Chris Holbrook finally defeated the undefeated Bo Butner in the ADRL SuperCar Showdown division on Saturday night at the Northeast Drags II at Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania, earning his first win in the category and the third in a row for the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet.
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Holbrook Gets First ADRL SuperCar Win, Cobra Jets Remain Perfect
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Just three years ago Kristen Dennis had only dreamed of one day becoming a professional racer. After all, what would a mother of two from Magnolia, Texas – population 1,100 – do with a fast car and a big dream? As it turns out, win. And win a lot.
Indiana’s Bo Butner drove his supercharged Ford Mustang Cobra Jet to the winner’s circle at the ADRL’s Spring Drags III at fabled Bristol (TN) Dragway to earn his second title in the first two races of the new series.
Chase Copeland is living every kid’s dream – driving a five-second race car, winning national events, and contending for championships in his early 20s.
Sometimes, the best plan is not having a plan. For three-time Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Stock world champion Jimmy DeFrank, that formula just seems to work.
Dean Marinis used an .078 starting line advantage to offset Barry Mitchell’s slight edge in on-track performance last Sunday to win the Baer Brakes X275 Shootout to lead a long list of worthy winners at the 17th annual Holcomb Spring Civil Wars at Rockingham Dragway last weekend.
Guess who had more national event wins than anyone in Top Alcohol Funny Car last year? It’s not Frank Manzo, who won the NHRA championship for the sixth straight year, like you’d probably think; it’s rival Tony Bartone, who pushed Manzo harder than he’s been pushed in years.
With the ADRL season opener just days away, Taylor Racing is pleased to announce that Tim Tindle will be driving the blown Vette for the entire 2012 race season. In addition, the Taylor Team has agreed to tune the supercharged Hemi.
Reigning Top Alcohol Dragster world champ Duane Shields heads to the Gatornationals, an event he has owned the past few years, anxious to put behind him a disastrous start to his title defense. He hasn’t made it to the Tree under power in eliminations yet this year, but, as he says, it’s early.
The guys over at Calhoun Racing are putting together a new combo for the new season. With the help of GForce Motorsports, this once Outlaw True Ten Association Ultimate Street and Texas True Ten 5 Extreme Street champion machine is being transformed into a hopeful Outlaw Drag Radial contender.
The Illinois Midwest Street Machines, a staple in the Midwest for index racing over the past nine years, regretfully closed its doors this week, citing the personal burden placed on the remaining organizers to keep the popular series in operation.
After a busy weekend of racing including three Summit Team Finals events, the IHRA has named it’s first 12 qualifiers for the Summit SuperSeries Championship at the IHRA World Finals, taking place on October 14-16 at Virginia Motorsports Park.
The NHRA Competitor’s website was just released to bring together NHRA’s competition, tech information, schedules and updates all together in one newly developed website. Just in case you didn’t know, the new and improved NHRARacer.com is replacing the current information site on NHRA.com, and became mobile.
NHRA announced its 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series schedule today, highlighted by a return to Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis, which expands the schedule to 23 races.
Dallas, Texas native John Hale was officially awarded the DRO Nostalgia Funny Car Series championship following the discovery of a scoring error in the establishment of a new national record. With the 5.77 record performance, Hale garnered enough points to in fact earn the title over Paul Romine.
Texas native Steve Burcl, driver of the ARC Specialties Top Alcohol Funny Car, comes from a rich lineage of Texas drag racers who grew up learning how to build cars up from nothing before eventually working their way into the driver’s seat.
Rumor in the NMCA/NMRA Joliet pits today is that the NMCA and NHRA Unleashed are going to combine forces. It is still too soon to tell but if you are an NMCA racer, you might have the chance to walk away with a Wally at the end of a race weekend in the future.
Tim Matherly has been a fixture in the world of blue oval drag racing since the mid-1980’s. This mild mannered 44 year old has pedaled everything from a Pro 5.0 Mustang, big block Cougar Eliminators, juiced fox bodies, to his current NMRA Real Street ride; a blown 2-valve modular powered 2011 Mustang GT.
Until now, if you wanted to know the secrets that go into World Products’ complete engines, you had to either work there, or buy one and take it apart piece by piece. The cat’s out of the bag now, though – World has released a series of “Top Secret Engine Horsepower Recipes” on CD-ROM.
Spare the rod, spoil the motor – Connecting rods are a critical part of any high performance build, but how much do you really know about how they’re made? A look at GRP Connecting Rods’ manufacturing process reveals some interesting details.
John Dickey: Picking the Right Carburetor for your Engine Combination
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on 07/23/10
Picking the right Carburetor size for your car & engine combination is paramount in being successful – whether you’re a professional racer or just want the right carburetor for you’re Saturday night special. There are 3 main parameters that correctly determine your baseline selection. John Dickey of AED Carburetors shares with us some of his secrets.
Parise Racing to Debut in the NHRA Pro Mod Challenge at the SuperNationals
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on 06/08/10
Work hard and you will achieve you goals. One of Parise Racing’s goals has been to compete in the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge from the time they began R&D back in 2009. They can check that one off the list, well one list.
