Ron Capps impressed team owner Bill McAnally, his fellow Late Model competitors, and even himself by finishing sixth in the 100-lap
NASCAR Whelen All American Series race, a companion event to the NASCAR
Camping World Series championship finale at All American Speedway
Saturday night.

Usually behind the wheel of the Don Schumacher Racing NAPA AUTO PARTS
Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series,
Capps started 15th in a field of 25 cars in his first stint in a
NASCAR-sanctioned event. He maneuvered his way through the pack,
avoided several incidents and brought home the NAPA-sponsored Late
Model with just one tire "doughnut" on the sheet metal.

Defending JEGS ProMod Challenge champion and current point leader Josh Hernandez is okay after a high-speed accident during
the ADRL Len Mar World Finals Saturday night at the Texas Motorplex
near Dallas. Hernandez hit both retaining walls in a '57 Chevrolet Bel
Air racecar after completing a 4.90-second, 129-mph pass. He was
examined by emergency medical personnel at the track and released.

"I'm starting to feel like I upset the racing gods," Hernandez said.
"We've had two first-round losses and an accident in our last three
races. Fortunately, I'm fine. I hit my right hand and forearm on
something when I hit the wall the first time and it hurts a little bit
but it's not bruised-up this morning so I'm lucky in that regard. I'll
be in Vegas next weekend, no problem."

Earlier this season in Denver, reigning Pro Stock world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. sported a specially-designed racing helmet commemorating
the 50th anniversary of the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD). That helmet is now on permanent display at NORAD's museum on
Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colo.

As part of the presentation of the helmet, which took place at the
conclusion of the Mile-High NHRA Nationals, Coughlin toured NORAD and
its support headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, met with various
dignitaries, and signed autographs for hundreds of military personnel
from both the United States and Canada.

Quain Stott made the decision earlier in the week to go ADRL in 2009 and got off to a good start with a win.

Quain Stott proclaimed earlier in the week that he planned
to make the ADRL series his primary source for racing in 2009. On
Saturday night at the ADRL LenMar Motorsports World Finals in Dallas,
Texas, he got a head start on the competition.

Joining Stott (Pro Extreme) in the winner’s circle were such
heavy-hitters as Mike Castellana (Pro Nitrous), Billy Glidden (Outlaw
10.5) and Scott Gray (Pro Extreme Motorcycle).

Pedregon Runs Low ET At Friday Night Test N Tune

Cruz Pedregon in John Powers' "Powers Steel" Camaro Nitro Funny Car ran low elapsed time in Friday night's Test-N-Tune at Firebird International Raceway last night in preparation for tonights Aero Jet Nitro Funny Car Finals.

In his first pass in the "Powers Steel" Camaro", Pedregon ran a 6.06
elapsed time at 234 miles per hour which is the quickest that the
"Powers Steel" Camaro has ever run.

Thanks to his Simpson safety equipment, Josh Hernandez walked away from
a side-scraping crash in his National Guard '57 Chevy Bel Air tonight
with just a couple bumps and a slightly bruised ego.
 
In his quarterfinal matchup with Clyde Scott in the LenMar Motorsports
ADRL World Finals, Hernandez drifted toward the centerline but stayed
in his lane to take the win light at the eighth-mile. Then, according
to Hernandez, "things got squirrely."
 
"Right after I crossed the line, I took my foot off the throttle and
planned to coast all the way to the top end like I had been doing all
weekend. Because I was out of the groove and toward the center, one
tire had good traction and the other didn't - which made the car take a
hard turn toward the wall.

Vegas odds-makers would love this one; three of the four 2008 American Drag Racing League (ADRL) champions crowned at

Jason Scruggs remains as the ADRL’s Pro Extreme world champion after
successfully defending the title Oct. 24, in the 4th annual LenMar
Motorsports World Finals at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, TX.

the
Texas Motorplex Oct. 24, in the 4th annual LenMar Motorsports ADRL
World Finals, go by the name, “Billy,” with only defending Pro Extreme
champ Jason Scruggs spoiling a four-of-a-kind finish, as Billy Vose
also successfully defended his 2007 Pro Extreme Motorcycle
championship, while Billy Glidden prevailed in Extreme 10.5 and Billy
Harper won in the Pro Nitrous class.

The ADRL determines season champions through its Battle for the Belts,
a single-elimination playoff between the top eight points earners in
each professional class.

This classic video piece comes from what we believe to be the Flames of
Fear video on YouTube.com and features a few ugly racing accidents from
the 1970s. Among the mishaps are Bob Mayer’s tree wipe out, Raymond
Beadle’s Indy body separation and an ex Gene Snow flopper meets its
demise.

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Shawn Gann will be riding a new S&S-powered Buell owned by Lister Harrell
for the remainder of this season and all of 2009. 
 
X-Treme Rebellion, a
new brand of boardsports equipment and clothing produced by Oakley, will sponsor
the team along with XXX Racing Fuel. Gann’s father Blake will serve as crew
chief. Optima Trailers and Golf Cart World will be associate
sponsors. 
 
“This is a great opportunity for me and my family,” said
Gann. “We have always raced on a very tight budget. Finally we have a budget to
really race hard. “I am getting ready to jump off the hook. We are going to go
all-out.” 
 
Harrell owns Lister’s Outdoor World, a sporting goods
retailer focused on hunting, fishing and camping based in Eastman, Georgia.
Lister’s Outdoor World is one of the leading sellers of the Oakley brand
nationwide. X-Treme Rebellion, which will produce skateboards, snowboards and
wakeboards in addition to lifestyle clothing and eyewear, is a partnership
between Harrell and Oakley