As crazy as it sounds, only five racers have qualified for every event so far, with third-ranked Joe Baker and fifth-place Jay Payne the only men currently in front of Coughlin in the points to have contested all three trophies. (No. 8 Tony Pontieri and No. 10 Tim Tindle are the others).

"Our goal in Atlanta sounds pretty simple but I think it will work best for us," said Coughlin, the reigning NMCA Pro Street champion. "We want to come out swinging, make sure we put up a strong run in the first round of qualifying, and tune the car from there. We need to get everything we can out of this set-up to have a chance.

If there is one thing that can be said about life it is that you only get to make a first impression once.

For Cherissa Smallwood that first impression, made in front of thousands of screaming North Carolina fans at the Spring Nitro Jam earlier this month, was certainly one that will not soon be forgotten.

Making her Nitro Jam debut behind the wheel of the Innovative Chassis Pro Fuel Dragster, Smallwood won three of four rounds during the two-day event at Rockingham Dragway, but it was her quick thinking and swift actions that she will certainly be remembered for the most.

All the information from TeamJEGS.com now fits into the palm of your hand.

TeamJEGS.com, in cooperation with Horizons Companies, has launched a mobile edition of the informative site, with the same photos, videos, bios, standings and news of its desktop edition.

Warren Johnson, the six-time Pro Stock champion, said he "had to go along with" the retirement plan that General Motors drummed up for him in 2005.
 
"That was really nothing of my own doing," he said. "That retirement was almost a forced retirement, because one individual at GM had aspirations of getting all the money out of drag racing, and that was one way of her being able to do that. I just had to go along with it because of the way it was constructed."
 
Perhaps if GM had constructed its own financial dealings as decisively as it meddled in Warren Johnson's successful private drag-racing business, it wouldn't have had to come hat in hand to the federal government or answer to a Congress already tainted by its own inability to secure the public trust.
 

Mopar has announced a three-event schedule for the 2010 Mopar HEMI® Challenge Race Series. The popular racing series will make its first-ever appearance at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion (NHRR) at Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Ky., June 18–20.

Following the NHRR event, the Mopar HEMI Challenge Race Series will head to the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 1–6, and then wrap up at the JEGS Northern SPORTSnationals at National Trail Raceway outside of Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 24–26.

The winners of the Hot Rod Reunion and SPORTSnationals events will haul in $5,000 paydays.  The U.S. Nationals victor will take home a $10,000 winner’s purse. Each event is a stand-alone HEMI Challenge event.

Three races into the first season of the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series and there have been three different winners.

If that’s a trend that will continue during the remaining seven events, determining a world champion may come down to the final round of the final race of the season.

If that scenario plays out, it will be just fine with the circuit’s most recent winner and emerging title contender, veteran drag racer Von Smith, of Oak Ridge, Tenn. With a very talented field of competitors racing for the inaugural NHRA Pro Mod crown, Smith and his peers expect nothing less than a memorable, thrilling duel to determine the champ.

The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event scheduled for this weekend at Tulsa Raceway Park has been postponed till the weekend of June 25-27.  Due to parking issues, track seepage, and an extended forecast with rain and storms NHRA and Tulsa Raceway Park Officials decided to move the event to another weekend.

The NHRA has confirmed a second data gathering test of the 60-gallon per minute (GPM) fuel pump following the upcoming NHRA Route 66 Nationals in Joliet, Ill., in June.

Following the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis, Tim Wilkerson and John Force served as testers for the smaller fuel pump. A week after the test, the NHRA issued a press release stating the session yielded encouraging results. The day after the test Wilkerson told Attitude's CompetitionPlus.com he believes it's too early in the data-gathering to determine whether the Monday test was successful.

Mike Janis Racing has added LAT Racing Oils as their latest addition to a growing family of sponsors.

Mike Janis, driver and team owner of Mike Janis Racing said, “I have been a believer in synthetic racing oils for a long time, their ability to perform in the harshest environments and still be able to increase horsepower is tremendous. So, when the opportunity came to be involved with LAT we jumped at it.”

There are little perks to being an Full Throttle NHRA world champion that reigning Pro Stock Motorcycle king Hector Arana is just figuring out.

Some benefits are more obvious than others. Arana has proudly displays the No. 1 plate on his Lucas Oil Buell, and has adjusted to answering when people call him "Champ."

On May 13, Arana gets to enjoy another of the spoils of victory -- the annual Coca-Cola Night of Champions. The exclusive, invitation-only event, thrown by the parent company of series sponsor Full Throttle Energy Drink, honors the reigning NHRA champions with a gala event at Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta the night before the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals begin at Atlanta Dragway.