"The 2nd Annual Ohio Crankshaft No Box Nationals, June 12 - 14, 2009, at Bunker Hill Dragstrip in Kokomo Indiana is only three weeks away and at 85 pre-entries, the event is already larger than last year. A winners share of $7500 is up for grabs each day and and that has racers coming from 15 different states. 

Triple O Promotions has already given away a couple free entries to Saturday's Little Bucks race to Jon Maugans from Wichita Kansas and John Moreno from Long Island New York. Both of these pre-entered racers have over a 700 mile journey ahead of them.

Shakedown at E'town on Speed - Saturday, May 30 at 8 pm EST
 
The second episode of the 6th annual Al Anabi Racing Shakedown at E’town presented by Speedtech Nitrous will re-air on the Speed channel on Saturday night, May 30 at 8 pm EST. The show will feature coverage of Precision Turbo Outlaw 10.5 presented by Pro Line Race Engines, K&K Precision Heavy Street presented by K&S Race Cars, Pro Torque Drag Radial presented by Big Daddy Performance and Western Beef 8.50 Index presented by Finelines Automotive.

Top
Fuel teammates Morgan Lucas and Shawn Langdon will make June 2 a
memorable day for 40 kids from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central
Indiana. The two drag racing stars plan to take their special friends
to a private practice session with the Indianapolis Colts NFL team,
treat them to a lunch, and play a little game of flag football.

"We're going to have some fun," Lucas said. "That's the No. 1 thing.
These kids have had some tough times growing up and they don't have the
opportunities to do many of the things we take for granted. Well, we're
going to take them somewhere very few people get to go and meet some of
the best football players in the NFL. It's going to be a really cool
deal.

Under normal circumstances, whenever NHRA Pro Stock standouts Greg
Anderson and Jason Line are at a dragstrip, they can be found behind
the wheel of their powerful Summit Racing Equipment Pontiacs or working
on ways to make them better.  However, this past Wednesday at zMax
Dragway in Charlotte, the KB Racing teammates tackled a completely new
form of competition, taking part in the taping of Speed’s highly
popular drag-racing-themed game show, Pass Time.

NHRA officials have announced that Snap-on Tools will display its No
Compromise Tour at select 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series
events, which began at the ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville,
Fla. in March.

As part of the on-site display agreement, Snap-on will bring its No
Compromise Tour to five NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series
events.  Snap-on’s No Compromise TourTM also was displayed at the NHRA
Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tenn. Other tour stops include the
Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals (Brainerd, Minn.), NHRA Las Vegas Nationals
(Las Vegas), the season finale at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, and one
more race yet to be determined.

FRAM Tough Guard Top Fuel racer Cory McClenathan is gradually moving up
the ladder during the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

In the first eight races of the season he has vaulted from ninth to
fourth place and has steadily qualified high, reaching his first No. 1
spot of the season in the last event at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway. He's
been in the final round twice and once to the semifinals. As he and the
FRAM Tough Guard team head to this weekend's NHRA Summer Nationals at
Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.), "Cory Mac" is knocking on the door of a
spot in the top three in the rankings.

Building
on last year’s sweepstakes success, Honeywell Consumer Products Group
(CPG) has teamed with its sponsored NHRA driver Cory Mac, Nordic Boats,
Full Throttle® and Don Schumacher Racing, to again launch a
one-of-a-kind promotion: the 2009 FRAM® Cory Mac Boat Sweepstakes*.

The promotion will be launched June 1st online and will run through the
end of the year. Consumers can enter the sweepstakes online at www.cpgraceresults.com , the official motorsports racing website for the FRAM®, Prestone®, Autolite® and Bendix® teams.

Featuring a customized paint job that resembles the newly rebranded
FRAM® Tough Guard® Dragster driven by Cory McClenathan, the 22-foot
Nordic Speedboat retails at $64,999 and can cruise at speeds up to 60
mph. It also comes with its own extreme custom tandem trailer with
torsion axles, disc brakes and chrome rims. Fans will have the
opportunity to view the boat in the Honeywell CPG display at numerous
NHRA event locations, including Chicago, Seattle, Sonoma, Indianapolis,
Charlotte, Las Vegas and Pomona.

Coming off the best showing yet for the new Charter Communication Pro Stock team in Bristol Tennessee, Rodger Brogdon and crew will
be flying the colors of the National Guard during the running of the
2009 NHRA O’Reilly Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka this
weekend.

As the NHRA Full Throttle tour closes out the first third of its
season, Brogdon looks to this weekend’s event to continue the momentum
the team has been building over the last few races and knows that
having the National Guard on board will add even more incentive to
everyone on the team to win one for those that serve and protect our
country.

Aeromotive has teamed up with Joe Hartley and Hartley Racing for a one
race sponsorship of the Top Fuel Dragster team. Aeromotive will be the title sponsor for driver Joe Hartley at the 2009 NHRA O’Reilly Summer Nationals in Topeka, Kansas May 29-31

“We’ve known the Hartley crew for several years now and we couldn’t be
any more excited to be getting involved with them. We wanted to show
them our full support on their first full season, especially at our
home track in Topeka, Kansas.” said Steve Matusek, Aeromotive President.

Driver Joe Hartley is coming off of several good performances and
returning to the same track where last year, he qualified No. 1. In
addition to Hartley’s recent successes, Aeromotive hopes to capitalize
by celebrating their 15th Year Anniversary. They plan to commemorate
the occaison at this year's Topeka event with a huge bash for some of
their loyal supporters as well as the debut of their new Ford powered
Cobra Jet Dragster that will race in Super Comp driven by Matusek.

By definition, you only get to make an official debut once.  For Daniel
Wilkerson, after many years of sportsman racing, including an

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NHRA Division 3 Top Alcohol Funny Car championship, as well as a few
non-NHRA endeavors in 2008 after earning his nitro Funny Car license,
the moment for his professional debut on the NHRA Full Throttle circuit
is finally in sight.  This weekend, the 21-year-old son of popular
Funny Car contender Tim Wilkerson will etch his name in the archives as
a professional nitro Funny Car driver, at the O'Reilly Summer Nationals
in Topeka.

The younger Wilkerson earned his FC license back in 2007, but with his
college education at the University of Illinois - Springfield a
priority, his mother and father were not willing to shortcut the truly
important things for a quick shot at glory.  Instead, Daniel made only
two appearances in 2008, starting on the IHRA circuit where he burst
onto the scene with a No. 1 qualifying position and a runner-up finish
at Milan, Mich., followed by an appearance at the biggest match race of
the year, in Norwalk.  There, he simply won the event over Ashley
Force, running 4.173-seconds in the process.