In an effort to keep up with the always-evolving
online world, David Powers Motorsports has re-launched its website, www.davidpowersmotorsports.com. The new fan-friendly
site features a modern look and includes many elements that racing fans and web
users will enjoy.

Morgan Lucas will take the control of a different kind of
steering wheel when he suits up for the inaugural Gary Scelzi and Friends
All-Star Challenge at the Giant Chevrolet Raceway at Plaza
Park in Visalia, Calif.
on Saturday, June 16. 

Along with Lucas, the other NHRA combatants for the special
event will consist of current Funny Car points leader, Ron Capps, Del Worsham,
J.R. Todd, and Cory McClenathan in the cockpits of the 600 cc sprint cars,
while 14-time POWERade Funny Car champion, John Force will join the fray
serving as honorary starter with his daughter Ashley Force serving in an official
capacity. 

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” said Lucas.  “Getting some laps in one of these things has
always been a dream for me.  I want to
find the cushion and get that loose feeling of just barely being on the edge.  It’s going to be a lot of fun to drive. 

Four-time NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series champion Gary Scelzi and driver of
the Mopar/Oakley Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car for Don Schumacher Racing is all
heart when it comes to helping out a local race track in Visalia, Calif., near
his Fresno, Calif., home.

He has put together the Gary Scelzi &
Friends All-Star Challenge this Saturday, June 16, at Plaza Park Raceway in
Visalia, Calif., to raise money for the raceway and has invited NHRA drivers
J.R. Todd, Del Worsham, Morgan Lucas, teammate Ron Capps, and Cory McClenathan
to join him in 600cc Mini-Sprints on the one-fifth-mile clay oval where his
10-year-old son Dominic competes regularly in a Restricted 600cc
Mini-Sprint.

Fourteen-time Funny Car champion John Force will be honorary
flagman and Brandon Bernstein will also be on hand.

For racing fans, the names Evan Knoll and Torco Racing Fuels have become
synonymous with racing fuel and high-tech octane solutions. Viewers of the
upcoming ESPN2 reality show "King of the Strip" will feature Knoll as the Chief
Fuel Officer, the head technical resource for participants in the
"winner-take-all" drag racing competition.

As competitors square off against one another, each will have at their
disposal the expert advice of Knoll and other pundits from the record-setting
crew of Mike Ashley's Gotham City Racing team, including engine specialist Tom
Abbett and Mike Ashley himself. The series will be hosted by the
husband-and-wife-team of Tommy Johnson, Jr. and Melanie Troxell.

Fresh off his 35th career Pro Stock victory at Route 66 Raceway in Chicago,
Jeg Coughlin Jr. spent an off day making high-speed turns around the
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the back seat of Indy racer
Stephan Gregorie's
IRL test racer.

"What a rush!" the two-time Pro Stock champion said
after three laps around the 13-turn circuit, where he reached estimated top
speeds of 160-plus mph. "The concentration these guys and girls need to get
around a course like this at those speeds is just incredible. We need
several minutes of intense concentration to make a quarter-mile pass. These
guys stay at that level for two hours or more. It's just
phenomenal."

The Flowmaster American Drag Racing League announced today that driver Rickie Smith has been suspended for the remainder of the 2007 season for "conduct detrimental to the ADRL."

Numerous and usually very credible sources have informed Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com that Rahn Tobler will be leaving Morgan Lucas Racing by the
end of the week.  Expect an official announcement by Friday.  With Tobler’s
departure – apparently due to the lack of performance demonstrated by Morgan
Lucas’s car since his arrival just prior to the Las Vegas race – Richard Hogan
will take over the tuning responsibilities. 

NHRA Nitro Top Fuel Funny Car stars and sons of the legendary drag racer from the 60’s era, Flamin’ Frank Pedregon, Cruz and Tony Pedregon will be featured in a Hot Rod TV episode entitled, “Pedregon” slated to air July 7th at 10:00 a.m. EST on Hot Rod TV, the longest running automotive show on television. It will be shown exclusively on ESPN2, the broadcast partner of the NHRA. Hot Rod TV follows Cruz, the pilot of the Advance Auto Parts NHRA Nitro Funny Car and his brother Tony, who drives the Q Power NHRA Nitro Funny Car.
 

Drag racing legends are made at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals and
this weekend’s motorsport package at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway
has again bestowed an elite group with such a title.