FINAL SESSION FOR SOME CLASSES POSTPONED UNTIL SUNDAY

Mike Moran’s incredible third session qualifying run kept him atop the
Pro Street leaderboard after four sessions of qualifying at the PSCA
Streetcar Supernationals at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Following Pro Street, qualifying was suspended due to oildown delays
and a severely declining track temperature.

Qualifying for Outlaw Street and Drag Radial will resume on Sunday morning at 9 AM, PST.

Since the IHRA Funny Car division will be a thing of the past in 2009,
we felt it was pretty neat to find this video showing a day and time
when the floppers were a staple of the sanctioning body's program.

This classic video rewind comes from the 1979 IHRA Funny Car Nationals
hosted by Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga. On this clip you'll see such
notables as Dale Pulde, Raymond Beadle, Kenny Bernstein, Frank
Oglesby's Mello Yello Mustang and Shirl Greer.

Kirk Wilmes had the quickest car on the property during Friday’s provisional qualifying at the PSCA Street Car Supernationals

Billy Glidden fended off all challengers, including his Dad, to retain the top spot in Outlaw Street.

in Las Vegas.

Other first day top qualifiers included Billy Glidden (Outlaw Street),
Paul Major (Extreme Drag Radial), Michael DeMayo (Hot Street), Al
Jiminez (Hot Street), Kirk Bouchard (Mustang Madness), Mike Nordahl
(Open Comp), Mike Sigman (Double Index) and Ray Marin (Super Street).

Coalburg Racing Promotions is pleased to announce that the World Footbrake Challenge is back for a third season at beautiful
Bristol Dragway in Bristol, TN. The event, historically the richest
Footbrake-only event of the drag racing season, will continue that
tradition although the format for the 2009 event will change.

The 2009 event will once again feature three days of racing. In an
effort to keep costs down, however, the event will boast a $10,000
winners purse for each day of competition (rather than the
$50,000-to-win Saturday event in years past). Racers can pre-enter the
event for just $350 for all three days. Additionally, for the racers
who have supported the WFC in the past primarily for the big payday
possibilities, promoters have included a unique World Footbrake
Challenge Shootout to be contested Saturday morning. That event will be
open to the first 64 entrants, with an entry fee of $1000. The shootout
will pay $30,000-to-win, with payback to the 2nd round winners.

Avid followers of drag racing will know of George Case, the renowned and former longtime vice president and general manager of the Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania.

Case has a knack for bringing success to drag racing. During his
twenty-five years of service at Maple Grove, he not only promoted the
professional classes with distinction but also he elevated the
Sportsman classes to extraordinary levels.  Maple Grove Raceway
frequently recorded participating drag car counts in excess of 600! 
Then George moved south.  Eight months ago, he tackled a new career
when he took charge of the all-concrete drag racing facility at the new
Palm Beach International Raceway on Beeline Highway in Jupiter,
Florida.

Hillary Will finishes a career-best fourth in NHRA points

Hillary
Will, driver of the Palm Beach Int’l Raceway/KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel
dragster, finished her third season as a professional drag racer in
fourth place in POWERade championship points Sunday during eliminations
of the season-ending Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at
Auto Club Raceway at Pomona (Calif.).

Will and her team began the final day of racing in the 2008 POWERade
Drag Racing Series in second place in points, but a first round loss to
Troy Buff, 3.887 sec., 313.44 mph to 3.840 sec., 309.27 mph, slid the
world’s fastest female back to No. 4 in the points tally.

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Seven-time IHRA TAFC world champion Mark Thomas said his decision to walk away from drag racing in 2009 was nothing more than a means to spend more time with his family and farming business.

The Louisville, Ohio-based farmer believes a year without racing will
leave him wondering how he managed to have time for racing anyway.
Thomas has not missed an IHRA national event since the fall of 1988.

“It’s all my own doing,” Thomas said. “I have not missed a rodeo in
twenty years. I just want time with my wife and kids. I really want to
see what normal life is like.