Hangsterfer’s Laboratories sponsoring brothers for sixth consecutive season 

GAINESVILLE, FL – For the sixth consecutive season, brothers Matt and Zach Sackman will race with primary sponsorship from Hangsterfer’s Laboratories, a New Jersey-based metalworking lubricants manufacturer. The Sackman brothers will both make their 2022 season debuts this weekend, March 3-6, at the sixth annual NHRA Baby Gators Division 2 race at Gainesville Raceway, with Matt competing in Top Alcohol Dragster and Zach racing in Top Dragster.

Matt, 28, will drive one of Randy Meyer Racing’s championship-winning A/Fuel dragsters. This will be his fifth season as a part-time driver in the Randy Meyer Racing camp. He’ll also continue to share driving duties of the family’s Sackman Boyz Racing Top Dragster with Zach.

“I’m excited to get back into the seat of one of Randy Meyer’s cars,” Matt said. “I’ll be driving the car I won the Joliet regional in a few years ago. It’s a proven winner with a lot of history. Between the great conditions at Gainesville and Randy’s tuning, I’m sure we’ll run fast. I’m grateful to have Hangsterfer’s on board with us again to help us chase our racing goals while we try to help them expand their business in the motorsports industry on the B2B side.”

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Hangsterfer’s Laboratories sponsoring brothers for fourth consecutive season

GAINESVILLE, FL – Brothers Matt and Zach Sackman will kick off their fourth consecutive season with primary sponsorship from Hangsterfer’s Laboratories this weekend by competing in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Dragster at the 51st annual NHRA Gatornationals, March 12-15 at Gainesville Raceway.

Matt, 26, will make his second Top Alcohol Dragster national event appearance in one of Randy Meyer Racing’s championship-caliber A/Fuel dragsters. He’ll also perform his role as a short block specialist and bottom end guy on Antron Brown’s Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster.

“I’m excited to race in Gainesville. The track surface is great and we’re at sea level so it’s exciting to know we’ll be able to run fast here,” Matt said. “I’m just excited to be able to race a national event, let alone in an awesome car out of the Randy Meyer camp with backing from Hangsterfer’s. I’ll be driving the car Rachel Meyer drove to victory at the Belle Rose divisional a couple weeks ago, so I feel like we have a good shot to win. Last year in Pomona I went 5.18 at 276 mph. It would be cool to run numbers like that again. Randy has the cars running good and that gives me confidence as a driver.”

While Matt usually only gets to race at NHRA divisional events on his weekends off from the NHRA Mello Yello Series tour, he and the Hangsterfer’s Laboratories executives decided to take advantage of an opportunity to enter Top Alcohol Dragster at the Gatornationals. It’s all part of the company’s goal to get Matt into Top Fuel.

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JOLIET, IL – For the second year in a row, Chicagoland native Matt Sackman swept the NHRA North Central Region event at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. Sackman qualified No. 1 in the Novak Electric/Gemini Farms/Hangsterfer’s Laboratories A/Fuel dragster and defeated Troy Coughlin Jr. in the Top Alcohol Dragster final round, claiming car owner and tuner Randy Meyer’s eighth win of the season in the team’s 13th 2019 final round.

“This weekend was pretty much a dream come true,” Sackman, 26, said. “I don’t get to drive an alcohol car very often, so to show up at my home track and drive a Randy Meyer car – he has the best cars in the country right now – it’s pretty incredible. I’m still kind of shocked that the weekend went the way it did. Just looking at the quality of the cars and drivers that were there, I knew it would be tough to repeat the win – and it was tough. We ran three good cars and we were able to take the win.”

Sackman’s 5.297-second pass at 275.67 mph in the first qualifying session put him in the No. 1 spot going into Sunday eliminations, where he started with a 5.407 at 273.77 to defeat Jared Dreher’s 5.468 at 248.43. The Channahon, Illinois, native recorded low ET of the event, 5.281 at 275.73, in his semifinal win over 2014 world champion Chris Demke.

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POMONA, CA – Hangsterfer’s Metalworking Lubricants drivers Matt and Zach Sackman both raced to the final round in their respective classes at the season-opening Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals Feb. 11 at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif.

Racing in his first national event, Matt drove the Hangsterfer’s/TMS Titanium/Gemini Farms A/Fuel dragster to the Top Alcohol Dragster final round, while Zach posted a runner-up finish in Top Dragster in the Hangsterfer’s blown alcohol dragster.

“This was a fantastic start to the 2019 season,” said Matt, 25. “Obviously, we both wanted to win the race, but we’re pretty happy with the way the weekend went, that’s for sure.”

“It was a great points day for me,” said Zach, 23, who finished sixth in the 2018 NHRA Top Dragster national points standings. “This will more than likely be one of my claims, so I’m happy with the finish. Matt did a pretty good job going to the final round at his first national event. Overall it was an awesome weekend.”

Competing in just his fourth Top Alcohol Dragster event, Matt and the Randy Meyer-tuned Hangsterfer’s entry qualified No. 2 after ripping off a 5.181-second pass at 276.52 mph in the first session and smoking the tires in the second session. The third session was canceled due to rainy weather.

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POMONA, CA – Brothers Matt and Zach Sackman will race together at an NHRA national event for the first time this weekend at the 59th annual Lucas Oil Winternationals presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. With primary sponsorship from Hangsterfer’s Metalworking Lubricants, Matt will compete in Top Alcohol Dragster and Zach will race in Top Dragster.

