Nhra Powerade Countdown to the Championship Format Changes for 2008
NHRA has announced modifications to the NHRA POWERade Countdown to the Championship designed to build upon the excitement and success generated from last year's inaugural season. In addition, NHRA also announced that the final race of the season, the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, has been moved one week later to Nov. 13-16.
The 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series will feature an 18-race regular season, followed by a six-race NHRA POWERade Countdown to the Championship playoff to determine POWERade world champions in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock. The fields for the championship playoffs, which will be set at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals on Labor Day weekend, will be expanded to the top 10 in each class, up from eight in 2007.
Tags: countdown, drag racing, Funny Car, Mac Tools, motorsports, NHRA, Powerade, race, racing, Top FuelPrudhomme and Wilkerson to align for the 2008 NHRA POWERade season – NHRA.com
January 11, 2008 by Robert
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Team owner Don Prudhomme and owner/driver Tim Wilkerson announced an alliance for the upcoming 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing season. While Snake Racing will field a car in the Top Fuel category and Tim Wilkerson will campaign a Funny Car, the new coalition will create the ability for the two teams to share resources and discuss tuning decisions, while generating new opportunities for their sponsors.
"Tim has always been a really good guy and a solid competitor," Prudhomme said. "I know he has a good relationship with (Snake Racing crew chiefs) Donnie Bender and Todd Smith and both teams have always been quick to lend each other a helping hand. For 2008, I wanted to strengthen the relationship between our teams and create opportunities for our dragster and Tim's Funny Car program."
Tags: car, drag racing, dragster, Funny Car, NHRA, Powerade, racing, Tim Wilkerson, Top Fuel, WilkersonGary Scelzi to race midget car at the Chili Bowl
Four-time NHRA POWERade champion Gary Scelzi will be racing midget car at the Chili Bowl Nationals. Scelzi will be racing against fellow Top Fuel Funny Car driver Cruz Pedregon in the event (Cruz Pedregon Set to Race in Chili Bowl)...
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Tags: Cruz Pedregon, Dodge, Funny Car, Gary Scelzi, Mopar, motorsports, NHRA, Pedregon, Powerade, race, racing, Scelzi, Top Fuel, Top Fuel Funny CarJet-car driver Harris readies for her first year in Top Fuel
January 8, 2008 by Robert
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After five years driving the Queen of Hearts Jet Dragster, 25-year-old Jessie Harris is preparing for her Top Fuel debut as a teammate to Clay Millican on mega-owner/sponsor Evan Knoll's Torco Race Fuels team. The Rome, N.Y. resident will make her first appearance Feb. 7-10 at the 48th annual CARQUEST Auto Parts Winternationals...
by Thomas Gaines 1/8/2008
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Worsham and Tuttle Announce Alliance for 2008
Worsham & Fink Racing ORANGE , Calif. 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 ...
Tags: Del Worsham, Funny Car, NHRA, racing, Top Fuel, WorshamDancing with Antron
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 the switch to Top Fuel.
Beard, Brown, and the Matco team recently completed an extensive test at Gainesville Raceway where Beard tells me Brown made several "perfect passes," including some to the 1,000-foot mark that would have translated to low 4.5-second runs if Brown[...]
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Tags: Antron, Antron Brown, Brown, Funny Car, Gainesville, King, NHRA, race, Top FuelBowling a spare-time passion for many high-profile sports figures stars
December 30, 2007 by Robert
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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 to help a friend work on an alcohol Funny Car. But his love of bowling has spanned more than forty years and became infectious among his crew members and son, Del, who co-owns the team and drives the 330 mph "flopper."
Tags: car, Del Worsham, drag racing, Funny Car, NHRA, racing, Top Fuel, Top Fuel Funny Car, WorshamWorsham and Tuttle announce alliance for 2008 POWERade season
December 28, 2007 by Robert
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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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