Team Press Releases

[coverattach=1]MARTIN, Mich. (August 5, 2010) – Amid all the flashy show elements and high-stakes nitro racing that will be featured at this year’s Northern Nitro Jam at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park lies the real reason that Martin, Michigan’s annual summer tradition holds a special place in the hearts of fans and drivers – the Moser Engineering Axle-Mania Sportsman Showdown. Easily the richest sportsman race of the year, the Moser Axle-Mania competition pits 32 of the best sportsman racers in the country against one another in an inter-class battle for a share of the $51,000 purse generously offered by the people at Moser Engineering. Of that purse the winner will walk away with the single largest payday of the year, a hefty $22,500...

Next up for Dan Myers Racing: Boise’s “Nightfire Nationals” San Diego, CA – One of the biggest events on the West Coast, the Nightfire Nationals at Firebird Raceway in Boise Idaho, will be including the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association for the first time ever this 2010 season for the 39th annual running of the state’s premiere motorsports event, the Pepsi Nightfire Nationals. With the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association (WCOPMA) being booked in to the event for the first time ever this year, Dan Myers will be bringing his 1957 Chevy Cameo Pick-Up truck to compete with the likes of WCOPMA points leader Bret Williamson, WCOPMA president Rod Burbage, NHRA Pro Mod driver Dennis Radford and other WCOPMA heavy hitters such as...

After focusing his efforts on his new nitro funny car the week before in Mission BC, Clint Thompson was back in the driver seat of his Cascade Auto Group Top Alcohol funny car at the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Event in Spokane, July 30 - August 1st. The event billed as the “Northwest Thunderfest” attracted a good size crowd that also featured nitro funny cars and jets. In qualifying, Thompson was on top of the field from the get go with a 5.83 at 250 MPH but officially sealed the deal in the final qualifying session by two tenths with a 5.61 at 254 MPH and smashed Spokane’s track record set by Brian Hough in the process! Since there were only four cars that qualified, the winner of the first round would go to the finals...

[coverattach=1]Action heats up for Round Four of the PMRA 2010 Tour Tight points race for Pro Modifieds going into Stratford Spectacular Weekend at Grand Bend Motorplex GRAND BEND, ONTARIO (August 3, 2010) – When the Pro Modified Racing Association rolls in to the Grand Bend Motorplex this coming weekend of August 7-8 for the Stratford Spectacular Hot August Nationals presented by Ideal Supply & NAPA Auto Parts, the teams will be on their game plan in this hotly-contest 2010 season. “We have any number of teams who could win this round,” noted Bruce Mehlenbacher, Director of Operations for the PMRA. “So far this season we have recorded a different winner for each event.” The top three teams in the Championship Point...

[coverattach=1]MADISON, IL (August 1, 2010) — The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) had just a short two-week layoff as it prepares for its second straight double-race weekend. On August 6-7 at Gateway International Raceway (GIR), the ADRL will complete one of its busiest stretches in history with the ADRL Hardee’s Gateway Drags III before what could be another record-breaking crowd. But that won’t be the only race that will be completed over the two-day stretch. After rain forced the postponement of the ADRL Hardee’s Independence Drags IV in early July, the finish was moved to Friday at GIR. The Independence Drags will be completed on Friday, with qualifying also taking place that day for the Gateway Drags. A day later, the...

[coverattach=1]Sandy, Utah – The employees of Combustion Technologies USA were life-long fans of NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster racer Mark Niver. His dedication to the sport and his creative, quality driven craftsmanship is an instrumental part of our business philosophy. Tragically, Niver lost his life due to injuries suffered in a racing accident this past Sunday during the running of the NHRA Northwest Nationals. On behalf of the staff at Combustion Technologies USA, we would like to offer our heart-felt condolences to the Niver family for their loss. As NHRA Sportsman racers ourselves, we believe Niver, a machinist by trade was one of the best examples of ‘Ingenuity in Action’, a phrase which is a fundamental principle which created...

[coverattach=1]Sonoma, Calif. – NHRA Division 7 Top Alcohol Dragster owners Jerry and Betty Brazil will return to the drag strip after a four year hiatus during the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 7 event contested at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. The Eureka, Calif. based team has selected 21-year old Kenny Buzdas to drive their Blown Alcohol Dragster. Buzdas, a former NHRA Division 7 Jr. Dragster champion and recent driver of Jim Ray’s potent Blown Alcohol Top Eliminator West Dragster from Yuba City recently completed his NHRA 2A licensing procedures in a test session driving Ray’s rail to a best elapsed time of 6.12 seconds at 229 miles per hour. For the rookie TAD pilot, the opportunity to drive for the...

Mopar® Headed to Thunder Mountain for 31st Annual Mile-High NHRA Nationals Brand to Reveal Mopar ’10 Challenger at Big Block Event NHRA Stars to Jump-start Mopar® Mile-High Nationals with Free Autograph Session Auburn Hills, Mich. — Mopar®, Chrysler Group LLC’s service, parts and customer-care brand, will join thousands of Mopar drag-racing fans as they roll into Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, Colo., for the 31st Annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, July 23–25. To kick off the weekend’s festivities, Mopar will reveal its new Mopar ’10 Challenger at its Big Block Event gathering on Thursday, July, 22 at 6:30 p.m. (MDT) in Golden, Colo. Every year, Mopar fans and racers descend on the Bandimere family’s picturesque drag...

New Yorker unstoppable during IHRA Nitro Jam Nationals at Grand Bend GRAND BEND, ONTARIO (July 18, 2010) - Mike Stawicki has made it known that he is the force in Pro Modified racing this season. The veteran driver of the G-Force Race Cars MSR Performance powered 1968 Firebird from Medina, New York, qualified number one for race three in the 2010 Pro Modified Racing Association tour, and went the distance to win his first PMRA event of the year and the first IHRA Ironman of his career. Stawicki beat former Alcohol Funny Car driver Paul Noakes of London, Ontario in the final. Noakes, who has settled nicely behind the wheel of the Noakes and Martin Racing 1963 Corvette, qualified seventh, and ran a stout 6.293, 223.28 final but...