RAM Clutches will return for a second season as title sponsor of the RAM Clutches Palmetto Shootout,' on June 24th at the South Carolina Motorplex [formerly Orangeburg Drag Strip] in Neeses/Orangeburg. This event marks the second consecutive year that the South East Gassers Association [SEGA] has brought its traveling time machine into Orangeburg, SC, where a record number of competitors plan to compete in the A/Gas, B/Gas, C/Gas, H/Gas, A/FX, and Super Stock categories.

Quain Stott’s approach to putting on a Southeast Gassers Association race is simple and straightforward.

Dallas Peffley, who is the series’ tech director, hits the road the week of the race and visits  businesses in the vicinity of the event, placing banners and posters wherever he can. That weekend, weather permitting, the race goes on as planned, and fans can enjoy authentic gasser competition from cars that came off the assembly line no later than 1967.

This month, SEGA was set to pay its annual visit to Farmington (NC) Dragway, but that event didn’t go off as planned – and “weather permitting” had nothing to do with it.

With the stars shining bright above the Texas Motorplex, Brad Plourd gave an object lesson of what versatility is.

Last month Plourd drove his Lucas Oil Stocker to victory at the Thunder Valley Raceway Park. With the sun already gone from the Ennis, Texas skyline, Plourd drove to his first victory of the season in the Rooftec Competition Eliminator Bonus program and did so behind the wheel of a supercharged, alcohol-burning altered. 

The NHRA is looking for a new series sponsor.

Jeffrey Young, vice-president of marketing and communications, confirmed Sunday that Camping World does not plan to renew its agreement with the NHRA at the end of next season and that the sanctioning body actively is searching for a replacement.

“Our contract expires at the end of next season. They let us know that they’re not going to renew that at the end of 2024.  They said they’re going to invest that [money] in their employees,” Young said during the NHRA’s Gerber Glass and Collision Route 66 Nationals at Joliet, Ill.

Clay Millican can still remember the exact day and the hour of his NHRA Top Fuel debut.

Sporting a unique Chicago White Sox-backed livery that spring afternoon back in 1998, Millican distinctly remembers the blur of faces in the grandstands and the sound of his nitro-powered engine when it roared to life for the first time. Though he failed to qualify that afternoon, placing his machine 25th out of 26 cars in a race won by Kenny Bernstein, Millican fondly recalls the feeling of finally seeing his dream come to life.

So it was no surprise when Millican crossed the finish line first at the Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 Nationals presented by PEAK Performance at Route 66 Raceway on Sunday, a flood of emotions washed over the veteran racer.

Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good.

Tim Wilkerson will be the first person to tell you that he didn’t have the fastest car on Sunday, but he did have consistency. And that, sprinkled with a little bit of luck, is sometimes all you need to be victorious.

Wilkerson survived and advanced four times on Sunday, placing his SCAG Power Equipment/Okuma Ford Mustang Funny Car in the winner’s circle for the first time this season. His win at the Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 Nationals presented by PEAK Performance at Route 66 Raceway, was his first since Charlotte in 2021.

The 2022 season was a hard pill to swallow for KB Racing.

The Pro Stock powerhouse team watched as rival Elite Motorsports dominated the class culminating with Erica Enders winning her fifth world championship.

KB Racing made changes late in the 2022 campaign to try and recapture its glory.