“This is a very cool opportunity,” said Matt Sackman, 25. “Zach and I are both going to be running the Hangsterfer’s colors, so to have two shots to win at the Winternationals for Hangsterfer’s is a big deal.”

The Winternationals will be Matt Sackman’s third race driving one of Randy Meyer Racing’s championship-caliber A/Fuel dragsters in the loaded Top Alcohol Dragster class. The effort will be supported by Hangsterfer’s, Gemini Farms and TMS Titanium.

“I’m very excited to race at my first national event,” added Matt. “It’s the Winternationals. It’s one of the bigger NHRA races of the year and just to race a car there is pretty cool. I’m definitely looking forward to it. I’ve been looking at the forecast and it’s going to be a cool Winternationals, so there should be some quick ETs and fast speeds. Plus, I know the Randy Meyer cars are definitely capable of running fast at Pomona.”

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MANTUA, NJ – Hangsterfer’s Laboratories, manufacturers of premium metalworking lubricants, announced today their continued support of brothers Matt and Zach Sackman in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. Hangsterfer’s is entering their third season as the primary sponsor on the Sackman Boyz Racing Top Dragster and will also support Matt as he runs two races in Top Alcohol Dragster.

“We’re proud and honored to go into our third year of primary sponsorship with the Sackman Boyz Racing team,” said Bill Jones, vice president, Hangsterfer’s Laboratories. “We’re a family-owned business and we enjoy the opportunity to support a family-based team. We’re also proud to roll out a full new wrap on the Top Dragster, as well as custom Hangsterfer’s-branded firesuits and helmets for the boys.”

Established by Dr. William Hangsterfer in 1937, Hangsterfer’s Laboratories specializes in the research, development, custom formulation, and manufacture of a full line of REACH-compliant metalworking lubricants. The company is in its third generation of leadership.

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JOLIET, IL – Matt Sackman entered last weekend’s Burndown at Sundown at Route 66 Raceway with just a handful of Top Alcohol Dragster passes under his belt. Late Sunday evening, he left the event with five additional passes, the No. 1 qualifier award and the NHRA North Central Region event victory.

“To be able to qualify No. 1 and win the race in my debut is pretty unbelievable,” said Sackman, a cylinder head specialist on Don Schumacher Racing’s Antron Brown-driven Matco Tools/U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster. “It definitely shows there’s light at the end of the tunnel, that all of the hard work is worth it. This opportunity will hopefully lead to more opportunities in the future. I’m just very fortunate that everything worked out the way it did.”

Driving one of the potent Randy Meyer Racing entries, Sackman, 25, kicked off his Top Alcohol Dragster debut Friday evening with a 5.26-second pass at 275 mph. A strong 5.31 at 274 mph followed during Saturday’s rain-shortened qualifying, but it was the first pass that held up for the top spot out of the 13 cars trying to qualify for the eight-car field.

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JOLIET, Il – Top Dragster driver and Top Fuel crew member Matt Sackman will make his NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster debut this weekend at Route 66 Raceway’s Burndown at Sundown NHRA Division 3 event, July 13-15. With support from Gemini Farms and Hangsterfer’s Metalworking Lubricants, Sackman will drive a nitromethane-injected A/Fuel dragster out of the Kansas-based Randy Meyer Racing camp.

“Entering a race in Top Alcohol Dragster is something my dad and I have always wanted to do, but my race schedule and the regional race schedules just never lined up,” said Sackman, 25, who earned his Top Alcohol Dragster license after the Las Vegas national event in November of 2015. “This year we realized our home race was on one of my off weekends from the NHRA Mello Yello Series schedule, then Randy had one of his cars available, so it worked out great.”

Sackman will drive the Meyer-built Randy Meyer Racing entry typically fielded by Justin Ashley, who sits in the No. 11 spot in the NHRA Lucas Oil Series national points standings with a regional event victory at Virginia in April.

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POMONA, CA – NHRA Top Dragster drivers Matt and Zach Sackman have signed a primary sponsorship extension with Hangsterfer’s Laboratories, a New Jersey-based company specializing in the research, development and manufacturing of metalworking lubricants. Zach Sackman will kick off the brothers’ second year with Hangsterfer’s at this weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, Feb. 8-11, at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif.

“It feels good to have Hangsterfer’s support again this season,” Zach Sackman, 22, said. “Their support really pushes me to do better for Bill (Jones), Mike (Ditzel) and everyone at Hangsterfer’s. Matt was able to wrap up our 2017 season with a win at the St. Louis divisional race, so my goal is to pick up where he left off and build upon the successes of last season.”

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JOLIET, IL – As a resident of nearby Channahon, Ill., Zach Sackman couldn’t have possibly imagined a better time or place to earn his first NHRA national event win than at the 20th annual Fallen Patriots NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented by K&N at Route 66 Raceway. The 21-year-old picked up his first Top Dragster Wally when he defeated Shanna Snyder in the final, using a holeshot advantage to secure the victory.

“It’s pretty surreal to win my first national event here,” Sackman said. “I grew up coming to the races here, so to earn my first win in the Hangsterfer’s Top Dragster here is pretty overwhelming.”

Sackman qualified fifth in the 30-car Top Dragster field with a 6.131-second elapsed time at 225.67 mph. He used superior reaction times and consistent passes to defeat Bob Mandell II, Steve Furr, Madison Ellison and Lynn Ellison before facing Snyder in the final round. While Sackman slowed to a 6.206 from his 6.08 dial-in, his .020-second reaction time was enough to defeat the 6.262 of Snyder, who dialed a 6.23.

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