HOLLYWOOD, FL  – Top Fuel driver Brandon Bernstein, Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Michael Phillips, and NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart, are featured guests on this week’s WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello.  To listen live on Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET or on-demand following the show, go to www.wforadio.com

An 18-time national event winner, Bernstein is currently in sixth place in the 2010 Top Fuel points standings with new Kenny Bernstein Racing sponsor Copart.  Phillips took The Racers Edge Suzuki to victory lane at the recent NHRA Midwest Nationals earning his fourth career Pro Stock Motorcycle win in his tenth career final.  Reinhart, track announcer for the NHRA Full Throttle Series, will preview the upcoming Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals and take listener e-mail questions in an extended segment.

HOLLYWOOD, FL – NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series champions Tony Schumacher, Robert Hight, and Warren Johnson plus Pro Stock owner/driver Rodger Brogdon headline tonight’s WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello, live at 7 p.m. ET.  To listen live or on-demand, go to http://www.WFORadio.com

Schumacher (Top Fuel/U.S. Army), Hight (Funny Car/AAA Insurance), and Johnson (Pro Stock/K&N Air Filters) were all winners at Sunday’s NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway International Raceway.  Brogdon walked away from a dramatic crash in his Attitude Apparel Pontiac GXP in Pro Stock Eliminations at Gateway, then later in the day celebrated his first win with The Racer’s Edge Suzuki with rider Michael Phillips in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

HOLLYWOOD, FL – All four event winners from last weekend’s NHRA Full Throttle Series Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park will be guests on WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello, live tonight at 7 p.m. ET.  To listen live or on-demand, go to http://www.wforadio.com

Spring Nationals winners Larry Dixon (Top Fuel), Matt Hagan (Funny Car), Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock), and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) will all appear in one-on-one interviews with host Joe Castello.
 
Dixon, driver of the Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel dragster, won Sunday for the second time this year in a pedal fest against Antron Brown.  The win was Dixon’s 50th of his NHRA professional career moving him into eighth place on the all-time list, breaking a tie with Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. 

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HOLLYWOOD, FL – NHRA Funny Car driver Matt Hagan and ESPN stats guy Lewis Bloom will headline tonight’s WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello, live at 7 p.m. ET.  To listen live or on-demand, go to http://www.wforadio.com
 
Hagan, who drives the DieHard Dodge Charger Funny Car for Don Schumacher Racing, is coming off a fourth place finish in the inaugural NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at ZMax Dragway.  The second-year NHRA Full Throttle Series driver currently sits in fourth place in the NHRA Funny Car championship point standings.

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HOLLYWOOD, FL – John Force and Cory McClenathan, winners of the inaugural NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway, will headline tonight’s WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello, live at 7 p.m. ET.  To listen live or on-demand, go to http://www.wforadio.com
 
Force, a 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion, earned his 128th career victory in dramatic fashion by edging daughter Ashley Force Hood with a final elapsed time of 4.036 to 4.042 in the rain-delayed Funny Car final eliminations.  Force’s win was the second of 2010 as he lengthened his points lead to 89 over Ron Capps, who finished third in the four-wide Funny Car finals.