Parts Pro Performance Centers will be sponsoring
the Crew Chief of the Race Award at each Pro Modified Racing Association series
event for 2007.

“The
Parts Pro Performance
Centers
Crew Chief of the Race Award was specifically designed to reward
the Crew Chief and the team of individuals that supports them,” explained Kevin
Dundas, General Manager of Karbelt Speed & Custom, the Eastern Canadian
Parts Pro Distribution center. “We will present the award at
each of the PMRA drag
racing series events in 2007.”

The Snyder Motorsports Race Team is thrilled to announce
they have signed Powersource Transportation Inc. as a major associate sponsor
for the 2007 race season.  Powersource Transportation Inc. can haul a variety of
different products and pride themselves on the being able to meet the individual
shipment needs of their customers.  Driver, Mick Snyder, will also be sporting a
brand new, self-designed paint scheme when the season opens in March.

“We are very excited to be teaming up with Powersource
Transportation, Inc. this year.  They have a great company that excels in every
aspect of the transportation industry; hopefully, this will turn out to be a
successful venture for the both of us,” said the back-to-back-to-back Division 3
champion.

Photog Tim Marshall made a stop at Fontana on the way to Pomona. He sent us this PHOTO GALLERY .

Southern California drag race fans will be able to buy tickets for the
legendary March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway – Mar. 9-11 in Bakersfield
– locally at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona. The tickets
will be on sale during the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals, Feb.
8-11 at the Fairplex in Pomona. A portion of the proceeds from the March
Meet ticket sales will benefit Museum programs.

"We know that many
fans will be at the Museum during the upcoming Winternationals," said Blake
Bowser, vice president and general manager of the Kern County Racing
Association, operators of Auto Club Famoso and producers of the fabled March
Meet.  "We want to make it convenient for them to get their March Meet
tickets early, while helping to benefit the Museum we all love."

Rodger Brogdon Racing announced this afternoon that noted crew chief
and tuner Rickie Smith will join the team this weekend in Pomona CA for
the opening race of the 2007 NHRA POWERade season.

Initial
early season testing in Houston showed that Brogdon’s new Pro Stock
team had the horsepower to compete in the very competitive Pro Stock
category, but during the Pro Stock Showdown event in Las Vegas this
past weekend the new car showed that the team would need to rein in the
new chassis to match up with the available horsepower. “Being able to
compare our car to everyone else during the showdown really got us
excited,” said Brogdon. “We struggled with the chassis set-up on
Saturday and ended up not making the cut for the Showdown.” “But we
kept after it and of the twenty cars that stayed and tested on Sunday
we were the seventh fastest and saw the elapsed times continue to
improve as well.”

Noted bracket campaigner Luke Bogacki picked up his first win of the 2007 season
at his first event Saturday at the Footbrake Nationals at Mobile Dragway. 
There, Bogacki wheeled his familiar Mickey Thompson Tires backed Vega to a
$5,000 victory over Rick Ament.  Both drivers ran dead-on their dial-ins in the
final round, with Bogacki’s 5.693 (5.69 target) besting Ament’s 5.802 (5.80
dial) by a mere .006 by virtue of his .028 to .036 reaction advantage.

Zizzo
Racing and Wordsmith Media, Inc. announced that Race News Magazine has
signed an agreement to become the major sponsor of the Zizzo Racing Top
Fuel Dragster, driven by TJ Zizzo. The team will compete for the
championship in the entire 2007 IHRA Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series and
select NHRA POWERade events.

Teacher. Coach. Builder. Racer.

Winner. Studebaker lover. That's Ted Harbit,
an Honoree at the Holley NHRA
National Hot Rod Reunion, June 15-17 at
National Trail Raceway near
Columbus, Ohio.

Harbit raced his
"Chicken Hawk" 1951 Studebaker and won the Stock class
at the NHRA Nationals
an incredible seven times in 11 tries.  A retired
teacher and basketball
coach in the Frankton, Ind. school system, he has
raced continuously in cars
he's built himself for more than 50 years. Ted
retired from class racing
after the '72 U.S. Nationals and drove the
Studebaker occasionally until
1987 when he decided to see how fast it would
really go. With twin
turbochargers and twin four barrel carbs, he's turned a
best of 10.07 at
137.8 mph.  In the Studebaker Drivers Club publication,
Turning Wheels,
Harbit explained why he still uses a Studebaker engine. "My
own experience
has been that it is not necessary to go to expensive
extremes to develop
over 500 HP in a Studebaker V-8. . . and that the
engine is so basically
sturdy that one need not fear immediate disintegration
when higher
horsepowers (sic) have been developed."

Randy
Walker slipped the monkey off his back at the West Coast Hot Rod Association’s
first ever event at Speedworld Motorplex in Surprise, AZ this past weekend. It
was not an easy weekend because he had to fight tooth and nail throughout qualifying
with Steve Paulauskis who had the noted distinction of recording the first Pro Street pass in
the 6.3 zone by a West Coast racer during the final qualifier.