Fans of the CMT show, Trick My Truck, and fans of Terry McMillen and
the IHRA Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series have waited all season long to
see who would win the popular Trick My Crew Sweepstakes. Several
hundred thousand electronic entries were figuratively dumped on the
table from CMT computers to find the one lucky entry.

Gail Williams, of Hartman, Arkansas, is the lucky winner of the Trick
My Crew sweepstakes. While she is a big fan of the Trick My Truck
program, she admits to not knowing much about drag racing. In fact, her
first visit to a drag strip will be as a crew member on the Amalie
Oil-sponsored Top Fuel Dragster driven by Terry McMillen as well as his
Hoosier Thunder Motorsports teammate, Paul Noakes, who drives the
Amalie Oil InstiGator Funny Car.

Williams will bring her son-in-law, Robert Hudspeth, who is a little
more familiar with the sport. Robert and Williams' daughter Robin
attended their first NASCAR event earlier this year in North Carolina
and are looking forward to attending their first IHRA drag race.

Don Prudhomme Racing announced today that it has signed 2008 IHRA Top
Fuel points leader Spencer Massey to a multi-year agreement, with plans
to see Massey behind the wheel of a new Top Fuel dragster team
beginning with the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle season.

In his first season piloting a Top Fuel dragster, Massey, 26, has
recorded an impressive four wins in five final rounds and is in a
position to claim the 2008 IHRA Top Fuel Championship this weekend at
Rockingham, NC.  Massey has also posted an impressive effort this
season in Division 4 of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, winning
once in three final rounds while competing in the Top Alcohol dragster
category.

The recent five second runs by Jim Halsey and Mike Castellana might
just be scratching the surface of the newfound performance increases by
nitrous doorslammers, this according to their respective engine
builders. Gene Fulton and David Reher admit newfound gains in the
five-inch bore spaced, nitrous-injected engines will quickly propel the
bottle rockets through the 5.9-second realm and into the 5.80s at a
rapid rate.

According to Fulton, engine builder for Halsey, the 5.80s are already
in the bag and if the season were one month longer, we’d see them.

“Nitrous Pro Modified still has piece to go and it can go quite a bit
further,” Fulton added. “It’s just a matter whether there are people
mechanically inclined enough to make it happen and people financed
enough.”

Kenny Bernstein has confirmed that Rob Flynn will take over as crew
chief on the Budweiser/Lucas Oil dragster at the end of the season. 
Flynn will be accompanied by Mike Guger, who has been named assistant
crew chief.

The duo will replace Tim and Kim Richards who have announced their retirement from the sport at the end of the year.

“Sometimes timing is everything,” said Bernstein.  “It was a whirlwind
weekend at Richmond. When Tim and Kim told us of their decision to make
this year their last, suddenly Rob and Mike became available.  The
pieces of the puzzle just began to fit together.

“We are excited to welcome them to our Budweiser/Lucas Oil team. It
will be our first opportunity to work with Rob, and of course, Mike has
spent several years with our team in the past. They have proven that
they can win races and nearly won the championship last year, so we’re
very optimistic that we can continue to field a highly competitive team
for Budweiser, Lucas Oil, Mac Tools, and all our sponsors.”

The Brett Stevens Racing team have announced that they have come to an agreement with former National Supercharged Outlaws Champion Daniel Reed to drive the team’s Makita Top Doorslammer in the ANDRA Championship Drag Racing series.

The son of high profile husband and wife Top Alcohol racers Steven and
Debbie Reed of the Reed Racing team, Daniel, 27, is a highly successful
racer in his own right winning the Willowbank Raceway Supercharged
Outlaws Track Championship in 2004, 2005 and 2007, in addition to
taking out the 2007 National crown.

Seats are available for Speedway Children's Charities' fifth
annual Cards for Kids Texas Hold 'em poker tournament Wednesday, Oct.
29, at the Cannery Casino & Hotel. The charity event will kick off the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. 

Tournament
players will test their poker skills against some of the top NHRA
personalities, including Brandon Bernstein, Cory McClenathan, Greg
Anderson, J.R. Todd, Morgan Lucas, Dave Connolly, "Fast Jack" Beckman,
Allen Johnson, Justin Humphreys, Urs Erbacher, and Nicky Morse, The
Racing Chef. 

Annual awards night to be held at Best Western Cairn Croft in Niagara Falls
 
Once
again the Pro Modified Racing Association Banquet to honor its
competitors is fast approaching, and a large contingent of PMRA
drivers, teams, sponsors, and supporters is expected.
 
The 2008 PMRA Champions Banquet will be held this year at the Best
Western Cairn Croft Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The event is to be
held in the Oak Room, Saturday, November 15, 2008. Cocktails are at
6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Top Four Awards
Presentations.

Ron Capps, whose regular mount is the 7000-horsepower NAPA AUTO PARTS
Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series,
will drive a NAPA-sponsored NASCAR Late Model in a companion event to
the NASCAR Camping World Series championship finale in Roseville,
Calif., on Oct. 25.

Capps, who is seventh in the NHRA Countdown to 1 championship chase
with two events remaining in the 2008 season, will also act as a Grand
Marshal for the night's event at the paved one-third-mile oval at All
American Speedway.

He will drive a car owned by NCWS team owner Bill McAnally in the
NASCAR Whelen All American Series, in his first stab at competing in an
official NASCAR event. Capps has driven Late Models, Sprint cars,
Midgets, open-wheeled sports cars, and tested IROC cars in his career,
while competing regularly as a professional Funny Car racer since 1997.

The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, the largest rod & custom
association in the world with over 70,000 members, will stage
twenty-two events in 2009. The event lineup features eighteen national
events for rods, customs, classics and muscle cars through 1972 vintage
as well as four “Get-Together's” in California which welcome all years,
makes and models of specialty vehicles.

The Goodguys 2009 event season kicks off March 14 & 15 with the 3rd
Meguiar’s Orange County Get-Together at the OC Fair & Expo Center
in Costa Mesa, CA. The season wraps November 20, 21 & 22 in
Scottsdale, AZ for the season-ending 12th Southwest Nationals at
Westworld.

Notable date changes include the 18th East Coast Nationals in
Rhinebeck, New York which has been moved from its traditional September
date to June 26, 27 & 28. The event will remain at the historic
Dutchess County Fairgrounds. The 8th Blue Suede Cruise will take place
August 28, 29 & 30 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

Prior Oil down Penalties Will Make This Weekend’s Championship Battle Tougher

Nitro Funny Car rookie Matt Hagan would love to be a lot closer in the
final championship battle this weekend in Rockingham, N.C. At 65 points
in arrears, Hagan is facing the toughest battle of his fledgling career.

One DNQ and more than a handful of oil down penalties have worked against his quest to overtake leader Terry Haddock.

"We've been penalized more than all of the other drivers in the top 12 combined," explained Hagan.