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NHRA Gatornationals Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Matt Guidera has
renewed his major-sponsorship agreement with Brian Bozsum and Mohegan
Sun Racing for the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season.

"The marketing partnership started out the fifth race of the 2007
season and has turned out to be a great relationship between Mohegan
Sun, my family, and Brian and Linda Bozsum of Mohegan Sun Racing," said
Guidera. "We have made huge strides in our program since joining
together, and we are already planning to come out in the 2009 season
with even a better program. Our family is very proud to again be flying
the colors of one of the premier destination resorts in the world, the
Mohegan Sun Resort."

O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis officials announced today a plan
for the next phase of the ongoing facility improvement project that has
been underway for much of the last decade at the historic multi-purpose
use motorsports complex.

In this phase, a new, main office building will be constructed prior to
the start of the 2009 O’Reilly Raceway Park racing season.  This 7,500
square foot structure will replace the current office building, which
has been in continuous use since the 1960’s.  Construction of the new
office building will begin in November.

The new office building will be located directly off of U. S. Highway
136 adjacent to the main entrance.  The building will feature 11
offices, ticket sales area, conference room, break room, work stations
for seasonal interns, storage areas, and mail room.  It will also
feature an area for retail souvenir sales, display cases for O’Reilly
Raceway Park memorabilia; visitor and guest parking will be available
outside the building.

In their first trip out west, the Snyder Motorsports Race Team sponsored by Powersource Transportation, made their way through
a tough Top Alcohol Funny Car field to earn their second National event
win of the 2008 season.  Driver Mick Snyder, who began the weekend in
10th place in the Lucas Oil National points standings moved all the way
up to 6th with the win at the Automobile Club of Southern California
NHRA Finals.

The days of IHRA championships being determined by who can afford to tow to the most races are over. With a revolutionary
system where drivers have to earn their way to the World Finals in
Rockingham for an elimination-style “winner-take-all” race, IHRA has
now opened the door for everyone to have a chance to become a world
champion.

Before the 2009 season the championship format for sportsmen was
broken. It seemingly rewarded those who could afford to travel to the
necessary events to get all their claims in, while punishing those who
might not be able to head to five national events. Current economic
conditions turned travel into one of the costliest necessities of any
racing operation. For sportsman competitors traveling to a combination
of their best six Summit Pro-Am events and their five best national
events was not cost-effective, and only a dozen or so sportsman
competitors could afford to make this commitment.

Coming
off its most successful and exciting racing season ever, the Flowmaster
American Drag Racing League (ADRL) presented by the National Guard is
ready to celebrate Dec. 13, with its 2008 Racer Appreciation and Awards
Gala in the Regency Ballroom at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orlando,
Florida.

“We’re really looking forward to recognizing our 2008 world champions
and presenting some well-deserved special awards, too,” series
president Kenny Nowling said. “The racers truly are the backbone of the
ADRL and deserve a special night like this.”

Veteran nitro runner Tommy Johnson Jr. confirmed with
CompetitionPlus.com that he was at Brad Hadman's chassis shop being
fitted for an Alan Johnson dragster, but added that such a thing cannot
be construed as a confirmation that he's got the job.

The Unnamed Driver of the Forthcoming Top Fuel Provides Hottest Rumor Fodder …

Silly Season has been in full force the past three months; the past three weeks have pushed the tales a notch or two higher.

CompetitionPlus.com has learned the former NHRA track prep ace and
recent IRL official Chad Head will serve as team manager for Alan
Johnson’s Al-Anabi nitro team scheduled to debut in 2009.

Sources close to the situation have told CompetitionPlus.com the move
to name a driver for the Top Fuel dragster should hit a crescendo in
the weeks to come.

Rockingham Dragway track owner forced to limit sportsman fields for national event …

Steve
Earwood hasn’t decided whether he’s for or against the IHRA’s new
Tournament of Champions, at least from a track operator’s point of view.

Earwood, owner of Rockingham Dragway, site of the final
championship-determining event stands to be the most affected by the
IHRA’s decision to limit sportsman fields at the final event of the
season to only those who won national events and divisional
championships, as well as the No. 2 and No. 3 division finishers during
the course of the year.

Aaron Brooks knows what a human version of a steam locomotive feels
like. The up-and-coming tuner, named as the new crew chief for the
forthcoming Al-Anabi/Alan Johnson Racing Funny Car in 2009, has been
extremely busy in the past few weeks preparing for his new venture.

“The parts are all rolled in; the cars are coming next week,” Brooks
added. “The bodies are starting to show up; we’ve been full steam ahead
for a couple of weeks now.”