Team Press Releases

[coverattach=1]The Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals is the last of six events in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoff that will determine the 2009 Full Throttle Champions. Jeg Coughlin enters the event as the fifth-ranked driver in the Pro Stock class. He currently trails leader Mike Edwards by 250 points.

Jeg Coughlin Jr. has three career Pro Stock victories at this event and has six overall Pro Stock victories at the Pomona Fairplex, which is also the site of the...

 

[coverattach=1]POMONA, Calif. (Nov. 9) -- No matter what happens at this weekend's 45th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, Jeg Coughlin Jr. will end the 2009 Full Throttle drag racing season with more national event victories than anyone in the sport.

Coughlin's seven race wins during the regular season kept him on top of the point standings for an NHRA-leading 14 events, a span of five full months, and powered him into the playoffs as the top seed. His JEGS.com Chevrolet...

 

Las Vegas - Duane Shields' chances of winning the NHRA Lucas Oil Top Alcohol Dragster Championship came down to the Shortline Express Gambler Showdown presented by Torco at The Strip at Las Vegas, which is a race his company Shortline Express Markets sponsors. For competitors of the Top Alcohol Dragster class it was a challenge just to qualify as over 20 cars were trying to get into an eight car field. Just to watch Top Alcohol Dragster qualifying would be worth the price of admission...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS, Nev. (Nov. 7) – In what could easily be the best performance of his career, John Coughlin won the Top Dragster title at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, scoring enough points in the process to clinch the Spitzer Race Cars Top Dragster season title for the second time in the last three years. Coughlin entered the Las Vegas event trailing leader Bob Cireddu in the standings and nothing less than a victory would allow him to...

 

[coverattach=1]Kitchener, ON – November 6, 2009 – Jim Roth, the owner of J Roth Racing, is proud to announce the launch of his Pro Modified racing team’s new website -- J Roth Racing | Landing

This is the first of many marketing initiatives to come from the winners of The Fourth Annual “Thunder by the Beach PMRA Challenge” at the Grand Bend Motorplex last September.

Earlier this year, J Roth Racing debuted its new 1941 Willys Outlaw Pro Mod for the 2009 PMRA and ADRL racing seasons. The...

 

[coverattach=1]O’FALLON, MO (Nov. 6, 2009) — The National Guard American Drag Racing League (ADRL) is pleased to announce its Racer Appreciation and Awards Gala II will be held Dec. 12, in the Citrus Ballroom at the luxurious Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. The semi-formal event punctuates the final day of the massive three-day Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show at the Orange County Convention Center just down the street from the newly renovated resort.

“All season long our race...

 

[coverattach=1]When Chris Gulitti began the 2009 racing season he knew he had a car that could be competitive.

What he didn’t know, however, was that he would have the kind of season that would garner him national attention and one of the most prestigious awards in IHRA sportsman competition.

Gulitti, behind the wheel of his ’98 Firebird Top Sportsman machine, did all that and more this season with two national event victories, a win in the Summit All-Stars race and a second place finish in the...

 

[coverattach=1]Mark Nielsen – Second Place

BRANTFORD, ONTARIO (November 4, 2009) – Even though he placed second in the 2009 Pro Modified Racing Association Championship Point Award Series, Mark Nielsen is looking for bigger and better next season in Pro Modified competition.

“I know we finished second,” said Nielsen, of Brantford. “But I don’t think we did that great ourselves. We didn’t get enough clear runs.”

Driving the G-Force Race Cars 1969 Yenko Camaro Pro Modified, Nielsen’s best...

 

[coverattach=1]FONTANA, CA - Randy Walker’s ninth final round appearance overall in 2009 came during the Pacific Street Car Association’s Mickey Thompson Tires Fall Nationals, and now only the formalities remain in crowning Walker the 2009 Hughes Performance Pro Street Champion depsite the fact that this weekend’s Edelbrock World Finals has yet to be contested.

After struggling with the change in track preparation compound used on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s surface during qualifying for...