- Austin Prock living up to his 'Prock Rocket' nickname in first season in Funny Car
- TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER, TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR RETURN TO THRILL FANS AT CLEETUS AND CARS BURNOUT RIVALS EVENT IN INDY
- Stampede of Speed and NHRA Texas Fall Nationals Tickets on Sale
- Zizzo Racing Hooks up with Master Truck & Trailer for 2024 Campaign
- WDRA EXPANDS SUMMIT BRACKET FINALS SERIES TO INCLUDE NORTHWEST CANADA
- Hangsterfer’s Metalworking Lubricants Increases Involvement with AB Motorsports, Angelle Sampey
- Chicago Native Don Schumacher to be Honored During NHRA Route 66 Nationals in Joliet
Grime Boss Goes On-Track and On-Line with Team JEGS
Courtesy of Jegs
DELAWARE, OH – Grime Boss hand wipes is expanding its team presence in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) landscape, and adding a driver in the Champion Racing Association (CRA) oval track program through its announcement of sponsorship with Team
JEGS. NHRA drivers Jeg Coughlin Jr., Troy Coughlin, Mike Coughlin, Troy Coughlin Jr., and CRA driver, Cody Coughlin, will all be sporting the Grime Boss logo on their race cars the next time out on the track. In addition, Grime Boss hand wipes will now be available for purchase through JEGS.com.
The Grime Boss expansion to include Team JEGS in its NHRA portfolio is an extension of the program that started with Jim Dunn Racing and the Grime Boss Funny Car.
Jeg Coughlin Jr., driver of the JEGS/Mopar Dodge Avenger is very excited about the new sponsor addition to their team. “It’s always fun to meet new sponsors interested in your race team. Some we meet at our facility in Delaware, OH, some we meet at their offices, but the one’s that I know really want to be a part of racing, are the people that take the time to come out to the track and see our team in action, and understand the audience which are our fans and customers” Jeg said.
Newburgh almost all the way back from crash
Written by Todd Veney/Pro Sportsman Association
Rock Falls, IL – After a devastating crash two years ago at the Route 66 Nationals in Chicago, where he slammed hard into the wall but escaped uninjured, Alcohol Funny Car veteran Kevin Newburgh is finally making his way back into competition. For Newburgh, a 
working man from a small town in the heart of the Midwest, the prototypical “little guy,” you don’t just come back overnight. It cost him half a year’s salary to rebuild.
“It really cleaned me out,” says Newburgh, a 43-year-old mechanic at Pillar’s Repair in his hometown of Rock Falls, Ill. “I do this all out of my pocket, and it can be pretty rough sometimes. I had to get a new body and have the chassis front-halved.”
On that fateful run, Newburgh crossed the centerline, corrected, and the next thing he knew, he was into the wall and the body was flying off the car. “I got out of the groove but thought I had it all straightened out,” he says. “I clipped a cone and cranked the wheel hard, and the car just took off like a bullet, shot across the track in the opposite direction, and smacked the wall sideways. The body was ruined and the chassis really got bent up.”
WHO’S IN THIS ISSUE OF RPM MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2012
Courtesy of RPM Magazine
Brandford, ON – Extreme Indeed! – It was bigger, it was badder and there was even more extreme horsepower in the house for this year’s Extreme Street Machine Shootout. Friday afternoon and into the night saw some of the world’s most insane on-the-edge street
machines gather at Gus’s Drive-In and then duke it out on the dragstrip the following day.
Max Effort Mopar – Take a cool ex-Pro Stock Truck. Drop in 645 cubic inches of aluminum wedge power. Then slam on a killer paint job and keep it so clean you can eat off of any part of it, and you got the Max Effort Mopar of David Solomon
Tropical Fury – Race and street machines are alive and well on the island of Aruba, and these three men will see to it that it will stay that way. Your Tropical Fury begins with Christine!
Big Block Brawler – The Fun Begins!! 1,000 HP Part IV – The Big Block Brawler finally gets its chance on the dyno to show what it can do. From the beginning of the project it has been our primary goal to make this combination run really strong on nitrous…lets see how it worked out.
Heavy Duty Towing on The Cheap – Part II – Gas Thrifty Ford Ecoboost Powerhouse – Last month we featured our V-6 EcoBoost F-150 4 x 4 Super Crew project truck which started life with a towing capacity of 11,200 lbs when optioned with the Max Tow package. See what our most recent additions have done for this towing monster!
Project 4 Lug Thug gets the shaft in a good way from Dynotech.
Roy Hill’s Named Official Drag Racing School of Ford Racing
Courtesy of Roy Hill
SOPHIA, NC – Drag racing icon Roy Hill is gearing up for an action-packed second half of the 2012 season, and he’s starting it off with a major announcement.
“I’m proud to announce that Roy Hill’s Drag Racing School is now the Official Drag Racing School of Ford Racing,” Hill said. “This is the end result of months of planning with Jamie Allison, Jesse Kershaw, and the folks at Ford Racing, and we have lots of great things we’re going to do with this association, now and into the future.”
The first feature of the new partnership will allow all 2013 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet buyers to attend Roy Hill’s Drag Racing School free of charge.
“We’re working with Ford to really take care of the new Cobra Jet buyers,” said the Pro Stock legend. “They can come in, get their license, and learn from the Ford engineers as well as some of my people, all included with their purchase. It’s the perfect way for the new owners to become familiar with their Cobra Jets.”
