Team Press Releases

BAYTOWN, Texas – Despite the rescheduling of the season-opening ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza VI, Houston Raceway Park officials would like to clarify that the DragRaceHose.com Warm Up presented by Goodridge Hoses & Fittings will remain on the originally scheduled date, Mar. 5-7.

Last year was the first for the event and featured over 100 cars during the three day test. More entries are expected this year.

“Many of the racers in the region and beyond are starting their racing year...

 

Dote Racing, headed by Mike Dote, has announced today that Doug Foley will be the driver of their Top Fuel Dragster for 2010 and beyond. We know our first weekend in NHRA Drag Racing was a little rocky, which is never what we intended, but after seeing how the team did their job and not allow the distraction to affect their performance, it was a real credit to what they are about. Even though we were only able to make four runs, it started good and only got better, our last run on Sunday...

 

[coverattach=1]BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Two-time NHRA Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon and 10-time NHRA Division 6 champion Bucky Austin have teamed to campaign Pedregon's Pisano Nostalgia Funny Car during the 2010 Hot Rod Heritage Series season.

Beginning with the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet at Auto Club Raceway Famoso, Pedregon will drive this replica of the Joe Pisano 1978 Plymouth Arrow Funny Car that debuted at here last October at the California Hot Rod Reunion.

"Bucky's going to run it and...

 

[coverattach=1]IHRA returns to its roots as sportsman racing takes center stage

IHRA is pleased to announce that Top Sportsman and Top Dragster will be featured during the professional elimination rounds at all Nitro Jam events in 2010.

Since the mid-1970s sportsman drag racing and the International Hot Rod Association have walked hand in hand and in 2010 that relationship is going to become even stronger as the IHRA returns to its roots and places its quickest and fastest sportsman classes...

 

[coverattach=1]Greg Slack’s courageous triumph over cancer

In his successful twenty-five-year career as a racer, Greg Slack has faced numerous challenges, fought tough adversaries, and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to win races and championships, but when he rolled his dragster into the Rockingham Dragway winners circle last June, he celebrated a triumph monumentally greater than the Summit Pro-Am Quick Rod victory he had just driven to.

On that day his reward far outshone the...

 

[coverattach=1]From local racers to the national stage, drivers doing their part to help find a cure for one of world’s fastest growing diseases

Chances are at some point in your life you or someone you know has been directly affected by one of the world’s fastest growing diseases – diabetes.

In the United States alone a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 30 seconds and if that trend continues it is estimated that some 380 million people worldwide will be affected by the illness by the...

 

BAYTOWN, Texas (Dec. 21) -- Continuing a multi-year effort to offer guests a first-class experience, the owners of Houston Raceway Park will soon christen a 12,000 square foot, state-of-the-art "Tower Club" that will instantly become the premiere starting line facility in drag racing.

Already nearing completion, the deluxe permanent structure on the west side of the conventional tower suites will transform a regular day at the drag races into a VIP experience for race fans, with numerous...

 

[coverattach=1]DELAWARE, Ohio (Dec. 18) -- The call of the wild has lured newly crowned NMCA Pro Street world champion Troy Coughlin back to NHRA Pro Mod competition in 2010. Utilizing the guidance and tuning prowess of multi-time Pro Mod and Pro Stock titlist Rickie Smith, Coughlin will rejoin the Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge after one year's absence, while also defending the NMCA crown he claimed in '09. Coughlin will debut a new nitrous-powered '68 Chevrolet Camaro built by Jerry Bickel for...

 

[coverattach=1]ELKHART, Ind. (December 18, 2009) -- In an announcement today, Terry McMillen, team owner and driver of the Amalie Oil InstiGator Top Fuel dragster, named Richard Hartman crew chief for the team's 2010 NHRA Full Throttle campaign. Hartman joins McMillen after leading Bruce Litton as crew chief or co-crew chief to 14 IHRA victories, including Litton's 2007 IHRA Championship.

"We're excited about having Richard on our team," McMillen said. "He's proven himself to be a consistent tuner...