An in-studio interview with Funny Car rookie-to-be Ashley
Force augmented by Team Castrol video images from last week's pre-season testing
at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will compose one of the segments of
this week’s edition of “Hannity’s America.” Hosted by Sean Hannity, who
conducted the interview via satellite, the show airs on Fox News Network at 8
p.m., Eastern time, Sunday, Jan. 28.

Whit
Bazemore, who amassed 20
career NHRA Funny Car victories, took his first steps towards becoming just the
14th NHRA racer to collect victories in both nitro categories Friday
at Firebird International Raceway when he made two passes in his Matco Tools
Iron Eagle dragster during the National Time Trials. Bazemore and teammate “Hot”
Rod Fuller will continue preparing for the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series
season at the Phoenix track through January
31.

Baze returned to the cockpit of an 8,000 horsepower
nitromethane-powered car for the first time since racing to a runner-up finish
at the prestigious U.S. Nationals last September. On his first attempt of the
annual preseason testing bash, the veteran racer powered to the 330-foot mark
before lifting off the throttle. It was a planned shutoff. On Friday’s second
attempt, Bazemore’s Matco-backed rail lost traction early. Overall, the
Indianapolis
resident is thrilled to have his first Top Fuel laps under his
belt.

Here's a sneak peek of the new Shannon Jenkins-driven Awesome Motorsports GTO. Sponsorship will come from Torco Race Fuels 118NOS blend.

Pro Stock star Erica Enders will be a special guest of the United States Air
Force Thunderbirds during the elite flying group's 60th anniversary season in
2007. Enders is tentatively scheduled for a ride-along in a Thunderbirds F-16C
with one of the world's best pilots in the day's following the first Las Vegas
race in April.

When not traveling the world on behalf of the USAF, the
Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron is stationed out of Nellis Air Force
Base in Las Vegas, which is adjacent to Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the desert
north of town.

"I'm so excited about this opportunity that I find it
really hard to explain," Enders said. "My dad was in the Air Force so it's the
branch of the military we know the best. Growing up, we never missed an Air
Show, especially when the Thunderbirds were performing. You never even dream
that one day you'll get to ride in one of their planes."

Don Schumacher Racing will field seven race
teams in all four pro classes of
the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series:
one in Top Fuel, three in Funny
Car, one in Pro Stock and two in Pro Stock
Motorcycle.

Former Funny
Car driver Don Schumacher became a team owner in 1998 with son
Tony
Schumacher driving in Top Fuel, then became a multi-team owner in 2001
with
the addition of a Funny Car. With seven teams in 2007, DSR now employs
80
team members, administrative personnel, fabrication and machine
shop
engineers and hospitality staff. DSR will take 11 or 12 transporters to
NHRA
races (12 to events where the Pro Stock Motorcycles race) plus two to
four
additional trucks and trailers with show cars and supplies.

Torco's CompetitionPlus.com has acquired some photos of the Justin Grant Stardust nostalgia tribute on display at the Drag
Expo this past weekend in Chicago.

Nostalgia Top Fuel pilot Adam Sorokin is excited for the coming 2007
season
which will bring a few changes.  The driver of Brian Van Dyke’s
“RB
Entertainment” Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster will drive the same car
in which
he ran the quickest pass ever recorded for a front engine
dragster (5.703
ET) last November at the Bakersfield Fuel and Gas
Finals, however, with
Goodguys getting out of the nostalgia drag racing
scene, the future of the
class is evolving and Adam is excited about
the change.

Ten years is a long time to wait, the last time Brad Jeter raced IHRA as
a Professional was 1997, but in 2007 he will once again be letting the clutch
out on a IHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock. The Former IHRA and NHRA national
event winner will be the wheel man for the Larry Overby owned, Mike Kennedy
Tuned Haas Ford Mustang.

Fresh off a stellar
rookie season behind the wheel of a twin turbo PRO car, Erica Ortiz looks to
keep the momentum rolling in 2007 with significant upgrades in her racing
program.   The 26 year-old made monumental progress in her first year running
the Fun Ford Weekend Pro 5.0 class, finishing 2nd in the points chase with
consistent 6 second, 200 mph performances.