MARTIN, MI – Since relocating his home and business from Carteret, NJ to Mooresville, NC, Pat Musi has been able to spend more time at the track and in the dyno room. If the recent performances of racers using his engines and components are any indication, that extra time is paying big dividends.

Longtime Virginia campaigner Tommy Franklin scored a huge win at the Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod race at Virginia Motorsports Park on May 19 in his unmistakable green ’69 Camaro, which is motivated by a Musi 903 EFI engine. That same weekend on the opposite side of the country, Joe Lepone Jr. took the Pro Street crown at the NMCA West Coast Shootout at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, CA, driving Derrol Hubbard’s Musi 903 EFI-powered Plymouth Duster.

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MARTIN, MI – A semifinal round finish in the ultra-competitive ADRL Pro Nitrous ranks is nothing to bat your eyes at, but that doesn’t mean “Stevie Fast” Jackson is content with his team’s performance at Virginia Motorsports Park three weeks ago. For Jackson and his Martinez, Georgia-based crew, there’s no satisfaction in anything short of victory, and that’s exactly what they’re expecting this weekend at the ADRL Summer Drags XI in Martin, Michigan.

“Me, my crew – we’re fired up,” says Jackson, who burst onto the Pro Nitrous scene at the 2013 ADRL season-opener in Rockingham and has been a perennial frontrunner ever since. “We went to the semis in Virginia, but that hasn’t really set well with us. We really just aren’t happy unless we’re in the winner’s circle on Sunday. Yeah, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword ‘cause you’re definitely not going to win every time out, but that’s the kind of pressure we put on ourselves. I can honestly say that we hate losing more than we like winning.

“We made a bunch of changes following Virginia and I feel like we’ve got a good horse to ride,” continues Jackson, who currently leads the Pro Nitrous points standings. “We’ve got good support from all the companies we work with and we’re ready to do something big here for Sheikh Khalid. That goes for our teammates Shannon [Jenkins] and Mike [Castellana], too – this whole Al-Anabi group as a whole wants to make a statement this weekend.

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MARTIN, MI – Taking full advantage of the two days worth of open testing leading up to this weekend’s ADRL Summer Drags IX at Martin, Michigan’s US 131 Motorsports Park, Mike Castellana and the Al-Anabi Racing Pro Nitrous team are running the wheels off their 2013 Chevy Camaro, hoping to further dial-in the potent, record-setting Reher-Morrison-built, Speedtech Nitrous-assisted engine under its hood. Castellana hopes a solid baseline in testing, combined with the potentially favorable atmospheric conditions this weekend, could lead to a dominating weekend for his team.

Having enjoyed a wildly successful championship-winning campaign in the Arabian Drag Racing League series earlier this year, Castellana, led by world renowned nitrous tuner and crew chief Shannon “Iceman” Jenkins, would like nothing more than to repeat the team’s 2012 performance at the ADRL Summer Drags, where they qualified No. 1 and scored the win in Pro Modified competition.

“We decided to come up to Martin a little early to test,” says Castellana, who made the 12-hour driver over from his home in Westbury, New York, yesterday. “We’ve brought out some new stuff this year and we’re just doing what you have to do to make progress and move forward. It can be a little frustrating at times – when you have something unexpected happen – but it’s par for the course when you’re trying to advance your program.

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MARTIN, Michigan – The legendary tag team of wheelman Von Smith and crew chief Howard Moon, who have seen tremendous success in Pro Mod-style competition all around the world, broke through for – incredibly – their first career ADRL Pro Extreme victory during the recently completed U.S. Drags VI at Virginia Motorsports Park. Though their first ADRL event title was a longtime in the making, Smith hopes the Al-Anabi Racing Pro Extreme team won’t have to wait so long to return to the ADRL winner’s circle.

“Howard [Moon] and I have been doing this for a long time and we’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of success, but this one – winning an ADRL race – has always eluded us,” explains Smith, checking in from his home in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. “We’ve been running with the ADRL since 2004 at the very first Dragstock and to have never won one was pretty hard on all of us. Now that we’ve got the monkey off our back so to speak, I feel like we can head into every one of these events expecting to win, and that’s the kind of confidence you have to have to succeed at this level.”

