- 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
JEGS.com racecars to be featured at The New Albany Classic
Courtesy of Jegs
DELAWARE, OH – The 2011 New Albany Classic Invitational Grand Prix & Family Day will have an added boost of horsepower this year thanks to world champion drag racers Troy Coughlin and Jeg Coughlin Jr. The New Albany
Classic will be held this Sunday.
Both men will display their racecars at the 14th annual fundraising affair. The event is 100 percent underwritten to ensure all proceeds will benefit the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence. The Coalition works to break the cycle of family violence in homes, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods throughout the community.
“The work The Coalition does with the Grand Prix should be commended,” Troy Coughlin said. “It’s an honor to have our racecars as a part of this event. My daughters, Paige and Kelly, are both aspiring equestrians who have been riding competitively for three seasons. They’re thrilled we’re involved because they’re anxious to see the international stars ride in the Grand Prix.”
Hill wins SS/AA in record-setting fashion at zMax Dragway
Courtesy Roy Hill Racing
Photo by Rhonda McCole
CONCORD, NC – Capitalizing on an unseasonably cool September weekend at zMax Dragway, located just outside of Charlotte, NC, Roy Hill and teammate Grant Lewis qualified numbers one and two in Super Stock and Hill once again
took home the Super Stock / A Automatic trophy at the 4th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals.
Driving the James Finch-owned Phoenix Racing 2010 Ford Mustang Cobra Jets, Lewis and Hill posted qualifying elapsed times of 8.432 and 8.480 seconds respectively, well under the 9.70 class index. The numbers, along with Lewis’ top speed of 161.96 MPH, were also new track and national records.
“Charlotte was a great outing for us,” Hill said. “We debuted our new Roush Yates engines, and they were tremendous. We also had Coca-Cola on the quarter panels of both cars, along with a large group from both Coca-Cola corporate and Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, so to run as well as we did in front of everyone was a great thing.”
Something for everyone at JEGS Northern SPORTSnationals
Courtesy of Jegs
HEBRON, OH – Historic National Trail Raceway will come alive this weekend as several hundred of NHRA’s best racers
arrive at the track for the seventh annual JEGS NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals.
One of thee events designed specifically to showcase racers in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the Northern SPORTSnationals will crown champions in the following NHRA eliminators — Comp, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street, Top Dragster and Top Sportsman.
Brown, Hagan, Johnson, Krawiec, DeJoria, Reinhart on WFO Radio
Courtesy of WFO
HOLLYWOOD, FL – O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals winners Antron Brown, Matt Hagan, Kurt Johnson, and Eddie 
Krawiec join Joe Castello along with the NHRA’s Alan Reinhart, on WFO Radio NHRA Nitro. Funny Car rookie, Alexis DeJoria, also stops by to discuss her Funny Car debut. To listen now, go to WFORadio.com.
Matco Tools/Aaron’s DSR Top Fuel driver, Antron Brown won the first race of NHRA’s Countdown to One, his third race in a row, with a victory over teammate Spencer Massey. Brown discusses the competitive level of the Top Fuel Eliminator, his battles against teammates, and taking advantage of momentum going into the AAA Texas Fall Nationals.
Williamson & Gore Motorsports Team look for drag racing ‘Hail Mary’ at Bakersfield
Courtesy of Jamie Clerf
Photos by Marilyn Jacobo
Campbell, CA – If you have been anywhere near or watched a high-school, college, or NFL football game – you know the moment well. Behind on the scoreboard, time running out, and the Quarterback drops back to a throw a long, last
minute pass to the end zone in the hopes that someone, anyone on his team will reach up amongst the outstretched arms of defenders to pull down the game-winning or tying touchdown.
For Bret Williamson, driver of the Williamson & Gore Motorsports Team ‘53 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association (WCOPMA) Studebaker, this weekend (September 23-25) in Bakersfield, CA represents the drag racing equivalent of football’s ‘Hail Mary’ pass.
Williamson currently sits in 3rd place (behind both Rod Burbage and Marc Meadors) in the WCOPMA standings, but still has a slim mathematical chance of catching points leader Burbage IF he can qualify at the top of the 8-car qualified field, WIN the race and the ever consistent Burbage goes out early in competition. Like the team trailing at the end of the football game, the cards and odds are indeed stacked against Williamson and his hard working team, but that isn’t diminishing his optimism or hope he can pull off a shocking comeback.
