- Ashley, Hagan, Anderson and Herrera take Wins at Charlotte Four-Wide
- TOUGH FINAL ROUND PUTS DAMPER ON WEEKEND FOR JOHN FORCE IN CHARLOTTE NHRA 4-WIDE NATIONALS
- BO BUTNER WINS JHG MOUNTAIN MOTOR PRO STOCK SEASON OPENER
- AARON STANFIELD RUNNER-UP AT NHRA FOUR-WIDE NATIONALS AT ZMAX DRAGWAY
- JUSTIN ASHLEY WINS NHRA FOUR-WIDE NATIONALS AT ZMAX DRAGWAY
- Tony Schumacher Out Early After Jam-Packed Four-Wide Weekend in Charlotte
- HART KEEPS IT CLOSE IN TIGHT QUAD AT CHARLOTTE
Sam Andreacchi returns to PMRA racing with new car for 2012 season
Courtesy of PMRA
TORONTO, ON – After a year out of Pro Modified Racing Association competition, Sam Andreacchi has returned, and this two-time PMRA event winner is ready.
”We’re looking forward to the rest of the year,” said the Toronto, Ontario racer. “So far so good.”
Andreacchi and the Wolf Racing and Andreacchi Motorsports team, headed up by Andreacchi and Domenic Calabria have just tested the waters with their new Modified so far this season, a 1969 Chevy Camaro from the shops of G-Force Race Cars. While this car has replaced the team’s former flat-black Nova-bodied Modified, Andreacchi noted that the Camaro is powered by the Nova engine and drive-train, an Al Billes Racing 526-cubic inch Brad Anderson (BAE) Supercharged Hemi with a Lenco three-speed transmission attached.
Sitting on top of the engine is a Kobelco 14-71 supercharger, and the fuel system is courtesy of Al Billes.
JEGS champ Brown ready for summer vacation of a different variety
Courtesy of Jegs
BRISTOL, TN – Makenna Brown is all packed up and heading out to her own special version of summer camp deep in the Smoky 
Mountains.
The reigning National Trail Raceway track champion, who drives a Junior Dragster for Team JEGS, won’t be staying in a tent. Instead, she’ll call her race hauler home as soon as she arrives at Bristol Dragway for 10 days racing in the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals.
While she will be representing JEGS and Team National Trail Raceway, Brown also gets to have the kind of fun experiences that are similar to the more traditional summer camps that 11 year old girls attend.
“I get to spend a lot of time with a bunch of different friends,” Brown said. “Of course, all the people I race with at National Trail will be there, which is always a lot of fun. I also get to meet back up with people I’ve met at this race in the past and only get to see when I’m racing in Tennessee.
“Plus, there are always new friends to be made and with people coming in from across the country. It’s going to be so much fun.”
MICKEY THOMPSON ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF THE WESTERN MOTORCYCLE DRAG RACING ASSOCIATION’s AMSOIL STURGIS NATIONALS
Courtesy of Mickey Thompson
STOW, OH – Mickey Thompson is pleased to support the 2012 Western Motorcycle Drag Racing Association (WMDRA) Amsoil Sturgis Nationals scheduled for Aug. 7-8 at Sturgis Raceway. As a Performance Partner, Mickey Thompson will award the Top Fuel class
winner a free Mickey Thompson
drive tire.
“We are pleased to support this event and the sport of motorcycle drag racing,” stated Tom Kundrik, Motorsports Manager, Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels. “Dragbike competition is some of the most exciting racing around and we’re looking forward to a great event this August.”
The WMDRA was founded in 2012 by a group of professional drag racers to support professional drag racers and promote the sport of all motorcycle drag racing, both American and metric, in the western United States. For more information, visit http://www.westernmotodrags.com/.
Demke goes to the finals at Woodburn
Courtesy of Maddern Racing
Woodburn, OR – Whenever you go fishing there are a few things that are bound to happen. Sometimes you catch your limit, and sometimes the big one gets away. At their first trip ever to Woodburn Dragway, Chris Demke and the Maddern Racing Team came
away with a few keepers, but the catch of the day eluded them. That’s fishing, or in this case, Drag Racing.
The weekend started out with a whopper. In the first round of qualifying the Peen Rite / OSI / 801 Racing Dragster ripped off a 5.322/269.86. That blast put them in the number one qualifying position. It also gave them the track record at Woodburn Dragway. This was the kind of statement the Team was looking to make.
They serviced the car and returned to the line in anticipation of lowering the record. In the second qualifying session, there was a tug on the line, but it wasn’t the big fish. A wire had come loose and the car coasted down the track. Back in the pits, the wire was zip tied in place. The decision was then made to sit out the third qualifying session, as they still held the top spot.
Garret Race Cars Dominates ADRL Pro Extreme in Michigan
Written by Ian Tocher
MARBLE HILL, MO — Garret Race Cars entries dominated the ADRL Pro Extreme class July 13-14, in Martin, Michigan, led by the company flagship ’63 Corvette of two-time class champion Jason Scruggs, who won the ADRL Summer Drags VIII at U.S. 131
Motorsports Park.
