O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis is hosting the Nostalgia Pro Comp
Association’s season-opening Spring Nationals the weekend of April 28th
& 29th.  The NPCA will launch their 2007 sophomore season with over
150 members traveling from all over the Midwest and the East Coast for
their first event of the season long, five race championship series. 
NPCA President, Troy Coker declares 2007 as the “break out” year for
nostalgia drag racing that is located east of the Rocky Mountains. The
NPCA will invade the legendary ORP quarter mile with hundreds of racers
competing in 7 different classes of competition. Expect to see some of
the best that vintage drag racing has to offer, featuring Nostalgia
Fuel Funny Cars! Justin Grant will debut his brand new Don Schumacher’s
Stardust Cuda and compete along side Troy Martin in the famous Chi–Town
Hustler!  See one of drag racing’s living legends, Larry Dixon Sr.
driving his blown Altered at over 200mph! Also on tap are, Nitro
Burning Front Engine Dragsters, Blown Alcohol Funny Cars, Supercharged
Gassers, and much more ground pounding action!

When Kenny Bernstein's Monster Energy-sponsored Funny Car rolled out of
the trailer this morning it had the widened rollcage nearly identical
to that of John Force. (Photos by marty Reger)

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Horsepower & Heels driver, Erica Ortiz,  is featured in the May
2007 edition of LATINA magazine.  The magazine, which is the Hispanic
woman's version of Cosmo, is written in English but dedicated to
Hispanic American women, and is read by 2.2 million multi-cultural
readers across the United States. 

The article, entitled "Speed Racer", is featured in the Mujer on the
Move column, which spotlights Hispanic women who are taking on
different and challenging activities.  It discusses what its like for
Erica to drive a 200mph racecar, and the way she stumbled onto the
sport of drag racing.

When Mike Edwards and
his Young Life team developed “A Team on a Mission” and “Sending A Kid To Camp” program
for the 2005 season, none of them knew how far it would reach into the racing
community. Now entering its third year, the program has sent nearly 300 kids to
a Young Life camp, and for 2007 Edwards and his team hopes the program far
exceeds that number.

“We knew the racing
community was a giving bunch that would do almost anything to give those not as
fortunate as us a chance at something better,” Edwards said. “That is why we
started this program and now it is accomplishing just that, giving kids some
hope for the future.”

For 2007, Edwards will
be carrying a special logo on his car that shows his support of the progam. This
will hold true for all the fellow NHRA racers who join forces with Edwards in
“Sending A Kid To Camp” as each will carry the bright green decal.

The 5th Annual Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion continues to
grow as SoffSeal has been named as presenting sponsor of the automotive
speed festival, June 15-17 at Columbus, Ohio's National Trail Raceway. 
SoffSeal's new sponsorship is in addition to its previous participation
as presenting sponsor for the street rod "show and shine" contest at
the event."

SoffSeal has been involved with the National Hot Rod
Reunion since its inception," said Tony Thacker, executive director of
the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, which produces and benefits
from the event.  "We're glad the partnership is expanding as this event
continues to grow."

After finally generating tire shake on the last of three test runs Wednesday in
his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang, 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John
Force declared his race team ready to compete in this week’s eighth annual
SummitRacing.com Nationals.

Here are the first renderings of the new Jon Capps VEGASFUEL entry.
Capps has yet to make the official announcement, but sources indicate
that will come on Thursday, if not earlier.