Take a 12-valve Cummins turbo diesel from a ’98 Dodge Ram 2500, add in a ’28 Dodge Brothers’ four-door sedan (yes, back when the “Brothers” part was still in the name), toss in a bunch of good ol’ rat rod flavor, mix in a whole lot of welding and fabrication (nearly 1,000 hours worth!) and what you’ll get it something looking either a lot like a 19th century locomotive or something much like Steve Darnell’s smoke-spewing, hand-built, nearly totally custom belly-dragger
With word getting out of the first 10-second pass with the 2011 5.0 GT Mustang, the heat is definitely on for the Camaro guys. Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s TONS of Camaros running 11-, 10- and even 9-second passes and even more spitting out ridiculous horsepower numbers on chassis dynos (thanks majorly to aftermarket superchargers like Vortech). But, with Mustang closing in rather quickly, its always good to see more and more 10-second-and-faster Camaros taking to the track
The LSA crate motor from GM Performance Products is an incredible high-tech powerplant, and thanks to BRP Hot Rods and RetroLSX, dropping it into our Nova was as easy as a run-of-the-mill 350 SBC.
Sound Comparison: Five of Flowmaster’s Popular Series of Performance Mufflers
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on 05/17/10
We recently tested five of Flowmaster’s latest and most popular performance mufflers for a sound comparison on a classic 1972 Chevrolet El Camino with a Pat Musi Performance 509 cubic inch engine under the hood. Producing over 600 tire-roasting horses, this El Camino is the perfect test bed for this collection of mufflers.
When you spend the time and money putting a nitrous system into your vehicle, you expect it to work at peak efficiency. This can only be done if you get your bottle pressure to the right spot. A temperature- or pressure-controlled bottle heater is the safest, most convenient way to accomplish that goal, and ZEX has a heater for any nitrous racer…
McDonough purchased the car as a completely stock and original ’66 Chevy Bel Air, but that was just the beginning. He wanted to keep the car as stock as possible, but still be able to run it down the dragstrip quickly, safely, and consistently.To accomplish that goal, he chose a mildly-built 454 that was bored .060 over, with a handful of aftermarket parts including an Eagle crank and rods, COMP Cams camshaft and valve train components, and Edelbrock heads, intake, and water pump.
For Parise Racing it is not just about the numbers on the board and the incredible paint schemes. For Andrew and Dina Parise, it’s also about honoring our Nation’s Veterans and currently serving Military personnel. Wounded Warrior Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. Read on to see the full story on the Wounded Warrior Project and Parise Racing.
The historic Kansas Drag Strip is getting a makeover from the SRCA Great Bend club members. These members are working hard to get the drag strip running for the season opener on March 13th. Donations have been given in the form of a one-ton dually and a three-quarter ton dually that will serve as first responders for the racers. A brand new 1320go.com live timing system was also donated to the track. Read on to see the full story on this tracks rebuild.
Speed By Spectre just released their dyno proven ProFab Cold Air Intake Systems. These systems are for designed to being cold air to your classic muscle car. This cold air intake is available for early model F-bodies, Chevelles, C10 pickups, Impalas and Novas.
NHRA Super Stock racer Frank Maiolo recently took delivery of a 2010 Pontiac G5 built by B&B Race cars in Hoenwald, Tennessee. The car is powered by a small block chevy 350 built by Tilburg Racing Engines and fits in the NHRA GT/BA class.
Don Schumacher Racing Takes Top Honors in Delayed NHRA Arizona Nationals
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on 02/22/10
Cory McClenathan and Jack Beckman completed a Don Schumacher Racing sweep of the delayed final rounds Monday at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. McClenathan’s win gives him the Full Throttle points lead in Top Fuel. Weather delays Sunday had moved racing into the early evening, and deteriorating conditions forced the postponement of action. NHRA officials called a halt to Sunday’s racing after three rounds of Top Fuel and Funny Car and one round of Pro Stock and scheduled completion for Monday morning. More rain Monday delayed the final outcome, and the nitro cars didn’t hit the track until 2:45 p.m. local time……
Weather delays moved racing into the early evening and deteriorating conditions forced the postponement of action Sunday at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird Int’l Raceway outside of Phoenix. NHRA officials called a halt to Sunday’s action after three rounds of Top Fuel and Funny Car and one round of Pro Stock…..
John Force scored his first Funny Car pole in more than three years and was joined by Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) atop their respective qualifying fields at the NHRA Arizona Nationals, the second of 23 events on the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series schedule..
It is the first day of the second race on the 23 race NHRA tour. This stop takes them to Firebird International Raceway Phoenix, Arizona where conditions are fair. Teams had to quickly regroup and make the six-hour drive across the state line to set up for the unprecedented back-to-back event launch of the season. Doug Kalitta, Matt Hagan, and Mike Edwards are the low qualifiers halfway through qualifying. Teams will get two more qualifying shots Saturday, with final eliminations scheduled for Sunday.
With the 2010 Cobra Jets starting to arrive at Ford dealers, two enterprising dealers are using the internet enthusiast message boards to help spread the word that they have units still for sale. With only 50 cars produced for 2010, the cars are a hot commodity for racers and car collectors.
Scott Sandoval from Billet Specialties sent us over this picture of his new bike. It’s an amazing machine according to Scott – it handles like crap, but HANG on for that final sprint.
John Force is back in the Winner’s Circle at NHRA. Full Pomona Results Inside.
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on 02/14/10
NHRA’s winningest driver, John Force, got back into the winner’s circle after a 20-month drought and was joined by Larry Dixon and Mike Edwards in collecting season-opening Full Throttle Drag Racing Series wins at the 50th anniversary Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals.
