- NHRA RETURNS TO CHICAGO FOR ACTION-PACKED GERBER COLLISION & GLASS NHRA ROUTE 66 NATIONALS
- DRAG AND DRIVE EXHIBITION WITH ALEX TAYLOR AND TOM BAILEY RETURNS TO NHRA NATIONAL EVENT AT ROUTE 66 RACEWAY
- Record Setters and Race Winners Head to Virginia for PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown
- Race Wrap | NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals
- Race Wrap | NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals
- Stewart, Hagan Record Final Round Performances at Las Vegas NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in TSR Dodge//SRT Nitro Machines
- KALITTA, TASCA AND COUGHLIN JR WIN LAS-VEGAS 4-WIDE
Muscle Drags USA DVD Just Released Featuring NMRA and NMCA Action!
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All new, RumbleRide media, in association with NMRA and NMCA, presents Muscle Drags USA, an action-packed, horsepower-crazed, 60-minute movie that showcases the fastest street-legal muscle car drag racing on the planet. Get an inside look at the wild drag racing world of the NMRA and NMCA, which features Pro Street Champion Chris Rini, Pro Outlaw 10.5 champion Mike Murillo, and the NMCA racing family affair that is Billy Adams Team Midnight.
Witness the track get smoked out by everything from nitrous burning outlaws, hopped-up vintage muscle, and brand-new American muscle cars right off the showroom floor. With unlimited non-stop drag racing action, on-car camera mounts, and classic in the pits moments, Muscle Drags USA puts you in the driver’s seat for livin life a quarter mile at a time at full-throttle speed. At only $9.99 + s/h this high revn DVD is a perfect gift for this holiday season!
Velocity Composites Acquires Assets of Cynergy Composites, Inc.
Courtesy of TMRC
HAWK POINT, MO – Few may know the name Velocity Composites, but many can recognize their products. Responsible for the ultra-popular V4 ’68 Camaro, ’53 Corvette, ’57 Chevy, and ’67 Chevy II which are distributed through Tim McAmis 
Performance Parts, along with numerous other body styles and components including hood scoops, wheel tubs and custom colored carbon fiber products, Velocity Composites was the first to introduce the lightweight processes that are still sought after today.
Through the latest research and technology, Velocity remains at the forefront when it comes to producing high-quality composites for the performance industry.
In an agreement finalized on Friday, Velocity will acquire the drag racing assets of Cynergy Composites, Inc; a popular performance composite manufacturer. Included in the acquisition are all of body molds produced by Cynergy which consists of the ’67, ’69 and ‘70.5 Camaro’s, ’68 Firebird, ’59 Plymouth, C5 Corvette and the upcoming ’67 Mustang. In addition, Velocity will be adding a number of molds for wheel tubs, wings and engine containment devices to go alongside similar products that Velocity currently produces.
Night of Champions held for PMRA, Quick 32 Sportsman Series, and PBSS
Courtesy of PMRA, Quick 32 and PBSS
BURLINGTON, ON – The Pro Modified Racing Association, the Quick 32 Sportsman Series, and the Pro Bike & Sled Series held their annual Night of Champions at the Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in Burlington, Ontario last
night.
The event marked the seventh Night of Champions for the PMRA, the third such night for the Quick 32 Sportsman Series, and the first night for the PBSS.
Along with presentations for the top five competitors in each of the three drag race series, rookie, achievement, and sportsmanship awards for all series were presented, along with the John Massingberd Memorial Award.
With over 300 in attendance, series announcer Larry Satchell presided as Master of Ceremonies for the evening.
Troy Coughlin eyes big payday in Las Vegas
Courtesy of Jegs
LAS VEGAS, NV – World champion drag racer Troy Coughlin will be part of the star-studded line-up racing for a $20,000 payout at this weekend’s seventh annual Street Car Supernationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Billed as the biggest East vs. West Showdown of it’s type, Coughlin, the 2009 NMCA Pro Street champion, will match his twin-turbo charged JEGS.com hot rod up against some of the top names in the sport running supercharged, nitrous and turbo configurations.
“I’ve raced in a lot of big-time events over the years and you’d be hard pressed to find one with the talent level of the Street Car Supernationals,” Coughlin said. “All the hitters will be there, and my adrenaline already is pumping because I know we’re going to need to be on our game to have success. We are definitely up for the challenge.”
Racing to The Rescue – Drag Racing and Car Show for Katie Gutierrez in North Texas
Wrtten by Nancy Matter
Denton, TX – On November 19th 2011, local drag racers and Northstar Dragway are joining together to help offset 
costs for 13 year old Katie Gutierrez-Meeker who was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor known in the medical field as Craniopharyngioma. She is currently recovering from her fourth brain surgery.
Pat “Summer” Loar and Nick Duty of Northstar Dragway are the event coordinators.
