An extension of one of the more rapidly expanding teams in NHRA drag racing,
David Powers Motorsports will launch a modern show car program beginning in
2008.

The unique Top Fuel dragster show
car will have two separate one-piece carbon fiber bodies featuring both the
Caterpillar (Rod Fuller) and Matco Tools (Antron Brown) paint schemes. The David
Powers Motorsports show car project began following the 2007 NHRA season and
will be completed in time for its first appearance at Fabick CAT/Linn State
Technical College near St.
Louis in January. The show car will be housed at the
team’s new race facility in Brownsburg, Ind.

Based on the results of a recent competitor survey, the Top Dragster
and Top Sportsman classes contested at all Knoll Gas Nitro Jam national
events will feature a 32 car qualified field in 2008.

Competitors
submitted a wide range of ideas and suggestions during this survey. 
The majority of responders in each class wanted to move these fields to
32 car qualified fields.  24% of the competitors who responded to the
survey wanted to leave the class alone.  24% of the responders wanted
to have the class move to an “all run field” with a maximum dial, while
the remaining 52% wanted to return to a 32 car qualified field.

After entertaining various Sydney newspaper, radio and television media today at
Western Sydney International Dragway, American Top Fuel visitors Mike Dunn and
Cory McClenathan have declared their delight in racing against Australia's best
at WSID this weekend in a massive International Motorsport event for this
country.

"I was serious that I think Sydney would be an awesome venue to
stage a round of the NHRA series from the USA," remarked Mike Dunn - multiple
NHRA event winner in both Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car in the world's elite Drag
Racing Series.

"This facility is as good as anything going back home in
America, I have no doubt the fans will get a great show this weekend and I am
very happy to be racing with Santo Rapisarda and the team."

Plans for the AMS Pro Modified Challenge are in the final phase and include a
repeat of the 2007 schedule and only a few small rule adjustments according to
Series Director Matthew Brammer.
 
"We're working on the contract with
NHRA, and hope to have that finalized shortly," Brammer said. "We're working on
some major, very exciting changes for the series but we want to solidify our
current program in the interim."
 
The plans for the series include
competing in ten NHRA national events, beginning in Gainesville, Fla. and ending
in Las Vegas.

IHRA’s official magazine now available in digital form
on www.ihra.com/dragreview

DRM, the official magazine of IHRA drag racing and the
Knoll Gas Nitro Jam, will now be available online at www.ihra.com/dragreview. Issues #21
through #23, the final three issues of the 2007 season, will be free to all
visitors to nitrojam.com while registration with a membership number will be
required beginning with Issue #1 of 2008. You will be asked to enter an e-mail
address and zip code to view Issues #21 through #23.

Foley & Lewis Racing and Dake are pleased to announce that Dake will be the
Official Machine Tool of Foley & Lewis Racing and Doug Foley's Drag Racing
School for the 2008 season. Dake, a well established company since 1887 is based
in Grand Haven, MI.

Patience is a virtue in
most cases, but for crew chief Brian Corradi it isn’t – at least when it comes
to the safety of his driver.

Corradi, crew chief for
Mike Ashley’s Gotham City Racing team, along with co-crew chief Mark Oswald, have retained the services of Dr. Rory
Davis as well as Chuck Haase to test the safety of their chassis.

Corradi said they’ve delivered
a chassis already to Haase for a stress analysis this week.

“They are just testing to
see where we can improve on it,” Corradi said.

John Force is at least one
team that has said they plan on building their chassis in-house. Corradi said
Ashley’s Torco Race Fuels-sponsored
Gotham City
Racing doesn’t plan to take their program that far, at least not at this stage
in the game.

Six-time NHRA champion and
motorsports icon Kenny Bernstein made a surprise announcement
Tuesday that he is stepping out of the cockpit of the Monster
Energy/Lucas Oil Funny Car effective immediately and has hired
well-known Funny Car shoe Tommy Johnson Jr. as his successor.

"I was only contemplating driving one more year," said
Bernstein, "but when Tommy became available at the end of the '07
season, we started to give the situation a lot of thought. We've
been fortunate to win six championships and 69 races, and we have some
milestone performance marks, chief among them becoming the first to
crack the 300-mph barrier.

"I guess we can always look to win one more race or one more
championship, but in reality, I've had a great career and many talented
crewmembers who have helped mold my success through the years. For me at this stage of my life, the right decision is to step away from the cockpit.