Jim Whiteley, owner and driver of the YNOT Racing Team Top
Alcohol Dragster, announced that championship tuner Norm
Grimes has agreed to come aboard the YNOT Top Alcohol Dragster Team.

Grimes, of Burbank, California, has previously guided Rick
Santos to five consecutive World Championships with the Jack O’Bannon-owned
Oakwood Homes TAD, and has also had a very large hand in the development of
rising top fuel star Morgan Lucas, while Lucas was in the alcohol ranks, along
with current sensation, Sean O’Bannon who finished number two in the nation for
2006.  Grimes has also had experience in
the fuel ranks, most notably with Jerry Toliver, in the Toyota Funny
Car.

At Monday's NHRA POWERade Awards Ceremony, Ken Black, team owner of the KB
Racing LLC team, made official the resignation of Jeff Perley, co-crew chief for
the two Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock Pontiac GTOs driven by Greg Anderson
and Jason Line.

Perley, who joined KB Racing LLC prior to the 2003
season, will enter the business world as owner of an 8-bay Goodyear Tire and
Service Center, in downtown Charlotte (N.C.), on Eastway at Central, which will
handle light and medium (cooling systems, transmissions, brakes, suspensions,
etc.) duty repairs and, of course, tires.

Could the Cajun
Nationals return to Louisiana?
If one investment group has their way this could come to pass in 12 to 15 months.

The New Orleans city
government’s Industrial Development Board gave preliminary approval last
weekend for two local developers to create a national event potential drag
strip. According to the Times – Picayune, the $36 million project would be
financed primarily with tax-exempt bonds that would be paid off with revenue
from the operation.

AMS Staff Leasing Pro Modified Challenge 2007 Rules
Revisions

After reviewing the rule changes from IHRA, we are of the
opinion that while pairity is critical to competition, we feel the racers have
paid enough money to try to balance the series. We have addressed the proposed
changes, and will abide by the published 2006 IHRA rules, with the following
amendments. These changes are pending final review and acceptance by the series
Board.

Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com Publisher Bobby Bennett today announced two key moves to
further establish the Internet magazine’s position as a leading source for drag
racing news and commentary.

Jeff Wolf, nationally
known for his thought-provoking columns, which appear on Fridays in the Las Vegas Review Journal, will become a
monthly columnist for Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com.

DOW – ANGUS CEASING NITRO PRODUCTION NOTHING NEW TO
THE NHRA

The NHRA has known since
the beginning of the year that the Dow Chemical Brand has been looking to
change its status within the nitro community. Back in January, the company
indicated that it was ceasing international distribution of their product.
Yesterday they took it one step further.

Dow Chemical made their
announcement yesterday leaving the racing community with only two sources of
the fuel and both are produced in China. Only one, Wego (distributed
by VP Racing Fuels), is approved for use in the NHRA. The other Chinese source,
ProNitro, is not on that approved list.

The Automobile Club of Southern California has presented a gift to
the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
to underwrite an exhibit honoring the Southern California Timing
Association (SCTA),
an organization instrumental in dry lakes racing and world land speed
record competition.  The exhibit is slated for Nov., 2007, the 70th
Anniversary
of the organization's formation.

Starting Wednesday
morning, November 15, Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com will be making crucial
upgrades to the e-zine in order to improve your reading experience. Speed and
reliability are the keys to this upgrade.

We’ll spare you the
technical details, but in a nutshell, we’ll be presenting the site via multiple
computer servers, which will improve the current page loading time by as much
as 75% over our previous single server effort.