From the start of the day with a cruel April
Fool's joke and learning why pits are called pits, to the final addition to the
AMS Five Second Club and a final round under the full moon, the AMS Staff
Leasing Pro Modified Challenge presented by Tindle Enterprises, Inc. proved once
again to be a stellar performance of top talent in the Pro Modified
world.
 
Conroe, Texas resident, Josh Hernandez, made it two in a row for
2007 and a three-peat in Houston as he won the O’Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals at
Houston Raceway Park and the coveted AMS eagle, defeating Scott Cannon, Jr. in a
peddle-fest final round under the lights, 6.208/225.26 to
6.227/233.72.

Funny Car driver Ron Capps has a plea to race fans and members of
the media:  Leave it alone.
 

Capps, who assumed the points lead Sunday in Robert Hight's absence, said he
wants the drag racing message boards, Internet sites, and newspapers to cease
speculation on what caused Eric Medlen's fatal accident. He said he's confident
that John Force Racing will release the information as soon as it is
100-percent certain. 

"I read the Internet sites just like anyone else," Capps
said. "I go for the news of our sport. I'm still a big fan of the sport. I
like to read up on the latest stuff.

Sunday's final results from the 20th annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals
presented by Pennzoil at Houston Raceway Park. The race is the fourth of 23 in
the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series:

Point standings (top 10) for NHRA professional categories following the 20th
annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil at Houston Raceway
Park, the fourth of 23
events in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series -

Final round-by-round results from the 20th annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals
presented by Pennzoil at Houston Raceway Park, the fourth of 23 events in the
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series:

Whit Bazemore’s vault to the top of the Top Fuel
qualifying order, was his 30th career and first in Top Fuel. Bazemore
wasn't optimistic about Friday’s best run holding through Saturday’s
qualifying.

When Saturday's qualifying never happened, Bazemore didn't mind being wrong. 

Jerry Toliver didn't get to Gainesville, as he had
hoped. And he appeared in Houston,
with the Toyota Solara Funny Car that Jeff Diehl will drive for sponsor
Rockstar Energy Drink in International Hot Rod Association competition. But he
said Saturday he wanted to correct any rumors about his deal.

"Rockstar is extremely happy. We have a great relationship.
It's a three-year contract. We're just excited to get going," Toliver
said.

Ocean43.com, a new secure and private online
system to both store documents and connect with friends, family and business
associates, has joined David Powers Motorsports as an associate sponsor, team
owner David Powers announced today. The Ocean43.com logos will fly on the rear
wing of NHRA point’s leader Rod Fuller’s dragster.

Ocean43.com, developed by SBT Marketing, LLC, offers
both the private community and data storage on one site in three key sections.
“Community” allows O43 members to privately connect with others in several ways
such as e-mailing, scheduling calendar events, sharing pictures, documents and
movie clips, and adding to the community blog. Only invited guests can be part
of a community and can be assigned varying levels of access. “Vaults” allows
members to store personal and business documents, such as financial records,
pictures, recipes and movie clips. The final section no Ocean43.com is
“Contacts,” where members can store personal and business contact
information.

Severe tire vibration, and not the impact of the low angle crash against a
retaining wall, is being blamed in the death of Funny Car driver Eric Medlen,
according to the Houston Chronicle. The report says that is what was told to
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series drivers and crew chiefs in a meeting Friday
morning. The report also claimed that the accident was blamed initially on a
tire blowout, but investigative findings point to the extreme tire vibration
caused by an unknown source or sources led to Medlen's head trauma and the tire
blowout.