Here's a sneak peek of the new Shannon Jenkins-driven Awesome Motorsports GTO. Sponsorship will come from Torco Race Fuels 118NOS blend.

Pro Stock star Erica Enders will be a special guest of the United States Air
Force Thunderbirds during the elite flying group's 60th anniversary season in
2007. Enders is tentatively scheduled for a ride-along in a Thunderbirds F-16C
with one of the world's best pilots in the day's following the first Las Vegas
race in April.

When not traveling the world on behalf of the USAF, the
Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron is stationed out of Nellis Air Force
Base in Las Vegas, which is adjacent to Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the desert
north of town.

"I'm so excited about this opportunity that I find it
really hard to explain," Enders said. "My dad was in the Air Force so it's the
branch of the military we know the best. Growing up, we never missed an Air
Show, especially when the Thunderbirds were performing. You never even dream
that one day you'll get to ride in one of their planes."

Don Schumacher Racing will field seven race
teams in all four pro classes of
the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series:
one in Top Fuel, three in Funny
Car, one in Pro Stock and two in Pro Stock
Motorcycle.

Former Funny
Car driver Don Schumacher became a team owner in 1998 with son
Tony
Schumacher driving in Top Fuel, then became a multi-team owner in 2001
with
the addition of a Funny Car. With seven teams in 2007, DSR now employs
80
team members, administrative personnel, fabrication and machine
shop
engineers and hospitality staff. DSR will take 11 or 12 transporters to
NHRA
races (12 to events where the Pro Stock Motorcycles race) plus two to
four
additional trucks and trailers with show cars and supplies.

Torco's CompetitionPlus.com has acquired some photos of the Justin Grant Stardust nostalgia tribute on display at the Drag
Expo this past weekend in Chicago.

Nostalgia Top Fuel pilot Adam Sorokin is excited for the coming 2007
season
which will bring a few changes.  The driver of Brian Van Dyke’s
“RB
Entertainment” Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster will drive the same car
in which
he ran the quickest pass ever recorded for a front engine
dragster (5.703
ET) last November at the Bakersfield Fuel and Gas
Finals, however, with
Goodguys getting out of the nostalgia drag racing
scene, the future of the
class is evolving and Adam is excited about
the change.

Ten years is a long time to wait, the last time Brad Jeter raced IHRA as
a Professional was 1997, but in 2007 he will once again be letting the clutch
out on a IHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock. The Former IHRA and NHRA national
event winner will be the wheel man for the Larry Overby owned, Mike Kennedy
Tuned Haas Ford Mustang.

Fresh off a stellar
rookie season behind the wheel of a twin turbo PRO car, Erica Ortiz looks to
keep the momentum rolling in 2007 with significant upgrades in her racing
program.   The 26 year-old made monumental progress in her first year running
the Fun Ford Weekend Pro 5.0 class, finishing 2nd in the points chase with
consistent 6 second, 200 mph performances. 

Brian Losness provides us with a glimpse of the new Don Prudhomme Racing Skytel-sponsored dragster driven by Larry Dixon, Jr.

Beginning with the 2007 season, a winner will be crowned after the night
qualifying sessions at each IHRA Nitro Jam™ Drag Racing Series event in the
professional categories. Announcing the “Last Man Standing” program, IHRA will
ensure fans an entertaining day at the races by giving drivers an extra
incentive to perform well, all while creating on-track
excitement.

Competitors will be attempting to qualify for
Sunday’s eliminations during the Friday and Saturday night sessions. The
traditional qualifying process will still be utilized to set the field. However,
those qualifying sessions will have an immediate outcome for all the fans in
attendance that evening.