Strutmasters.com, a suspension manufacturer specializing in air-to-non-air suspension conversion kits, has signed on as a major associate sponsor for Doug Foley’s 2020 return to NHRA Top Fuel racing, Foley Lewis Racing announced today. The two North Carolina-based businesses will work together as Foley competes at eight races next season. 
 
“It feels good to have companies like Strutmasters.com support a team that literally hasn't competed yet,” said Foley, who last raced in NHRA Top Fuel in 2011. “There's a lot of teams they could go to, and for Chip to have the confidence in us, it means a lot. I think a lot of it had to do with our past competition, and I think he felt confident that in a little bit of time we will be competitive.”

Ed "The Ace" McCulloch won the NHRA U.S. Nationals six times out of his 22 NHRA national event titles, but somehow a world championship eluded him. The readers of CompetitionPlus.com in the latest ARP Question of the Week believe (25-percent) that the tough-as-nails Funny car driver is the greatest to have never won a series championship.

In more than half a century as a racing journalist, Al Pearce has spent countless hours driving, flying, riding buses and motorcycles, and taking trains to cover races -- and in at least one instance, hitching a ride when a colleague left him stranded. He estimates he’s spent at least a year’s worth of hours catching a few winks in his car in getting from Point A to Point B.

Performance Racing Industry (PRI) and Sunnen have teamed up with well-known manufacturers and legendary engine builder Sonny Leonard from Sonny’s World Class Racing to raffle a high-performance engine during the PRI Trade Show, December 12-14, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
 
Tickets for the 31st annual Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes are available now at victoryjunction.org/sunnen-sweepstakes, with all proceeds going to Victory Junction, a camp founded by NASCAR’s Petty family for children with serious illnesses.

King Engine Bearings has joined forces with Justin Ashley, driver of the Davis Motorsports Top Fuel Dragster as the team's official engine bearing supplier for the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. 

This is King's first involvement in NHRA's Top Fuel class since the early 1990s. Since then, the nitro-burning engines have become much more powerful and a new King bearing had to be designed to take the increased load and horsepower that today's Top Fuel engines generate. 

The Southwest Heritage Racing Association [SHRA] has put its tour on hold, nostalgia racing series confirmed on Monday, December 9, 2019.

SHRA was formed in 2013 to ensure viable nostalgia drag racing in the region, and for the most part, has succeeded in achieving its objective.

Larry Morgan’s NHRA Pro Stock career spanned 28 years, and in that time -- more than 600 starts -- he missed only one event, in 1999 at Dinwiddie as his team didn’t get engine blocks from Dodge in time.

That’s a long time to make an impression on drag racing fans, and Morgan scored 12 national-event wins. And despite having won fewer races than Kurt Johnson (40), Dave Connolly (26), and Bruce Allen (16), Morgan was the CompetitionPlus.com readers’ choice as the best driver never to have won an NHRA Pro Stock championship.

Morgan garnered 27 percent of the vote to outdistance Connolly (21 percent) and Johnson (17 percent) for the top spot in the poll.

Funny Car Chaos, a popular Funny Car-only series, will return in 2020 with an eight-race championship schedule.

The series will return to its regular stops at Pine Valley Raceway, Mo-Kan Dragway, Penwell Knights Raceway, Amarillo Dragway, and U.S. 131 Motorsports Park.

New to the tour is a summer stop in May at Eddyville Raceway Park in Iowa, as well two stops st Dallas-Fort Worth’s premier eighth-mile facility Xtreme Raceway Park in Ferris, Texas.

Kalitta Motorsports announced today in advance of the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show the addition of Osborn, the world’s largest and most complete solution provider of high-quality surface treatment and finishing products, as a major associate sponsor to the multi-time NHRA world championship team.

Osborn will be prominently featured on Doug Kalitta’s Top Fuel dragster for five NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events in 2020. In addition to the race car exposure, Osborn will participate in Kalitta Motorsports’ dynamic business-to-business program and participate in a variety of marketing and social media initiatives.
 
“The addition of Osborn to the Kalitta Motorsports marketing program continues to show the value of the NHRA, as well as our business-to-business strength and commitment,” said Chad Head, General Manager, Kalitta Motorsports. “Everyone at Kalitta prides themselves on delivering excellence on the race track and in the pits. For years we have devoted time and energy to work with the best partners; Osborn and its high performance products are a welcome addition to the Kalitta Motorsports team.”

The fifth annual Drag Illustrated 30 Under 30 list presented by Moser Engineering, ididit and Thermo-Tec will be revealed during its official press conference and magazine cover reveal at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
 
Now in its fifth year, the annual 30 Under 30 list will be announced in the PRI Press Conference Center. The cover of Drag Illustrated issue 151 will also be released during the press conference, and one-on-one interviews will be available following the press conference with Drag Illustrated Founder and Editorial Director Wes Buck, as well as the 30 Under 30 honorees in attendance. For the first time, all honorees will also receive commemorative 30 Under 30 jackets from Classic Graphix.