Fresh off his 35th career Pro Stock victory at Route 66 Raceway in Chicago,
Jeg Coughlin Jr. spent an off day making high-speed turns around the
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the back seat of Indy racer
Stephan Gregorie's
IRL test racer.

"What a rush!" the two-time Pro Stock champion said
after three laps around the 13-turn circuit, where he reached estimated top
speeds of 160-plus mph. "The concentration these guys and girls need to get
around a course like this at those speeds is just incredible. We need
several minutes of intense concentration to make a quarter-mile pass. These
guys stay at that level for two hours or more. It's just
phenomenal."

The Flowmaster American Drag Racing League announced today that driver Rickie Smith has been suspended for the remainder of the 2007 season for "conduct detrimental to the ADRL."

Numerous and usually very credible sources have informed Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com that Rahn Tobler will be leaving Morgan Lucas Racing by the
end of the week.  Expect an official announcement by Friday.  With Tobler’s
departure – apparently due to the lack of performance demonstrated by Morgan
Lucas’s car since his arrival just prior to the Las Vegas race – Richard Hogan
will take over the tuning responsibilities. 

NHRA Nitro Top Fuel Funny Car stars and sons of the legendary drag racer from the 60’s era, Flamin’ Frank Pedregon, Cruz and Tony Pedregon will be featured in a Hot Rod TV episode entitled, “Pedregon” slated to air July 7th at 10:00 a.m. EST on Hot Rod TV, the longest running automotive show on television. It will be shown exclusively on ESPN2, the broadcast partner of the NHRA. Hot Rod TV follows Cruz, the pilot of the Advance Auto Parts NHRA Nitro Funny Car and his brother Tony, who drives the Q Power NHRA Nitro Funny Car.
 

Drag racing legends are made at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals and
this weekend’s motorsport package at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway
has again bestowed an elite group with such a title.

Racing in its own series, the wild and ferocious Super Street Outlaw 10.5 cars
will be part of the action when the Pro Modified Racing Association returns to
Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario Saturday, June 16, in the second in
the five-race 2007 PMRA tour.

Two Scelzis were
interviewed on Sunday. Can you correctly distinguish which is the adult
and which is the ten-year old?

During Sunday’s race, a
Scelzi was interviewed over the public address system.

“Boxers or briefs?” he was
asked.

“Thongs, because that’s
what my boxers became after that run,” he answered.

The Texas Motorplex,
home of the 2007 NHRA O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec,
September 20-23, has announced its annual summer incentive for customers who
purchase advanced tickets to the event.

For 2007 Texas Motorplex has teamed up with BRUT® and the producers of the hit
ESPN2 series American Dragster to offer the special edition, Season One American Dragster DVD courtesy of Brut
to pre-event ticket buyers. The entertaining series prominently features BRUT
Funny Car driver Ron Capps as well as other drivers on the NHRA PowerAde Tour
and includes behind the scenes access and chronicles stories and happenings of professional
race teams on and off the track.

With the experience of eight Pro Street championships in the last 10
years, it takes something special to make Pat Musi grin. Those smiles
came pretty easily at the recent NSCA Nationals where Musi reset both
ends of the Pro Street record with a 6.354 elapsed time at 224.06 MPH.
He also won that event to complete the hat trick for a near perfect
weekend.

The 5th annual Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is billed as a one-of-a kind
American car lover’s dream featuring nostalgia drag racing and a host of cool
cars. For Jeg Coughlin Sr., the event represents a simple, yet enjoyable trip
down memory lane. As a Hall of Fame racer and the founder of JEGS Mail Order,
one of the world’s largest aftermarket high performance parts suppliers,
Coughlin has been at the forefront of hot rodding and drag racing for nearly
five decades. At this weekend’s Hot Rod Reunion at National Trail Raceway, he
will be honored as the event’s Grand Marshal.
           
“It is such an
honor to be named the Grand Marshal of this event,” said Coughlin. “I’ve always
said that the best part of these events is being able to see all of your old
friends and former competitors again. I can walk thought the pit area and
literally spend hours reminiscing about the good old days. As we get older, we
realize how special it is to be able to spend time with the people we’ve race
with and against for the last twenty, thirty years or more. My only complaint is
that there aren’t enough hours in the day to see everyone you want to
see.”