Khalid Al-Balooshi and Team Speedtech are ready for to do battle with the other top Pro Nitrous teams during Round 1 in the Arabian Drag Racing League Series at the Qatar Race Club [QRC].

Veteran nitrous tuner Brandon Switzer leads Team Speedtech. Switzer will be tuning the Jerry Bickel-built 68 Camaro with Khalid Al-Balooshi behind the wheel.

This Camaro won best appearing car for its beautiful paint job done by Jeff Hoskins at the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) LenMar Motorsports World Finals VI last month. Al-Balooshi, the 2009 PN World Champion in the ADRL, debuted the new Camaro at Rockingham Dragway for Dragstock ViI in September.

The new 2010 Countdown to the Championship Year In Review DVD is now available for preorder purchase. Hosted by Bob Frey, the annual look back at the dramatic NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season includes all of the great races, highlights, and more, plus never-seen-before interviews and insight into the 2010 season.

NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series officials has announced the 2011 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series schedule, which includes affiliate events at Beech Bend Raceway Park and Maple Grove Raceway.

The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion will be held June 16-18 at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Ky., and the Geezers at the Grove will be held July 2-3 at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading.

The 2011 schedule features 11 events and will begin with the Arizona Fuel & Gas Nationals, March 5-6 at Speedworld Dragstrip in Northwest Phoenix.

In addition to Beech Bend Raceway Park and Maple Grove Raceway, the series will make stops at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Calif.; Auto Club Dragway at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.; Firebird Raceway in Boise, Idaho; The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas; and Sacramento Raceway in Sacramento, Calif.

The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) has announced that the new date for its 2010 Racer Appreciation and Awards Gala is Thursday, March 24 at the spacious Tower Club at Royal Purple Raceway (formerly Houston Raceway Park).

The casual dress event will take place from 7-10 p.m. in the Tower Club the night before the ADRL kicks off its 2011 racing season with the Universal Technical Institute (UTI) Dragpalooza VIII presented by Safety-Kleen, which takes place March 25-26 in Baytown, Texas. The awards gala will serve as a fitting end to what was a memorable and record-breaking 2010 ADRL season just as the 2011 campaign prepares to begin.

The new location and date also allows for more cost-effective and convenient location for the ADRL’s talented competitors, teams and sponsors. Tickets are $30 and everyone must purchase a ticket to attend. Tables of 10 are also available for those who are interested.

Josh Hernandex will have a new look headed into the 2010 Arabian Drag Racing League and 2011 American Drag Racing League competition. This photo, courtesy of the ADRL.us website, was taken on Wednesday.

In a perfect world, 50 congratulatory voice mail messages would have been better for Greg Anderson. But as the newly crowned Pro Stock champion learned during his championship season, his world was far from perfect.

Those 50 messages were from fellow drag racing community members seeking more information on a race rig fire which destroyed the entire contents of the KB Racing transporter. Anderson had been in transit all day, returning from a glorious outing where he was crowned with his fourth championship.

The best way Anderson describes what transpired is that he’d reached the top of the world only to have the rug yanked from underneath him.

Virtually all his life Jim Oberhofer has been involved with drag racing.

The grease and grime of working in the pits is second nature to Oberhofer. The 43-year-old has been working for Kalitta Motorsports since 1983 and is presently the crew chief for Doug Kalitta’s Top Fuel dragster.

Of all the things Oberhofer has seen and done, dancing, of any kind, wasn’t on his bucket list.

“I never ever thought about dancing,” said Oberhofer bluntly.

Why would he? Oberhofer tunes an 8000 horsepower nitromethane-fueled dragster to go 320 mph in 1,000 feet. What’s more, Oberhofer’s boss is the legendary Bounty Hunter Connie Kalitta.

ATI Performance Products Inc. and Maple Grove Raceway have reached an agreement that will expand the presence of the Baltimore-based manufacturer of high performance racing parts at The Grove in 2011.
 
“The ATI Family and the Maple Grove family have been longtime friends and business associates,” said MGR vice president/general manager Lex Dudas. “We’re proud to have them expand their presence in 2011.”

This weekend at the John Force Racing headquarters and museum in Yorba Linda newly crowned 15-time Funny Car world champion John Force will welcome all of Southern California to his 13th annual Holiday Car Show. The event will once again benefit California Highway Patrol’s “CHiP’s For Kids” toy drive.  The event will be open to the public Sunday December 5 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Spectator admission is a new $10 unwrapped toy. A Mattel Toy Store will be at the event to sell fans a $10 toy in case they forget to bring one. Last year toys, stuffed animals and games poured into the John Force Racing shop as fans filled the streets. Tens of thousands of people wandered through one of the largest collections of vintage cars, trucks and street rods.

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