Pedregon Runs Low ET At Friday Night Test N Tune

Cruz Pedregon in John Powers' "Powers Steel" Camaro Nitro Funny Car ran low elapsed time in Friday night's Test-N-Tune at Firebird International Raceway last night in preparation for tonights Aero Jet Nitro Funny Car Finals.

In his first pass in the "Powers Steel" Camaro", Pedregon ran a 6.06
elapsed time at 234 miles per hour which is the quickest that the
"Powers Steel" Camaro has ever run.

Thanks to his Simpson safety equipment, Josh Hernandez walked away from
a side-scraping crash in his National Guard '57 Chevy Bel Air tonight
with just a couple bumps and a slightly bruised ego.
 
In his quarterfinal matchup with Clyde Scott in the LenMar Motorsports
ADRL World Finals, Hernandez drifted toward the centerline but stayed
in his lane to take the win light at the eighth-mile. Then, according
to Hernandez, "things got squirrely."
 
"Right after I crossed the line, I took my foot off the throttle and
planned to coast all the way to the top end like I had been doing all
weekend. Because I was out of the groove and toward the center, one
tire had good traction and the other didn't - which made the car take a
hard turn toward the wall.

Vegas odds-makers would love this one; three of the four 2008 American Drag Racing League (ADRL) champions crowned at

Jason Scruggs remains as the ADRL’s Pro Extreme world champion after
successfully defending the title Oct. 24, in the 4th annual LenMar
Motorsports World Finals at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, TX.

the
Texas Motorplex Oct. 24, in the 4th annual LenMar Motorsports ADRL
World Finals, go by the name, “Billy,” with only defending Pro Extreme
champ Jason Scruggs spoiling a four-of-a-kind finish, as Billy Vose
also successfully defended his 2007 Pro Extreme Motorcycle
championship, while Billy Glidden prevailed in Extreme 10.5 and Billy
Harper won in the Pro Nitrous class.

The ADRL determines season champions through its Battle for the Belts,
a single-elimination playoff between the top eight points earners in
each professional class.

This classic video piece comes from what we believe to be the Flames of
Fear video on YouTube.com and features a few ugly racing accidents from
the 1970s. Among the mishaps are Bob Mayer’s tree wipe out, Raymond
Beadle’s Indy body separation and an ex Gene Snow flopper meets its
demise.

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Shawn Gann will be riding a new S&S-powered Buell owned by Lister Harrell
for the remainder of this season and all of 2009. 
 
X-Treme Rebellion, a
new brand of boardsports equipment and clothing produced by Oakley, will sponsor
the team along with XXX Racing Fuel. Gann’s father Blake will serve as crew
chief. Optima Trailers and Golf Cart World will be associate
sponsors. 
 
“This is a great opportunity for me and my family,” said
Gann. “We have always raced on a very tight budget. Finally we have a budget to
really race hard. “I am getting ready to jump off the hook. We are going to go
all-out.” 
 
Harrell owns Lister’s Outdoor World, a sporting goods
retailer focused on hunting, fishing and camping based in Eastman, Georgia.
Lister’s Outdoor World is one of the leading sellers of the Oakley brand
nationwide. X-Treme Rebellion, which will produce skateboards, snowboards and
wakeboards in addition to lifestyle clothing and eyewear, is a partnership
between Harrell and Oakley

Mopar®, longtime sponsor of NHRA drag racing, has renewed its multiyear
entitlement agreement through 2011 with the NHRA POWERade Series race
held annually at Bandimere Speedway near Denver.

The 30th annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, which represents the
traditional launching point for the three-races-in-three-weeks Western
Swing through Denver, Seattle and Sonoma, will be held July 10-12, 2009
at Bandimere Speedway.

“This ensures that one of the longest continuous title-rights
sponsorships in motorsports will continue on and it speaks volumes to
the value proposition in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series,” said
NHRA senior vice president, sales & marketing, Gary Darcy. “It’s
also a credit to the entire team at Bandimere Speedway for their
commitment to nurturing, growing and retaining such a marquee sponsor
as Mopar for so many years.”

As the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series winds down, along with the
Countdown to 1 playoffs for the class championship contenders, the Don
Schumacher Racing driver entourage will participate in numerous
activities in Las Vegas in advance of next weekend's Las Vegas NHRA
Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the penultimate
event of the year.

Beginning with a visit to the Nellis Air Force Base hospital and an
autograph session at the Base Exchange on Wednesday, Oct. 29,
Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger R/T driver Jack Beckman
will also play in the Speedway Children’s Charities poker tournament at
7 p.m. at the Cannery Hotel & Casino that evening, where he'll be
joined by DSR teammate Cory McClenathan, driver of the FRAM Top Fuel
dragster.

Bristol Dragway officials are proud to welcome VP Racing Fuels as its Official Fuel for the next three years, beginning in 2009.
 
“Combining two great brands like Thunder Valley and VP Racing Fuels
just makes sense,” said Brandon Cross, manager of Bristol Dragway. “The
way we do business in achieving our goals is the same. VP Racing Fuels
has a reputation for quality products and unsurpassed service and we
work every day to provide the same at Bristol Dragway.”
 
"Bristol is a fantastic, state of the art facility and we’re thrilled
with our new partnership,” said Jim Kelly, Eastern Regional Manager for
VP. “There are a tremendous number of racers from Tennessee, Virginia
and North Carolina that make Bristol their home track. A lot of them
already fuel with VP products and we're looking forward to showing the
racers that bought the track fuel there in the past just what VP power
can do in their engines.”

Pro Stock veteran Robert Patrick has put in more than his share of laps
in Pro Stock. The Purvis, Ford-sponsored driver from Fredericksburg,
Va., has driven mountain motor IHRA Pro Stockers and even did a lengthy
tour of duty in the NHRA 500-inch Pro Stock ranks.

Patrick has won a world championship and has at one time held the title
as driver of drag racing’s quickest naturally aspirated doorslammer at
6.266 seconds.

Earlier this week he added yet another chapter to his storied career.