Heartland Park Topeka will team up with Rick Hendrick’s Superior Chevrolet, 8300 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Merriam, Kan., for the 30th Anniversary of the Super Chevy Show, taking place at its state-of-the-art facility June 18-20, 2010.

“After nearly a 10-year hiatus from hosting the Super Chevy Show, we are more than excited to align ourselves with Rick Hendrick’s Superior Chevrolet to create a memorable Chevy and racing fan experience,” said Chris Gallas, Director of Sales at Heartland Park Topeka. “This is the second Midwest appearance of the touring series, and we’re inviting all Chevy gearheads and enthusiasts to check out the Father’s Day weekend activities at HPT.”

The Kansas Super Chevy Show, presented by Rick Hendrick’s Superior Chevrolet, will feature super prop and pro bracket racing, exhibition runs by Pro Mod doorslammers, the Chevy car show, swap meet, and new additions of an autocross and Elvis Night with two skydiving performances by the “E” Team Skydivers.

Dote Racing, who last competed at the Four Wide Nationals, will return to action next weekend at the NHRA Super Nationals at Englishtown.

"It feels like we have been away from the sport for a year even though it has only been three months," said team owner said Mike Dote. "We would like to compete at all of them but I understand we have to take this new venture in steps.  I can't imagine how the guy's feel.  They work everyday on getting our program more prepared for our eventual full time competition, but I know working on it everyday and skipping races is difficult"

NHRA officials gave sportsman drivers in attendance at the NHRA Route 66 Nationals a chance to go home without penalty after severe rains made parking for the classes impossible.

Very few, if any, of the competitors took the NHRA up on it's offer. Instead, the teams moved to property near the circle track and started making preparations for a weekend of racing.

Not many racers enjoy enormous success both on the track and in the aftermarket industry like Richard Maskin has.

Maskin was a successful Sportsman racer in the 1960s, and he parlayed those experiences into becoming a renowned Pro Stock engine builder, crew chief and team owner. Now, however, he has decided to go a different direction with his career.

“I’m officially retired from Pro Stock,” the 62-year-old Maskin said. “There are a couple of reasons, one that all of the teams that are doing well have brought their engine programs in-house, and I choose not to own and race a car. The reasons for that are financial. It’s not affordable and it’s not a profit center and it can’t be. As an advertising vehicle, I believe we have got all the bang for our buck that we’re going to get.”

Multiple championship-winning Rapisarda Racing drag racing team is set to race a Nitro Funny Car in Australia after purchasing an ex-Don Prudhomme Racing, 2008 Monte Carlo NHRA car.

Rapisarda Racing US-based crew chief, Glenn Mikres, said the Funny Car was purchased earlier in the year and arrived in Australia mid-May.

“The car is a former Don Prudhomme car. It is a McKinney chassis with a Monte Carlo body. One of the Skoal blue cars. It is lightly raced as it was used as a Prudhomme Racing backup car,” Mikes said. 

Perth Chartered Accountant, Robin Judd, does not have to do the sums to know how the numbers stack-up in the quest to win his first Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) Pro Series Top Doorslammer championship.     

Judd, who has won two events so far this season – Australian Nationals, Sydney and Goldenstates, Perth Motorplex – will go into the championship series-ending Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich, June 10-13, with a nine-point lead over arch-rival John Zappia.

While in the $20,000 three-event – Westernationals, Perth, Nitro Champs, Sydney and Winternationals – Karcher Shootout, Judd is 20 points behind Zappia.

Five times this season she’s gone to the starting line in the first round, and five times she’s gone home early.  

It wasn’t the way Angie Smith pictured the way her first full season of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle racing would begin.  Neither did Matt Smith, her husband and tuner of Karl and Kim Klement’s Coffman Tank Truck entry.

An assortment of parts woes – even a highly unusual motorcycle fuel fire – has frustrated both Smiths, but they believe better days are ahead, beginning Friday when they begin qualifying for the Route 66 Nationals at Joliet, Ill.

Jack Beckman and the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Charger Funny Car team arrive for this weekend's 13th annual Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Joliet, Ill., to race the latest version of the initial 2008 DSR-1 chassis design.

Top Sportsman driver Ricky Adkins, the North Central Division representative for the upcoming JEGS Allstars event at Route 66 Raceway, will be flying yellow and black colors of JEGS Mail Order this weekend as he has agreed to drive Mike Coughlin’s JEGS.com Chevy Cobalt during the special event. Adkins recently encountered mechanical problems with his own ’57 Chevy Top Sportsman entry and once he realized that he would not have the car ready in time for the JEGS Allstars race, Coughlin was quick to offer his assistance.