It wasn’t pretty. 

It didn’t come without some late-Friday-night damage control for the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro crew. 

Pro Stock driver Matt Hartford has spent years building his team into a legitimate world championship contender.

So far this season, Hartford’s team hasn’t looked anything like a world championship contender.

Veteran NHRA Pro Stock driver John Gaydosh confirmed to CompetitionPlus.com he’s retiring from driving.

Gaydosh made that decision after suffering another serious back injury. Gaydosh’s most recent back injury happened when he was lifting some equipment at his Gaydosh Performance shop in Baltimore, Md.

Though the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series (MWDRS) presented by J&A Service is still mourning the recent loss of Pro Mod driver Ronnie Hobbs, the series is moving forward with the fifth race of their eight-race season, the Summer Speed & Fire Spectacular at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis. It’s the last event before the MWDRS goes on a summer break. 
 
“Ronnie was a good friend, a fierce competitor, and an advocate of the series,” said Keith Haney, founder and owner, MWDRS. “His loss of life impacted the whole MWDRS staff and our racers. It's going to be hard for us all, but Ronnie wouldn't want it any other way. He'd want us to strap back into our race cars and for us to continue on with the show we've been providing for six years now. We will go on. We have to.”

From the moment Bob Tasca III walked into the Bristol Dragway tower, he knew he had a reputation to uphold. 

"I walked in the tower, and I saw a picture of my grandfather's car when he raced there, on the wall, when you first walk in, and I just fell in love with the place. I mean, how can you not?" Tasca admitted. "The setting, the sound is the most unique sound in any venue that we go to, with the cars that echo off the mountains. It's like you're right on top of the racetrack. I mean, I don't know, it's just got an old school with a state-of-the-art, modern facility feel, and I've always loved racing there."

Bristol also has legends. 

NHRA officials have announced that Pro Stock has been added to the upcoming Pep Boys NHRA Nationals on Sept. 15-18 at Maple Grove Raceway. The track was purchased in April by veteran NHRA racer Kenny Koretsky and his family, including current Pro Stock driver Kyle Koretsky.

The annual stop at Maple Grove Raceway is the kickoff event to the six-race NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship playoffs. With the addition of Pro Stock to the fan-favorite race, all four professional categories (Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle) will be in action at the playoff opener.

As the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series (MWDRS) presented by J&A Service heads to St. Louis this weekend, Stroud Safety Pro Mod driver Keith Haney is still mourning the loss of his late friend and competitor, Ronnie Hobbs. Haney is racing in memory of Hobbs at World Wide Technology Raceway’s Summer Speed & Fire Spectacular, the fifth race of the eight-race MWDRS season. 
 
Haney was the next car in line to run behind Hobbs during a Friday night qualifying session at the MWDRS Great Bend Nationals two weeks ago when Hobbs lost his life in a top-end crash. Haney admits he’s struggled with the decision to race again so soon, but he believes it’s what Hobbs would’ve wanted. 

The clock is running for reigning Top Fuel champion and series leader Peter Xiberras to claim his first win of the season as the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship heads to Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin, for the final round of the 2022 season, June 17-18.

Team owner-driver Xiberras has finished runner-up four times from five starts and holds a slender 10-point lead over Phil Lamattina, who claimed his second win of the season at Heathcote Park Raceway last month.

Quain Stott says there's no power, like the power of now.

Stott, the past world championship Pro Modified driver who is now the Pied Piper of the period-correct Gasser movement, said it was a book titled The Power of Now that made him 100 percent confident that the cockpit of a race car is his happy place.

Stott recently returned to driving a period-correct Gasser at the South East gassers Association event at Kil Kare Dragway in Xenia, Ohio. There he realized the words of the book never had a truer meaning.