As the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series (MWDRS) presented by J&A Service heads to St. Louis this weekend, Stroud Safety Pro Mod driver Keith Haney is still mourning the loss of his late friend and competitor, Ronnie Hobbs. Haney is racing in memory of Hobbs at World Wide Technology Raceway’s Summer Speed & Fire Spectacular, the fifth race of the eight-race MWDRS season. 
 
Haney was the next car in line to run behind Hobbs during a Friday night qualifying session at the MWDRS Great Bend Nationals two weeks ago when Hobbs lost his life in a top-end crash. Haney admits he’s struggled with the decision to race again so soon, but he believes it’s what Hobbs would’ve wanted. 

The clock is running for reigning Top Fuel champion and series leader Peter Xiberras to claim his first win of the season as the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship heads to Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin, for the final round of the 2022 season, June 17-18.

Team owner-driver Xiberras has finished runner-up four times from five starts and holds a slender 10-point lead over Phil Lamattina, who claimed his second win of the season at Heathcote Park Raceway last month.

Quain Stott says there's no power, like the power of now.

Stott, the past world championship Pro Modified driver who is now the Pied Piper of the period-correct Gasser movement, said it was a book titled The Power of Now that made him 100 percent confident that the cockpit of a race car is his happy place.

Stott recently returned to driving a period-correct Gasser at the South East gassers Association event at Kil Kare Dragway in Xenia, Ohio. There he realized the words of the book never had a truer meaning. 

John Force wasn’t always a drag-racing superstar. Sometimes, by his own admission, he wasn’t much of a drag racer at all. And he might not have been one for long had it not been for Jim Rockstad.

Rockstad, who passed away late Monday, June 11, at age 79 following an extended illness, leased and operated Seattle International Raceway (“SIR,” its name before it reverted to Pacific Raceways in 2001) for about a quarter of a century. And not long into his tenure, a young John Force reached a crossroad in his career, one he brought on himself.

Two decades is an impressive length of time for any partnership.

This weekend, past NHRA Top Fuel champion Shawn Langdon will highlight a two-decades-long partnership between Kalitta Motorsports and CMR Construction and Roofing. The strategic alliance will be commemorated in a blue and white dragster special edition at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tenn.

The nationally known and award-winning business has utilized the business relationship to expand their footprint and host guests at NHRA national events across the country. Langdon is looking forward to putting on a good show for the guests and executives who attend this weekend's event. 

Pro Modified racer Justin Bond has a new, and slick piece that recently rolled out of the Jerry Bickel Race Cars shop. 

Bond, a two-time winner in NHRA Pro Modified, will run this car with a Procharger but from what we hear a supercharger cannot be ruled out either. Either way, it's a beautiful machine to look at. 

Unheralded Paul Cannuli upstaged his better-credentialled rivals to take the win in Pro Slammer at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, June 9-12.

Vying with Cannuli’s win as the highlight of the meet was veteran Steve Reed winning his seventh Winternational crown in Pro Alcohol.

Category front-runner George Tsakiridis claimed the honors in Pro Mod. local hero Aaron Tremayne won Pro Stock and Top bike warrior Chris Matheson added another gold Christmas tree to the trophy cabinet.

Rickie Smith had a simple objective, make it to the end of the season without going broke.

Remaining solvent was Smith's mindset 40 years ago, in 1982 when the decorated sportsman world champion who turned professional drag racer entered his first season as a team owner.

Smith learned much about himself that season despite sharing the same mindset as his critics. He had no clue he would survive, much less win a world championship.

Tasca Racing is bringing Bob Tasca III and his 12,000-horsepower TascaParts.com Ford Shelby Mustang to Bristol, looking to go back to the winner’s circle at the NHRA Thunder Nationals in Bristol, TN. The event runs June 17–19 as part of the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series.

TascaParts.com is back for the Bristol race as the primary sponsor of Tasca’s Nitro Mustang Funny Car.