Montgomery, AL – The Cars Protection Plus Million Dollar Race celebrated its 20th Anniversary at Montgomery Raceway Park and the historic race broke records in both attendance and online views via MotorManiaTV’s Live Feed. This event marked the largest sportsman race and biggest payday in drag racing history, with over 623 entries and over 201,000 unique views from internet live-feed.

The main event held on Saturday was also the largest Million in history with 350 entries. As another way of saying thank you, Folk Promotions pulled one random free tech card from a list of drivers not entered into the million which brought the official car count to 351. This placed the payout in a different bracket, increasing the purse by $40,000. Robert Vogler from Winston-Salem, NC was the lucky winner of the drawing.

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Montgomery, AL – Nathan Martin will go down in history as the winner of the 20th Anniversary CARS Protection Plus Million Dollar Race at Montgomery Raceway Park. The Ft. Worth, Texas Driver lasted 10 rounds of competition to march his dragster into the winner’s circle of the world’s biggest sportsman race. This event also marked the largest paying drag race in history. Martin defeated Ed Niemiec of Chicago, IL in the final round.

Martin said “I’m just excited to be here. I don’t even know what to say. Folk Promotions promotes a great race and it just feels good to be standing right here. When I realized that I had a chance to win, I did my best to focus and I stuck with the game plan.”

Martin is the first driver from the state of Texas to win a CARS Million Dollar Race.

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Montgomery, AL – The 20th Anniversary CARS Million Dollar Race at Montgomery Raceway Park kicked off this weekend with a record setting 623 entries in the Triple 25’s. This is the largest attendance in the history of the Million Dollar Race. Online attendance also broke records with 69,000 unique visitors watching the race on MotorManiaTV’s Live Feed from 100 different countries. When the dust and smoke cleared, Travis Barnett and Cole Cousins were crowned champions of the Triple 25’s on Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday, Travis Barnett laid down a string of consistent packages that landed him into the winner’s circle. Barnett defeated Greg Roberts in the final round after Roberts turned it red by a few thousandths of a second. K&R Performance racer Kevin Rodden was the lone semi-finalist. Thomas Holley and Mark Taylor were the quarter-finalist.

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With the actual Million Dollar Race event winner Rodney Phagan and fellow finalist Cecil Hankins both enjoying their victories, there remained one more race of the event, the final Triple 20 with $20,000 on the line for the winner.

Special awards are also part of the weekend festivities. A free Golf Cart Give-A-Way awarded a brand new customized OK Motorsports golf cart to a random tech card drawing. It was Rusty Ashmore who drove off with that prize. Best Appearing Car was Dale Simon. Jeff Mandell won a set of Brodix SR20 cylinder heads for the best losing package of the first three days of the event. The Long Distance award went to Bakersfield, California’s Don Gatlin. The Youngest Driver Award was 16-year old Tyler Bohannon and the VIP Club award of a new dragster went to Fargo, North Dakota’s Dustin Jones. And the Bounty Awards for the person who beat the previous day’s winner were given to Jimmy Sweet, Josh McDaniel and Kurt Harrington.

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The Summernationals, the Winternationals, the ‘Fling, Indy. Only one word is necessary to describe the most famous races on the drag racing tour. And you can add the Million to those. Now we certainly don’t suggest that the Million holds the same mystique as the U.S. Nationals, but for the past 19 years it has built itself into a brand, a race which requires only one word to describe; and that is excitement.

And so it is once again that the 19th version of the CARS Protection Plus Million Dollar Race has come to pass. Two hundred and thirty nine entrants chose to come up with the $2,000 entry fee to be a part of the largest payday in drag racing history. In accordance with the basic rules of the event, the entire purse is guaranteed right up to the runner-up prize of $50,000. The winner? Based on car count, he (or she) will stand to walk away this year with $225,000. Not a bad payday.

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Once again, Friday dawned with clear blue skies and plenty of sunshine for Day 2 of the CARS Protection Plus Million Dollar Race. With new entries coming in today and with only one time trial provided all entrants, eliminations didn’t start until 1:30, which meant another long day. Due to the amount of entries, buybacks were again eliminated for today.

At the round of eight cars left, the remaining were paired with the first set up being Bo Boatner and Chris Crosby with Boatner taking the win. Scotty Richardson and Mitchell Dyer in his Camaro battled with the door car coming up on the losing end. Next up was Bruce Mouat and his roadster against Joe Gary’s dragster with the roadster taking the win. Don Cox’s ’55 Chevy faced off with Allen Wickell and his dragster who turned the red light to move the ’55 into the semifinal round.

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Chamber of commerce weather greeted over 400 entries to Day 1 of the C.A.R.S. Protection Plus Million Dollar Drag Race. Possibly never before in the history of any race has there been a 0% chance of rain predicted for the entire weekend. And with clear blue skies and temperatures in the 70s, racers came out to compete at the 19th edition of this famous race.

Due the amount of cars, it was announced there would be no buyback round today. Two go down and one comes back, just the way drag racing is supposed to work. Everyone was afforded an open time trial session followed by one time run for all beginning at 9:00am. As it was, time trials weren’t completed until 3:30 when the first round began with door cars up first.

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Just like they have for the past 18 years, over 400 racers will be flocking to Montgomery Motorsports Park in Montgomery, Alabama this week with one thought in mind: Score some big money at the C.A.R.S. Protection Plus Million Dollar Race beginning this Thursday, October 23rd.

Nowhere in drag racing; regardless of the class of competition; is there an event which pays more to the winner than the Million Dollar race. At last year’s Million, Kenny Underwood drove his Camaro to the win adding his name to an illustrious list of Million Dollar Race winners. The actual winner’s share is based on car count but the balance of the purse is guaranteed with the runner-up still receiving $50,000, amounts which have most definitely made a difference in the lives of everyone involved.

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For the past 19 years, the Million Dollar Drag Race has made a huge difference in the lives of each of the past winners. This year will be no different as the Million Dollar Drag Race will take place at Montgomery Motorsports Park in Montgomery, Alabama on the weekend of October 23-26.

But it can also make a difference in anyone’s life as memberships are being sold in the Million Dollar V.I.P. Club. By joining the VIP Club at www.themilliononline.com, you’ll be in the running for thousands of dollars in prizes from a variety of race sponsors. At each of the four races held at the Million Dollar Race in Montgomery, after every round of racing, a name is drawn from the VIP Club members and that winner receives the designated prize. The winners are randomly chosen by a computer generated file system.

In addition a Grand Prize winner will be chosen and that person will receive a custom-built, just for them, brand new rolling dragster chassis. This is the third year of the Club and previous Grand Prize winners Chris Barker and Steven Barnett both received new dragsters.

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Montgomery, AL – By the time parking was complete on Wednesday night in preparation for Thursday’s opening Triple 20s event which bookend the Million Dollar race held on Saturday, it appeared the pits weren’t going to hold many more rigs. And on Thursday morning when tech cards were sold, close to 400 races cars were set to take on the Montgomery Motorsports Park eighth-mile for the opening day of the C.A.R.S. Protection Plus Million Dollar Race.

Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans. After morning and early afternoon showers, track drying began at 2:00 but by 3:00 the wet stuff fell again, albeit a short one.

Due to the lateness of the day, Thursday’s event has been scrubbed completely. On Friday morning, every entry will receive one time trial followed immediately by eliminations. Friday’s $20K to win race will be doubled, effectively making it $40,000 to win with all other round money also doubled.

Be sure to tune in the rest of the weekend and watch the action live on www.TheMillionOnline.com.