2008 Countdown to the Championship website launched
With the first race of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series in the books, NHRA.com has relaunched its Countdown to the Championship Web site. Throughout the season, the site will feature updated points and standings, post-event wrap-ups, a dedicated newsletter, and Countdown-related news and feature stories...
Click here to visit the NHRA 2008 Countdon to the Championship website
Tags: countdown, drag racing, NHRA, points, Powerade, race, racingForce, happy to be back to racing, is already counting many victories
Fourteen-time Funny Car champion John Force didn't lose his flair for the dramatic or his passion for NHRA POWERade drag racing in last September's dramatic accident that sidelined him for four months. He thrilled the faithful at the season-opening CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals by waiting until the last qualifying session to make the field and then racing through to the semifinals in typical Force fashion.
The winner of a record 125 NHRA national events also touted the numerous safety changes in the Funny Car class that his team, along with NHRA, is spearheading and addressed the concerns of the naysayers who are resistant to change. It's obvious Force is more concerned about building a better car than he is with...
Read Rob Geiger's full interview with John Force at NHRA.com
Tags: drag racing, Force, Funny Car, John Force, NHRA, Powerade, racing, safetySchumacher, Hight, Anderson grab first 2008 POWERade glory in Pomona
...Like Schumacher, Hight continued his love affair with Pomona's pavement, winning his second straight race and third overall at his hometown facility. This time it was Pedregon on the losing end in the final as Hight's 4.861 at a blower-belt-tossing 284.39 mph in the Auto Club of Southern California Ford Mustang defeated Pedregon's 4.879 at 322.50 mph in his Advance Auto Parts Chevrolet Impala SS...
Read the full story by Rob Geiger, Sr. at NHRA.com
Tags: Chevrolet, Ford, Hight, NHRA, Pedregon, Pomona, Powerade, race, Robert Hight, WinternationalsFunny Car driver also in cash race
Perhaps the most competitive battleground in the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series is in its Funny Car class, and miles per hour aren't the defining standard.
The real competition involves sponsorships and the cubic dollars racers spend in an effort to not only go fast, but win a championship. The cars, capable of covering the Pomona Raceway quarter-mile drag strip at the Winternationals in a few ticks over four seconds and reaching speeds of 330 mph, are the focal point in sponsor...
Read full story at the Daily Breeze
Tags: drag racing, Funny Car, NHRA, Pomona, Powerade, race, racingPedregon sent for evaluation after first-round incident
Defending NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car champ Tony Pedregon was transported to Pomona Valley Medical Center Hospital for evaluation after his Q Horsepower Chevy Impala suffered an engine explosion ...
Tags: Chevy, drag racing, Funny Car, NHRA, Pedregon, Pomona, Powerade, racing, Tony PedregonCarquest Auto Parts Nhra Winternationals-Fact sheet and preview
Topic: CARQUEST AUTO PARTS NHRA WINTERNATIONALS-Fact sheet and preview WHAT: 48thannual CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals, the first of 24 races in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.
Tags: drag racing, motorsports, NHRA, Powerade, race, racingTroxel, Johnson share marital rivalry
POMONA - Drag racing's history is full of rivalries among family members.
From the father-son battle between Warren Johnson and son Kurt in Pro Stock, the daughter vs. father face-off of Ashley and John Force in Funny Car, to the husband and wife meetings between John Smith and Rhonda Hartman-Smith in Top Fuel, relation and rivalry go hand in hand.
This season, a new one has emerged, with Tommy Johnson Jr. and his wife, Melanie Troxel, who unlike the others...(Snip)
First-year Funny Car driver Melanie Troxel gets down the quarter-mile track in 4.90 seconds and 316.45 mph during qualifying run at NHRA POWERade Winternationals in Pomona, on Thursday, Feb.
Tags: drag racing, Force, Funny Car, John Force, Johnson, Melanie Troxel, NHRA, Pomona, Powerade, racing, Tommy Johnson, Tommy Johnson Jr, Top FuelNHRA’s Y.E.S. Program Continues to Grow with Three New Partners Added for 2008
NHRA has announced that the Youth & Education Services (Y.E.S) program presented by the U.S. Army is adding these program partners for 2008: the University of Northwestern Ohio, Valvoline, and Caterpillar (CAT).
Created in 1989 as a tool to connect education and drag racing, the Y.E.S program is a one day event held at 15 POWERade Series races. It is motorsports' first and only full-time program devoted exclusively to educational programming. The Y.E.S. program demonstrates to young men and women the variety of career opportunities within motorsports, the U.S. Army and the automotive industry...
Read the full story at NHRA.com
Tags: drag racing, motorsports, NHRA, Powerade, race, racing