Six new automotive and
motorcycle-themed programs will premiere on ESPN2 the weekend of March 31-April
1.

All part of the ESPN2
Garage block of programming, The Bidding Wars, Funkmaster Flex’s
Car Wars, Hot Rod Television, Metric Revolution, P.I.P.E.S and
Stacey David’s GearZ will debut on Saturday, March 31, and Sunday,
April 1, with replays to air later in the week.

Designed to complement ESPN’s extensive coverage of
NASCAR, IndyCar, Champ Car and NHRA racing in 2007, ESPN2 Garage
is dedicated to the automotive, motorcycle and motorsports
world. ESPN2 will air more than
1,100 hours of motorsports programming in 2007.

The devil is in the details.

Many NHRA POWERade teams decided to stick around at
Gainesville Raceway following the 38th annual ACDelco
Gatornationals, to get some testing under their belts without having to pack up
the trailers and head to other circuits.

After all, the Gatornationals had yielded some
record-breaking speeds and times over the past weekend.  At the same time, there had been some fairly
violent wall smacks, particularly in eliminations, that affected the outcome of
races on Sunday.

Gatornationals Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Karen Stoffer achieved one
of the hardest feats in drag racing by winning the race from the No. 16
qualifying position. What made the victory even more impressive are her three
holeshot victories, which included beating the No. 1 qualifier and new national
record holder Angelle Sampey in round one. She also strapped a holeshot on
runner-up Matt Smith, who was racing a woman for the fourth time in six career
final round appearances. Stoffer admitted that qualifying didn't go well.

Angelle Sampey has been racing for 11 years, has three Pro Stock
Motorcycle championships in her trophy case but still confesses “I haven’t had a
perfect run yet.” 

That would include Saturday’s national record caliber
6.911.

Hillary Will has been on television many times driving her Ken Black Top Fuel
dragster, but soon she will be a contestant on a game show.  The producers of
the NBC game show Identity heard
about Will and her profession when she gave a speech at the North American
International Auto Show earlier this year.  The premise of Identity is that a contestant tries to
guess a certain trait of twelve strangers.  Will went to Hollywood to be one of
those strangers along with magician Lance Burton, a world-record holder for
sword swallowing, and Chewbacca of Star
Wars.

Former Top Alcohol Dragster driver Michael Gunderson looked impressive during
qualifying at his home track. The Florida resident recorded an impressive
career-best 4.635 at 326.16 mph on Friday to make the quick half of the field in
the No. 6 spot.

Former Top Fuel driver and crew chief John 'Bodie' Smith is
providing the tune up for five-time NHRA Division 2 Top Alcohol dragster
champion in Gainesville and he was pleased with the team's qualifying
results.

Bob
Gilbertson encountered big time problems during his third qualifying attempt
Saturday in Gainesville. Gilbertson was on a strong pass when the motor exploded just past half
track, causing a considerable amount of damage to the Autolite XP Spark Plugs
flopper.

Greg Anderson may have wanted to be the first to run 210, but
technically he was the third. Let the record reflect that Mike Edwards
was the history maker.

RJ Race Cars, Inc. and
Strange Engineering have had an ongoing R&D program for the past several
years. Owner of RJ Race Cars, Inc. and Quarter-Max Racing Rick Jones says,
“This year we are continuing our R&D program, and we are taking it to a new
level with a two car team. This will allow us to test and refine more new
products for Strange Engineering. Jeff Stange and the entire staff at Strange
Engineering are very receptive to new ideas. We all work together really well
to make better products. The end result is it makes my race cars fast and
handle smoothly. The bottom line is they have great products and service that
is second to none!”