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Santa Ana, CA — The NMCA is proud to announce the inaugural Unlimited Shootout Invitational, sponsored by Paschal Performance, to be held during the NMCA and NMRA-sanctioned Nitto Tire Lone Star Shootout held at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, TX (just outside of Houston). The event takes place November 9-11, 2012. The Unlimited Shootout Invitational brings out the real muscle cars of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week for an 8-car heads-up race.

The time trials and road torture are over—it is time to go drag racing in full-size, full-weight street cars that are 6-second and 200 mph capable. These are not Pro Mods but real muscle cars with 2000-hp attitudes and driven down your street. The street moniker has been proven by Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, which consists of over 1,200 miles through 5 states/tracks in 5-days.

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Bowling Green, KY – The Strange Engineering Coyote Stock heads-up racing category is getting its own form of stimulus money during the NMRA World Finals October 4-7, 2012 at Beech Bend Raceway (Bowling Green, KY). The class sponsor, Strange Engineering, is tossing in an extra $500 to the winner and another $250 to the racer with the best reaction time during eliminations.

The Strange Bonus brings the winner’s circle check to a hefty $1,000 in cash on the spot but if the winner also owns the quickest reaction time bonus money, then Strange will add another $250 on top of the reaction time’s $250 bonus—bringing the total winner’s potential payout to $1,500.

Adding more cash on top of that is the NMRA Contingency program—HiPo Joe Charles collects $1,650 in contingency money while the other winner in 2012 is Justin Burcham who claims $1,500 in contingency winnings. That means if either of those two racers win and knock off the quickest reaction time they will walk away with $3,150 (HiPo Joe) or $3,000 (Burcham).

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Santa Ana, CA – ProMedia Events, home of the #1 NMRA Keystone Automotive Ford Nationals, is gearing up for the largest all-Ford event of the year in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the weekend of October 4-7, 2012.  The 14^th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA All-Ford World Finals will invade Beech Bend Raceway and Mustangs will take over the city of Bowling Green, which has played host to major Ford events since the first World Ford Challenge back in 1998.

The NMRA All-Ford World Finals will feature all the cars and all the stars of blue oval drag racing with racers setting their combinations “on kill” in search of world championships and exclusive Nitto Tire Diamond Tree champions rings.  This extra special event will showcase everything from 6-second turbocharged outlaws to wheel-standing Renegades and everything in between.  The TREMEC True Street class, presented by Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords, has averaged well over 100 competitors the past 2 years and is testimonial to the crazy street-legal performance possible with Mustangs and Fords.

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Orange County, CA – The NMCA and Chevrolet Performance are pleased to present that the 6^th Annual Chevrolet Performance LSX ShootoutÒ, which will once again take place at Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, the weekend of October 11-14, 2012. The event, held in conjunction with the NMCA World Finals, is the largest LS gathering in the U.S.  The LSX Shootout features awesome heads-up racing for the fastest LS-powered cars in the world, index-style and True Street racing for competitors of all levels, and a giant all LS-powered car show. 

This is “the” LS event of the year, with over $50,000 in cash and prizes, and it’s brought to you by Chevrolet Performance.  Presenting sponsor, GM High-Tech Performance magazine, will be at the event in force providing great coverage for the LS community.  This is the final event of the Chevrolet Performance LSX Challenge Series where champions will be crowned. 

The LSX Shootout’s heads-up classes include JE Pistons LSX Drag Radial, ERL Performance All Motor, and Holley EFI Real Street…all of which are wheels-up and hardcore.  Nitto Tires and Camaro Performers magazine are sponsoring the 5^th Gen Camaro Challenge, an index class for new Camaros only, and GM High-Tech Performance will sponsor a heads-up 5^th Gen Camaro Shootout on Sunday consisting of the fastest cars from the Camaro Challenge class.  The Shootout also features two classes for mild to wild street-type LS-powered vehicles, Proform Racing LSX Rumble and TREMEC LSX True Street Challenge. 

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Milan, MI – The NMCA Flowmaster Muscle Car Nationals is proud to announce the Ford Racing Cobra Jet Showdown Presented by Diversified Products Marketing, a special event to be run in conjunction with the 6th Annual JE Pistons NMCA Muscle Car Nationals, at Milan Dragway in Milan, Michigan, August 24-26, 2012. 

All 2008-2013 Cobra Jet owners are invited to participate at the Showdown.  The Cobra Jets will be showcased in three no breakout Eliminators; two heads-up classes and a competition Index (CIC) class:

• CJ-TS (Top Stock): Stocker trim Cobra Jets utilizing the 2.3-liter or 2.9-liter supercharger or 427/428cid naturally aspirated engines.
• SS-CJ (Super Stock): 4.0-liter supercharged Cobra Jet’s in SS trim. 
• CJ-CIC: A separate class, where Cobra Jet racers not competing in either of the heads-up classes can race against each other at the Showdown for a cash purse.

CJ-TS and SS-CJ will run modified NHRA Stock and Super Stock rules, respectively. 

King of the Cobra Jets: Heads-up class winners will race each other with a handicapped start based on their quickest time, with no breakout, to crown the 2012 King of the Cobra Jets. 

All prize money courtesy of Ford Racing and Diversified Products Marketing. 

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Santa Ana, CA – The NMRA is pleased to announce that it will once again host the Terminator / GT500 Shootout at the Nitto Tire NMRA World Finals in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the weekend of October 4-7, 2012. 

The 2nd Annual Terminator / GT500 Shootout bring together some of the fastest Cobras and GT500s in the U.S. to compete in a heads-up winner takes all format at one of the largest NMRA Keystone Automotive events on the schedule. 

 Some of the loudest smack-talk on the web is from the Terminator / GT500 community all talking about who has the fastest ride…and this Shootout will decide it once and for all!

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Santa Ana, CA — Jet-Hot Coatings is proudly sponsoring the Autocross events at Chevy High Performance Nationals June 1-3, 2012 at Atlanta Dragway located in Commerce, GA. An autocross event challenges a driver’s dexterity and skills as he or she competes against the clock.

Also pushed hard is a vehicle’s steering and braking systems as well as durability, which is where Jet-Hot comes into the picture. CHP Editor, Henry De Los Santos, shared with us, “I’m excited to have Jet-Hot High Performance Coatings’ to come onboard as the Chevy High Nationals Autocross sponsor. Jet-Hot is known as the go-to company for exhaust, engine, and drivetrain coatings and many of our reader’s are well versed in how effective the coatings help to improve performance while reducing under-hood temperatures.”

Cheryl Herrick of Jet-Hot carries the same sentiments about the benefits of using Jet-Hot in the adverse world of autocross competition. She says, “to improve performance on the track or the street choose Jet-Hot, the oldest brand in the industry for thermal management, corrosion protection and friction reduction coatings.”

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Mechanicsville, MD – The 12^th Annual NMRA Ford Natonals presented by Downs Ford Motorsport marked the NMRA’s first trip to Maryland International Raceway in Budds Creek, Maryland. MIR lived up to its reputation as having one of the best racing surfaces in the country. We saw class records shattered, bumpers dragged down the track, and a few amazing upsets come elimination day. Between the awesome racing and the killer facility, the Maryland race was one for the record books.

In SCT Pro Outlaw 10.5 action, Mike Murillo worked through parts breakage early in the event to take the number one spot on the ladder with a 6.57 at 215 mph over Tim Essick’s 6.77-second number-two effort. In the final, it was again Essick and Murillo facing off, and in an exciting race, Murillo lifted past the eighth-mile mark, while Essick streaked to a 6.65 at 215 for the Pro Outlaw 10.5 win.

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