Torco's CompetitionPlus.com has learned that Kyle Koretsky (a.k.a. Kid
Chaos) along with father Kenny Koretsky have purchased Ray
Connelly's (Pro Stock driver Dave Connelly's father) complete multi
national event winner Super Comp car. Reportedly Ray will campaign and
drive one last time at E-Town all the while providing
assistance/instruction to Kyle.

Grand Marshall Jeg Coughlin Sr. is having a grand time at the fifth annual
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion presented by SoffSeal, which takes place
this weekend at Coughlin's home track of National Trail Raceway in nearby
Kirkersville.

Coughlin's already been busy with his official duties,
cutting the ribbon to open the race weekend in Columbus at the Airport Marriott
Hotel, leading a hot rod cruise through the streets of his hometown, and hosting
a huge party at the expansive JEGS Mail Order compound in Delaware.

"The
ribbon-cutting ceremony was great," said Coughlin, who started JEGS in 1960 with
a small speed shop on 11th Avenue. "They fired-up the Jade Grenade Nostalgia Top
Fuel dragster and got everyone excited. Then we all loaded up into some old
street rods and drove through the back roads over to our shop. There must have
been 100 or more cars. It was really something to see."

The Flowmaster American Drag Racing League's spectacular AMS Staff
Leasing Summer Drags, held June 1 at 2 at Huntsville Dragway, will be
broadcast tonight and Saturday on TheOutdoor Channel's Inside Drag
Racing program.

The first showing of results and highlights from the Summer Drags will
be tonight at 8 p.m. EDT, with replays scheduled for at 11 p.m. tonight
and 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Each of the remaining ADRL events on
the 2007 schedule will be shown on Inside Drag Racing following the same schedule format.

The Outdoor Channel can be found on many cable systems (check local
listings) and is also available through DIRECTV (channel 606) and DISH
Network (channel 153). For additional information, visit
www.outdoorchannel.com.

NHRA Pro Stock Car driver Tom Hammonds will make his rounds as a guest on ESPN
First Take and ESPNNews The Hotlist, Tuesday, June
19.  Check local listing for airing
times.

Retired from the NBA after 12 years in the
league, Hammonds has moved on to compete as a National
Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Pro Stock Car driver.  Racing since the age of
16, Hammonds has won 15 Muscle Car
Association events and reached the final round of three NHRA events.     

There’s a new challenge awaiting Cory McClenathan when he joins fellow NHRA
drivers Ron Capps, J.R. Todd, Morgan Lucas and Del Worsham in the Gary Scelzi
& Friends All-Star Challenge Saturday night, June 16, at Plaza Park Raceway
in Visalia, Calif.
 
It’s a fund-raiser for the one-fifth-mile clay oval
where Scelzi’s 10-year-old son Dominic regularly competes in a Restricted 600cc
Mini-Sprint.  Scelzi and his cohorts will be driving 600cc
Mini-Sprints.

The entire Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson Racing team spent two days in Milwaukee visiting area children,
promoting a free meals program and hanging out with Harley-Davidson employees.

All of the racers first went to Bethune Academy on Monday to help
launch the start of another summer of the Fueling Young Minds program.

Spurred by a $125,000 grant from the Harley-Davidson Foundation, the
award-winning Fueling Young Minds summer meals program will feed meals
to low-income children at more than 200 Milwaukee locations this
summer, as well as provide dinner at 25 area schools. Harley-Davidson
partners with the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public
Schools and other non-profits in the public-private collaborative.

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While there are no races on the IHRA or NHRA schedule this weekend, Torco's Competitionplus.com will bring you all the action from the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at National Trail as well as the NMRA event at Milan dragway.  

Visit our photo galleries:

The National Hot Rod Reunion - Columbus, OH

Toyo Tires NMRA Ford Nationals

Making progress and moving ahead would be an appropriate pair of phrases to
describe how Team Chevy's Tom Hammonds has fared so far this season. After
making the decision last year to jump headfirst into the brutally competitive
NHRA Pro Stock category, the 40-year-old former NBA power forward has cleared
numerous hurdles in his Chevy Cobalt in an effort to create a winning program.
After qualifying for six of the seven events he's entered in 2007, Hammonds is
confident that the best is yet to come.

"In this class, if you can
qualify you can win, and right now we're doing that," said Hammonds. "Jimmy
Oliver is making good power for us, but I also think the whole package is coming
around, and that's reflected in the quality of runs we're starting to make -
it's all getting better. We've learned an extremely large amount since the
beginning of the season. I hadn't raced in nearly two-and-a-half years but we've
been successful at putting together a good group of people. Jerry Eckman has
been doing a good job and it's just taken us a little time to gel together as a
team. Our power level has definitely gotten better since the beginning of the
year and it will only get better once we get into the shop and get everything
running as far as the dyno is concerned. I'm extremely excited about what we've
accomplished so far. It's indicative of our potential when we go out in Chicago
and run 207 mph when a lot of guys couldn't do that."

“Waterbed” Fred Miller has
watched his drag racing career come full circle in a matter of three decades.
The former wrench for Raymond Beadle’s Blue Max Funny Car has experienced
almost everything from serving as the bottom-end man on one of the sport’s most
famous Funny Cars to peddling John Force diecast cars to his latest foray into
marketing energy pills with Zantrex3.

It’s all good for Miller.
He’s got more “been there, done that” tales than the average three decade tour
veteran and that suits him well. Memories fuel the fires for a future.

The director of motorsports
for Zantrex3, the major sponsor for Dave Grubnic, prefers to live in the
present. But with a little prodding he’ll gladly spin those elusive yarns about
the legendary Blue Max, a nickname that is only equaled by the Chi-town
Hustler.