If you're sitting in your favorite reclining chair, channel-surfing
and looking for some good off-season drag racing action, here's a heads
up.

Today ESPN2 will showcase the 2007 edition of “NHRA Thrills
& Spills,” a 30-minute special that features the most spectacular
on-track moments from 2007 and past NHRA POWERade Series seasons.

With all the pre-race promotions flowing for the York US 30 Dragway Reunion event, we found this gem on YouTube.com promoting classic drag racing at the strip as well as Beaver Springs. This video can also be purchased at BEE ON VIDEO .

Two-time defending NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster World Champion Bill Reichert will
display his Rislone Engine Treatment backed injected nitro dragster at the
upcoming World Drag Expo, Jan. 19-20, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in
Schaumburg, Ill. 


The Rislone dragster will be the centerpiece of the main entrance into the show hall.

The World Drag Expo is one of the premiere trade shows in the
motorsports industry. Clayton Parks, Vice President of Marketing for
Bar's Leaks/Rislone said he is excited to have Reichert's
championship-winning car as the focal point in the prominent exhibit.

Roger Gustin, President of AutoStar Productions, Inc. announced recently that JEGS
has retained the Title Sponsorship of the JEGS Bracket Two Battle at all Super
Chevy Show events in 2008.  JEGS has also
been named presenting sponsor of events in Tucson and Atlanta, as well as the
sponsor of the Monte Carlo Car Class within the TREMEC Transmission Car Show
Series.

Since 1999, Torco's CompetitionPlus.com has offered the spirit of
friendly competition amongst the racing community in a "Best of"
competition. Our readers have assisted us in voting on everything from
the best drag racers to their favorite drag strip to the presigious
Person of the Year. There are also a few new categories. Please cast your vote in this annual tradition.

DOT COM AWARDS BALLOT 

Speaking from the airport in Houston, Texas, Whit Bazemore revealed that he will not be competing on the NHRA circuit in 2008.

“Nothing, actually,” Bazemore said in his standard straight from the
hip style when asked what he might have in the hopper for the coming
season. “It's doesn't look like I will race next year.

“I guess you could say I am taking a sabbatical.”

No tears. No sound of depression. If anything, Whit expressed a feeling
of relief knowing he isn't facing the issues confronting the sport in
2008 that his fellow competitors will not be able to avoid.

Today's classic video on YouTube.com carries us to the
1963 Smokers Fuel & Gas Championships at Bakersfield. This is two minutes of video guaranteed to make you smile.

Former IHRA Pro Stock
racer Carl Baker and his wife Donna were uninjured in an accident involving a
deer according to the Chronicle-Telegram newspaper in Ohio.

According to the newspaper
report, a deer crossed into the path of the minivan driven by Carl.

The resulting impact sent
the deer into the opposite lane of traffic where it went through the windshield
of any oncoming Jeep.

Only one vote per IP address. Polls close January 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM.

For the next three weeks, Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com will conduct
its inaugural War Stories Showdown presented by Mach Series
Accelerator. The veterans of yarn spinning are paired for what promises
to be a series destined to produce the finest behind-the-scenes
stories.