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GOLD RUSH TO SUPPLY NHRA NORTHEAST DIVISION WITH NEW TRAILER
Gold Rush, Inc. and the NHRA Northeast Division have announced a multi-year partnership with Gold Rush 
providing a new 32 foot Interstate 1 trailer for Technical Services at all Northeast Division events which will include the Lucas Oil Series, Summit Racing Series, Jr. Drag Racing League and National Open events.
“This new trailer will allow us more flexibility with our equipment to better serve our racers and NHRA Member Tracks,” said Dave Mohn, Northeast division director. “The new trailer should make its debut at the Virginia Motorsports Park Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at the end of April.”
Gold Rush Inc., is committed to satisfying the unique needs of each of their customers by providing a premium quality custom product at an affordable price. They take pride in the fact that they bring into the world the best custom trailer money can buy. Using high grade aluminum and stainless steel allows them to build trailers that possess maximum strength with minimum tow weight. It would be easier and more profitable to use lesser grade materials, but in the end it would not be a Gold Rush trailer. Making sure that each part of the trailer, no matter how insignificant, is of the highest quality possible, they create a trailer that is more than just the sum of its parts. They create the Gold Rush trailer.
TREADWELL, ANDERSON LEAD LUCAS OIL WINNERS
CHARLOTTE, NC – In the final results from zMAX Dragway and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Jenny 
Treadwell scored in Comp Eliminator and Jonathan Anderson bagged his third win of the year in Super Street. Treadwell, Mont Plymouth, Fla., lined up against Randy Daniels, Grantsboro, N.C., and won it at the start with a .009 second reaction time to Daniels .180. She then ran it out to an 8.290 second 157.69 mph lap.
Anderson, out of Griffin, Ga., won on a double breakout with Michelle Furr, Galax, Va., 10.895 to a 10.891 to collect his third win of the year having won the season opener in Gainesville, Fla., and the second half of the double-header in Atlanta two weeks ago.
GINGLES, HARKER TAKE LUCAS OIL WINS AT NO PROBLEM RACEWAY
BELLE ROSE, LA – In the final results at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, South Central Division, Nitro on 
the Bayou at No Problem Raceway Gord Gingles, Winnipeg, Manit., and Steve Harker, Gainesville, Ga., took home the wins in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car respectively.
Gingles, was the number one qualifier who worked his way through the field and earned his fifth divisional win. He ran 5.319 seconds at 269.29 mph in his final round victory over Megan Meyer, Spring Hill, Kan., who had a runner up lap of 5.358 seconds at 270.97 mph.
Harker, faced off against Ro Yale, Bellaire, Texas, and posted a winning run of 5.711 seconds, 248.89 mph in his 2015 Camaro. Yale had a slight advantage at the light and drove to a 5.786 second, 231.52 mph lap for his runner up finish.
SPORTSMAN PERFORMANCE BONUS AWARDS INCREASE PURSES
DALLAS — Racers in four classes, at all six Division 4 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events will be competing for increased payouts in 2016. With help from the School of Automotive Machinist and Scoggin Dickey Raceshop, the winners and runner-ups at each event in Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, and Super Street will receive Sportsman Performance Bonus Awards worth an additional $500 for the winner and $250 for the runner-up, totally $18,000 in added bonus awards for the 2016 season.
The following sponsors have raised the bar to support Sportsman racers in Division 4:
· School of Automotive Machinists (SAM): Lucas Oil Stock Eliminator, Sportsman Performance Bonus Award.
Some of NHRA’s fastest racers react to new rule concerning e.t. record
INDIANAPOLIS – Reaction by some of the fastest racers in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series to the new rule 
eliminating the need for a 1 percent backup of a national record was generally positive.
NHRA announced Monday that a backup within 1 percent of the record for elapsed time and speed would no longer be required to hold the national record. The sanctioning body also announced that a 20-point bonus for setting the national e.t. record would no longer be rewarded.
That is the only aspect of the rule change that two-time Pro Stock champion Erica Enders doesn’t care for. Enders currently holds the national record for speed, 215.55 mph, which she set in Englishtown, N.J., in May 2014. She did not get bonus points for that record because only e.t. records garnered points in the past.
SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION 4 HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS
DALLAS – NHRA announced today that Johnny Leibham and Jerry Caro will be inducted into NHRA’s South Central Division 4 Hall of Fame.
NHRA’s Division 4 is the historic South Central Division home of “The Good Guys.” Division 4 features tracks from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana. The Division 4 Hall of Fame honors individuals, drivers and officials who laid the groundwork for NHRA Drag Racing in the region. Leibham and Caro will join the likes of Eddie Hill, Raymond Beadle, Kenny Bernstein, Bill Meyer and many more in the South Central Division Hall of Fame.
This year’s inductions will take place during the Division 4 Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the Sam’s Town Hotel and Casino in Shreveport Louisiana Saturday January 23, 2016. Please join us for a Hall of Fame Reception presented by Race Engines by J Allen Sherman prior to the Division 4 Banquet and Awards ceremony. There we will have an open forum during the Hall of Fame Reception presented by Race Engines by J Allen Sherman about their racing accomplishments.
Bateman Captures Emotional First National Win in Vegas
Las Vegas, NV – Tears were shed at the top end of the racetrack on Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor 
Speedway. Garrett Bateman had just won the Top Alcohol dragster race and was the NHRA Toyota Nationals champ. This was his first national event win, after four final rounds and fifteen years of desire.
“It feels like a thousand pound gorilla is off my back,” said Bateman. “I have been trying so hard for years it seems. I have been fortunate enough to have success at Bonneville and at the LODRS Regional level. My first goal when I started racing was to win a national event. At my first race I actually went to the final round. It was against a Randy Meyer car with Alan Bradshaw driving. We lost that race, and ironically enough, we beat both those guys this weekend.“
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series stars Tony Schumacher and Jack Beckman to appear at free fan festival Thursday in St. Louis
MADISON, IL – Gateway Motorsports Park and the National Hot Rod Association will present a free fan festival on 
Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at The Outfield at Mike Shannon’s Steak & Seafood (www.shannonsteak.com) at 620 Market Street in St. Louis. The free fan fest will kick off this weekend’s NHRA AAA Midwest Insurance Nationals, which is the second event of the six-race NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series’ 2015 Countdown to the Championship. The free event will include a driver and rider autograph session, show cars, live music and the opportunity to win race tickets.
The free driver and rider autograph session is scheduled to run from 4:30-6 p.m. The list of NHRA racers who have agreed to participate continues to grow. Fans now will have the opportunity to meet eight-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher, 2012 Funny Car champion Jack Beckman, Terry McMillen, Shawn Langdon, Larry Dixon, Jenna Haddock and Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Steve Johnson. The NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series will be represented by Steve Matusek, Charlotte winner Danny Rowe, defending champion Rickie Smith and recent Houston victor Donnie Walsh Jr.
HIGHT, J. FORCE CARRY MOMENTUM INTO SUNDAY ELIMINATIONS
CHARLOTTE, NC – Robert Hight and the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS team will 
start the chase for their second Mello Yello championship racing Shane Westerfield, the 49th different Funny Car opponent for Hight, in the first round of the 8th annual Carolina Nationals. As the No. 5 qualifier Hight, a two-time Carolina Nationals winner, will have lane choice by virtue of his 4.004 second time on Friday night. Hight is followed by No. 6 qualifier John Force and No. 9 qualifier Courtney Force.
Hight grabbed the No. 5 spot on the strength of his Friday night run. More important than that run was the final run of the day which was the quickest of the session in Funny Car. Hight tripped the finish line timers with an elapsed time of 4.051 and picked up three qualifying bonus points.
Fans can join Winner’s Circle of Champions and support children
BROWNSBURG, IN – Fans can become part of a special display at Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent 
by becoming part of the Winner’s Circle of Champions.
In conjunction with the Eric Medlen Memorial Golf Tournament held earlier this week, Eric’s father, John, donated a firesuit worn by Eric during his racing career to be displayed at an MRI room at Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent in Indianapolis.
Also displayed with the firesuit will be a special plaque for the Winner’s Circle of Champions, and anyone’s name can be displayed by donating $250.
