- Ashley, Tasca, Enders and Herrera take home the wins in the Four-Wide Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge Winners
- Kalitta, Force and Anderson Maintain their p#ole1 Spots while Herrera takes over Pro Stock Motorcycle
- Donovan Williams Clinches Last 50K on Wiseco Saturday at the Spring Fling
- NO. 1 QUALIFIER JOHN FORCE EYES RECORD FOURTH CAREER WIN IN NHRA 4-WIDE EVENT IN CHARLOTTE
- ERICA ENDERS WINS #2FAST2TASTY CHALLENGE AT CHARLOTTE FOUR-WIDE NATIONALS
- JUSTIN ASHLEY AND SCAG TOYOTA TEAM WIN MISSION #2FAST2TASTY CHALLENGE AT ZMAX DRAGWAY
- KALITTA, J. FORCE, ANDERSON AND HERRERA PICK UP NO. 1 QUALIFIERS AT NHRA 4-WIDE NATIONALS IN CHARLOTTE
C. FORCE LOOKS STRONG AT SEASON HALFWAY MARK
Chicago, IL – Coming off her second win of the 2013 Mello Yello Drag Racing season, Courtney Force is ready to make her 35th Funny 
Car career start at the 16th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries at Route 66 Raceway, June 27-30.
“Our Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car team has had a great season so far with two wins behind us,” said Force. “We have been picking up bonus points left and right and I think we’re on our way back up to where we want to be in the points.”
Force, who recently turned 25 years old, celebrated her birthday last weekend in Epping, N.H. at the Inaugural Auto-Plus NHRA New England Nationals. She got her third career Funny Car win, was presented the first Wally trophy ever presented for an NHRA national event at New England Dragway and moved up in the top ten. She currently occupies the No. 4 spot in the Funny Car point standings.
BOISE-BAKERSFIELD BLITZ: SECOND RACE IN SERIES, HORAN JR. REMAINS TOP POINTS EARNER
POMONA, CA – Prolong(r) Super Lubricants continues to support the NHRA Heritage Series nitro funny cars in the Boise-Bakersfield 
Blitz as the second round of the series was on June 15 at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. 16 nitro funny cars participated in the second round of the Blitz and Dan Horan Jr. remains the top points earner in the series in his “Patriot” 1966 Mustang, winning the $3,000 cash prize.
The Boise-Bakersfield Blitz is a four-race points-earning series for AA/Funny Cars during the 2013 season. The first race took place on April 26 – 28 during the NAPA Auto Parts Ignitor at Firebird Raceway in Eagle, ID. The third race will be held during the Famoso Raceway’s Saturday Night Nitro Shows on July 13 in McFarland, Calif. The fourth and final race will be at the 42nd Pepsi Nightfire Nationals at Firebird Raceway on Aug. 8 -11.
ROBERT HIGHT HEADS TO CHICAGO WITH WINNING ON HIS MIND
CHICAGO, IL – In the past two weeks Robert Hight has “enjoyed” two winner’s circles for his teammates, Bristol winner John Force and 
last week’s winner Courtney Force. In his role as President of John Force Racing, Inc., Hight was thrilled for his teammates and their respective crews. As driver of the Automobile Club of Southern California Ford Mustang Funny Car those winner’s circles we bittersweet for the 2009 Funny Car champion and one of the most competitive drivers on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. This weekend at the 16th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Rt. 66 NHRA Nationals Hight will be focused on enjoying his own winner’s circle on Sunday.
“I am definitely happy for John and Courtney. We are in the race winning business and for all our sponsors winning those two races plus the season opening Winternationals is huge. Now I need to get into the winner’s circle with my Auto Club Mustang. Jimmy is getting closer. We qualified really well in New England on a new track. I think coming to Rt. 66 Raceway we will be in a good position to go some rounds,” said Hight.
U.S. Army Teammates Aiming for Chicago Swagger in 16th annual O’Reilly Route 66 Nationals
JOLIET, IL – It happened in a matter of seconds. So fast, it didn’t seem possible. Monday night Chicago, site of this weekend’s 16th 
annual O’Reilly Route 66 Nationals at Route 66 Raceway in suburban Joliet, witnessed a miraculous change of fortune in just over 17 seconds by its Blackhawks, leading to a Stanley Cup final-clinching victory over the Boston Bruins.
The U.S. Army drag racing tandem of Tony “The Sarge” Schumacher and Antron Brown, who reflect the U.S. Army Soldiers every time they strap into their 10,000-horsepower Top Fuel Dragsters by possessing mental, emotional and physical strength like no other, will try to match the resiliency the Chicago hockey team displayed in the final moments of game six. If either driver can make four passes down the track Sunday, each less than four seconds, less than 17 seconds may be just enough time to change their fortune in the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series championship outlook.
