CSK Auto, Inc. has exercised its option to renew its primary sponsorship of
Del Worsham's NHRA Nitro Funny Car for the 2008 season, which will mark the
12th year the auto parts company has backed the successful and popular
driver from Southern California.   In conjunction with the renewal, the
company and racing team have announced a shift in their marketing strategy,
as they now will focus their resources on Worsham's car alone.   CSK has
sponsored two Checker, Schuck's, Kragen Funny Cars since 2000, with a
variety of drivers filling the seat, including Jeff Arend who is

currently completing his first year with Worsham Racing.

"Our
partnership with Del Worsham and his organization has been very beneficial
to us for 11 seasons, and we're extremely excited to renew our agreement
with Del for 2008," said Jim Schoenberger, Vice President-Marketing for
Phoenix-based CSK Auto.  "In today's business world, highly focused and
nimble organizations are the ones best able to lead the way, and we feel
it's in everyone's best interest to place all of our focus on Del and his
red Checker, Schuck's, Kragen team in 2008, rather than spread our support
and the team's infrastructure over two duplicate
organizations.

"Having been associated with Del, his father Chuck, and
the Worsham Racing organization since the start of the 1997 season, we're
all excited to extend what has been a very successful relationship through
the 2008 NHRA POWERade season.   This excitement extends from our
corporate office, through our distribution centers and store crews,
right into the heart of our customer base.  We're all great fans of NHRA
Drag Racing and the Worsham team."

The most accomplished chef in motorsports will bring his unique and rollicking
blend of culinary and hot-rodding experiences to the small screen when FSN Ohio
debuts The Racing Chef at 10 p.m. ET on Oct. 8.

The reality-style show follows
the exploits of Team JEGS chef Nicky Morse as he crisscrosses the country on
the NHRA Drag Racing Series, chasing down exotic ingredients and cooking up
world-class cuisine for the Coughlin family and members of the Team JEGS racing
crew.

“Its a cooking show, a backstage
racing pass and a travel adventure all in one – not to mention a rare personal
glimpse into the Team JEGS racing experience,” said Don Lee of Horizons
Companies (www.horizonscompanies.com), the
Columbus, Ohio-based company producing the The Racing Chef. The idea for the
series was hatched by Lee and Morse, along with Scott Woodruff, director
of media and motorsports marketing for JEGS.

Billy Huff had been exposed to drag racing for much of his life and it showed
when he got behind the wheel of a mountain motor Pro Stocker. As a rookie, he
drove like a seasoned veteran.

The
son of veteran sportsman racer Sherrill Huff, Billy Huff won a national event in
his rookie season of running IHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock in 1991. That was
enough to land him in the eighth position in the championship points.

Several months ago Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com was vilified by some for
reporting that the stock price of Bravo! Brands, the parent company of
Slammers milk products, was rapidly declining.  
Slammers was the primary
sponsor of Dave Connolly’s Pro Stock Chevrolet, and an associate sponsor of
Jeg Coughlin Jr’s car at the time. Shortly after our story appeared the
names disappeared from the flanks of those cars.  

Dave Gallegos, 39, of Saint Mary’s, Kansas,
acquired his IHRA Top Fuel competition license last Sunday at Milan, Michigan
behind the wheel of Mitch King’s La King’s Confectionery machine.  The former bracket racer competed for years
and before becoming a nitro crew member back in 2005.

Gallegos made some runs earlier this year in King’s “Bone
Bucket” AA/Fuel Altered during competition with the Outlaw Fuel Altered
Association. His licensing enables him to achieve a personal goal of obtaining
his IHRA Top Fuel license. 

Pat
Musi may be as far from IHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock as he can be in today’s
world, but if you ask him about his days driving one, you’ll find it is as close
to his heart as a drag racing category can
be.

Musi ran in the formative days of the format and finished runner-up twice
for the championship. In his four full-time seasons, he finished no lower than
seventh in the point standings.

“I had always read
about Ronnie Sox, Don Nicholson and Bill Jenkins and I got to race against
them,” Musi said. “That’s one thing I was always grateful for this whole deal, I
got to race them. They were tough and I was a young pup. I don’t think those
days will ever return again. It was a neat time for me.”

Musi amassed a record
of nine final rounds with three victories. One of his finer moments was
qualifying for the very first mountain motor event.

The inaugural Eric Medlen Forever Charity Golf Tournament is a sell-out
with 148 professional drivers and NHRA fans prepared to pay tribute to
the ever popular Funny Car driver, who died earlier this year after a
testing accident in Gainesville, Fla. Spectators are still welcome at
the Mountain Meadows Golf Course (across from the finish line of Pomona
Raceway). There are a few sponsorships available. Proceeds from the
event will go to DRAW and Metro Ministries, John Medlen's favorite
charity. Contact Rosalee Noble at rnoble@consolidated.net for more
information.

BARKLAGE CONQUERS THUNDER VALLEY TO MOVE TOWARDS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Cody
Barklage of Eldon, Missouri had it when it counted and made it through
three
tough rounds of racing to win the Aeromotive Nitro Coupe Challenge
during the
O'Reilly Super Chevy Show presented by JEGS at Bristol Dragway,
known as
Thunder Valley.

Cody took out Kernersville, NC racer Doug Winters in the
finals.  Winters
did Cody a favor in the semis when he defeated Tony
"Sandman" Williams of
Millington, Tennessee.  Williams is Cody's closest
rival in the championship
chase, followed by Cody's brother Zach Barklage,
who was the event's top
qualifier with a blistering 6.156 at 225.67 miles per
hour. Cody's 6.300 was
the second-fastest qualifying time and he also turned
in the fastest
Aeromotive Nitro Coupe pass with a run of 229.39 mph in the
semis.

Kenny Bernstein and the Monster Energy/Lucas Oil team are picking up
the pieces, literally, and putting together another chassis and Dodge
Charger Funny Car body for competition at the Torco Racing Fuels
Nationals, Oct. 5-7.

Legendary drivers Bernstein and John Force collided in second round
competition in Dallas, Texas.  News of the accident jammed cyberspace
for hours as fans and friends searched for information.  The accident
happened when Force’s car began to break apart and became
unmanageable.  Bernstein climbed out of his chassis without injury,
while Force was airlifted to a Dallas hospital and underwent a surgical
procedure to repair ankle, hand, wrist, and knee injuries.

“John is a good friend and we’re happy to know he is making good
progress,” said Bernstein. “We know it’s going to be a painful
recuperative process, but John is strong and determined. 

“When drivers go through an accident like this, the best thing from my
point of view is to get back in the saddle and ride the horse.  I will
be fortunate enough to be able to do that at Richmond.

“The saving grace for John is that he doesn’t remember much of the run
at all, so the vision won’t keep looping through his brain.  I remember
everything that happened, but I never want to review video footage or
photos from something like this.  I leave the review process to Jimmy
(Walsh, crew chief).  So I’m mentally prepared to get on with
qualifying.