BARKLAGE CONQUERS THUNDER VALLEY TO MOVE TOWARDS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Cody Barklage of Eldon, Missouri had it when it counted and made it through
three tough rounds of racing to win the Aeromotive Nitro Coupe Challenge
during the O'Reilly Super Chevy Show presented by JEGS at Bristol Dragway,
known as Thunder Valley.

Cody took out Kernersville, NC racer Doug Winters in the finals.  Winters
did Cody a favor in the semis when he defeated Tony "Sandman" Williams of
Millington, Tennessee.  Williams is Cody's closest rival in the championship
chase, followed by Cody's brother Zach Barklage, who was the event's top
qualifier with a blistering 6.156 at 225.67 miles per hour. Cody's 6.300 was
the second-fastest qualifying time and he also turned in the fastest
Aeromotive Nitro Coupe pass with a run of 229.39 mph in the semis. BARKLAGE CONQUERS THUNDER VALLEY TO MOVE TOWARDS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Cody Barklage of Eldon, Missouri had it when it counted and made it through
three tough rounds of racing to win the Aeromotive Nitro Coupe Challenge
during the O'Reilly Super Chevy Show presented by JEGS at Bristol Dragway,
known as Thunder Valley.

Cody took out Kernersville, NC racer Doug Winters in the finals.  Winters
did Cody a favor in the semis when he defeated Tony "Sandman" Williams of
Millington, Tennessee.  Williams is Cody's closest rival in the championship
chase, followed by Cody's brother Zach Barklage, who was the event's top
qualifier with a blistering 6.156 at 225.67 miles per hour. Cody's 6.300 was
the second-fastest qualifying time and he also turned in the fastest
Aeromotive Nitro Coupe pass with a run of 229.39 mph in the semis.

In the Aeromotive Nitro Coupe Challenge finals, Cody ran a 6.343 in his 2006
GTO Aeromotive Nitro Coupe at 213.16 miles per hour to defeat Winters, who
had issues with his beautiful '57 Chevy Torco Accelerator Nitro Coupe. The
win gives Cody a little breathing room as Williams went down swinging in the
semis.

In the ProCharger Backet One Brawl, Kingsport, Tennessee racer Tommy Hall
drove his '68 Camaro to a edge Jeremy Honneycutt of Bakersville, NC in the
finals.  Hall used an .003 reaction tine and a 6.038 on a 6 flat dial at
113.78 to take the 1/8 mile race; Honneycutt's dragster roared to a 4.837 on
a 4.82 dial at 140.83 miles per hour but couldn't overcome Hall's starting
line advantage.

In the JEGS Bracket Two Battle, Cody Spears of Church Hill, TN drove his
Chevy II to a win over Martin Adkinson of Trentron, SC.  Spears overcame a
major problem on the starting line when Adkinson threw down a .009 light and
won with a dead-on 8.882 on his 8.88 dial at 77.61 miles per hour in the 1/8
mile race.  Adkinson recorded a heartbreaking breakout 10.969 on his 10.97
dial.

The DOT Street Fight lived up to its name at Thunder Valley, with Huston
Kneece of Vanclause, SC taking the quarter-mile win in his '78 Chevy.
Kneece dialed a 17.99 and ran an 18.088 at 74.37 miles per hour to take the
win.  Runner-up Mike Hinkle of Cola, SC, dialed a 13.98 but ran a 14.09 in
his '86 Corvette.

The Aeromotive Jr. Dragster Challenge rocked at Bristol with Coty
Blankenship of Hurley, VA surviving a tough field for the win, edging a
red-lighting Taylor Wallace of Traveler's Rest, SC in the finals.  Coty ran
an 8.68 on his 8.66 dial at 72.96 mph in the finals; despite a narrow -.002
red light, Taylor kept in it to run an 8.115 at 79.79 miles per hour on his
8.10 dial-in.

After a week off to catch our breath, the O'Reilly Super Chevy Show heads to
San Antonio Raceway for an event presented by JEGS  October 5-7.