Angelle Sampey is used to learning curves. Fortunately, she's also used to mastering them.

Sampey became proficient at riding Buells after a decade of riding nothing but a Suzuki. Then she straddled a Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson and got used to that, too.

None of it was easy. 

Pat Musi has confirmed with CompetitionPlus.com that his daughter Lizzy will return to Pro Nitrous competition at the PDRA American Doorslammer Challenge, May 27 - 29, in Norwalk, Ohio.

Musi confirmed the return is part of a partnership with Pro Mod racer Dan Green, who has a nitrous-injected 1968 Camaro. How many events the team runs will depend on Lizzy's rigorous No Prep Kings schedule.

"We're going to run whenever PDRA, schedule permitting," Musi confirmed.

NHRA and FOX Sports have announced the remainder of the 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series television schedule.
 
The 2021 Camping World Series features eight telecasts on the FOX Broadcast Network (FOX), including the season-opener in Gainesville which saw viewership of nearly 2 million NHRA fans glued to their TVs during eliminations.

Rodger Brogdon isn't Competition Eliminator's "sugar-daddy," but it sure does look like it.

Brogdon considers himself instead a passionate Competition Eliminator fan who isn't afraid to market the category to the masses. And for Brogdon, who resides in Tomball, Texas, there's nothing finer than NHRA D-4 Competition Eliminator.

Case in point, last weekend's Comp Eliminator field at the NGK NTK Four-Wide Nationals only attracted 19 entries. At the same time, the D-4 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at the Texas Motorplex had a whopping 43, some of whom traveled from as far as California and Washington State.

If the NHRA manages to beat Mother Nature this weekend, it will do so without a significant portion of its sportsman contingent. 

Due to significant rainfall at the track and the current forecast of additional weather systems leading up to race weekend, a majority of the sportsman racer pit areas of Houston Raceway Park will not be fit for use during the upcoming Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals Presented by Pennzoil.

In addition to the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series (Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock), the following categories will compete at the event in Houston May 21-23: Top Fuel Harley, Factory Stock Showdown, Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Comp, Top Dragster, and Top Sportsman.

According to an article published online at autoweek.com, May 18, NHRA is selling its corporate offices in Glendora, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles.

The building and property have an assessed value of just more than $4.6 million. The property is listed for sale through Colliers International real estate corporation.

Reinventing the wheel is not easy; just ask Bob Brockmeyer.

For Brockmeyer, reinventing the wheel might have been an easier proposition. The founder of drag racing’s most prominent timing system was tasked with redesigning the iconic Christmas Tree, not for the racer but for race fans.

“The driver’s side of the tree is the same as it’s always been,” Brockmeyer said. “The backside is the same, except they can see a little better. The sides are built for the spectators because with the blues tree, as they call it that we developed here for the Charlotte four-wide race years ago, the blues face the driver in the back, but people on the sides.”

Back in the early 1990s, when Greg Anderson was a Pro Stock crewman for drag racing legend Warren Johnson, there was a lot of animosity from the Pro Stock ranks toward the new kids on the professional block, Pro Modified. 

For the record, Anderson wasn't among those who looked down on the darlings of the drag racing scene.  

Friday, for the first time in zMax Dragway history, the Pro Modified pits were parallel with Anderson and the Pro Stock class.