Keith Haney, Todd Martin, "Big Don" Ellison and the rest of the crew at Tulsa Raceway Park totally blew the Tulsa area away with the spring edition of the famed Throwdown In T-Town at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park! An absolute capacity crowd jammed the facility over the two day event which hosted everything from Outlaw Pro Mods to X275 drag radial and everything in between. The Throwdown In T-Town is a true mixed bag of drag racing entertainment from non-stop on track action to the many vendors and midway experiences in the pits. It's a family affair celebrating all things drag racing and with a fantastic forecast in place it was a magic formula for plenty of fun under the sun in Oklahoma.

The bright yellow corporate color of Hubert’s Lemonade will once again be a part of multiple summer promotions with Jim Dunn Racing.  The team won the “Best Appearing Award” at an NHRA national event last year with Hubert’s Lemonade graphics on the Funny Car, and hopes that this year’s artwork will capture the excitement of drag racing fans again.  
 
The team will first display the car at an autograph session at the Menards store in Topeka (6401 SW 17th St, Topeka, KS 66604) on Thursday, May 18 from 5:00-7:00pm. Race fans attending the store display on Thursday night will be treated to sampling of Hubert’s Lemonade flavors that are retailed at all Menards stores.  Additional prizes and giveaway items from Hubert’s Lemonade will also be distributed throughout the event.

Sportsman racing will reign at the 11th Annual Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser, May 19-21, 2017 at Summit Motorsports Park.

The event which traditionally welcomes the largest audience on the annual NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series North Central Division tour boasts a number of categories, including Top Alcohol Dragster and its 285 mph-plus vehicles, Top Alcohol Funny Car and its 270 mph-plus vehicles, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Comp Eliminator, Super Stock, Stock Eliminator, Super Comp, Super Gas and Super Street. Pro Stock Snowmobile also is scheduled to be in the spotlight.

Don Schumacher Racing will continue its association with Pennzoil, as the official Oil Technology of the highly successful team in a newly renewed multiyear agreement. 

"We have been very excited since DSR made the switch to Pennzoil a little more than a year ago, and Pennzoil has lived up to their promise and have even gone beyond," said Don Schumacher, whose teams have won 16 NHRA world championships and 304 event titles since 1998.

Patience is a virtue, and for mountain motor Pro Stock driver John Pluchino, the wait is over this weekend when the PDRA tour rolls into Darlington Dragway for the Spring Nationals. 

For 27 years, Pluchino, who has raced with his son Johnny in a supporting role, will now get the chance to see his kid as a teammate. 

“Having the opportunity for my son and I to share the winner’s circle - that’s always been a dream of ours,” Pluchino said. “Admittedly, we haven’t put a complete race together so far this year, but I feel like we have a couple really good race cars at the moment, and this might just be our time. What better place for something magical like that to happen than at a legendary facility like Darlington Dragway?” 

While Larry Dixon drove to three NHRA championships in a Top Fuel dragster, he's readying to rumble in a Top Alcohol Funny Car at the 11th Annual Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser, May 19-21, 2017 at Summit Motorsports Park.

The Hussey Performance-sponsored car is owned by Tony and Michael Bartone and packs a lot of punch with its blown and injected Brad Anderson bullet.

John Gaydosh has two passions, and they are evident. 

Gaydosh loves his family and drag racing. 

Gaydosh, the budget-challenged Pro Stock racer from Baltimore, Md., has been challenged through his attempt to race in the factory hot rod division against teams with many more resources in terms of hardware and personnel. 

A major renovation project reaches near completion at National Trail Raceway as repaving of the race track, staging lanes and other areas have been completed.  

“It was our goal to have all operations fully functional by this weekend," said Scott Gardner, Chief Operating Officer. "However, we ran into some deep substrate issues at the very end of the shutdown area which has slowed our progress down a bit.”

The auctioning of drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney's one-of-a-kind Super Comp dragster modeled after her iconic "Last Pass" Top Fuel dragster -- the proceeds of which will benefit her namesake charity, Shirley's Kids -- has been postponed due to the recent death of Muldowney's son John Muldowney.
 
The Danny Nelson-built Racecraft Chassis, powered by a 582-cubic-inch Chevrolet Head Hunter motor from Sunset Performance, will now be sold at Dana Mecum's Auction to be held Sept. 6-9 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.

While many racers and their teams enjoyed some fun family times in the Southeast between the Charlotte and Atlanta races, Brittany Force’s Monster Energy Dragster team was hard at work back at the Brownsburg, Ind., shop, making chassis updates.

“They headed back to Indianapolis [from Charlotte] Monday morning to front-half the car and then [had to] get it over [to Atlanta] for the weekend. It’s a lot of work. I always appreciate my team and everything they do,” Force said. 

Force qualified No. 16 at the recently completed Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals and lost in the first round.