Brogdon, Fessel Schumacher, Eckman, Millican, Olatunji, Sapone, Reinhart on WFO Radio
Courtesy of WFO
HOLLYWOOD, FL – WFO Radio gives fans unprecedented access to NHRA personalities as Rodger Brogdon, Megan Fessel Schumacher,
Jerry Eckman, Clay Millican, Brian “O” Olatunji, and John Sapone all join Joe Castello, along with the NHRA’s Alan Reinhart, on WFO Radio NHRA Nitro. To listen now, go to http://www.wforadio.com/
Pro Stock driver, Rodger Brogdon, stops by WFO Radio to discuss his recent plans to build an “in house” engine program, his decision to skip the Western Swing, and the license runs of recently reinstated Pro Stock driver Jerry Eckman.
Megan Fessel Schumacher, of Don Schumacher Racing, makes her first appearance on the show to discuss her role at DSR, the social media explosion within the NHRA, and needed youth movement within drag racing.
Team Mopar® Driver Johnson Charges into Brainerd Aiming to Stay on Top
Courtesy of MOPAR
Photo courtesy of Competition Plus
Auburn Hills, Mich. — Team Mopar® NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Pro Stock driver Allen Johnson has one goal over the next two events heading into the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs — gain as many points as possible. The native of 
Greeneville, Tenn., who currently leads the NHRA Pro Stock standings, returns to the track this weekend in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minn., Aug. 16–19.
“I’m definitely ready to get up to Brainerd and back on the track,” said Johnson. “I was ready last Thursday to head up for qualifying, and didn’t want to take a week off. We have some good momentum right now and our Mopar Dodge Avenger is very fast.”
Johnson enters this weekend’s event with four wins on the season, including in two of his last three starts. The J&J Racing driver/owner opened the NHRA’s Western Swing with a victory in the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, and backed that up with another win at Sonoma the following week. In his career at Brainerd, the Team Mopar veteran has reached the semifinals twice, and has qualified among the top half of the field six times, as he chases his first win at the venue.
Stratford Spectacular Hot August Nationals at the Bend – New Winners!
Courtesy of PMRA, Quick 32 and PBSS
GRAND BEND, ON – There were some new faces in the winners’ circle over the weekend after the running of the Stratford Spectacular
Hot August Nationals presented by Ideal Supply & NAPA Auto Parts drag races held at the Grand Bend Motorplex.
The race was the latest round for the Pro Modified Racing Association, the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts, and the Pro Bike & Sled Series presented by Wiseco Performance Products.
Sam Andreacchi picked up his first win of the season in the PMRA, while Top Dragster driver Melanie Simmons won her first in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series, and Josie Brooks also won her first event riding in the PBSS.
Andreacchi, of Toronto, Ontario, who qualified number seven, drove the Wolf Racing and Andreacchi Motorsports 1969 Camaro Pro Modified to his first win of the 2012 PMRA season. The team returned to PMRA racing after a year’s absence with a new car and ready to do battle.
Kristen Dennis rockets to Martin Ironman Victory
Courtesy of 801 Racing
Martin, MI – Kristen Dennis showed how it’s done this past weekend at the final Nitro Jam event of the year. Dennis and her Ladies’ First Pro Fuel Dragster not only won the race, she did it with style. Dennis recorded a track record 5.193/273.68 in her first round
and set her crew, the crowd, and the pits on fire. To top that, Dennis also successfully defended her Saturday night Martin Nitro Jam crown.
“Saturday nights must be lucky for us here in Michigan,” said Dennis. “Winning here last year was fantastic, but this year we earned it and we are going to enjoy this one even more. The fans here are so sweet, and they just kept coming. My hand was starting to cramp from signing so many hero cards. It was really great to meet so many enthusiastic race fans.”
Friday’s fans were treated to a rare event this summer in Michigan; rain. The night’s events were cancelled, and that put all the racers on edge to make it count on Saturday. The weather was cool, and the stands filled quickly. The fans were there to see Nitro, and Dennis didn’t let them down.
MARTINO TEAMS WITH CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS IN RETURN TO COMPETITION AT BRAINERD
Courtesy of Cagnazzi Racing
Stoney Creek, ON – It’s been a winding road for Mark Martino since he last competed on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series with his Charter Communications Pro Stock Pontiac GXP. But a new partnership with Victor Cagnazzi, that will see Martino run five
of the remaining eight events in 2012 with Cagnazzi Racing power, ensures that he will fill the role of “spoiler” quite well when matched up against the touring pros contending for the series championship.
“It’s pretty exciting knowing we’re gonna be running with Cagnazzi power. Everyone who’s ever run his engines does well. So you know we’re looking forward to it,” said an excited Martino. Cagnazzi Racing has a proven track record having won two NHRA Pro Stock World Championships and most recently having put Erica Enders in the winner’s circle at the Chicago and Seattle tour stops, making her the first female driver in history to win an NHRA national event in the Pro Stock category.
Simmons takes Delta Faucet Toyrific Dragster to first Quick 32 Series Winner’s Circle
Courtesy of: Kozak Motorsports Marketing and Resolution Racing Services
Grand Bend, ON – Orillia, Ontario’s Melanie Simmons took her first career Quick 32 Sportsman Series win behind the wheel of her Delta 
Faucet sponsored Top Dragster at this weekend’s Stratford Spectacular Hot August Nationals presented by Ideal Supply & NAPA Auto Parts held at the Grand Bend Motorplex in Grand Bend, Ontario.
Simmons’ ability to block out distractions and concentrate on her job as a driver was evident to all in attendance this weekend as she cut through the 16 car Top Dragster side of the Quick 32 Sportsman Series ladder. Simmons’ reaction times were consistent all weekend; with each of her round wins starting at the tree as she bested all of her Top Dragster competitors off the line.
