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HOLBROOK’S FORD SHATTERS RECORDS EN ROUTE TO CLEAN SWEEP IN SUPERCAR SHOWDOWN

Written by Bret Kepner

Norwalk, OH – Chris Holbrook, already a finalist at four events during the 2012 season, wheeled his familiar silver “Instant Action” 2012 Ford Mustang to its second victory of the year in American Drag Racing League’s popular new SuperCar Showdown category during the Summit Racing Equipment Ohio Drags VI presented by Mickey Thompson Tire and Wheels.

The Michigan veteran managed a clean sweep of the race after leading the qualified field, clocking the quickest and fastest runs of eliminations and blasting his Mustang Cobra Jet to new World Records for Elapsed Time and Speed. Most important, the amazing performance came at the racing facility at which Holbrook earned his first major title seventeen years earlier, the magnificent Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, at the ADRL event closest to his Redford, Michigan, home.

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Chris Demke has Fast Ideas for Maple Grove

Courtesy of Maddern Racing

Mohnton, PA – This weekend will mark the first time that Chris Demke has been to Maple Grove Raceway. It is also the farthest east that the Maddern Racing Team have ever raced. There are no worries about geography as the Peen Rite/ OSI / 801 Racing Team has physics on their mind. To be more specific, they want to go fast.

Maple Grove is the place to go fast and that is plan for this race. Demke has a history of going fast, and not only in a Top Alcohol Dragster. In high school, Demke ran both track and cross country.  In fact, he still holds the Verdugo Hills High School record of 52.5 in the 440 yard dash. In case you were wondering, the 440 is a quarter mile. That time may not win any Drag Races, but fast is a state of mind.

“I’ve got fast on the brain,” said Demke. “Maple Grove is a tight track and if the weather cooperates it will be amazing. That is why so many top times have been run here. I just want to go out and run hard the way I know we can.”

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Patrick Lauds ADRL Safety Requirements Following Norwalk Crash

Courtesy of ADRL

O’FALLON, MO – Robert Patrick Jr. was already a strong believer in the ADRL’s safety requirements.

But after the first crash in his professional career, Patrick firmly believes they prevented something much worse from happening this past weekend at the Summit Racing Equipment Ohio Drags VI presented by Mickey Thompson at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

The Pro Nitrous standout was involved in a major wreck during the first qualifying session, crashing hard into both guardwalls. He broke a bone in his foot and suffered injuries to his knees and ribs, but Patrick believes the safety requirements from the ADRL made a tremendous difference in avoiding serious injuries.

“I couldn’t be happier with the ADRL and everything they did. All the safety stuff they have implemented worked and it probably saved my life,” Patrick said. “It could have been a lot worse.

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Bill Elekes returns to the TNT winner’s circle; Jon Jablonski takes 2012 championship

Courtesy of TNT

LEICESTER, NY – The 2012 season in the Joe’s Transmission TNT Super Series wrapped up this past Sunday at Empire Dragway with Bill Elekes of West Seneca, NY taking the event win and pocketing $1000 plus contingency for his efforts.  At the same time, Jon (JJ) Jablonski – also from West Seneca, NY – capped off a spectacular season by earning his first TNT Super Series championship.

The race to close out the sixth TNTSS season was presented by The Sister Act Band and was re-scheduled from September 8th due to rain.  But this one almost didn’t happen either as it was raining in the early morning and the track wasn’t drying.  “We finally got on the track about 1:00 and then at 2:00 we got rain in the shut down,” said Ted Barnes, TNTSS Director.  “So the race was shortened to 1/8th mile and the Empire Dragway team did a great job getting it done.”

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Kon Rodz Wrapping Up 2012 Season at Maple Grove

Courtesy of Kon Rodz Racing

READING, PA – This weekend’s Auto-Plus Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway will be the final stop on the Kon Rodz Racing 2012 tour. The Maple, Ontario, Canada-based Top Alcohol Funny Car team experienced a breakout season with driver Cassie Simonton behind the wheel.

Simonton’s season started at the Gatornationals in March, where the team struggled in qualifying and eliminations, despite strong results in preseason testing. They bounced back at the next race in Charlotte, qualifying #3 with career-best numbers in E.T. and speed. The next national event on tour, the Route 66 Nationals in Chicago, saw Simonton qualify #7 in a field full of heavy hitters. There she drove past three Top 10 cars before falling in her first final round to class legend Frank Manzo.

The Kon Rodz team proved themselves to be contenders the following weekend in Norwalk, qualifying #3 and reaching the finals yet again. Cassie earned the #5 spot a couple months later at the U.S. Nationals, but didn’t make it past first round. Most recently, Simonton qualified the KonRodzRacing.com Monte Carlo #2 at the O’Reilly Nationals in Charlotte.

