For racing fans, the names Evan Knoll and Torco Racing Fuels have become
synonymous with racing fuel and high-tech octane solutions. Viewers of the
upcoming ESPN2 reality show "King of the Strip" will feature Knoll as the Chief
Fuel Officer, the head technical resource for participants in the
"winner-take-all" drag racing competition.

As competitors square off against one another, each will have at their
disposal the expert advice of Knoll and other pundits from the record-setting
crew of Mike Ashley's Gotham City Racing team, including engine specialist Tom
Abbett and Mike Ashley himself. The series will be hosted by the
husband-and-wife-team of Tommy Johnson, Jr. and Melanie Troxell.

Fresh off his 35th career Pro Stock victory at Route 66 Raceway in Chicago,
Jeg Coughlin Jr. spent an off day making high-speed turns around the
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the back seat of Indy racer
Stephan Gregorie's
IRL test racer.

"What a rush!" the two-time Pro Stock champion said
after three laps around the 13-turn circuit, where he reached estimated top
speeds of 160-plus mph. "The concentration these guys and girls need to get
around a course like this at those speeds is just incredible. We need
several minutes of intense concentration to make a quarter-mile pass. These
guys stay at that level for two hours or more. It's just
phenomenal."

The Flowmaster American Drag Racing League announced today that driver Rickie Smith has been suspended for the remainder of the 2007 season for "conduct detrimental to the ADRL."

Numerous and usually very credible sources have informed Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com that Rahn Tobler will be leaving Morgan Lucas Racing by the
end of the week.  Expect an official announcement by Friday.  With Tobler’s
departure – apparently due to the lack of performance demonstrated by Morgan
Lucas’s car since his arrival just prior to the Las Vegas race – Richard Hogan
will take over the tuning responsibilities. 

NHRA Nitro Top Fuel Funny Car stars and sons of the legendary drag racer from the 60’s era, Flamin’ Frank Pedregon, Cruz and Tony Pedregon will be featured in a Hot Rod TV episode entitled, “Pedregon” slated to air July 7th at 10:00 a.m. EST on Hot Rod TV, the longest running automotive show on television. It will be shown exclusively on ESPN2, the broadcast partner of the NHRA. Hot Rod TV follows Cruz, the pilot of the Advance Auto Parts NHRA Nitro Funny Car and his brother Tony, who drives the Q Power NHRA Nitro Funny Car.
 

Drag racing legends are made at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals and
this weekend’s motorsport package at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway
has again bestowed an elite group with such a title.

Racing in its own series, the wild and ferocious Super Street Outlaw 10.5 cars
will be part of the action when the Pro Modified Racing Association returns to
Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario Saturday, June 16, in the second in
the five-race 2007 PMRA tour.

Two Scelzis were
interviewed on Sunday. Can you correctly distinguish which is the adult
and which is the ten-year old?

During Sunday’s race, a
Scelzi was interviewed over the public address system.

“Boxers or briefs?” he was
asked.

“Thongs, because that’s
what my boxers became after that run,” he answered.

The Texas Motorplex,
home of the 2007 NHRA O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec,
September 20-23, has announced its annual summer incentive for customers who
purchase advanced tickets to the event.

For 2007 Texas Motorplex has teamed up with BRUT® and the producers of the hit
ESPN2 series American Dragster to offer the special edition, Season One American Dragster DVD courtesy of Brut
to pre-event ticket buyers. The entertaining series prominently features BRUT
Funny Car driver Ron Capps as well as other drivers on the NHRA PowerAde Tour
and includes behind the scenes access and chronicles stories and happenings of professional
race teams on and off the track.