Team Press Releases

[coverattach=1]Las Vegas, qualifying: If having a consistent car plays into a winning hand, Pro Stock driver, Johnny Gray should bet the house on his Dodge Stratus for the Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The talented New Mexico driver is qualified fifth and looking for his steady performance to work to his advantage all the way through race day.

Gray made four consistent runs in qualifying. Friday he ran 6.696 at 206.13 mph, and stepped up on the second pass to post...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31, 2009) - Piloting the FRAM Tough Guard Top Fuel Dragster, Cory McClenathan qualified No. 5 for the ninth annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the penultimate race of the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

McClenathan earned four bonus points during qualifying: one for his third-quickest pass of 3.860 seconds at 315.86 mph in the first session; one for his third-quickest effort of 3.862/318.47 in the third round; and two...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31, 2009) - Ron Capps drove the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Funny Car into second place in qualifying for the ninth annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Capps set his quickest pass of 4.041 seconds at 310.55 mph in Friday evening's second qualifying session, which held through two more rounds of qualifying today. His first attempt on Friday produced a 5.578/126.09. A 5.934/111.35 and a similar 5.809/117.67 pass today completed his tries to...

 

[coverattach=1]Qualifying for the Las Vegas NHRA Nationals was completed on Saturday, with Summit Racing driver Greg Anderson capturing the fourth position for Sunday’s final eliminations. Although his run of record was his 6.670-second effort from Friday afternoon, the three-time champion used his final two attempts to fine-tune his set-up for race day.

After falling off slightly in the morning session, Anderson closed his qualifying attempt with the second quickest and fastest pass in the heat of...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31, 2009) - Matt Hagan held on to the No. 1 qualifying position for the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway today through two more qualifying rounds and will face Grant Downing in the opening round of Sunday's Funny Car eliminations. This is his second No. 1 of the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle season.

After posting a track-record-setting 4.030-second elapsed time at 313.88 mph on Friday to establish the fastest speed in NHRA history racing to...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31) -- Team Lucas racers Shawn Langdon and Morgan Lucas will both race for the Top Fuel title of the ninth annual Las Vegas NHRA Nationals, although local sports books will most likely post very different odds for the two drag racers.

Rookie-of-the-year candidate Langdon will certainly be one of the favorites after posting an impressive string of four 3.8-second passes in his Lucas Oil/Dixie Chopper dragster. Aside from his 3.855 at 313.29 mph, which placed him seventh...

 

[coverattach=1]Las Vegas, Nev. (Oct. 31, 2009) – Team Mopar® NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock driver Allen Johnson maintained his No. 6 position after the final two sessions of qualifying today at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Johnson will face off with No. 11 qualifier Jeg Coughlin in eliminations tomorrow.

Johnson’s Mopar HEMI®-powered Dodge lost power shortly after take-off during the first qualifying session today, and the Team Mopar veteran’s final...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS, Oct. 31, 2009 – ACDelco's Kurt Johnson dodged a Halloween scare today at the 9th annual Las Vegas, and he will enter Sunday's Pro Stock eliminations at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the No. 16 position. Johnson survived a furious round-four qualifying flurry in which a number of drivers bumped in and out of the competitive field, but Johnson's 6.742 second run at 205.51 mph run was enough to keep him in the field,.

Tomorrow's order of business doesn't get any easier for...

 

[coverattach=1]LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31) -- Reigning back-to-back Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. will try to win his eighth race of the season and third straight at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway from the No. 11 position after posting a best pass of 6.688 seconds at 206.35 mph during qualifying for the ninth annual Las Vegas NHRA Nationals.

Like most of the racers in the class, Coughlin made his run of record in Friday's cooler evening session. His Victor Cagnazzi Racing team swapped engines...