COMP Cams® and
powerTV are teaming up in 2007 to bring thousands of enthusiasts extensive video
coverage of the Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags, presented by COMP Cams®. The Hot Rod
Pump Gas drags is one of the most innovative drag racing events of the year
brainstormed by the editorial staff at Hot Rod and sponsored by COMP. The drama
will unfold on Saturday, May 12, 2007, and COMP Cams® will be broadcasting
online video coverage on www.powerperformanceTV.com throughout the weekend.

The setting at
Memphis Motorsports Park will provide a perfect background for COMP Cams® first
online video broadcast on their new powerTV-supported video channel, Power &
Performance TV. As approximately 75 street racers look to end the day as the
baddest pump gas street cars in the country, Power & Performance TV will be
there to capture all of the action and to deliver that racing footage as quickly
as possible to the thousands of online enthusiasts who crave to follow along
from their home computers.

“Hot Rod Pump Gas
Drags is a great event, and COMP Cams® is really proud to be so involved with
it”, said Chris Douglas, Marketing Director of COMP. “We appreciate Hot Rods
support of the event, and the great editorial they have created around it, and
we look to help grow it by increasing the exposure of the event even more by
providing same-day online video coverage with powerTV”.

Pro Modified veteran Larry Sinke of Welland, ON, will
be competing in the upcoming Pro Modified Racing Association Series, which
takes place at Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario May 19 and 20.

We’re glad to see Larry back with the PMRA,” said
Series Director Bruce F. Mehlenbacher. “He’s seasoned veteran, a good runner,
and he’s always a crowd-pleaser.”

The Hammer Racing 1967 Chevy Nova SS Pro Modified owned
and driven by Sinke is powered by a 526-cubic inch supercharged Hemi engine.
Sinke, who started racing about 10 years ago, competed in the inaugural PMRA
season, winning the Skyview Drags event in New York State.

NHRA and Bristol Dragway officials announced today that the O’Reilly
NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Q has been rescheduled for
July 6-8, 2007.

GM Performance Parts GTO driver Warren Johnson’s historic induction into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (IMHOF) will be broadcast this Sunday, May 13 on the Speed Channel. 
 

For those who have served our nation, a grateful sport says "Thank You" 

In the 1960s, America's muscle-car craze just about guaranteed that the growing National Hot Rod Association had the attention of young men 18-30 years old. Then the Vietnam War hit and the weekend warriors became simply warriors.

That turn of events plunged the nation into protest, angst, and divisiveness. It left scars on many of those one-time drag-racing enthusiasts. A lost interest in quarter-mile competition became the least of their worries.

But NHRA team owner Evan Knoll has been able to heal some of those hurts that have lingered for nearly 40 years. One of his drivers, Melanie Troxel, is rallying America's once-maligned or forgotten soldiers this season with the Vietnam Veterans/POW MIA Dragster.

And at Madison, Illinois, last weekend, she recorded her third career Top Fuel victory but her first for the veterans in Knoll's tribute dragster. She also improved from ninth in the standings to fifth, in ideal position to qualify for the Countdown to the Championship.

The 16th Annual Doug Herbert Performance Center Open House will take place this Saturday, May 12, 2007.

Funny Car racer Ron Capps is not a man of few words. Ask him a question and you will get his deepest, most emotional and sincerest thoughts on any subject. We asked the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car points leader (after seven races) to describe what it means to him to be invited for the third straight year to compete in the Nextel Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, on June 6.

In the golden years of drag racing two of the most notable names were
"TV Tommy" Ivo and "Big Daddy" Don Garlits. Those two legends in the
sport will join together at the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion,
presented by SoffSeal – and they're bringing their cars to the
three-day fanfest, June 15-17 at National Trail Raceway near Columbus,
Ohio.

"Garlits and Ivo match raced hundreds of times in the 1960s and '70s,"
said Tony Thacker, executive director of the Parks Museum, "often
racing at one track, then towing 500 miles overnight to get to the
next. "We're very pleased that they've chosen to come and bring their
cars to the event so that their fans old and new can see them 'up close
and personal.'"

Garlits, who has participated in each of the past four National Hot Rod
Reunions, will bring one of his famous Swamp Rat front engine dragsters
to the event, which is produced by and benefits the non-profit Wally
Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, presented by the Auto. Club of So.
Calif. He was the No. 1 driver in the NHRA's list of the top 50 drag
racers of all time. Garlits was the first to exceed 200, 240, 250, 260
and 270 mph in the quarter mile. He was also the first to win three
NHRA U.S. Nationals titles and three world championships. His event
victory total is a staggering 144. Garlits built at least 30 cars with
the "Swamp Rat" name and he's brought different versions to the
Reunion.