By: Rob Geiger, NHRA.com
I was exchanging holiday greetings with Lee Beard, the crew chief of David Powers’ Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster, when the subject turned to his new driver, Antron Brown. Most Geiger Counter readers know Brown has competed in Pro Stock Motorcycle to much success over the past decade but is now making [...]

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Racing in the Charlotte area is going straight in 2008.
With three major NASCAR weekends plus dozens of other events scheduled once again for Lowe’s Motor Speedway — which, in case you missed it, will be right where it has always been in Concord — oval-track racing will once again bring thousands of people and millions [...]

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John Force’s goal for the beginning of 2008 is simple: get healthy enough to drive his Funny Car in testing in late January.
“I promise you, I’ll be there,” Force, a 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion, said last week by phone from his home in California. “I’m working every day, and I will be ready. I [...]

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After 56 years of leading NHRA Championship Drag Racing from its inception into a sporting entity featuring more than 80,000 members worldwide, founder Wally Parks passes away on Sept. 28 at the age of 94. Parks’ death is preceded by a scary accident involving John Force and Kenny Bernstein that hospitalizes 14-time champion Force for [...]

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One of the NBA’s top second-year players, Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets, is so involved in the sport of bowling that he was named U.S.B.C.’s newest spokesperson earlier this year.

NHRA drag racing’s Top Fuel Funny Car team owner and crew chief Chuck Worsham found his “need for speed” in 1975 when he volunteered [...]

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Del Worsham, owner/driver/tuner of the Checker, Schuck’s, Kragen Funny Car, and Dexter Tuttle, owner/tuner of the Top Fuel dragster that will be driven by Alan Bradshaw during the 2008 NHRA POWERade season, …
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The staff of the International Hot Rod Association wishes you a safe and joyous New Year celebration. This holiday season please take a moment to reflect on everything you have to celebrate…friends, family, country and the ability to be involved with our great sport….
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From the IHRA
Position: National Event Technical Services / Race Operations
Status – Seasonal / Event
Contact: Mike Baker at mbaker@ihra.com
Description: This position works with the IHRA technical services team during the technical inspection process prior to the beginning of the national events. Day and evening work required beginning on Thursday morning of race weekends. Once racing [...]

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Six members of the International Hot Rod Association team were honored at the December Live Nation – Motor Sports season-ending banquet in Aurora, Ill. Skooter Peaco, Mike Baker, Tommy Dupree, Donna Harper, Ellen Watts and Mark Brafman were each individually recognized for their work in advancing the Knoll Gas Nitro Jam and International Hot Rod [...]

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The excitement of the first season of competition under the new Countdown to the Championship was the talk of the preseason one year ago as teams spent the final month of the off-season testing their cars and announcing new sponsorship deals. By the end of March, the season was in full swing, albeit under a [...]

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