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Optic Armor Performance Windows, one of the industrys’ leading manufacturers and suppliers of specialized windshields for motorcycles and racing vehicles, has joined forces with the powerTV network of online enthusiast magazines, where their brand and products will reach a global readership audience.

Mickey Thompson Motorsports Manager Tom Kundrik proudly announced this week that the revolutionary and record-breaking new ET Street Radial Pro 275/60-15 tire has received the thumbs up following an extensive DOT approval process.

During a test session conducted by the Gil Mobley team at the always lightning-quick Maryland International Raceway, Sexton, the current Outlaw 10.5 record holder at 4.141-seconds, hustled his way to the quickest Outlaw 10.5 pass ever and the first in the 4.0′s, running an unreal 4.071 at 188.49 miles per hour.

During qualifying for the PR Factory Top Fuel Motorcycle category at the annual Spring Manufacturers Cup motorcycle drag racing event at the South Georgia Motorsports Park on Saturday, three unidentified crew members were injured by flying debris when the engine of one of the motorcycles let go during the burnout.

Pacific Street Car Association officials revealed on Thursday that Top Comp, a fast bracket category designed for NHRA-approved dragsters, doorslammers, and altereds running 8.60 and quicker, will return to the Pacific Street Car Association lineup beginning at the MagnaFuel Las Vegas Nationals April 27-29.

The ADRL’s Technical Services Director Chris Bell and SuperCar Shown Technical Director Jimmy Holzman on Wednesday issued a revision in the minimum weights for the the much talked-about new eliminator to promote competitiveness between the supercharged and naturally-aspirated combinations.

In a last minute decision announced out of the R2B2 camp this morning in Charlotte, crew chief Brad Brand has been tabbed to fill in for team owner Roger Burgess’ in his ProCare Rx 1953 Corvette.

Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels has announced their return to the National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) as an official 2012 series sponsor and title sponsor of the Super Street 10.5W category for all seven events on the series calendar.

With winter in the rear view mirror and offseason work complete, Englishman Andy Frost made his season debut over the weekend at the Santa Pod Raceway in his stunning Red Victor 3 Vauxhall, where he checked off one of his goals: becoming England’s first six-second street car.

A war of words has erupted of late between Steve Jackson, a sly former grudge racer, and fellow southern small-tire racer Keith Szabo, a longtime heads-up racer, and the pair recently engaged in a not-so-friendly but certainly entertaining little match race at the Macon Dragway in Georgia.

s part of the annual NHRA K&N Horsepower Challenge, held July 6-8 at the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Oh., fans will once again have the opportunity to not only play a role in who competes in the lucrative special event-within-an-event, but win a custom Toyota Tundra pickup.

Following a few weeks of rumors, we’re hearing that the deal between Promedia and the NHRA to bring the NMCA West series to Pomona is all but a done deal for this season and will be added as the fourth event on the inaugural NMCA West schedule; most likely in the current TBD date of August 17-19

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Don Schumacher Racing on Wednesday named veteran tuner Rahn Tobler the crew chief for fan favorite Ron Capps’ NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger Funny Car, beginning with the Four-Wide NHRA Nationals at the zMax Dragway in Charlotte, N.C. next weekend.

With the dream of going Pro Modified racing an approaching reality, European racer Eric Monsenego is transforming the 1970 Barracuda he bought in 1988 and met his wife-to-be in into a hardcore, supercharged racing machine capable of running well into the six-second zone.

Multi-time champion sportsman and big money ET bracket racer Scotty Richardson revealed his plan for a new sportsman racing sanctioning body run by the racer and intended for the racer on this week’s edition of Speed Scene Live.

Popular Outlaw Drag Radial competitor John Carter, who has been campaigning his stunning 4.4-second 2004 Chevrolet Corvette sporting turbocharged power from Proline Racing for the last handful of seasons, has unveiled the new Corvette that he’ll soon debut in the always tough Outlaw 10.5 category.