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NEFF ADDS TO ROOKIE RESUME

As the voting for the NHRA’s Rookie of the Year winds down, Mike Neff felt the need to add neff.JPGanother
marker in his favor towards earning the award. The freshman driver for
John Force Racing rewrote the mythical 1000 foot record book with an
amazing 4.041 second blast.

If his time holds up it will be his second number one effort of the
season. Neff is the only rookie to record a No. 1 qualifier this season.

Friday’s session was a display of high horsepower performance primarily by his JFR teammates.

SCHUMACHER NAILS QUICKEST 1,000-FOOT TOP FUEL RUN

If the NHRA recognized 1,000-foot runs in the record book, Tony Schumacher could have a few more schumacher.JPGmarkers
in his champion points bank following his 3.771-second pass at 317.05
mph during the second qualifying session. The run represented the
quickest and fastest any drag racing vehicle has covered the 1,000
course since July’s implementation.

“Just fantastic,” Schumacher said. “That’s how you want to start off a
race weekend. The conditions were certainly perfect to put up that kind
of a run. I knew we were really hauling the mail, I can tell you that.”

RICHMOND FRIDAY QUALIFYING

SCHUMACHER BLISTERS VMP TRACK TO EARN PROVISIONAL NO. 1

Neff, Connolly also earn provisional poles at fourth of six races in the Countdown to1

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Fuel points leader Tony Schumacher blistered the Virginia Motorsports
Park track with a run of 3.771 seconds at 317.05 mph in his U.S. Army
dragster to earn the provisional No. 1 qualifying position after the
first of two days of qualifying Friday at the Virginia NHRA Nationals.

Mike Neff (Funny Car) and Dave Connolly (Pro Stock) rounded out the
provisional No. 1 qualifiers at the 22nd of 24 races this season and
the fourth race in the six-race NHRA Playoff, the Countdown to 1.

WILL LANDS 3-RACE DEAL

Hillary runs remaining three races with sponsorship from Palm Beach International Raceway HillaryWillTopFueler.jpg

Following a positive showing with Bahrain sponsorship, Scott Revell,
partner of Palm Beach International Raceway and Wilson Manifolds, has
signed a three-race deal with Ken Black to title sponsor Hillary Will’s
Top Fuel dragster for the three remaining events of 2008.

FSN & IDR TEAM IN 2009

The award-winning Inside Drag Racing television program will move to
Friday afternoons at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time beginning in April 2009 on
Fox Sports Net. The first program in the series will be the Royal
Purple AA/Fuel Altereds from North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas. For
the past 13 years, IDR has provided coverage of Sportsman drag racing
from a wide variety of dragstrips and off-the-hook drag racing events.

FSN reaches approximately 80 million U.S. television households,
televises more professional sporting events than any other television
network and FSN programming can be found in every major media market in
the U.S.

PBIR ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNER

Palm Beach International Raceway partners, Scott Revell, Ron Dixon, and
Keith Wilson announced today their substantial stake in a partnership
which has transformed the newly renovated Palm Beach International
Raceway. 

Revell commented, “With our combined experience, we are working with
our new partners Joe Lubeck and J.C. Solomon towards completing the
facility in its entirety over the next twelve months.  The results will
yield one of the finest motor sport parks in North America, with Palm
Beach, Florida as a destination.”

NHRA AUTOGRAPH SESSION IN VEGAS

NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series stars to participate in free autograph
session and fan fest at Fremont Street Experience Oct. 30

HEAVY HEARTED TINDLE SEEKS STRONG PERFORMANCE IN VIRGINIA

2007 NHRA Pro Mod Rookie of the year Tim Tindle is looking to score his
first victory of the 2008 Jegs Promod Challenge Series this weekend at
the third annual NHRA Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park
in Richmond.

He is still chasing that elusive victory in a season that has turned
around from hard luck and close calls.  Despite these setbacks, the
Tindle Racing Team remains determined to reach the winner's circle
before the season ends.

KAASE WINS THIRD ENGINE MASTERS CHALLENGE

Engine builder Jon Kaase placed first and also third in the 2008 Engine
Masters’ Challenge, held at the University of North Western Ohio,
October 1-3.

Kaase, whose name is synonymous with Pro Stock engine-building
success—his engines have been victorious in fourteen years of IHRA and
NHRA championships, won this year’s competition with a 403 CID Ford
Cleveland engine and also claimed third place while debuting their new
434 CID Boss engine.

FULL HOUSE IN VEGAS FOR HAWLEY SCHOOL

Frank Hawley’s NHRA Drag Racing School recently completed its very
first Super Classes in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the four school.jpgdays and a
total of two complete classes, the school licensed twenty-five new
drivers in either Super Comp or Super Gas categories.

“Chris Blair (VP of Racing Operations at LVMS) and his staff really
made it a pleasure for all involved,” Frank Hawley explained. “I think
our staff was just as excited as our drivers to be at the top notch
facility. We knew going in that it should be a fabulous location to
hold our classes and our stay there met and even exceeded those
expectations.”

During the school’s two classes that were held near the end of
September, more than one-hundred seventy-eight runs were made by the
students. The classes consisted of more than forty people and most were
drivers seeking to acquire their competition license. Some attended
class purely for the classroom portion known as the Reaction Time
Clinic.

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