As part of a NAPA AUTO PARTS March promotion, Ron Capps will drive the NAPA Filters Dodge Charger Funny Car at the 41st annual NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., March 12-14, the third event of the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

During March, consumers will receive a free NAPA racing cap with any purchase at participating NAPA AUTO PARTS stores (while supplies last), and will get 40 percent off the regular price of NAPA Gold Filters (air/oil/fuel/cabin air). At NAPA AutoCare Centers or any installer using NAPA parts, consumers will get a $20 mail-in rebate when purchasing a NAPA Gold Air or Cabin air filter in conjunction with an oil change using a NAPA Gold or ProSelect oil filter.

Seven-time NHRA top fuel World Champion Tony Schumacher will headline this week's total motorsports coverage on WFO Radio when he appears on "NHRA Tuesday with Joe Castello", Tuesday night at 7 p.m. ET.  To listen live or on-demand following the show, go to http://www.wforadio.com
 
Schumacher appears on WFO Radio in advance of this weekend's Tire Kingdom Gatornationals in Gainesville, FL.  In 2009, Schumacher won his record sixth consecutive and seventh overall NHRA top fuel world championship.  At the NHRA World finals in Pomona, CA last November, Schumacher edged Larry Dixon by two points in the closest top fuel championship battle in NHRA history.
 
In addition to Schumacher, NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart will return for his regular WFO Radio NHRA Tuesday segment.  Reinhart will provide expert commentary of the NHRA Full Throttle and Lucas Oil Drag Racing series while taking listener e-mail questions live on the air.

It’s hard to hold back a good thing, and Mountain Motor racing has proven to be a very good thing. As the Mountain Motor Pro Stock Association prepares for its inaugural season, there is certainly no holding back.

Elite Motorsports has just been named the title sponsor of the final stop on the MMPSA tour. This event held at Tulsa Raceway Park, October 15-16, will be the culmination of a year of hard work. Here, competitors will battle out for the Championship Crown to determine which driver truly is King of the ‘Mountain’. Drivers will earn points all season long and the Championship will be decided at the Elite Motorsports King of the Mountain Crown.

Elite Motorsports, by now a very familiar name on the mountain motor scene, has stepped up to be the first title sponsor of an MMPSA event, an event which will also be the first to secure TV coverage.

In the final results from Atlanta Dragway and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Duane Shields, Bolder City, Nev., and Jay Payne, Claremont, Calif. took home the wins in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car respectively.

Shields worked his way through the field and ran 5.354 seconds at 270.75 mph in his final round victory over Randy Meyer, Spring Hill, Kan., who clocked in at 5.412 seconds, 262.18mph.

Payne faced off against Mickey Ferro, Stamford, Conn., and posted a winning run of 5.594 seconds, 256.70 mph in his ’10 Monte Carlo. Ferro drove to a 5.615 second, 257.87 mph lap for his runner up finish.

Excellence is something the Kalitta Motorsports team expects every time it competes in an NHRA event.

Since 1959, with drag racing legend and team owner Connie Kalitta at the helm, Kalitta Motorsports has won five world championships and over 50 national event titles while drag racing under five different sanctioning banners. Kalitta Motorsports is based in Ypsilanti, Mich.

From 2007-2009, however, the team’s Top Fuel dragster driven by Doug Kalitta struggled to get on track.

The perennial championship contender only won two races in that span, posting a best finish of eighth in the point standings, last season.

Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com, through the assistance of a key group of Pro Modified historians and enthusiasts, has compiled a list of the Top 20 all-time drivers based on their contribution to the class, historic achievements, statistics and fan appeal.

Starting on Friday, January 8, 2010, the electronic magazine began revealing those names on the list, and will announce two drivers per week, until the No. 1 driver is unveiled on Saturday, Mar. 20, during the ADRL Dragpalooza in Houston, Texas.

Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com narrowed the list from hundreds of drivers down to 20. Today, we reveal No. 4 on the list.

Thanks to some weather delays during the weekend, it’ll be a “Monday-Monday-Monday” finish for the 52nd running of the March Meet drag race at Auto Club Famoso Raceway near Bakersfield, Calif. 

Two-time Pro Modified champion Mike Janis plans to “Drive One” in 2010.

Janis, of Lancaster, NY, confirmed his intentions to debut a 2010 Ford Mustang as early as the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis, April 30 – May 2. This will be his first experience racing a Pro Modified Ford.

“It wasn’t supposed to be a big secret, but we’ve been so busy working that we haven’t even had time to do a proper press release,” said Janis, who plans to run the full ten-race NHRA GSA Pro Modified tour.

Wow!  That’s really the first thing to say about the season-opening Nitto Tire NMRA Ford Nationals Spring Break Shootout, because the race action was hot and heavy all weekend long.  Wheelstands, crashes, record-setting performances, and the most incredible True Street field that the NMRA has ever seen highlighted the action.

In the headline class, Turbonetics Pro Outlaw 10.5, six cars showed up to do battle on the sticky Bradenton 1320’.  Once qualifying was complete, 2008 class Champion Conrad Scarry took the top spot with a stout 6.78 at nearly 215 MPH, right off the trailer.  Jim Blair, who had qualified with a 6.94 on Friday, loaded up and went home, as he had broken some parts during that passes, which took him out of competition.  Mike Murillo’s 7.11 put him third, but he too left and went home early after damaging a cylinder head beyond repair.  Dwayne James, Billy Driscoll, and Jim Brown rounded out the field heading into eliminations.  With two racers out of the mix before the hit, there were two single passes, taken by Driscoll and James, sending them to round two.  Scarry had to face off against Jim Brown, and Brown got out of shape, handing Scarry the win with a 6.81.  Driscoll and James faced off in round two, with James hitting the tires hard on the hit and getting wildly out of shape, sending Driscoll on to his first NMRA final against Scarry, who wisely took it easy on his bye run.  The big-block power of Scarry was simply too much for Driscoll to overcome, as Scarry scored a 6.80 and a half-track wheelie for the win.

Three different winners pulled into victory lane Sunday at the IHRA Mardi Gras Nitro Jam as Bruce Litton (Top Fuel) finally hit his stride with a victory over Bobby Lagana Jr., while Bill Evans (Pro Fuel) and Peter Gallen (Prostalgia NFC) also claimed wins in their respective classes.

In exhibition action Joseph Palmisano bested a field of eight to win the Outlaw Pro Modified shootout.

Joining the quartet of professional winners were the duo of Chris Gulitti (Top Sportsman) and Sheldon Bissessar (Top Dragster) who won in the second ever Harland Sharp Elite 8 Shootout. Gulitti bested a packed field to win for the first time this year while Bissessar continued his domination of the class with his second straight Harland Sharp Elite 8 win.