MAYVILLE, WI – Dave Richards and Paul Richards Racing have announced Red Line Oil, a leader in race industry lubricants, as the latest partner of the Versatran/BlueBird Funny Car team for the 2024 season beginning at the SCAG Power Equipment PRO Superstar Shootout February 8-10 at Bradenton Motorsports Park.

“It’s awesome to have Red Line Oil join our team,” said Dave Richards, driver of the Versatran/BlueBird Funny Car. “I’m excited to have them onboard as we race our first full season. We have a lot of work to do but hopefully we’ll make them proud. I know this Versatran/BlueBird team will be looking forward to having their products in our pit. It will do our motors some good considering how much wear and tear we put on them going over 300 mph.”

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MAYVILLE, WI – After racing part-time for 10 years, Dave Richards and Paul Richards Racing will, for the first time, be running the full 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season driving the Versatran/BlueBird Funny Car.

Versatran, a division of Metalcraft of Mayville, the parent company of SCAG Power Equipment, joined Richards and brother Paul Richards during the 2023 NHRA Drag Racing Series season. The team competed in 11 races, qualified in the top 16 eight times and made it to the quarterfinals twice ultimately finishing the season 16th in the points standings. In 2024, Versatran will be joined by Metalcraft of Mayville’s newly acquired company, BlueBird Turf, an iconic brand in the outdoor power equipment rental market for over sixty years.

“It’s a struggle to race at this level, but Paul and I kept doing it because we love this stuff. Our program over the years had been up and down, but we got hooked up with Randy Gloede and Versatran and things are looking positive,” Richards said. “We’re building the program, building the car, getting ready to put our best foot forward. We don’t want to go out there and just be happy to be there, we want to be competitive, we want to win.”

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