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MARTIN, MI – Al-Anabi Racing’s Alex Hossler enjoyed one of the most successful seasons of his career this winter while competing in the Arabian Drag Racing League series, scoring the Pro Extreme world championship alongside crew chief, Frank “Ace” Manzo, for team owner His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani. Since returning stateside, Hossler and company have been perennial top qualifiers in American Drag Racing League competition, but have struggled to put it all together on race day. At this weekend’s ADRL Summer Drags IX in Martin, Michigan, Hossler feels like the team is poised for a big win.

“Honestly, for as good as the car has run, we’ve had a pretty disappointing first half of the season,” admits Hossler, en route to US 131 Motorsports Park. “We’ve qualified No. 1 three times this season, our lowest being second at the season-opener in Rockingham, so we’ve certainly had a race car that’s capable of winning, but having the best car in qualifying doesn’t always translate to being in the winner’s circle on Sunday.

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Lake St. Louis, MO — Officials from the American Drag Racing League announced today that Top Sportsman pioneer Ronnie “The King” Davis has been named Director of Sportsman Racing for the nation’s premier eighth mile drag racing league. Davis, who will work directly with ADRL Director of Competition Bubba Corzine, will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the ADRL’s ever-growing Top Sportsman and Top Dragster classes.

“We constantly strive to improve the overall experience for all of our competitors including our sportsman racers,” said ADRL President Kenny Nowling. “We want the sportsman racers who compete in the ADRL to know that we are committed to them for the long term. Adding Ronnie to our team will enable us to grow our sportsman classes at a much quicker pace.”

Davis, who also competes in the ADRL’s Top Sportsman class, has already secured several additional contingency sponsors for the ADRL’s Top Sportsman and Top Dragster classes that will be announced in the coming weeks.

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May 3, 2013— Officials from the American Drag Racing League announced today that their 2013 World Champions in Pro Extreme, Pro Nitrous, Pro Extreme Motorcycle and their newest class Pro Drag Radial will have an opportunity to win bonuses worth an unprecedented $1,000,000. Anyone who wins both a 2013 American Drag Racing League and a 2013-2014 Arabian Drag Racing League World Championship in those four classes will earn a “double up” bonus of $250,000 each.

The popular ADRL Battle for the Belts will also return in 2013 as well with $500,000 in prize monies to be awarded. The event will be a standalone race contested Friday, September 6^th at Rockingham Dragway during the ADRL’s most prestigious event, Dragstock.

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Lake St. Louis, MO — Rain put a halt to the ADRL Hardee’s Georgia Drags VII on Sunday, April 14, at South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, Ga., but two Pro Extreme records were set during Saturday qualifying.

In the first qualifying session Alex Hossler from Canton, Ill., set the new national ET record at 3.567 seconds for the eighth mile in his ‘69 Camaro. He was the number-one qualifier. His incremental times were 60 ft: 0.904 sec.; 330 ft: 2.401. He also held the speed record at 212.29 mph until the final qualifying session when Jason Scruggs took it away.

Scruggs, Saltillo, Miss., set the national speed record at 213.54 mph in his ‘63 Corvette. It was backed up by a prior 211.76.

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Lake St. Louis, MO — Teams are headed for South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, GA, for the ADRL Hardee’s Georgia Drags VII. The second event of the 2013 ADRL Tour presented by Speedtech will run Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14.

Shannon “Iceman” Jenkins, who was uninjured a crash that took his car out of the competition at the season opening Dragpalooza IX at Rockingham Dragway last month, will be returning to action at SGMP.

Extreme Pro Stock driver John DeFlorian from St. Louis is looking for his third ADRL win in a row this weekend. He won the final event of 2012 and started off this season with a win at Dragpalooza IX.

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Lake St. Louis, MO — Officials from the American Drag Racing League announced today, that coming off of a hugely successful season opening Dragpalooza IX event at Rockingham Dragway, they have signed a multitude of new sponsors. As a result, the contingency awards to their competitors have exploded to more than $650,000 for the 2013 ADRL Tour presented by Speedtech.

“The phones have been ringing off of the hook since Rockingham,” said ADRL President Kenny Nowling. “I think a lot of companies were taking a wait-and-see approach and I can’t blame them for that. There was a significant amount of changes within the ADRL during the off season. Based on the response that we have received since our season opener, it appears that the industry agrees they were definitely changes for the better.”

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