“Katie is a very strong and positive girl, even with everything she is going through” noted Loar, “we are having a silent auction, car show, grudge race and bake sale that all proceeds will go to Katie’s family.
“The pro mod team of Eric and Scott Clark are going to be match racing Chris Dollar to add to the excitement along with several other pro mods teams having their cars there on hand, including Jackie Deaver and Nancy Matter. In addition, we are having five classes of index racing, a super pro and no electronic gambler’s race.
“We would really like to thank Nick Duty at Northstar for opening up the drag strip for this event and I know Katie and her family are extremely grateful, we hope we can all pull together for this cause.”
Bennett, racer and pilot putting his life on the line for fans and country
Courtesy of IHRA
NORWALK, OH – There is nothing more important than the mission. That is all you can really think about. Safely getting the cargo from point A to point B, that is the task at hand. To do that you have to put out of your mind all that is
going on around you. Forget the war. Forget the risks. This cargo HAS to make it to its destination.
The plane fires up. Pretty soon this big hulking target will be thousands of feet in the air on its way through hostile airspace. Moments before takeoff the pilot takes a few deep breaths. What can possibly get him through another trip into the unknown?
Drag racing.
Images of 230 mile per hour passes down that big, beautiful quarter-mile race through the pilots head. The wind whipping all around, swerving from centerline to wall, that is the stuff dreams are made of. All that acceleration. All that speed. The roar of the crowd as you near the finish line.
IHRA sportsman racing expands again with Division 7, second in two years!
Courtesy of IHRA
NORWALK, OH – One year after expanding into the northwest with the newly created Division 6 Border Bandits in the 
western United States and Canada, the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) has announced that it will be expanding again, this time in the southwest and western part of the U.S.
While details are still be worked out, including a division name, a complete track list and a finalized schedule, the IHRA is thrilled to continue its expansion west and giving racers in the southwest and west an opportunity to compete in the Summit SuperSeries and Summit Team Finals programs.
“We have been working for years trying to expand our reach to new areas of the United States and Canada and I am proud to say that over the past two years we have worked hard to accomplish those goals,” said IHRA Vice President Skooter Peaco. “With the new Division 7 we will reach racers that have never had an option in racing and we hope to give that to them by providing the same great customer service and sportsman-oriented focus that has helped us excel in other regions.
The Pro Modified Top Five for 2011 – PMRA Champion Vito Montesano
Courtesy of PMRA
MAPLE, ON – For Vito Montesano, winning the 2011 Pro Modified Racing Association Marydel Homes Championship Point Award Series presented by Magnum Auto Parts, Patio Passport 
and Global Emissions Systems Inc. was a nail-biter right until the last race in the last event, but the Maple, Ontario-based driver held on to win his first PMRA championship.
And he won the title by a mere margin of only one point.
“This has been a great year,” said the driver of the 1969 Chevy Camaro Pro Modified. “We are very happy,” he continued. “Not only did we win our first PMRA race, we also won the championship. We are just ecstatic.”
In his second year of PMRA competition, Montesano stayed at the top of the points race throughout the six-race season, but it was close as second-place finisher Bruce Boland of Hamilton, Ontario, and third-place Eric Latino of Whitby, Ontario, whittled into Montesano’s lead. When Boland won over Latino in the final of the last race at Cayuga, the points were tallied, and Montesano won over Boland 1534 points to 1533.
Quick 32 Sportsman Series Top Five for 2011 – Phil Sampson World Champion
Courtesy of Quick 32
GRANTON, ON – The Chaos Racing Team was hoping to finish in the top five in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts Championship Point Award Series Standings for 2011, but the Top Sportsman entry ran well all
year to with the championship.
“This has been a fantastic season,” noted team driver Phil Sampson. “We had started out going for a top five finish, but obviously we went all the way.”
Headed up by Phil and Bud Sampson, the team fields a Jerry Bickel Race Cars 2002 Chevy Cavalier, powered by a 572-cubic inch Reher-Morrison Racing Engines running racing fuel through a large 1200-cfm Holley. Behind the big engine is a Powerglide two-speed from the shops of Hutch’s Transmission.
WFO Radio Auto Club Finals 2011 Champions Edition
Courtesy of WFO
HOLLYWOOD, FL – 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Series Champions Del Worsham, Matt Hagan, Jason Line, and Eddie Krawiec and Auto Club Finals winners Greg Stanfield and Andrew Hines join Joe Castello along with the NHRA’s Alan
Reinhart, on a special Auto Club Finals post race edition of WFO Radio NHRA Nitro. To listen now, go to WFORadio.com.
Newly crowned NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car Champions Del Worsham and Matt Hagan took time away from celebrating their first Full Throttle Series Championships to speak with WFO Radio at Auto Club Raceway.
Pro Stock Champion, Jason Line and Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion, Eddie Krawiec spoke about their championship seasons.
