Minutes after Jeg Coughlin Jr.
won the 43rd annual Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals and clinched
his third POWERade Pro Stock championship at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona the
news was had flashed across the country to Times Square in New York City.

WCNC, an NBC
affiliate in Charlotte, NC,
reports that Cabarrus County (NC) officials are scrambling to meet a $75
million dollar wish list leaked to the media that has the items needed to keep
Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord,
NC. This wish list includes such
items as improvements to every major road close to the speedway, various tax
rebates and assistance in creating noise barriers to appease neighbors who
complained of a proposed drag strip.

Scotty Cannon, Sr. will join his son
Scott, Jr. in the pursuit of the 2008 IHRA Torco Race Fuels Pro Modified world
championship. The elder Cannon, a six-time IHRA Pro Modified world champion,
will cease driving in the Top Fuel ranks in order to drive an identical
Vanishing Point Race Cars 1968 Firebird to the one Scott, Jr. won the 2007
championship with.

Scotty said driving Evan Knoll’s
personal Top Fuel dragster was an incredible opportunity but his heart was in
racing the doorslammers.

“What can you say when a man like Evan
Knoll gives you the opportunity of a lifetime,” Scotty said. “We all have to be
honest with ourselves and my heart is in racing Pro Modified. I poured my life
into the class and while I had to pursue the nitro racing to fulfill a dream,
Pro Modified still had my heart. I don’t think I ever really
left.

Tony Depillo has made the decision to close the National Street Car
Association, a longtime sanctioning body for heads-up, street legal
type racing.

Depillo issued the following statement:

Legends of Speed will host a 30th Anniversary “Last Race” reunion for
Irwindale Raceway. Honorees are Funny Car racer/builder Lou Gasparrelli
and former driver/sponsor Mike Bartlett. Admission for the public is
$15 and includes Museum entry, BBQ lunch and soft drinks.  The proceeds
will benefit Linda Vaughn’s Angels Charity Program.

The 2007 NHRA POWERade Series Awards Ceremony, held at the Westin Bonaventure in
downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 5, will air on ESPN2 on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 11 a.m.
The one-hour show will feature highlights from the gala event where Tony
Schumacher, Tony Pedregon, Jeg Coughlin and Matt Smith were crowned NHRA
POWERade Series world champions in their respective categories.

Team owner Ken Black has a message to send to the racing community,
don't believe everything you read, especially if it suggests that he
won't be fielding a Top Fuel dragster in 2008. Black has already spent
much of his morning dispelling a rumor mill story that suggests he's
parking his Top Fuel dragster campaigned under the Kalitta Motorsports
umbrella.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with
International Sourcing Ltd., of Springfield, Mo., recently announced a
voluntary recall of about 7,500 dragster and funny car toys due to
surface paint on the wheels and engine containing excessive levels of
lead.

The product was sold at National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events
through Schumacher Racing, and Matco Tools through door to door sales
by its representatives from March 2007 through September 2007.