2011 WCOPMA Champion to be determined this weekend at season ending event
Courtesy of WCOPMA
Bakersfield, CA – It is finally here, the final event of the 2011 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association’s schedule is this weekend (September 23-25) at the historic Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. This season ending
event is guaranteed to be filled with action as 12 of the quickest and fastest pro mod cars on the west coast will be in attendance.
Other than just the killer pre entry list, the 2011 champion will be decided during this event and the race is on between the current point’s leader (and 2x WCOPMA champion) Rod Burbage, Marc Meadors and Bret Williamson. Behind Burbage by just a mere 29 points is Marc Meadors and his “Pure Hell 2” 1969 Camaro. Last year’s champion is only 33 points behind Meadors and a total of 62 points out of first place and that would be Bret Williamson in the Williamson and Gore Racing 1953 Studebaker.
Virginia Motorsports Park to host Summit Tournament of Champions Oct. 14-16
Courtesy of IHRA
NORWALK, OH – With the third annual Summit Racing Equipment Tournament of Champions just a few weeks away, drivers are making final preparations and 
gearing up for the final race of the 2011 season with a shot at over $10,000 to the winner and the title of IHRA World Champion at stake.
This year’s class of TOC qualifiers totals 180 drivers, with seven spots still available at the last-chance Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spectacular the day before the big go all at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals presented by RacingJunk.com October 14-16 at Virginia Motorsports Park.
Among the 180 drivers currently qualified for the field, 19 drivers are former world champions combining for 43 IHRA world championships spanning 25 years from 1986 Stock champion Terry Taylor to 2010 champions Scott Ball and Cameron Manuel. Among that group is also the winningest sportsman driver in IHRA history, 16-time champion Anthony Bertozzi.
The Hemi Powered Camaro Pro Mod At 2011 Yellow Bullet Nationals
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown MD, – After fitting the new Hemi power plant into the Appalachia on Steroids Pro Modified Camaro it was time to see what the newest addition to our armory could do for us!
After checking around to see what would best serve our purpose we settled on a two day test at Royce Miller’s Maryland International Raceway, BUT Mother Nature had other plans for us on that weekend! She dropped a nasty hurricane named Irene right on top of our plans! This “stuff” happens is really getting old! .
So we put our fall back plan into effect and headed to the 2011 YellowBullet.com Nationals at Cecil County Dragway just north of Baltimore, Maryland. They were having an open test session on Friday so that fit our plans perfectly.
We rolled the Camaro out of the trailer and prepared to see what would happen when John Robert Stanley left loose of the trans brake button to the Lencodrive.
JEGS Gears up for NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals
Courtesy of Jegs
Hebron, OH – There will be a total of six JEGS Mail Order entries in competition this weekend at the JEGS Northern SPORTSnationals. Mike Coughlin will race in Top Sportsman while his brother Jeg plans to compete in Super Comp and
Stock and Jeg’s wife, Samantha will also be in Super Comp with her JEGS.com dragster. In addition, third-generation racer Troy Jr. will be pulling double-duty as he is scheduled to take the wheel of his uncle John’s Top Dragster as well as his own JEGS.com Super comp entry.
With three wins and a runner-up, Mike Coughlin is the most successful racer in the history of the JEGS Northern SPORTSnationals. He won the Top Sportsman titles in 2009, 2007 and 2006, and was a runner-up in Super Comp at the inaugural event in 2005.
All told, the Coughlin brothers, John, Troy, Mike and Jeg Jr., have combined to win 11 national events at National Trail Raceway, the team’s longtime home track. They have also tallied five runner-up finishes here.
Hope wins inaugural Pro Bike & Sled Series championship
Courtesy of PBSS
CAYUGA, ON – The season-ending event in the inaugural Pro Bike & Sled Series presented by Wiseco Performance 
Products was held at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park over the weekend, and a new race winner was declared along with the 2011 champion.
Ted Glinny won the sixth and final PBSS race of the season at Cayuga, and Randy Hope is the series’ champion.
Riding his Kawasaki Ninja, Glinny, of Milton, Ontario defeated Suzuki rider Stewart of Toronto, Ontario in the final round. Both compete in the Pro Bike division. Glinny qualified fourth in the race with an 8.726, 141.70 run and stayed consistent through the rounds, winning with an 8.72, 141.46 over Stewart’s 9.48, 135.71.
