Immokalee Regional Raceway owner Ralph Hester’s season-opening 2007 Summit
Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by Mr. Gasket event, the inaugural Winter
Open, scheduled February 9 – 11, will count as a home or out-of-division race
for all drivers regardless of claimed division. 

“Participants may use this event, the inaugural Winter Open, as an
in- or out-of-division claim,” said IHRA director of competition and technical
services Mike Baker. “By doing so, it gives our competitors the ultimate in
flexibility when planning their 2007 racing
schedule.”

What:  1st annual Hollywood’s Dream-A-Thon

When:  Starting:  December
18th at 8 p.m.
     Concluding: December 21st at 8 p.m.

Where: Denver
Police Department, District 3 station. (Located at I-25 and South
University)

Fourteen-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and American Le Mans Series
co-champ Rinaldo Capello are confirmed to join an all-star roster of drivers
attending the 37th annual American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters
Association’s All-America Team dinner, Saturday, January 13, at the Hyatt
Regency in downtown Indianapolis.

Force and Capello are the latest additions
to a confirmed list that includes: Indy 500 winner and IRL champion Sam Hornish
Jr., triple Champ Car World Series titlist Sebastien Bourdais, NHRA Top Fuel
title-holder Tony Schumacher, eight-time ARCA stock car king Frank Kimmel,
Grand-American Rolex Series and ALMS GT2 champion Jorg Bergmeister, Rolex Series
runner-up Luis Diaz, and Formula Ford 2000 champ J.R. Hildebrand. The drivers
and their teams/sponsors consider the AARWBA All-America Team ceremony so
important that both Bergmeister and Capello will be traveling from Europe, while
Diaz will be coming from Mexico
City for the second consecutive
year.

The Illinois "Midwest" Street Machines (IMSM) are ready to kick off
their
third season of racing action in 2007 with the opening race to
be held at
Byron Dragway in Byron Illinois this April.

The primary objective of
IMSM is simple, we wanted to create a series
in which all racers of every
make and model can be treated equal. We
willingly open our doors to members
of the drag racing and road
racing communities. Our events are designed
around all levels of
racing enthusiasts. Our ultimate goal is to establish a
standard and
mark our place in the racing community that welcomes everyone
to come
and participate in our motorsports events.

NHRA announced the addition of Tri-State Dragway to its roster of
member tracks beginning with the 2007 racing season.  The facility is
owned and operated by Bob and Pat Louden and is located just west of
Hamilton, Ohio, on Hwy 128.  It will be part of NHRA’s North Central
division.

Top Fuel drivers Doug Foley and Bobby Lagana Jr. confirmed an appearance on the popular TV show Pinks next summer featuring their respective Top
Fuel dragsters. On the TV show, racers put up their
pink slips of their vehicles in a best-of-five drag race series. Just like the old days, the winner
takes ownership of the other person's car. Foley and Lagana
plan to do that with their Top Fuel dragsters.