Seats are available for Speedway Children's Charities' fifth
annual Cards for Kids Texas Hold 'em poker tournament Wednesday, Oct.
29, at the Cannery Casino & Hotel. The charity event will kick off the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. 

Tournament
players will test their poker skills against some of the top NHRA
personalities, including Brandon Bernstein, Cory McClenathan, Greg
Anderson, J.R. Todd, Morgan Lucas, Dave Connolly, "Fast Jack" Beckman,
Allen Johnson, Justin Humphreys, Urs Erbacher, and Nicky Morse, The
Racing Chef. 

Annual awards night to be held at Best Western Cairn Croft in Niagara Falls
 
Once
again the Pro Modified Racing Association Banquet to honor its
competitors is fast approaching, and a large contingent of PMRA
drivers, teams, sponsors, and supporters is expected.
 
The 2008 PMRA Champions Banquet will be held this year at the Best
Western Cairn Croft Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The event is to be
held in the Oak Room, Saturday, November 15, 2008. Cocktails are at
6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Top Four Awards
Presentations.

Ron Capps, whose regular mount is the 7000-horsepower NAPA AUTO PARTS
Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series,
will drive a NAPA-sponsored NASCAR Late Model in a companion event to
the NASCAR Camping World Series championship finale in Roseville,
Calif., on Oct. 25.

Capps, who is seventh in the NHRA Countdown to 1 championship chase
with two events remaining in the 2008 season, will also act as a Grand
Marshal for the night's event at the paved one-third-mile oval at All
American Speedway.

He will drive a car owned by NCWS team owner Bill McAnally in the
NASCAR Whelen All American Series, in his first stab at competing in an
official NASCAR event. Capps has driven Late Models, Sprint cars,
Midgets, open-wheeled sports cars, and tested IROC cars in his career,
while competing regularly as a professional Funny Car racer since 1997.

The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, the largest rod & custom
association in the world with over 70,000 members, will stage
twenty-two events in 2009. The event lineup features eighteen national
events for rods, customs, classics and muscle cars through 1972 vintage
as well as four “Get-Together's” in California which welcome all years,
makes and models of specialty vehicles.

The Goodguys 2009 event season kicks off March 14 & 15 with the 3rd
Meguiar’s Orange County Get-Together at the OC Fair & Expo Center
in Costa Mesa, CA. The season wraps November 20, 21 & 22 in
Scottsdale, AZ for the season-ending 12th Southwest Nationals at
Westworld.

Notable date changes include the 18th East Coast Nationals in
Rhinebeck, New York which has been moved from its traditional September
date to June 26, 27 & 28. The event will remain at the historic
Dutchess County Fairgrounds. The 8th Blue Suede Cruise will take place
August 28, 29 & 30 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

Prior Oil down Penalties Will Make This Weekend’s Championship Battle Tougher

Nitro Funny Car rookie Matt Hagan would love to be a lot closer in the
final championship battle this weekend in Rockingham, N.C. At 65 points
in arrears, Hagan is facing the toughest battle of his fledgling career.

One DNQ and more than a handful of oil down penalties have worked against his quest to overtake leader Terry Haddock.

"We've been penalized more than all of the other drivers in the top 12 combined," explained Hagan.

With a total purse of $65,000.00 being dispersed this year, the racers
in NHRA’s D-4 have had an incredible opportunity to race for and pocket
a substantial bonus purse throughout the 2008 Lucas Oil Drag Racing
Series. This weekend’s season final event in Noble, OK will see those
racers run for a $25,000.00 check to be presented to the last of the 23
racers that qualified to run for the money left in competition.

A national record fell and a milestone was passed at the AMA Dragbike
Fall Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park with the first-ever 250 mph
pass in Top Fuel motorcycle.

Top Fuel motorcycle rider Korry Hogan of Denver, Colo., made the first
250 mile per hour run in history on a motorcycle. The record-setting
pass came in the second round of qualifying of the AMA Dragbike Fall
Nationals on Saturday, October 11.

Non-perishable food drive to help local needy during the Nov.
27-30 Las Vegas Bracket Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway

A non-perishable food drive will be held during the Nov. 27-30 Las
Vegas Bracket Nationals during the Thanksgiving Weekend at The Strip at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Racers and fans are encouraged to donate non-perishable food items
during the event.  Donations will be accepted at the announcers’ booth
in the officials’ tower at the drag strip each day.

Budweiser/Lucas Oil Top Fuel team owner Kenny Bernstein today announced
Tim and Kim Richards’ decision to retire from the sport of drag racing
at the end of the 2008 NHRA season.

“We are deeply indebted to Tim and Kim for their dedication and
talent,” said six-time champion Bernstein.  “When Tim and Kim joined
our team in 2001 we enjoyed a record-setting year filled with eight
race wins and 12 final round appearances culminating in our sixth NHRA
championship, our second in Top Fuel.

“Also in 2001, our Budweiser team won 61 rounds of competition which
set a Top Fuel record for the most rounds won in one season.  That
record held until Dallas of this year.

Championship Day at Reunion Austin, Green, White big winners at California Hot Rod Reunion

It was a championship day of nostalgia drag racing at Auto Club Famoso
Raceway – literally. A gorgeous, blustery autumn afternoon brought the
fans in out in droves to see the final day of nostalgia drag racing at
the 17th California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Automobile Club
of Southern California. It also was the finale of the inaugural NHRA
Hot Rod Heritage Series. In short, it was a day of champions and the
fans loved it.

In the Heritage Series, Troy Green, Purcell, Okla, nabbed the Nostalgia
Top Fuel title over Jim Murphy, Santa Rosa, Calif. Green, who clung to
a slim 5-point lead over Murphy, appeared headed for a
championship-deciding final, but both
were beaten in their semi-finals contests. Green lost to Rick White and
Brett Harris took Murphy out, thus giving Green the title. White, San
Diego, Calif. then beat Harris, Kaysville, Utah, whose car broke down
at the starting line, to
win the Hot Rod Reunion race title. White’s winning time was 255.89 mph with a 5.819 ET.