Team Press Releases

O’FALLON, MO (May 19, 2011) – The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) will again be featuring Top Sportsman racing at its next event.

It will run an eight-car Top Sportsman exhibition at the Independence Drags V, which takes place on June 17-18 at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kan.
For those interested in being a part of the eight-car exhibition race, they are encouraged to e-mail ADRL Director of Technical Services Chris Bell at [email protected].

The Top Sportsman class, which...

 

Burlington, ON (May 19, 2011) – With less than a week before the first call to fire the engines will go out at the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts, Victoria Day Weekend Challenge, Kopp Motorsports is proud to announce We Install It as the team’s major sponsor for the 2011 season.

Backed by over 25 years of experience, We Install It is a proudly Canadian company committed to providing high quality installation and repair solutions for products from A to Z and has...

 

Former IHRA world champion Laurie Cannister returns to seat of a Funny Car this weekend
Cannister gets first taste of nitro at Pittsburgh Nitro Jam this Friday and Saturday

NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (May 19, 2011) – It will be déjà vu all over again for Laurie Cannister this weekend in Pittsburgh – sort of.

While Cannister will return to the familiar seat of a Funny Car this Friday and Saturday at the Pittsburgh Nitro Jam at Pittsburgh Raceway Park – a ride she piloted to an IHRA World...

 

Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Cherissa Smallwood, pilot of The NitroandLace.com Pro Fuel Dragster Team, is elated to be racing her forth of five IHRA Nitro Jam Races slated on her teams schedule for the 2011 racing season.

Smallwoods team, led by her father Ron Griffis, have had their hands full since the San Antonio Race earlier in the year.

“We had a gremlin that weekend that was really difficult to diagnose in two days of racing” said Smallwood, “we never got to really look at everything...

 

(May 19, 2011) Mooresville, NC - The action packed Mad Dawg Jam-A-Rama event returns to the legendary Mooresville Dragway Memorial Day weekend May 27 and 28. Featured on Saturday, May 28 will be the Quick 8 Mad Dawgs and Stick Shift Championships, along with ALL DOOR CARS and Par Racing Engines TOP Dragster. There will be no weight rules in effect for the two Quick 8 Mad Dawgs in 2011 at Mooresville Dragway. Basically “old skool” run whatch you brung” style Quick 8 with no screw style...

 

Mooresville, N.C., May 18, 2011 – Jason Line and his Summit Racing team have started the 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing season in tremendous fashion, winning three of the first six races contested. As a result, they come into this weekend’s NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka, KS leading the highly competitive Pro Stock division by 50 points over teammate Greg Anderson. Even so, the 2006 champion is approaching this race with a unique blend of realistic optimism.


“As well as our Summit...

 

Mooresville, N.C., May 18, 2011 – Summit Racing Pro Stock driver Greg Anderson is in the midst of another solid season. Six races into the 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing season, he is second in the championship standings, with a win in Charlotte and three final round appearances to his credit, which by any measure would be considered a good start to defending his 2010 Pro Stock title.


Ironically, the only person to have defeated him in a final round this season, and the competitor he...

 

Summit Racing Equipment to sponsor IHRA’s biggest-ever sportsman races in July and October 2011

Norwalk, Ohio, May 18, 2011 – Summit Racing Equipment and the International Hot Rod Association are proud to announce that Summit Racing will be the title sponsor of IHRA’s Sportsman Spectacular events to be held in July and October.

Created in celebration of IHRA’s 40th anniversary season, the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spectacular events will be the two largest and richest...

 

STANFIELD AND TEAM DOING HOMEWORK

BOSSIER CITY, LA (May 18, 2011) – Greg Stanfield and his J&T Racing, Nitrofish, Coffman Tank Trucks, Indicom Electric Pontiac GXP is looking to come out of Topeka with a different outcome than Atlanta last weekend.

Stanfield has been extremely strong all year, however last weekend seemed to be a slight hiccup in the road. After trying some new things in Atlanta, and them not working out as planned, Stanfield and his team went back to basics...