After 23 Pro Extreme teams made qualifying attempts on the U.S. 131 eighth mile, Garret-built cars took three of the top five positions and made up a full quarter of the 16-car, race-day field, led by the ’69 Camaro of 2006 class champion Bubba Stanton, who ran 3.663 seconds at 205.17 miles per hour to earn the top spot. ADRL officials also presented Stanton with the Turbos by Garrett Best Engineered Car award at the West Michigan event.
“I was thrilled to see Jason win again and for Bubba to regain the kind of performance and recognition he’s used to,” said Garret Livingston, founder and president of Garret Race Cars in Marble Hill, Missouri. “All of our cars did extremely well this weekend, which is a testament to the quality of people and teams we work with at the ADRL.”
PUBLIC DEBUT FOR RESTORED ALLARD CHRYSLER DRAGSTER
Courtesy of Allard Chrysler Action Group
Photo by Matt Woods
Santa Pod, UK – Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia meet on July 14th/15th saw the first public fire-up of Europe’s earliest dragster since 1964. 
After test fire-ups in the pits it was brought onto the track by the Allard Chrysler Action Group (ACAG) team in their smart period correct overalls and IMI ties. The noise from the blown 354 Chrysler Hemi V8 in Sydney Allard’s 1961 Allard Chrysler was greeted with wild cheers from the crowd. Some even had tears in their eyes. They had been there to witness history being brought back to life. It almost had the feel of a religious occasion.
The car is owned by the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. Doug Hill, Museum Manager and Lord Montagu’s Chief Engineer was there to witness the first fire-up on nitro-methane the following day. The next day he sent this message to the ACAG who he approved to carry out this important restoration.
I think it is well worth reflecting a while what you have achieved.
FORD STILL UNDEFEATED! BUTNER WINS CLOSEST ADRL SUPERCAR SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND EVER!
Written by Bret Kepner
Martin, MI – Bo Butner is quickly becoming the most dominant driver in the American Drag Racing League’s incredible new SuperCar Showdown category but his victory at the ADRL’s Summer Drags VIII at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan, proved he is
ahead of his closest rivals by only the slimmest of margins.
The SuperCar Showdown, which showcases unmodified current production automobiles in the exact trim in which they are delivered to dealerships, crowned three different champions in its first five events. However, the 2012 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet campaigned by the Jim Butner Auto Sales team had been either the winner or the runner-up at every race.
To earn his fourth eliminator championship in six completed events, the past World Champion from Floyds Knobs, Indiana, had to survive a challenge he issued to SuperCar Showdown National Record Holder Drew Skillman. The most anticipated match of the new division’s first season came in the title bout and the battle which ensued was the closest drag race yet seen in SuperCar Showdown eliminations.
WCOPMA Invades Sonoma Raceway
Courtesy of WCOPMA
Sonoma, CA – The fourth stop on the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association’s 2012 schedule is coming up this weekend at Sonoma Raceway in California’s beautiful Napa Valley during the NHRA Division 7 event. Lots of racers are pre entered making it the biggest
event for the series thus far this season.
Current points leader, Rod Burbage, is making the trek to try and retain his point lead but Mike Maggio and a group of other racers are eyeing that number one spot and look to capture it when it’s all said and done on Sunday.
Joining Burbage and Maggio will be a long list of top notch teams which include Marc Meadors, Scott Bailey, Rob Cacioppo, Ballance Racing with Blake Housley behind the wheel, Dan Myers, Monty Berney, Sean Renteria, Joe Lepone Jr., Scott Oksas, Troy Ferry, Rob Moore, Rich Roberts and Justin Wake. A few other drivers have shown interest recently so we may get a couple unexpected teams as well.
Canadian Top Dragster Standout, Simmons, Signs with Aeroquip Performance for Remainder of 2012
Courtesy of Kozak Motorsports Marketing
Orillia, ON –Melanie Simmons, and her Toyrific Racing Top Dragster team, based in Orillia, Ontario Canada recently signed a product marketing agreement with Aeroquip Performance Products. 
Simmons, who competes on the Napa Auto Parts Quick 32 series, in her blown alcohol Top Dragster is looking forward to representing the Aeroquip Company. She stated, this is an exciting opportunity for our team to represent the Aeroquip line of products. Aeroquip is a world class company with a remarkable line of lightweight and performance driven fluid transfer products. I look forward to representing Aeroquip in fine fashion”.
Simmons will be driving her 6.60 second 200 mph plus dragster at this weekend’s IHRA Nitro Jam Nationals in Grand Bend, Ontario Canada.
Follow Simmons and her Toyrific team at www.Toyrificracing.com
Nitor Fish added as Major Associate Sponsor to the Jegs Pro Stock
Courtesy of Jegs
Denver, CO – One of drag racing’s most colorful sponsors has partnered with a the famous yellow-and-black of JEGS.com and five-time 
world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr.
Nitro Fish Gear owner Kenny Koretsky unveiled a major associate sponsorship agreement that will feature the Nitro Fish logo adorning the JEGS.com/Mopar Dodge Avenger and it’s decorated driver. Beginning in Sonoma, souvenir gear for fans of Coughlin and the Mopar brand will be able to load up at the Nitro Fish merchandise trailer at NHRA national events and online at JEGS.com.
“I am really excited to be associated with a first-class organization like JEGS,” Koretsky said. “I’ve known the Coughlin family for a long time and I am looking forward to racing with them. We are also working toward including Nitro Fish Gear in the JEGS Mail Order catalog.”
