IHRA announced today Knoll - Gas, the Michigan-based natural gas and energy
company owned by drag racing enthusiast Evan Knoll, has signed an agreement to
sponsor the 12-event Nitro Jam™ series. The new name of the series is the Knoll
- Gas Nitro Jam™.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to
work with a sponsor who is passionate about what we do,” IHRA president Aaron
Polburn said. “Evan Knoll has done more for drag racing in the last two years
than most people do in a lifetime, and it thrills me to have him become an even
more integral part of our racing series.”

Don Schumacher has built a
high-profile, championship-winning, multi-car NHRA drag-racing team in a short
period of time.

A former Funny Car driver
who starred on the match-race and national-event circuits in the 1960s and
1970s, Schumacher returned to NHRA professional competition as a team owner in
1998. In his first full season as an owner, Schumacher and his son, driver Tony
Schumacher, captured the 1999 NHRA Top Fuel championship.

In 2001, Schumacher added
his first Funny Car team - Whit Bazemore in the Matco Tools Funny Car - and, in
2002, Scotty Cannon in the Oakley Funny Car. In 2003 four-time Top Fuel
champion Gary Scelzi came on board to drive the Mopar/Oakley Dodge Funny Car
and earned his and DSR's first Funny Car crown in 2005. DSR also campaigned a
second Top Fuel car driven by Melanie Troxel and sponsored by Torco Race Fuels
from the last half of 2005 through 2006.

Laurie Cannister will return to IHRA Alcohol Funny Car competition at
this weekend's Amalie Oil Texas Nationals at San Antonio Raceway.
Cannister will drive Trevor Lebsack's 2005 Camaro as business
committments have forced the Canadian competitor to miss the
season-opening event in Texas.

On March 21, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Sabrina Bennett gave birth to (5-pound, 6-ounces, 18.5-inches) Camryn Marley Bennett making Bobby and Christy Bennett
first time grandparents. Mother and child are resting comfortably.

The
same cannot be said for Bobby and Christy, who were awake much of the
night continually asking one another, "Can you believe we are
grandparents?" Sabrina is the oldest of their four children.

Team JEGS Top Fuel veteran Cory McClenathan and reigning Auto Club Rookie of the
Year J.R. Todd will provide NASCAR fans attending this Sunday's Food City 500 at
Bristol Motor Speedway a whopping 14,000 horsepower in surround sound when they
simultaneously fire up their dragsters during prerace ceremonies.

The
display of NHRA firepower is designed to generate interest for the upcoming
seventh annual O’Reilly NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, which runs from May 18-20
at Bristol Dragway.

Drag racing fans who
are unable to make it to the season-opening Nitro Jam™ event of the year, the
Amalie Oil Texas Nationals presented by NAPA Auto Parts, will not have to wait
long to see for themselves what happened on the track at San Antonio
Raceway.

SPEED’s television coverage of the event is scheduled
for Saturday, April 7 at 5:00 p.m. (Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Funny Car and Torco
Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Top Fuel) and Saturday, April 14 at 5:00
p.m. (Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com Pro Mod, Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Stock and Alcohol
Funny Car).

Known for its long-standing dedication to hot rod enthusiasts, Mr. Gasket
Performance Group continues to show its support as an Event Level Sponsor of the
2007
HOT ROD Power Tour.

The seven-day, seven-city HOT ROD Power Tour kicks off its 2007 event in Mr.
Gasket’s hometown of Cleveland, OH on June 2. Going into its 12th year, the HOT
ROD Power Tour is expected to draw more than 55,500 spectators to view nearly
3,200 participating hot rods.

Mike Ashley, driver of the Torco Race Fuels, Inc. nitro Funny Car, announced a
Major Associate Sponsorship agreement with A&R Transport, Inc., a leader in
the trucking and transportation industry. In addition, the Joliet, Ill.-based
company has been designated the Official Trucking Company of Torco Race Fuels,
Inc. and will be featured on several other cars in the Torco/Knoll Gas
stable.
 
"A&R is a very impressive company that focuses on high
quality and customer service, just like Torco - so it is a great fit for all of
us. I'm really excited to have them on our team and am looking forward to a
long, rewarding relationship," Ashley said.

Joining the “mile high
club” may be a flying club some seek to join, but two clubs were created this
weekend for members of the drag racing community headed to the NHRA
Gatornationals didn’t particularly care to join. The common denominator was
flying in and out of Gainesville Regional airport with Delta Airlines.

Thursday marked the inauguration
of the “Delta Hot Lap” club while Monday morning marked the first flight of the
“Delta One-Prop” clan.

Delta Flight 4790 from Atlanta opened with a jovial group of racers and
crewmembers coaxing a flight attendant into welcoming Pro Stock engine builder
Roy Johnson back after a heart attack in Phoenix.
The regional jet also featured the likes of Mike Sullivan of Wayne County Speed
Shop fame, painter extra-ordinaire and all-around do-everything Brian Olson and
Hoosier Tire’s Faron Lubbers just to name a few.