Nitro Funny Car owner and driver Allan Middendorf will debut his newly designed American Outlaw this weekend at Funny Car Chaos at North Star Dragway in Denton, TX. He teamed up with Vinyl Images & Design out of Fenton, MO to create this stunning new look. It was not an easy project, but the owner and designers were up to the challenge.

“I’ve been doing this for 18 years, and this is the most intense wrap I have ever done,” said Vinyl Images & Design owner and President, John Duever. “We used 10 different Avery Dennison supreme wrap films on the body. I put my heart and soul into this car; I personally did the install myself. It took around 23 hours to finish it all up.”

Larry Webb and The Hose Connection will sport their familiar colors once again on the side of Hartford’s Total Seal Pro Stocker at the DENSO Spark Plugs Four-Wide Nationals in Las Vegas April 5-7, 2019.  The Hose Connection and the Webb family have been long term friends with Hartford and the team.  “It’s an honor to have The Hose Connection as our primary sponsor in Vegas.   We associate ourselves with people and companies that share the same core values and beliefs that we do” said Hartford. 

Vintage Wires® (an IDIDIT brand) has launched a revamped website with added functionality and information for customers.
 
The unique design of Vintage Wires allows customers to add the old-school look of classic fabric-covered ignition wires to their build while incorporating the convenience and safety of modern wiring systems, making them a popular choice for vintage racers and other classic projects.

Another beast of a hot rod has rolled out of Jerry Bickel's race car factory. This one, for Clyde Scott, is destined for PDRA's Pro Boost division and outlaw doorslammer races around Texas. 

Terry McMillen, team owner and driver of the AMALIEⓇ Motor Oil XTERMIGATORⓇ Top Fuel Dragster and Tub O’ Towels announced today that Tub O’ Towels is now the Official and only cleaning wipe of Terry McMillen Racing.

“We’ve been using Tub O’ Towels on our team for about a year now,” McMillen said. “We think these are the ultimate cleaning products for our team. The Heavy Duty Cleaning Wipes keep our crew clean and the Stainless Steel Wipes keep our trailer looking like new. Partnering with Tub O’ Towels makes perfect sense for our team. We couldn’t be more excited about our relationship with them.”

The 2018 season ended with a first for Brian Shrader and for Piedmont Dragway with an NHRA Wally given to final race winner. 

The season-opener on March 30, 2019, will have a new approach to kick off the new year. 

The NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle, Pro Modified, and Factory Stock Showdown classes made their premieres last weekend during the Amalie Oil Gatornationals at Gainesville, Fla. Within four days of victories by Andrew Hines, Todd Tutterow, and Drew Skillman, the Technical Department had handed out rules designed to bring parity to all three classes.

Don't screw up. That's pretty much all Kevin Rivenbark could think about at the unique Sweet 16 event Mar. 21-23, at South Georgia Motorsports Park. A red-light start in the Radials vs. The World (RvW) semi-finals just one month earlier at Lights Out 10 on the same track haunted the North Carolina-based driver.

"All day long and even all weekend my Lights Out result kind of bothered me and I just didn’t want to red light again and let my guys down," Rivenbark admitted shortly after a .048 leave in the Sweet 16 final against Norman Bryson led into a victorious 3.63 pass at 204.91 mph and a $101,000 payday.

Early on, Nick and Rich Bruder established themselves among the favorites to leave South Georgia Motorsports Park with $50-grand in hand for winning the always tough X275 class at promoter Donald "Duck" Long's Sweet 16 event.

It would've been a good bet, as the Edison, NJ-based Bruder Brothers took their ProCharger-equipped '88 Mustang all the way to victory lane after a record-setting run of 4.235 seconds at 165.78 mph in the final round over Craig Walls.