $5,000 Win. Entry fee is $100, 1st-round
buybacks are $50. Payout based on 50 car minimum.
Outlaw Bottom Bulb pays $1,000 Win.
Entry fee is $40, 1st-round buybacks are $25. Payout
based on 25 car minimum. 
Harvest,
AL – Hunstville Dragway’s Drive
for 7Five is coming up on April 28-29, 2018.
The weekend features two $7,500 races for electronics-equipped
bracket cars, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
March
16 - 18, 2018, Dinwiddie, VA. - Tommy and
Judy Franklin purchased Virginia Motorsports
Park in Dinwiddie, Va. last fall. They have
made not only massive investments in the facility, but
also have put it through the paces already. The entire
track has been replaced from burnout box through the
quarter-mile with a world-class all-concrete surface,
including new drainage. Track manager and track prep
guru Allen Carpenter has been armed with more equipment
to prep and...
Listen
up, Pentastar racers… the 27th Annual
Mopars at The Rock is coming up on Saturday,
March 31st. 2018. There’ll be a car show
and a swap meet, but what we really care about is the
drag racing! To that end there’ll be a Challenger
Shootout, a Charger Shootout
and a Viper Shootout. These shootouts
are for street-driven cars only. There’ll also
be the Bob Reed Memorial Hemi Shootout
with an 8-car qualified field.
All motorsports competitors know that a fire suppression
system is perhaps the most critical system in a
racing vehicle. This new instruction video from
Stroud Safety provides information
on the components of the system, proper bottle mounting,
tubing routing, and optimal nozzle positioning.
There are also helpful instructions on the proper
methods of cutting, flaring, and bending tubing.
Information is included for maintenance of the system
and additional tips to help you achieve a reliable,
professional installation. See it at 
Launchers,
Seat Belts, Window Nets, Ballistic Blankets and Diapers,
Fire Suppression Kits, and more for over 30 years!
Stroud re-certifies all their SFI rated products and
specializes in custom design applications for many
of their products. 
Marion,
TX., March 17th, 2018 - San Antonio Raceway
hosted the Outlaw Fuel Altered Association
and Southwest Heritage Racing Association
version of Nitro Jam featuring the nitro-burning Fuel
Altereds, Dragsters, Funny Cars, plus Nostalgia Super
Stocks racing in their own timed categories. The Alkydigger
Nostalgia Eliminator 1 (4.65) N.E. 2 (5.00) and N.E.
3 (5.50), all +/- .05, while OFAA are a heads up class.
Gateway
Motorsports Park's Dragplex in Madison, Illinois, will
launch its new Sharks of the Strip program on Friday,
April 13.
Mooresville
Dragway has joined Division 2, the NHRA Southeast
Division, as a NHRA member track. Located in the heart
of stock-car country, Mooresville, N.C., the track
hosts events March through November. A weekly points
championship, the 2nd annual Hot Rod Festival, and
the North Carolina Street Outlaws No Prep race highlight
the ...
In
designing its disc brake systems, Mark Williams
Enterprises' engineering
team focused on the needs of drag racing: lightest possible
unsprung weight and rotating mass, concentrated severe
braking, and a long service life. By all measures, MW
has achieved its goals. Here's why: ...
Tucson,
AZ - The 2nd Annual Southwest Showdown
is coming up March 8-11, 2018 at Tucson
Dragway. The event includes three days of 1/8-mile
big money bracket racing in Super Pro and Pro ET.
MOHNTON,
PA, -
Bill Bader Jr.’s Energize, LLC
has been hired by Maple Grove Raceway
to help pave a prosperous path for its famed facility
in Mohnton, Pennsylvania.
Pomona,
CA - The McClelland name and the Pomona Fairplex go
hand in hand with the history of the NHRA which is why
it's only fitting that Kevin McClelland
would add a new chapter to the McClelland family legacy
with his victory at the 58th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals.
WEST
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The
International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) announced
today the complete 20-race schedule for the new IHRA
Summit Sportsman Spectacular. The historic Wilkesboro
Dragway, Wilkesboro, N.C., has been added to the schedule.
The IHRA Summit Sportsman Spectacular will produce a
fun double-race weekend with increased purses that is
affordable for grassroots, bracket-racing competitors
who support their local tracks each week.
Tucson,
AZ - Tucson Dragway has announced the
schedule for the track's NHRA ET bracket racing points
program along with the payout structure for points races.
Tucson's points season kicks off Saturday, February
3rd, 2018 and includes nine (9) races:
This
past week, on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, Old
Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown
NJ announced that it was ceasing all drag racing activities
effective immediately. The track had entered into
a multi-year lease agreement with Copart, the auto
auction company, to store its vehicles on Raceway
Park property. The track was not sold; other motorsports
activities such as drifting and motocross will continue
at the facility, but drag racing was done. No NHRA
Summernationals, no NHRA Divisional race, no bracket
racing.
The
California Independent Funny Car Association
2018 season will kick off at the Whittier Area Classic
Car Show, February 24th 2018 at Whittier Area Community
Church. This annual car show is open to all makes and
models of American and foreign classic and collector
vehicles 1976 and older. The net proceeds of this event
will fund Whittier Area Community Projects and help
fund a Whittier Union High School District Scholarship
honoring fallen Whittier Police Officer Keith Boyer.
It's free to the public. There will be live music, vendor
booths, food trucks, sponsor information, raffle prizes,
opportunity drawings, event t-shirts, games, kid activities
and mini cackle-fest.