Top Fuel veteran Mike Smith to make NHRA Funny Car debut

Former NHRA Top Fuel driver Mike Smith will experience a true father-son weekend when he makes his NHRA Funny Car debut during the upcoming ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals March 13-16 at famed Gainesville Raceway. Smith, son of legendary fuel tuner Paul Smith, will be driving the Tire Kingdom/Diamond Freight Distribution 2006 Monte Carlo. As an added bonus, Mike Smith's younger brother, Top Fuel driver John “Bodie” Smith, will join the crew as co-crew chief for the ...

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Melanie Troxel may drive in World Land Speed Record attempt

Steve Fossett World Land Speed Racing (LSR) Team has announced that NHRA Top Fuel & Funny Car driver Melanie Troxel has made their short list of possible drivers for their newest land speed record attempt. The organization’s newest car is a 48 foot long streamliner powered by a 40,000 HP S&S Turbine jet engine. The team’s goal is to set a new Absolute Supersonic Land Speed Record of more than 800 MPH and they want a woman to pilot the vehicle.

In addition to Melanie, two other NHRA drivers made the short list as well. Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Peggy Llewellyn and newly licensed Top Fuel racer Jessie Harris are also candidates. The list of other potential drivers includes drivers from other motorsports and two pilots.

The selected candidate will have to be available for the team’s test and run schedule for 2008, which may not fit with Melanie's current NHRA racing schedule.

Source: Press Release

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Troxel makes presence felt – Los Angeles Times

Former top fuel driver ranks third for today's finals in funny car at the Winternationals, but her husband fails to make the field of 16.

She is married to funny car driver Tommy Johnson Jr., and when she made the off-season transition from top fuel dragsters to the class in which her husband competes, much was made of Melanie Troxel's marriage...

Read the full story by Martin Henderson in the L.A. Times

Brown seizes qualifying lead at NHRA season-opener

Former Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Antron Brown raced to the Top Fuel qualifying lead Friday in the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.

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Troxel, 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.

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Clevite and Perfect Circle Provide Bearings and Piston Rings for McMillen Top Fuel Entry

Hoosier Thunder Motorsports announced today that the Amalie Oil / Torco Nitro Top Fuel dragster, driven by team owner Terry McMillen, will be outfitted with Mahle Clevite bearings and Perfect Circle piston rings for the 2008 racing season. Clevite and Perfect Circle will be major associate product sponsors....

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