Tom Compton and Graham Light will attend the event hosted by the WIWC
Foundation, whose mission is to advance women in the motorsports
industry

NHRA has long been synonymous with providing opportunity for women so
it’s no surprise that it will be well represented at the annual Women
in the Winner’s Circle Foundation Awards Ceremony.

NHRA has extended and added to the race fan relief initiatives
announced earlier this year for the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented
by Lucas Oil, Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-7 at O’Reilly Raceway Park at
Indianapolis.

NHRA has partnered with Ticketmaster to eliminate service and
convenience fees on Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil
tickets purchased through Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster phones or at
Ticketmaster outlets.  Fans purchasing tickets through Ticketmaster may
pick up their tickets at the will call window ticket office on race day
or may have their tickets delivered for a fee.

After
making the long haul to the ADRL Hardee’s Independence Drags III in
Topeka, KS without a full run on his rebuilt Pro Nitrous ’55 Chevy,
Charles Carpenter feels much more comfortable about the logistics
facing his Charlotte, NC based team this weekend.

Carpenter and crew are headed into this weekend’s ADRL
NATIONALGUARD.com U.S. Drags II with much more confidence and far less
travel time as they make the short trip north to Virginia Motorsports
Park in Dinwiddie, VA, located just outside Richmond.

Top Fuel driver Morgan Lucas is looking for players and sponsors to
join him for the inaugural Eric Medlen Memorial Golf Tournament
enefitting the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincents in
Indianapolis.

The tournament will take place Thursday, Sept. 3, at Eagle Creek Golf
Club, in advance of the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil
at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis.

"This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile now and we were
able to get it together for this year's race," Lucas said. "I'm on the
Board of Directors at the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital and I can
say without hesitation that the work they do with children is
second-to-none. They're one of the top facilities in the world and I'm
honored to have this chance to help them gain some much-needed funding.

Get Screened America is bringing potential life saving tests and
screenings to NHRA – National Hot Rod Association – fans selected at
national events this fall.  The Get Screened America pavilion,
exhibiting at several recent NHRA race events, provides free blood
pressure checks, blood glucose testing, body mass index (BMI) testing
and skin damage derma-scans to the race attendees.  While Get Screened
America originally focused on high blood pressure, one of the country’s
biggest ‘silent killers’, diabetes, ulcers and certain cancers,
SoloHealth added their EyeSite™ kiosk to Get Screened America’s
program, which offered free vision tests for NHRA fans attending the
Atlanta Georgia and Englishtown New Jersey races.  The NHRA races in
Indianapolis and Charlotte in September are the next events on the Get
Screened America program.

Standout Top Sportsman racer Sandy Wilkins plans to compete in the Extreme 10.5 class at the ADRL U.S. Drags in Richmond, Va.

Van Abernethy

This weekend will mark his first ADRL event participation.

"We've been working on a new small block Chevrolet combination non-stop
for the last 3 months, and we're ready to debut it in Virginia this
weekend," said Wilkins.

Wilkins regularly competes in various Big Dog style events around North
Carolina and does so with a potent small block combination. Much of
that small block knowledge can be attributed to experience as a NASCAR
engine builder.

Former Top Fuel racer Cristen Powell conducted an interview with ESPN2 Saturday evening and it wasn’t difficult to notice the happiness in her eyes.

She was in Seattle at the drags helping her brother-in-law and Top Fuel
racer Joe Hartley, as well as serving the role of honorary crewmember
for Steve Chrisman.

“It’s nice to come out to the races every once in a while,” Powell told ESPN2. “

Tom and Ryan Martino’s Fidanza backed 6-second, 190+ MPH NHRA and IHRA Top Dragster will appear on Inside Drag Racing this upcoming Sunday July 26, 2009 at 11:30 AM and Monday July 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM on Fox Sports Net.

The program was filmed on July 9, 2009 at Fidanza’s newly expanded
facility in Perry, Ohio.  The show will feature a walk through of the
new plant and cover Fidanza’s various lines of high-quality American
made products from blueprint in the design room to their in-house
production and assembly.

Fidanza’s President Lou Fidanza and Vice President Bob Scheid were
interviewed during the show and viewers will get a first hand look on
how Fidanza was developed from an idea/concept into the highly
successful and reliable brand name we know and trust today.

Winning has become second nature, both in the board room and on the track, for Steve Williams.

Williams, the vice president of K&N Filters, uses his passion for
the job and love for the sport to ensure the growth of the company
created by a couple flat-track motorcycle racers named Kenny and Norm.

He’s done well for himself as a businessman and has become equally impressive as a drag racer.

Williams began his career at K & N in 1996 when company owner Jerry
Mall approached him about restoring a hot rod he had purchased. The
restoration left a good impression on Mall who subsequently asked
Williams to join the staff at the Riverside, Calif.-based company.