CompetitionPlus.com reader Ernest Zamora has some good news to share
with CompetitionPlus.com readers. If you love playing NHRA’s video game
Quarter Mile Showdown on your Windows/PC and recently made the switch
over to a Macintosh computer, you can still enjoy the game thanks to a
new conversion program available.

Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani, the 22-year old driving force behind the Al Anabi Racing empire, is featured along with with his NHRA nitro team in today's Wall Street Journal.

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Gary White and the Titan Motorsports Flowmaster Extreme 10.5 team are upbeat.

The
Florida-based group was involved in an extensive testing program prior
to the recently completed National Guard ADRL Hardee’s Georgia Drags V
and as White puts it “we stumbled in to something.”

The Titan
Motorsports team competes in what arguably is the most diverse class in
National Guard ADRL racing, Flowmaster Extreme 10.5. They are currently
ranked second in the Extreme 10.5 Battle for the Belts point standings
despite an early Vadosta exit.

Without divulging exactly what
they’ve found, White says it’s something very good and he’s confident
about his chances this season. .

White’s ultra-slick single
turbo 2007 Scion turned heads when it first showed up in XTF
competition and it has been at or near the top of the field since it
arrived.

The friends of Bob Hesser, a talented photographer for NHRA's Division
3 and Auto Imagery who passed away recently, are offering memorial
decals for donations to assist his family. Because of a  lack of
insurance, donations would help the family tremendously.

"Bob Hesser became a staple at all Division 3 and national events,"
said Division 3 Alcohol Dragster racer Dave Hirata. "His fine camera
work, personality and zest for the world of drag racing will be missed
by the whole community. We here at Hirata Motorsports, along with Dyno
Dave Motorsports and American Colorscans have headed up his memory
decals. We not only lost part of what makes our drag racing world go
round, but to a lot of us, a real friend."

The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mods season opener at Virginia Motorsports Park was a huge success with over 22 Pro Mods contesting Eight qualifying positions in each of the two classes.

Trevor Eman and Team Aruba will be bringing a taste of the Caribbean to North Carolina this weekend when they set up their colorful pit area in preparation for the IHRA Spring Nationals.

Eman, a native of Pos Chiquito on the island of Aruba, is currently the
youngest driver in the IHRA’s Elite Motorsports Pro Stock ranks. When
not racing Eman attends college in Orlando, Florida, working towards a
degree in mechanical engineering.

John Zappia blitzed the field in this year's Castrol Edge Tin Tops with
an amazing string of consistent 5.8 second passes and won the ANDRA Top
Doorslammer Final in Australia’s first side-by-side five second pass.
The final round win by Zappia of 5.858 also resulted in him reclaiming
the Australian National ET Record which he previously held.

Anthony Bertozzi increased his points lead in the chase for a Super
Stock national championship with his win at the Summit Racing Equipment
NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce,
Ga., over the weekend.  The former Super Stock champion from Ashland,
Va., has won two divisional races so far but this was his first
winner’s circle appearance at a national event.  He earned the win over
Bo Butner of Georgetown, Ind.  Butner’s runner-up finish puts him in
seventh place in the national points standings.

From a first time event to the longest running race on the IHRA
calendar, it is safe to say the 2009 racing season is about to heat up.

Drivers and crews are set to head to the heart of motorsports country
April 24-26 as Rockingham Dragway hosts the 38th annual IHRA Spring
Nationals presented by Advance Auto Parts and Castrol, the oldest and
most prestigious event on the Nitro Jam circuit.

“The Spring Nationals are always one of the highlights of the year here at Rockingham Dragway.
Every year we see records broken and plenty of great racing and I
expect even more of the same this year,” said Rockingham Dragway owner
Steve Earwood. “We have many of the world’s best drivers coming to
North Carolina for this event and I can’t wait to go racing.”

V. Gaines will be the first to admit that as of late, he’s become proficient at shooting in the dark. That’s about
the best way the veteran Pro Stock driver can describe the success he’s
encountered as he debuts his new in-house engine program.

The Lakewood, Co.-based driver didn’t even have a baseline when he
entered the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals two weeks ago. The
challenge didn’t prevent him from making the complex sixteen-car field
and most recently at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern
Nationals in Commerce, Ga.