Sport’s Biggest Winner Aims for Third Straight Final Round in Castrol GTX Ford
JOLIET, IL – On the track on which his victory 13 years ago made him the NHRA’s all-time biggest winner, John Force tries to extend 
to three his current streak of final round appearances on the NHRA Mello Yello tour at the wheel of a suddenly energized Castrol GTX Ford Mustang.
The 64-year-old icon, a winner two weeks ago at Bristol, Tenn., and runner-up to daughter Courtney last week at Epping, N.H., believes his resurgent race car not only is capable of reversing a recent downward trend at Route 66 Raceway but also is potent enough to give him a shot at an unprecedented 16th series championship when racing begins this September in the Countdown to 1 playoffs.
After languishing in 10th place for most of the current season, putting in jeopardy his record streak of 28 consecutive Top 10 appearances, Force has surged to fifth place in points and rolls into town for this week’s 16th annual O’Reilly Route 66 Nationals in a familiar position – as one of the Funny Car favorites.
Courtney Force, Spencer Massey, Allen Johnson, John Hall, and Alan Reinhart on WFO Radio
HOLLYWOOD, FL – Auto Plus NHRA New England Nationals Winners Edition. Courtney Force, Spence Massey, Allen Johnson, and John Hall, as well as, New England Dragway announcer Brian Lohnes and first time NHRA fan Monica Vega all join Joe Castello, along with the NHRA’s Alan Reinhart, on WFO Radio Nitro. To listen now, go to http://www.wforadio.com
Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Nitro Funny Car for John Force Racing, stops by WFO to discuss her huge final round win over her father, John Force. Courtney discusses her dramatic first round loss on Father’s Day weekend in Bristol, her tough day in eliminations, preparing to race her father in the final round, and the massive support from the New England Dragway fans.
Sportsman Racing Series Returns to Cayuga Dragway For Big Canada Day Spectacular
CAYUGA, ON – Bracket Race competitors in the DSE Automotive Sportsman Racing Series will trek towards legendary Cayuga 
Dragway this weekend for the second annual Canada Day Spectacular. The two-day event will represent points races number Three and Four in the chase for a share of the $14,500 Sportsman Racing Series year end purse.
The Canada Day Spectacular also highlights the return of the Stefko Racing Engines Super Gas Category for the 2013 season, which brings with it a new guaranteed purse and special Qualifier awards for both Saturday and Sunday’s #1 qualifiers. Thanks to John Stefko and Stefko Racing Engines, racers in the 9.90 index class can look forward to racing for atleast $500 to win and $200 to Runner-up with the purse going up to $600 to win and $300 to runner and $120 semi Finals at a minimum of nine cars.
TNT Super Series rolls into Elegant Builders Raceway Park this Friday
LANCASTER, NY – The competitors in the Joe’s Transmission TNT Super Series will return to Lancaster, New York’s Elegant Builders 
Raceway Park this Friday June 28th. The event, presented by Autos Direct Of Buffalo, will be the first Friday night race of the 2013 season as two previous EBRP events had been cancelled due to rain.
Bill Elekes from Autos Direct Of Buffalo has been a strong supporter of the TNTSS for many years. “Bill has raced in our series since it began,” said Ted Barnes, TNTSS Director. “He lost an engine in his Beretta going into the final at our last race so he will be bringing his Monza out of retirement this weekend!”
A Surging Spencer Massey leads off the DSR Team Reports
Momentum carries Massey into Route 66 NHRA Nationals, looking for hometown win for Battery Extender sponsor
– When the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series started its first of four consecutive events two weeks ago in Bristol, Tenn., all Spencer Massey and the Battery Extender Powered by Schumacher team wanted was to make it to a couple of final rounds and maybe pick up a race win during the stretch.
With just two of those races completed, their goal already has been checked off after finishing as the runner-up at Bristol and winning the event title Sunday in the inaugural NHRA event at Epping, N.H.
Davis Ready to Race with ADRL in Michigan
Written by Ian Tocher
SUWANEE, GA — Driving his black-and-gold colored, Tommy Mauney-built ’63 Corvette this weekend (June 29-30), at U.S. 131 
Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan, veteran Top Sportsman racer Ronnie “The King” Davis will enter the second half of the eight-race American Drag Racing League (ADRL) schedule determined to make a run up the points list. Though currently 12th, Davis says there’s still time to qualify for the ADRL’s Battle for the Belts, a special event for the top eight in points this September at North Carolina’s historic Rockingham Dragway.
“Basically it comes down to going a few rounds and hopefully winning a couple of events and we’ll be right back in the thick of things,” the Suwanee, Georgia-based golf cart dealer said as he heads for the ADRL Summer Drags IX. “With $10,000 going to the Top Sportsman Battle for the Belts winner, you know I want to be included.”
