The AMS Pro Mod series recently
posted an announcement on AMSProMods.com, that if a sponsor agreement is not
made by the Las Vegas race, Dave Wood and AMS will back out.  This is not a red
flag sent out by AMS or NHRA, just a communication with teams and fans, and the
AMS series wanted everyone to know the whole story. 

According to Matthew Brammer, series administrator, “I think it’s
important, and it’s been important all year, that we communicate and know what’s
going on.  People have to plan, racers hav

The last few weeks have been rather
mind boggling for Bill Bader, Jr., the president of Norwalk Raceway Park.  About
48 hours after the belated conclusion of the last-ever IHRA World Nationals at
NRP the track and NHRA jointly announced it would switch sanction and host a new
POWERade Series event beginning next June 28th.

We caught up with him in the pits at O’Reilly Raceway Park for a
few questions.

Australian-born NHRA AMS Pro
Modified driver Troy Critchley enjoyed one of his finest outings of the season
with a quarter-final finish during the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. He
also did it in rapid fashion by establishing the quickest-ever mile per hour in
the history of the series with a 239.40 trap speed behind the wheel of the AMS
Staff Leasing-sponsored 1970 Barracuda. Critchley’s day could have gone even
further had it not have been for parts attrition and an inexpensive part at
that.

Flatout Group has completed a merger
to form Flatout Group, LLC. This will allow for the continued expansion of the
Flatout Gasket product line into the traditional and further into
performance automotive arenas. Established in 1998, Flatout Group has been
manufacturing Performance, Original Equipment and Aftermarket automotive gaskets
since 2000 and is also known for their quality metal fabrication business.

Nationally recognized Footbrake
competitors Jared Pennington

and Steve Stites announced today that they will
be taking a step out from
behind the wheel and into the tower at Bristol
Dragway next April 13-15.
The duo has teamed to promote the greatest
Footbrake event in history at
the beautiful Bristol Facility, headlined by an
unheard of $50,000-to-win
main event Saturday April 14.  In addition to the
marquee Saturday
competition, the World Footbrake Challenge will be
book-ended by a pair of

While supplies last, a special
limited edition set of 1:64 scale Hot Wheels® models of Cruz and Tony Pedregon's
NHRA Nitro Funny Cars are now available exclusively at Advance Auto Parts
stores.  These cars will be packaged in a special Hot Wheels® 2-Pack Collector
Car Set.

“I am thrilled to be a part of this special Hot Wheels promotion
at Advance Auto Parts,” stated Cruz Pedregon.

(9-6-2006) - It was down to the wire for the
points leaders in the 2006 Mega Bucks series, a six-race series split between
Huntsville Dragway and Memphis Motorsports Park, but Scotty Richardson of
Goodlettsville, Tennessee, arguably one of the best bracket racers in the
country, won Pro brackets on Saturday, September 2, locking up the championship
and taking home the big bucks.

The final round of Atlanta Motor
Speedway’s Friday Night Drags Series is set for this Friday, Sept. 8 and a
number of drag motorcycles are on the card for the final drag event of 2006.

The high speed motorcycles will be demonstrating the incredible
spectacle of professional drag bike racing with a combination of street, top gas
and pro-mod bikes.  The fastest class is expected to travel the entire AMS
eighth-mile drag strip in under five seconds.

After having interviewed 35 team
owners, drivers, tuners and sponsors for their views of the new points system,
here’s the bottom line:  The majority of those polled aren’t against change
per se, and most aren’t even opposed to the system of reducing the
championship contenders to a field of eight in each professional category
beginning with next year’s U.S.