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After having everything stolen, Salsgiver gets amazing second chance

Courtesy of IHRA

NORWALK, OH – Adversity is something a lot of people have trouble dealing with, but for Toni Lyn Salsgiver it is just another day at the office.

Up until last month the 17-year-old from Orangeburg, S.C. was experiencing a year any veteran racer would be proud of. With nine final round appearances and seven wins the Carolina Dragway track championship was secured and a spot in the Summit SuperSeries runoff awaited her arrival during the Division 2 East Summit Team Finals.

To prepare for the big race Toni and her father Robbie were planning one last race at nearby Orangeburg Dragstrip just to keep her skills honed for the big week yet to come. Their lives would forever change the night before that test session.

As Robbie walked outside he noticed something missing – the race trailer along with Toni’s Junior Dragster. Also inside were tools, spare parts, a golf cart, fuel and so many memories of a year that dreams are made of. It had all been stolen at the hands of a coward. Within moments Robbie quickly summoned the police as well as many good friends who put the word out on the internet in hopes someone had seen the trailer going down road. The police investigated the scene and took a few pictures, with very little to go on, the hope of finding anything was minimal.

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PSCA’s Mickey Thompson West Coast Shootout Hits Vegas This Weekend

Courtesy of PSCA

LAS VEGAS, NV – Championships are on the line this weekend at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as the Pacific Street Car Association’s Mickey Thompson West Coast Shootout Presented by Edelbrock takes to the track Friday-Sunday.

The PSCA, presented by Chris Alston’s Chassisworks, has provided some of the best drag racing in the country during the 2012 season and this weekend’s event should be no different. Several class championships are up for grabs, especially the Calvert Racing Street Muscle division where an astounding 12 drivers are still mathematically in the hunt for the title. Also appearing at the track this weekend is the Lucas Oil Car Show, open to fans Saturday and Sunday.

“It’s just been amazing what we’ve seen on the track this year,” PSCA President Mel Roth said. “To be this late in the season and still have these classes so tightly contested shows just how good the racing has been and how talented these racers are. It says a lot about the teams that they can compete at this level and give our fans they kind of racing they deserve.”

Greatest prize in sportsman racing on line in Memphis

Courtesy of IHRA

MEMPHIS, TN – It is simply the greatest prize in all of sportsman drag racing and it will all on the line at Memphis International Raceway on Saturday, October 13.

The Summit Racing Equipment SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL and Moser Engineering has long been revered as one of the greatest sportsman programs in all of drag racing and for the 11th year in a row three more names will be etched into the IHRA history books as winners of one of the most prestigious programs around.

“I think the Summit SuperSeries is the best thing going in sportsman racing,” said two-time IHRA Top Sportsman World Champion Marco Abruzzi, owner of Abruzzi Transmissions and Converters. “It gives the entry level local racer a chance to win big.”

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CARY OIL PARTNERS WITH VP RACING FUELS IN BRAND PROGRAM

Courtesy of VP

SAN ANTONIO, TX – VP Racing today announced its newest and largest partner to date, as North Carolina-based Cary Oil has signed on to market VP’s retail brand program. With nearly 500 retail outlets in Cary Oil’s major branded wholesale distribution network representing just a third of Cary’s total business, the partnership will facilitate the growth of VP-branded retail stores in 18 states from the Atlantic coast to New Mexico.

“We’re pleased to have formed a strategic alliance with VP Racing Fuels,” said Mark Maddox, Vice President-Branded Marketing for Cary Oil. “VP offers Cary Oil a unique opportunity to extend to our independent retail customers a trend-setting and nationally recognized fuel brand image, coupled with a compelling credit card processing offer.”

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Checking the weekend weather forecast makes drag racer Coughlin smile

Courtesy of Jegs

READING, PA – Having claimed three Pro Stock trophies at Maple Grove Raceway, the site of this weekend’s 28th annual Uni-Select NHRA Nationals, five-time world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. knows how good the historic facility located in Pennsylvania’s Dutch Country can be.

“Looking at the forecast,Maple Grovecertainly won’t disappoint,” Coughlin said. “That place can be fast, very fast, and I think we’re going to see some awesome conditions this time through so I believe me and my fellow racers are going to have some fun. Of course, that means the fans are in for a treat as well.”

Coughlin drove to the winner’s circle of this event in 1999, 2008 and 2009, making it one of his favorite stops on tour. As a native of neighboringOhio, it’s also a racetrack he frequented in his amateur days in the sportsman ranks.

“One thing I always enjoy aboutReadingis the people,” Coughlin said. “These are diehard race fans that are extremely knowledgeable about Pro Stock racing and what it takes to run these naturally-aspirated, 500 cubic inch motors. They’ve proven to me over the years that they love drag racing and will always support the effort.

“We won there early in my career and then had back-to-back wins in ’08-’09, so now we need a win from this decade. How’s that for logic?”

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