Team Press Releases

Event: 2nd annual NHRA Spring Nationals Location: Royal Purple Raceway, Baytown, Texas Day/Date: Friday, April 29, 2011 Summit Racing Pro Stock racer Jason Line was the picture of consistency on Friday, recording identical 6.579-second elapsed times in each of his two qualifying runs at the NHRA Spring Nationals in Houston, Texas, claiming the provisional fourth starting position. Making one run in each lane, the 2007 Houston winner posted the third quickest time in each session among the 18 cars attempting to qualify, scoring two valuable bonus points and putting him in a good position to move up during Saturday’s twin sessions at the Baytown quarter-mile. “All in all, my Summit Racing Pontiac made two good runs...

Event: 24th annual NHRA Spring Nationals Location: Royal Purple Raceway, Baytown, Texas Day/Date: Friday, April 29, 2011 Greg Anderson and the Summit Racing team rode a competitive rollercoaster during the first day of qualifying at the NHRA Spring Nationals in Houston, Texas. After suffering a mechanical failure during their opening attempt at Royal Purple Raceway, the defending Pro Stock champions were forced to change engines in the short time between sessions. Despite completing the task with no time to spare and being the first car to make a run in the left hand lane, Anderson powered through the quarter-mile in 6.585 seconds with a top speed of 209.95 mph to move from outside the field to the sixth position midway...

CHARLOTTE, NC (April 29, 2011) – Angie Smith and her Coffman Tank Trucks Buell racing team didn’t have the day they were hoping for today in Houston, Texas. The drag racing beauty has already had her hands full this weekend and it is only the first day. The first pass of the day, the bike wouldn’t start and the second pass was good, but just not enough to be in the top-12 going into Saturday. “I couldn’t get it into gear during the first pass, so we never made it down” said Angie Smith. “The second pass was pretty good, but it just wouldn’t run. We have some work to do over night in order to step it up for tomorrow.” Smith ran a 7.005 et at 190.00 mph, but the cutoff for Friday’s qualifying order was a 6.970 et. She will...

CHARLOTTE, NC (April 29, 2011) – The Stanfield-Yonke Racing, Coffman Tank Trucks, Nitrofish Pontiac GXP of Greg Stanfield went into the 24th annual O’Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals in Houston, Texas wanting to take over the points lead. Qualifying in the ninth spot heading into Saturday’s two qualifying sessions, Stanfield is looking for a bit more before race day on Sunday. Running a 6.597 et at 209.82 mph was good enough to secure him a spot so far. “We struggled today,” said Greg Stanfield. “We need a bit more in order to improve our position going into Sunday. We know what we are missing, so we should be fine tomorrow.” Stanfield is sitting only one round out of the NHRA Championship points lead, so running well each pass is...

BAYTOWN, Texas – After spending the last three weeks working on a new clutch for their Nitro Fish Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle, LE Tonglet and Team Tonglet finally had an opportunity to try it in Friday’s opening round of qualifying for Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway. The results couldn’t have been any better because Tonglet sits in the provisional No. 1 position following a very impressive quarter-mile lap of 6.849 seconds at a career-best 195.95 mph. His first run of 6.912 seconds was fourth-quickest of that session. “We were trying to dial in the clutch,” Tonglet said, “and it looks like it’s coming around. We are excited about it. “The track conditions were not as good as you might...

BAYTOWN, Texas – Slowed by an electrical problem on Friday’s opening round of qualifying for Sunday’s Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway, Steve Torrence and the Capco Racing/Tuttle Motorsports Top Fuel team bounced back with a time of 4.017 seconds at 273.77 mph that was 12th quickest. “There wasn’t much we could do on the first run,” Torrence said. “But it was a good feeling to come back and get down the track the second time. We’ll keep chipping away at the tune-up and try to make it better on our two runs on Saturday.” On the first run, Torrence coasted to the finish in 8.832 seconds at 72.87 mph.

O’FALLON, MO (April 29, 2011) — The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) and its Extreme 10.5 class will be featured on Saturday’s “Lucas Oil On The Edge!” which airs at 7 p.m. EST on SPEED. The show will center around the 2010 Extreme 10.5 “Battle For The Belts,” which took place last October at Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. It will also re-air at 3:30 p.m. EST on Monday. This action-packed episode will feature all of the exciting highlights from the memorable event that crowned a 2010 ADRL World Champion in one of the league’s most thrilling classes. Featuring standout drivers like Dan Millen, Billy Glidden, Gary White, Todd Moyer, Spiro Pappas and Chuck Ulsch, the Extreme 10.5 “Battle For The Belts” showcased the top eight...

BAYTOWN, Texas – The phrase “History tends to repeat itself” is one not only limited to the textbooks and notepads found in schools. In fact, the phrase can be seen in the pits and on the track of many NHRA Drag Races around the country. Whether it’s the wave of successful wins a driver can have in one season, a string of No. 1 qualifiers that occur in back-to-back races, or even a repeat world championship, history can have a tendency to repeat itself on the dragstrip. As the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing series returns to Royal Purple Raceway, April 29-May 1, for the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals, it’s that exact phrase that driver Danny Rowe hopes to be uttering in Winner’s Circle on Sunday. Just...

ELMA, NEW YORK (April 29, 2011) – He has been behind the wheel of his Top Sportsman car for only one season, but Bob Bauer Jr is ready to join the drag racing action in the upcoming Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts. “This is only my second season with the car,” said the driver of the Bauer Racing entry, “but for the most part we’ve got it figured out.” The 2007 Pontiac GTO is a Torrelli Pro Cars product, with a 632-cubic inch Jan-Cen Racing Engines powerplant. The big-block is fueled with a Jan-Cen/Speedtech – Single Stage fogger nitrous system, and behind the engine sits an R & R Racing Transmissions T/S Powerglide with a 10-inch BDR Converter. Bauer said he has raced since the early 1990s, always in...