Team Press Releases

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (June 16, 2010) - Cory McClenathan and the FRAM Top Fuel Dragster team almost set a national elapsed-time record (racing to 1000 feet) last weekend in Englishtown, N.J., after establishing a 3.752-second run. As temperatures rose on Saturday and Sunday at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, they were unable to back it up by one percent for the record. If conditions warrant this weekend at the 10th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway, they just might go for it again. "We have a great car," said McClenathan, who is third in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing class point standings. "We know it will run some killer ETs given the right conditions. If we can solidly get down the track in the first...

[coverattach=1]Team Aruba.jpgUNION, SOUTH CAROLINA (June 16, 2010) - American Drag Racing League (ADRL) teams have nearly reached the half-way point in the 2010 season, with the ever-coveted "Speedtech Battle for the Belts" quickly approaching. With only five scheduled races left before the ADRL World Finals (including the remainder of ADRL Dragpalooza VI rescheduled for July 23-24), Team Aruba currently sits in 13th place in the Extreme Pro Stock division with 495 points. ADRL teams traveled to U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan for the ADRL Ford Drive One Summer Drags VI. "We were excited to sit in 3rd after qualifying," says Trevor Eman, driver for Extreme Pro Stock (XPS) team, Team Aruba. "After such a long...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (June 15, 2010) – Veteran Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbert will compete in the upcoming NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tenn., with the Mail Terminal Services “MAIL FROM HOME” Program / B.R.A.K.E.S. Dragster. After not competing full time over the past two years, Herbert is excited to return to the track where he has won six times. He will promote the “MAIL FROM HOME” Program, which honors the service personnel in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Mail Terminal Services, through its partnership with the US Post Office, receives, sorts and packages all of the mail going to the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. “Doug is committed to honoring military service personnel,” said Rodger Comstock...

[coverattach=1]Baytown, Texas – It’s been said, consistency wins championships in the high-powered sport of NHRA Championship Drag Racing. After running 3-consecutive 5.66-second elapsed times at this past weekend’s Division 4 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event contested at Houston Raceway Park, the Rick Jackson Racing Top Alcohol Funny Car team captured their second straight Division 4 event title. Tony Bartone, the talented driver of Rick Jackson’s potent Ford Mustang Centre Pointe Collision Center sponsored flopper qualified in the number one spot in a talented field of four TAFC’s in Baytown, Texas. His pole position set up a round one match-up against the reigning NHRA Division 3 champion Chris Foster and his talented crew...

NORCO, Calif. (June 15, 2010) - Jack Beckman has always been an NHRA historian, often reciting facts and statistics drawn from the "old" days of the sport. As he heads to this weekend's 10th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway this weekend, he can't help but talk about this track's history and how neat it is to race there. "For me, as a racing historian, Bristol is one of those places that's got it all," said the driver of the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger which will feature a tribute to the troops in Afghanistan in its paint scheme. "It's got history. NHRA first went there in 1965 for what was then the Spring Nationals. NHRA left in 1967 and after the 1997 season the original track...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (June 15, 2010) - Matt Hagan, who races the DieHard Dodge Charger Funny Car for Don Schumacher Racing in the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, manages a 500-acre Angus Cattle farm in Christiansburg, Va., just a hop-skip away from Bristol Dragway in Tennessee. So, Hagan will feel very much at home this weekend at the 10th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. In the middle of hay-baling season on the farm, Hagan is also making hay on the NHRA circuit. So far, in his second year as a full-time pro Funny Car racer, he's won two national events in as many final rounds, claimed one pole position and set a national elapsed-time record. He stands third in the class point standings and is hoping for a...

[coverattach=1]Hometown Favorites Allen and Roy Johnson Take Aim at Pair of Mopar®-Powered Wins at Bristol Johnsons Compete Together for First Time Since 1981 at NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals Auburn Hills, Mich. — The Team Mopar® father-and-son duo of Allen and Roy Johnson hope to have two very special reasons to celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday. NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Mopar Dodge Avenger driver Allen Johnson will seek his first Pro Stock win at his home track of Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway, while his father and engine builder, Roy Johnson, will end a nearly 30-year retirement from competition and attempt to capture the Stock Eliminator victory in his new Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak car at the NHRA Thunder...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (June 15, 2010) - Ron Capps has won twice at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway, and he's tied for the most number of victories there with John Force and Del Worsham. He'd like to break that tie at this weekend's 10th annual event, the third of a string of four in a row in the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. For the NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car team this is an important time as Capps and crew chief Ed "Ace" McCulloch aim to be high in the top 10 in the standings when the Countdown to 1 playoffs begin for the final six races of the season. "We are right in the middle of this four-in-a-row stretch," said Capps, who is currently seventh in the rankings and still seeking his first...

[coverattach=1]Top Dragster of Toyrific Racing gets boost with supercharged powerplant ORILLIA, ONTARIO (June 14, 2010) - With a new ERD engine program, Melanie Simmons is hoping to be a strong player in this year's Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts. "We were disappointed we didn't qualify for a couple of races last year," said Simmons, who drives the Top Dragster of Toyrific Racing. "But we've stepped up for this year." The 540-cubic inch Chevy engine has received a supercharger and related equipment from the shops of Carl Spiering's Engine Research & Development (ERD) and the team is hoping the increase in power will get the LJ Red dragster down the track quicker. "We didn't qualify and sat out a...