Phoenix Custom Apparel has been named as the Official Apparel Source for the
JEGS ProMod Challenge. The well-respected, Denver-based company is owned and
operated by Top Alcohol Dragster superstar Bruce Bowler and provides uniforms to
many of the top teams in motorsports.

"Their products and professionalism are second-to-none and it's a
pleasure and an honor to have them step into this role," series organizer and
driver Troy Coughlin said. "Bruce is a genuine good guy and his staff members
are always very accommodating to all of our needs. I can't count how many times
we've needed something done in a hurry and they've always delivered. There's a
reason they're No. 1 in the apparel business."

With a totally integrated system of technology and staff, Phoenix Custom
Apparel smoothly takes customers through the process of designing custom
products and digitizing corporate and sponsor logos. They then use high-tech
computerized systems to take products through pattern-making, cutting,
embroidering, decorating, and sewing. Depending on the customers needs, they
seamlessly handle embroidery, sublimation, and screen printing to serve a
variety of needs.

On April 1st while most of the general public was concerned about
having pranks pulled on them John Force Racing drivers Ashley Force and
Robert Hight were pressing the flesh as guests of FADAL at the 2008
WESTEC Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The drag racing tandem met with fans, posed for pictures and talked
about the previous weekends NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals at Houston
Raceway Park.

“It was surprising actually because almost every single person that
came up (to us) had watched the race. Sometimes at other shows people
will walk by and they know you are in auto racing or you do something
with cars but, they don’t follow the circuit or they don’t know when
you have raced recently,” said the 2007 Rookie of the Year and driver
of the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang. “All these people knew I went to the
finals and they knew everything with our team.”

Melanie Troxel will be signing autographs in a meet-and-greet session with drag
racing fans Tuesday, April 8, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Simayof Diamond Cutters and
Jewelers, located in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Hotel &
Casino
 
Simayof Jewelers is sponsoring the Dodge Charger R/T Troxel will
drive in the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals, April 10-13, at The Strip at Las
Vegas Motor Speedway.  Tickets to the POWERade Series event will be awarded
during the four-hour funfest. 

Antron
Brown, who made NHRA history last Sunday becoming the first racer to claim
victories in both the Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle categories, will be a
guest on the popular Speed TV show Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain on Sunday,
April 6. The show airs at 9 p.m. (ET). Brown earned his 17th career NHRA victory
by winning the O'Reilly Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park on March 30.
The Matco Tools driver currently ranks third in the NHRA Top Fuel standings. He
will next compete at the Ninth annual Summitracing.com Nationals, April 10-13,
at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

A free NHRA driver autograph
session will kick off the April 10-13 SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals
at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The event will take place
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at the Palms Casino Resort
at

Several show cars will be on display, and drag racing fans
will have the opportunity to meet their favorite drivers, including
2007 NHRA POWERade world champions Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Tony
Pedregon (Funny Car), and Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock), Greg Anderson,
Jason Line, Cruz Pedregon, Jack Beckman, J.R. Todd, Morgan Lucas,
Melanie Troxel, Hillary Will, Dave Grubnic, Jim Yates, Justin
Humphreys, Kenny Koretsky, Warren Johnson, Kurt Johnson, Antron Brown, Rod Fuller, Bob Bode, Alan Bradshaw, and Urs Erbacher.

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 A flood of emotion replaces two year drought for Worsham

Del Worsham won his first Funny Car title since 2005 last weekend in Houston.

Del Worsham has never taken race victories for granted. Not when he
broke through as a 21-year-old rookie to win Atlanta in 1991, not when 
he was in the process of winning 18 races between 2001 and 2005, and
certainly not when he accomplished his famous "double-up" at Indy, by 
winning the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals and the U.S. Smokeless Showdown
during the same weekend.  As he often says, "You treat every win like
it's your last, because it just might be."   That's a healthy attitude
to carry with you, but even Worsham may have been wondering if the '05
Indy win really was his last, when two and a half years went by without
another trip to the Winner's Circle.

That all ended, of course, this past weekend in Houston, when Worsham,
his father Chuck, and the Checker, Schuck's, Kragen Funny Car team
found their mojo, found the consistency they've almost always been
known for, and found their way back to the winner's circle, with a
dominant start-to-finish performance on race day.   On a track that
befuddled many of the greatest minds in the sport,  the CSK team put on
a clinic, running 4.92, 4.91, 4.91, and 4.93 to sweep through
eliminations, while simultaneously lifting a million pounds of weight
off their driver's shoulders.

At the beginning of the New Year, reigning Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr.
drove a bobsled for the first time in his life as part of the third annual Chevy
Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge. At the upcoming Las Vegas race, the 52-time
national event winner will venture into another new arena when he joins several
of his drag racing contemporaries in high-powered Thunder Roadsters for a
charity race entitled NHRA Stars in Short Track Cars.

Coughlin's never
driven a Thunder Roadster before but if his rookie experience in a bobsled is
any indication, he shouldn't have any trouble learning the ropes. After just a
few days of test runs down Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., Coughlin
was able to score a third-place finish against numerous of his NHRA and NASCAR
peers competing in the Bodine Challenge.

The Desert Dawgs headed to their closest (in miles) All Harley Drag Racing
Association (AHDRA) National event, The Screamin’ Eagle Performance Parts
Arizona Bike Week Nationals in Wittmann, AZ and never thought it would turn out
the way it did!

It was only a seven
hour ride after working the day on Thursday, but the Dawgs were still wandering
through the desert looking for the entrance of Speedworld’s Dragstrip at 12:30
am.  Yes, the trailer and bikes were
packed and coolers were full, but did any of them ever think of ‘calling’ the
track and actually asking…how do you get in?…nope!  So, the adventure added an extra hour to the
evening, but that hour was gained back by crossing over the time zone, so no
‘time’ was really lost, just the Dawgs.