Monday afternoon at the U.S. Nationals was both a great and bad day for John Force.

It was great because his daughter, Ashley Force Hood drove her Castrol
Shelby Ford to victory. It was bad because Force was baited into a
battle of words with Tony Pedregon after losing to Robert Hight in the
semi-finals.

There is nothing anyone can do to take away the glory of his daughter's
victory. However, the wound inflicted by the accusations of taking a
dive by Tony Pedregon and others, was salted today when the NHRA fined
Force $10,000 for pushing an official.

In over a dozen years behind the wheel, Terry McMillen has been close
to pulling off the ultimate in sponsor satisfaction – winning his sponsors event – but he simply has not been able to get it done.

In fact, McMillen, driver and team owner for the Amalie Oil/Wolverine
Boots and Apparel Top Fuel dragster has been in eight final rounds with
three wins in the past three seasons. Three of those final rounds have
even come at Amalie sponsored events, including a runner-up to Scott
Weis at the Texas Nationals back in May, but despite coming so very
close, McMillen has not been able to visit victory lane in front of his
dragsters namesake.

He hopes to change all that this weekend at the Amalie Oil North American Nationals at New England Dragway.

Jason Scruggs enters this weekend’s National Guard ADRL Flowmaster Dragstock VI at Rockingham Dragway as the reigning back-to-back Pro Extreme world
champion, class record holder, and 2009 points leader, but he’s far
from satisfied. After all, he’s still looking for that first Dragstock
victory.

Since the inaugural Dragstock in 2004 at Carolina Dragway in Jackson,
SC, Scruggs has reached the semis or final round each year of what has
become the National Guard ADRL’s oldest and most prestigious event.
He’s set records at Dragstock along the way, too, including the world’s
first 200-mile-per-hour pass over the eighth mile by a “door car,” when
he drove his supercharged 1963 Corvette to a 200.86-mph qualifying lap
in 2007 at Rockingham. He eventually left that day with both ends of
the series’ and track records set at 3.70 seconds and 205.22 mph.

“But something always happens to prevent the win,” Scruggs says.

Scott
Ray has a little more spring in his step and that has everything to do
with being half the man he used to be. That statement has nothing to do
with his personal character and everything to do with his physical
stature.

Ray suffered a heart attack in February, and underwent bypass surgery
to repair the damage. As a result, Ray completely changed his
lifestyle, lost a considerable amount of weight and admits he’s never
felt better.

Last weekend at the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, Ray climbed
behind the wheel of the family-owned Ohio Crankshaft Corvette for the
first time since beating the odds.

It has been eight years since the attacks on September 11th brought New York City and the United States to its knees.

Utter chaos reigned and the security once felt by millions was gone in an instant.

Men and women crossed the Hudson that morning never to return again,
their cars collecting dust in parking lots for months following the
attacks.

Moments passed, but time seemed to stand still as many watched in horror as their entire world came crumbling down around them.

The Bounty Hunter has officially been Barbecued at Indy and now you can have the Roast of Conrad Kalitta in your living room.

Pre-order your copy now of one of drag racing’s larger-than-life
legends getting dragged over the coals by fellow greats Jim Head, Chris
“The Golden Greek” Karamesines, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits, Frank Bradley,
and more.

Funny Car racer John Force has been fined $10,000 by the NHRA for an incident involving physical contact with an NHRA official on Monday, Sept. 7 during the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis.

Angie McBride hopes that an upcoming one race deal turns into something more for 2010, namely a full-time ride.

The Pro Stock Motorcycle rider, and fiancée of former world champion
Matt Smith, will ride Karl Klement’s Buell at the NHRA O’Reilly
Fallnationals in Ennis, Texas.

“I’m excited because this may be a stepping stone to the future,” said McBride. “Hopefully it is.”

The bike will be powered by an engine built by Smith and mounted in the
bike formerly ridden by high-profile female riders Peggy Llewellyn and
Angelle Sampey.

Participating in Rich Christensen’s Arm Drop Live at Bristol Dragway on
Sept. 18-19 just became even easier for racers ready to descend upon
Thunder Valley.

Beginning today, any racer that pre-registers for Arm Drop Live can
save $20 on entry fees for the event. The entry fees, which include a
Friday test and tune session and a round of qualifying on both Friday
and Saturday, are only $45 for pre-registered competitors. Three 32-car
fields and one Quick-8 field will be selected to run for the money on
Saturday afternoon with Christensen’s famous armdrop.

In addition, pre-entered drivers will be placed in a drawing for one of 15 $100 Summit Racing Equipment gift cards.

All racer entries sold at the gate on Friday or Saturday of race weekend will be sold at the full price of $65.

Competitors who already have pre-registered will receive a $20 credit back onto their credit card.

With only three races remaining, a comfortable points lead and a car
that has shown it is capable of dominating the field, one would think Frank Gugliotta would be thrilled with his currently position.

However that just isn’t the case.

Gugliotta has been in this position before, sitting inside the top five
at this point in the season for the past seven consecutive years, but
he has been unable to seal the deal and come away a champion.

Hopefully he can change that this season.