The new Lego Speed Champions Mopar Dodge//SRT Top Fuel dragster and '70 Dodge Challenger T/A building set, featuring the first purple vehicle and first Top Fuel dragster in the Speed Champion series, is being released on June 1 on Lego.com.

Dodge and The Lego Group have announced a second Lego Speed Champions collaboration pairing the two iconic brands. The new Lego Speed Champions Mopar Dodge//SRT Top Fuel dragster and '70 Dodge Challenger T/A building set, featuring the first purple vehicle and first Top Fuel dragster in the Speed Champion series, is being released on June 1 on Lego.com.

Bob Benza is a highly successful businessman.

Benza’s company the Arben Group, LLC is recognized as one of the top bridge-building and rehabilitation firms in the United States.

Benza who has been drag racing in some form since he was 16 continues to fulfill his passion by competing in a limited schedule in NHRA’s Camping World Series Pro Stock class. He drives a Chevy Camaro for Richard Freeman’s Elite Motorsports Team.

Benza will run his second race of the 2021 season when he competes at the Tascaparts.com New England Nationals in Epping, N.H., June 11-13.

 As a 330-mile-per-hour nitro Funny Car pilot on the weekend, and cattle and hemp rancher during the week, it’s safe to say Don Schumacher Racing’s Matt Hagan is certainly deserved of the ‘world’s fastest farmer’ moniker. The reigning three-time world champion has enjoyed a successful NHRA drag racing and farming career for more than a decade and his two ‘day jobs’ often intertwine. For the last eight years, Hagan has relied on New Holland’s agricultural products on his Christiansburg, Va. property, and will now benefit from New Holland’s support on the race track, as he welcomes the global agricultural machinery brand to his Funny Car team as an associate partner.
 
“New Holland has been a crucial partner for me on my farm,” said Hagan, a multi-hyphenate who launched Hagan Cattle Company, a farm-to-table beef delivery service, to his portfolio of businesses which also includes TruHarvest, a burgeoning CBD company, and a successful cattle sales business. “Over the past four years I’ve transitioned most all of my machinery to New Holland equipment, and I’m excited to now be able to represent their brand on the side of our race car. I know many of our fans are farmers themselves, especially in many of the mid-Western states that we visit on the NHRA tour. I always enjoy talking farming at the ropes with people, so it just made sense to now bring New Holland on board with the race team and expand our current partnership beyond my Virginia farm.”

Chris Wheatcraft wheeled his beautiful Mopar-powered Neon to the Verge Motorsports 4.70 Quick Outlaws win at Ohio’s Kil-Kare Dragway, but it was anything but easy for the veteran.  During the first three rounds, he overcame subpar reaction times by doing a masterful job at the finish line to advance.  The next three rounds saw him improve significantly, including a stellar .0173 in the final against red-lighting Jeremy Jensen in his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette.  Both competitors ran it out, 4.714 to 4.708 respectively.

 
Racer and business owner, Chris Bishop has stepped up to give back to the SFG Promotions team. At the JEGS-SFG 500 in Bradenton this past April, you may have noticed the brand new SFG branded flags and crew shirts. These were all thanks to Bishop’s company, 1320 Marketing. 
 
Bishop said, “I raced with SFG last year and had a blast, why not support it”.

The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Northeast Division at Maple Grove Raceway has been halted by rain and will conclude Aug. 28-30.

SFG Promotions, Inc. is excited to return to an improved Cedar Falls Motorsports Park for the FTI SFG 350 presented by JEGS June 3-5, 2021. Back again this year, racers will have the opportunity to race for $125,000 over three days of life-changing money bracket racing. Thursday’s $25,000-to-win race sponsored by JEGS will kick things off before twin $50,000-to-win races come to life Friday and Saturday which are sponsored by FuelTech and Hansen Global Inc. respectively.

Cedar Falls Motorsports Park has also made some facility improvements to help welcome back the FTI SFG 350 presented by JEGS. We were able to sit down with Cedar Falls Motorsports Park General Manager, Justin Kruse, to go over all of the exciting improvements.

ANDRA has announced a six-round championship series for Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle commencing at Hidden Valley Drag Strip, Northern Territory, July 16-17 and concluding at the Perth Motorplex, Western Australia on March 5-6.

The desert town of Alice Springs, 930 miles south of Hidden Valley, will host the second round on July 24-25.

 Adelaide International Raceway, South Australia is home to round three of the championship on October 16-17. In recent times the track has been home to ANDRA Sportsman racing.

A pair of local Ohio racers showed out at the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) DeCerbo Construction American Doorslammer Challenge presented by Callies Performance, as Toledo’s Jason Lee and Hamersville’s Eric McKinney raced to victory in pro classes at Summit Motorsports Park Sunday afternoon.
 
Lee, racing in Penske/PRS Pro Boost presented by WS Construction, scored his first-ever PDRA victory in Eric Gustafson’s Coast Packing Company “Lard Machine” ’69 Camaro. McKinney, a multi-time world champion in Drag 965 Pro Nitrous Motorcycle, earned another event victory on his McKinney Motorsports Hayabusa. 

When there's a tradition, regardless of the circumstances, there are diehards who will find a way to make it work. Case in point, the Bakersfield March Meet is a staple of nostalgia drag racing, and for the folks at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Ca., they were prepared to wait out a pandemic.

Thus, this weekend was the Bakersfield March Meet in May. Some things are worth waiting for.

Taking home top professional honors were Bobby Cottrell (Nostalgia Funny Car), Dan Horan Jr. (Nostalgia Top Fuel), Eric Gates (Fuel Altered), and Jeremy Hangar (Pro Modified).