Team Press Releases

[coverattach=1]Pomona, Calif. – “It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame…Let’s Play Two,” was the catch phrase of legendary baseball player Ernie Banks. Second generation drag racer, Ron August Jr. will take this to heart this weekend at the NHRA Auto Club World Finals held at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif. He will compete in both Mitch King’s Top Fuel Dragster and his families Ford Mustang bodied Top Alcohol Funny Car. Both entries will once again fly the colors of his long time sponsor, The Lesecure...

 

[coverattach=1]Pomona, Calif. – This weekend, at the 45th NHRA Auto Club World Finals held at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif., Johnny Ahten will attempt to place his potent A/Fuel dragster in the 16-car qualified field at the last race of the 2009 NHRA drag racing season. The firefighter from the nearby city of Saugus will be racing against some of the best Top Alcohol Dragsters in the world. And he is confident his Lucas Oil/ Island Renovations.com sponsored rail will haul the mail in the cool...

 

[coverattach=1]HAMILTON, ONTARIO (November 11, 2009) – There was no stopping Bruce Boland in Pro Modified Racing Association competition this year.

The veteran took another new car at the start of the season, winning four of the six PMRA events in 2009 to claim his third consecutive PMRA Point Award Series Championship.

“Nothing went wrong,” Boland explained about his success this year. “The car went better and better each weekend.”

After winning the 2008 PMRA title with his B&B Racing 1963...

 

[coverattach=1]POMONA, Calif., November 11, 2009 - As with several of their NHRA Full Throttle peers, Southern California natives Jerry Toliver and Jim Dunn will be racing in front of hometown friends and family at this weekend's 45th annual Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, and the duo would love nothing better than to deliver a season-ending victory for their fans and sponsors in their Jim Dunn Racing entry, the CANIDAE/Lucas Oil/WileyX Chevy.

"I love...

 

[coverattach=1]POMONA, Calif. (Nov. 11) -- This weekend's season-ending 45th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals will have a distinctly different feeling for rookie Top Fuel racer Shawn Langdon. In February, Langdon arrived in Pomona with only a few licensing passes under his belt. This time through, he's got a full year of experience on his resume and a decidedly different outlook.

"I was really nervous when the season started," said Langdon, who entered 2009 as the...

 

[coverattach=1]Charter Communications / Attitude Apparel Pro Stock driver Rodger Brogdon will not only celebrate a birthday this week but also put the finishing touches on his first full-time NHRA Pro Stock season this weekend.

“It has been an incredible ride and a learning experience,” Brogdon said, as he prepared for his trip to Pomona’s season-ending NHRA Auto Club Finals. “I’ve learned a lot as a driver and we did the same as a team. Headed into this season we had realistic expectations and now...

 

[coverattach=1]STRATFORD, ONTARIO (November 11, 2009) – There was a fair bit of thrashing with a new car, and some mechanical gremlins, but Kevin Wicke and his K&K Racing Dodge Stratus came out on top, winning the 2009 NAPA Quick 32 Sportsman Series Point Award Championship.

“We won rounds when we needed to,” explained Wicke, driver of the 604-cubic inch with B1 Heads - 2 stage NOS system-powered Stratus. “This was a new car for us, and we spent a lot of late nights with it.”

Wicke did not...

 

[coverattach=1]POMONA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2009 – The NHRA Full Throttle season comes full circle this weekend when the series makes its final stop of the 2009 campaign at the 45th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. ACDelco's Kurt Johnson began his quest for the Pro Stock crown at this venue a little more than nine months ago, and now that championships have all but officially been decided in two of the three professional categories, the Buford, Ga.-resident can concentrate on the...

 

[coverattach=1]POMONA, Calif. (Nov. 10) -- Armed with a new, first-rate sponsor in GEICO Powersports, Top Fuel driver Morgan Lucas knew back in February when the NHRA tour first visited Auto Club Raceway at Pomona that the 2009 Full Throttle season could be very special.

It turns out he was right.

As his fifth professional campaign draws to a close this weekend with the season-ending 45th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, the 25-year-old Lucas finds himself reflecting on a...