What a week for IHRA Pro Stock driver Jason Collins.

From the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, Collins had everything
but the kitchen sink thrown his way at the season opening IHRA Summit
Racing Equipment Mardi Gras Nationals earlier this month. But at the
end of the day Collins was able to push past the obstacles and turn a
potentially disappointing weekend into a big victory for the Patriot
Performance team as he claimed his first Ironman since 2003 while
taking the early points lead after one race on the 2009 IHRA Nitro Jam
Tour.

Collins’ saga began on March 3 as the team rolled out of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama on its way to Belle Rose, Louisiana for testing the following
day. Collins turned in some pretty solid numbers during the session,
giving him plenty of confidence as the team packed up and headed south
for the short trip to Baton Rouge for the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment
Mardi Gras Nationals.

Be happy for Spencer Massey, but not because he’s earned the driving gig of a lifetime. Be happy because he’s learning the swagger from the king of swagger – his team owner Don “Snake” Prudhomme.
 
“He's taught me a lot about presenting myself better,” Massey admitted,
when asked about the most valuable lesson he'd learned from Prudhomme.
 
“I'm not the most clean cut guy and Snake is THE clean cut guy. He's
Mr. Smooth. He has the best looking stuff out here. Look through the
staging lanes with all the Top Fuel cars and ours is one of the best
looking one out there. Not that he's really had to clean me up, but you
know, it’s the image there and that's what he's helped me understand.”
 

Infineon Raceway will step up to the plate to help the North Vallejo
Little League, which was vandalized by burglars this week.The raceway
will donate $5,000 to cover the cost of the equipment, uniforms, and
computers stolen during the robbery. The monies for the donation will
come from a 3J’s Motorcycle Track Days charity event to be held at
Infineon Raceway April 22. Vallejo is approximately 10 miles west of
Infineon Raceway.
 
Thieves broke into the league’s concessions and storage building and
stole all of the uniforms and equipment as well as $600 worth of candy.
The burglars also ransacked the building and left behind broken
computer equipment and trophies.

Discount tickets for the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals, April 2-5 at
The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, will be available to race fans
for a limited time. Single-day, general-admission tickets for the NHRA
Full Throttle Drag Racing Series national event will be priced at just
$19 each. The sale runs through Monday, March 23. After March 23,
ticket prices will revert to normal rates: $32 for Friday, $51 for
Saturday, and $55 for Sunday.

From the wild Super Stock and A/FX cars of the 1960s through the factory hot rods of today, NHRA Drag
Racing’s Pro Stock category has always been known as a “driver’s
class,” complex at times but always packed with performance and
thrilling to watch. Now, straight from the legendary photo files of the
National Hot Rod Association and National DRAGSTER, NHRA presents The
History of NHRA Pro Stock, the third in a collection of specialty photo
books aimed at the NHRA Drag Racing fan.

Pro Modified teams are known for their practical jokes and in many
circles Tim Tindle crewman Marcus Sewell is among the best in the prankster business.

During the recently completed NHRA ACDelco Gatornationals in
Gainesville, Fla., Sewell’s teammates reportedly arranged one of the
greatest instances of payback. The teammate arranged with the local
authorities providing security at the event to arrest Sewell on bogus
traffic violations as he drove to the event.

Capps' effort will benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation

Ron
Capps will compete against football coaches and players, TV/radio
personalities and other race-car drivers in celebrity heat races as
part of Scotts Saturday Night Special, March 21, at Bristol (Tenn.)
Motor Speedway.

Paired with celebrity partners, Capps and legendary racers such as
Junior Johnson, Harry Gant, Cale Yarborough, Jack Ingram, David Green,
Terry Labonte, Sterling Marlin, L.D. Ottinger, Phil Parsons, David
Pearson, Jimmy Spencer and Rusty Wallace, will run 35 circuits of a
50-lap event to benefit their favorite charities.

Capps, the NHRA Funny Car points leader after winning the first two of
three season events in 2009, has named the Susan G. Komen Foundation as
his charity on behalf of NAPA AUTO PARTS.

It takes a lot of time to develop a new vehicle from concept to
assembly line. In the case of the ROUSH® 2010 Mustang, that timeline was just 11-months.

“It was last April that the conceptual drawings for the ROUSH 2010
Mustang were approved. That kicked off everything that needed to be
done in order to get this vehicle ready for production. We wanted to be
as close to having our car available to the same time that the dealers
would start to get their inventory of the stock Ford 2010 Mustang, so
there were a lot of people at ROUSH working under a very tight
deadline. I’m proud to say that we accomplished everything that needed
to be done in 11-months, a record development curve for a ROUSH
vehicle,” stated Jack Roush.

Dave Wallace has penned a masterpiece in the May 2009 issue of Hot Rod on the first Funny Cars, the Super F/X Dodge Chargers.

CompetitionPlus.com's Director of Photography Roger Richards was presented with the honor of shooting a photo layout of the original Jimmy Nix Charger purchased and restored by reknowned musclecar collector Frank Spittle. 

Before a crowd of enthusiastic fans holding their breath, and media with cameras focused and ready, Jack Roush unveiled the new ROUSH®
2010 Mustang, the fifth generation high-performance pony car to bear
his name. The debut took place at the Livonia, Mich., vehicle assembly
plant, just yards away from where the new ROUSH 2010 Mustangs will be
built when production begins in early April.

“This is a very exciting day for me and for ROUSH Performance,” Jack
Roush said. “The very first ROUSH Mustang was built in 1994 and we have
come a long way since that day in terms of performance, styling, and
handling. And, this ROUSH 2010 Mustang is a prime example of our
results-oriented program team working together under a tight deadline
to be as close to the Ford factory Job One launch as possible.”

In addition to the car, ROUSH now has more than 150 different parts
which fit the 2010 Ford Mustang and allow owners to personalize their
own vehicle.