The 2007 NHRA POWERade Series Awards Ceremony, held at the Westin Bonaventure in
downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 5, will air on ESPN2 on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 11 a.m.
The one-hour show will feature highlights from the gala event where Tony
Schumacher, Tony Pedregon, Jeg Coughlin and Matt Smith were crowned NHRA
POWERade Series world champions in their respective categories.

Team owner Ken Black has a message to send to the racing community,
don't believe everything you read, especially if it suggests that he
won't be fielding a Top Fuel dragster in 2008. Black has already spent
much of his morning dispelling a rumor mill story that suggests he's
parking his Top Fuel dragster campaigned under the Kalitta Motorsports
umbrella.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with
International Sourcing Ltd., of Springfield, Mo., recently announced a
voluntary recall of about 7,500 dragster and funny car toys due to
surface paint on the wheels and engine containing excessive levels of
lead.

The product was sold at National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events
through Schumacher Racing, and Matco Tools through door to door sales
by its representatives from March 2007 through September 2007.

The Charlotte Observer has
reported that Cabarrus County (NC) leaders are trying to assemble $75 million
dollars in perks to discourage Bruton Smith from moving Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
This information comes from a government email that was obtained by the
newspaper.

The program would include the
state of North Carolina, Cabarrus and the city
of Concord.
Each would contribute a third of the funds to cover the incentives. These
incentives are said to include road improvements close to LMS as well as
property tax rebates.

To obtain this money,
officials are contemplating an increase of property tax by 1 cent, an increase
of the hotel/motel occupancy tax by 1 percent or state legislation for a
half-cent sales tax hike for transportation projects.

Dan Dickey, owner of Dickey Petroleum/T3 Race Fuels completed the licensing
process on Monday, October 29, with a 5.97 at 247 miles per hour in the TORCO
Race Fuels/T3 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Top Alcohol Funny Car owned by Randy
Goodwin.

"It's always been my dream to drive TA/FC," said Dan. "When the
opportunity presented itself I was thrilled. We plan on using this team to
enhance our marketing goals for TORCO Race Fuels in 2008 and beyond."

"We
will be making several runs before the season opening WINTERNATIONAL's in
Pomona, California," said Randy. "Dan is a very focused person and determined to
do well. We are excited to have him in the driver's seat."

CLS Productions has released a documentary on race car driver Rich Bailey of Salem Oregon.

The one hour film covers Bailey’s ten year career in drag racing
starting with his first nostalgic “front engine” dragster to his new
“Capitol Auto Group Rocketeer Dragster”.  
    
The documentary features interviews with people that have helped Bailey
throughout the years, still images and video clips of Rich Bailey
racing in action.

Top Fuel runner-up “Hot Rod” Fuller underwent successful surgery last Friday to
repair a damaged knee that he hurt in Norwalk, Ohio, when he attempted to jump
over a fence in the staging lanes. Dr. Vern Prochaska, a noted orthopedic
surgeon in Henderson,
Nev., performed a total
reconstruction of the knee that took nearly three hours to complete.

A source within the National Hot Rod Association has confirmed that
Brut will no longer be involved in NHRA Championship Drag Racing beyond
the 2007 season. Reportedly, the company's motorsports budget took a
hit and that negated all programs involving the sanctiuoning body as
well as the multi-car operation of Don Schumacher Racing.

There are times in our lives when we do good things simply because it’s right to do them.

Turn back the clock to a time when the next season of drag racing was
just around the corner. Evan Knoll, ensconced in a gliding chair,
mulled over the various possible ways in which Melanie Troxel’s new
dragster could be used to benefit various charities. Somewhere around 3
am, it came to us, Knoll and myself, how we could both help and honor a
huge group of people who in a time long past felt more spit upon than
welcomed.

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