2006 PSCA Pro Street Champion Steve Paulauskis, is pleased
to announce he has entered into an innovative marketing agreement with Tom and
Yvonne Nelson of Team Transit Mix Inc. of Bakersfield,
CA for the remainder of the 2007
racing season. The WFO Motorsport Cavalier will debut as the Team Transit Mix
Cavalier at the upcoming West Coast Hot Rod Association (WCHRA) Team Transit
Mix Inc. Spring Nationals at the Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield on April 13-15. The Nelson’s
intend to use their association with Paulauskis to promote their new plant in Bakersfield and introduce
their employees and customers to the sport of drag racing and the ‘Team’ philosophy.

Tom
Nelson had this to say about Paulauskis “I have toyed with the idea of getting
involved with Steve for quite a while. He and his team are great
representatives of a team going out and being successful. Our whole business
philosophy is about being a ‘Team’ and the WFO crew is a great example of that.
With our new facility in Bakersfield
I needed an innovative way to showcase what we do, the WCHRA came along and I
had the solution to my two problems solved. I get to partner with Steve and I
get to showcase Team Transit Mix on the quickest Pro Street car on the West Coast. Steve
is the ideal guy for the job. The big plus for me is signing this deal with
Steve before the first WCHRA event at Bakersfield.
We are now going to use the event as a customer/employee Appreciation Day with
Steve and his team being the focus. We will have a hospitality area for our
guests and look forward to making their drag racing experience one to remember.
It will be great for my customers and employees to have their own car to cheer
for!”

During today’s teleconference team owner John Force emphatically stated
that his entire team of three Funny Cars and two Super Comp dragsters
would compete in this coming weekend’s Summitracing.com Nationals at The
Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Prior to the opening of the gates on Thursday Force will have made a
series of untimed, 300-foot runs to determine whether or not the
substantial changes that have been made to all of his team’s cars have
rendered them undriveable.  This testing will take place tomorrow,
Wednesday, at LVMS.  Acknowledging that “testing” within a seven day
period at a national event site is prohibited, NHRA senior vice
president Graham Light explained that an exception is being made due to
not only the circumstances, but the unavailability of another suitable
testing site prior to this weekend’s race.

Among the changes that were made at Murf McKinney’s shop in Indiana are
a widening of the roll cages, the addition of significant amounts of
additional padding around the helmet area (Force suggested the padding
is close enough to his helmet to keep his head from moving side-to-side
under racing conditions) and new safety R-3-type seven point
harnesses.  Other changes include the permanent mounting of the safety
belts to the frame rails so that they can no longer potentially slide
along the tubing in the event of a crash.

Kalitta Motorsports, a professional drag racing team based in Ypsilanti, Mich., is pleased to announce that DHL will be a new sponsor of the Scott Kalitta-driven Nitro Funny Car currently competing in the 23-event, 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

Matt Hagan Racing is proud to announce a multi-year position
for Todd Tutterow to crew chief for the Matt Hagan Racing Pro Modified
program. Mr. Tutterow accepted the position over the weekend and the team is
busy getting organized to welcome him aboard.

A free NHRA driver autograph session at the ESPN Zone will kick off the
April 12-15 SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas
Motor Speedway.

In 15 full seasons of Top Fuel competition, Cory McClenathan has not paid much
attention to his position in NHRA POWERade Series points this early in the
season.  Until now.
 
NHRA’s implementation of its new Countdown to the
Championship formula hasn’t altered the number of points or how they are
awarded.  What it did was put a premium on points earned in the first 17 races,
a.k.a. Countdown to Eight.  The top eight have their title hopes extended
another four races.  Then four more exit to set the stage for the final four to
figure it out in the last two events.

The Pro Top Outlaw Series is set to begin their
6th season of competition this weekend in Farmington, North Carolina
at the first ever Tar Heel Nationals.  The series, which is a step up from Top
Dragster and not quite Top Alcohol, is comprised of dragsters, altereds, and
funny cars, either blower or nitrous, all racing heads-up against one another. 
This event will mark the beginning of the 2007 points chase and last year’s
champion Phil Esz and runner-up Brandon Booher will both be in attendance to see
if they can rise to the occasion once again.

The 2007 inaugural event will be held on April 13th
and 14th beginning with the ever popular “Night of Fire”
qualifying at 7:30 PM on Friday.  The event is yet another milestone for the
series as they hit the quarter-mile for the first time ever at Farmington
Dragway.  The event will feature a 16 car field with The Pro Top Outlaws
(qualifiers 1 thru 8) and the Pro Top Bandits (qualifiers 9 thru 16) each racing
for their respective trophies during eliminations on
Saturday.

A free NHRA driver
autograph session at the ESPN Zone will kick off the April 12-15
SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The
autograph session will be held at the ESPN Zone inside the New York New York
Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 12, from 7-8 p.m. Racers
planning to attend the event include: Jack Beckman, Jeff Arend, Del Worsham, Jon
Capps, Rod Fuller, Hillary Will, Jason Line, Greg Anderson, J.R. Todd, Cory
McClenathan, Clay Millican, Dave Connolly, Jeg Coughlin, Kenny Koretsky, Justin
Humphrey, Jerry Toliver, Bill Windham, and this list is still
growing.

After grinding his way through the 2006 NHRA schedule, a season in which Jason
Line won his first POWERade Pro Stock championship, the 37-year-old Summit
Racing Pontiac driver made a personal commitment to try and have a little bit
more fun this year. While still putting in long hours with his teammates at the
KB Racing Shop in Mooresville, N.C., early success on the track, including a win
at the tour's last stop in Houston, and a runner-up at Phoenix, would indicate
that Line's more relaxed approach may be paying off.

"One of my goals for
the year was to enjoy what's going on around me a little more," said Line. "And
I'll be honest, winning makes it a little easier. Drag racing is supposed to be
about fun, but sometimes you're reminded that there are more important things
than racing, or just winning for that matter. If I'm not going to have fun doing
this then I'm not going to do it. As far as less stress on the race team, that's
always a good thing. If one of us is in a bad mood then that tends to spill over
onto everyone else, and again, that takes some of the fun out of it. That's not
what this sport is about. We work hard, no question about that, but we need to
step back sometimes, take a look at what we've accomplished, and maybe enjoy it
a little bit, too."