Chris Moore tuned his Motec-controlled, DME-built, turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa to be the class of the sixteen-bike field all through Friday testing and racing on Saturday, April 14, at Atlanta Dragway. Since this was a Performance Racing Products Grudge race, no times, incrementals, or reaction times were shown.

See the race report at here.

The NHDRO is back in the Midwest at Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio, for the Liguori Drag Racing May Bike Fest on May 4-6.  (Tim Hailey photo)   [04/19/18]

Michigan’s Milan Dragway will open the 2018 season with two days of test & tunes on Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22. The first racing event will be Liberty’s Gears No ET Nationals on Saturday, April 28.   [04/19/18]

Driving a nitrous-boosted 2015 Summit Racing Camaro owned by three-time NHRA Pro Mod World Champion Rickie Smith and tuned by Brandon Switzer, Keith Haney will make his NHRA Pro Mod debut next month (May 18-20) at Topeka, KS, with additional outings in September at St. Louis and the following month in Dallas, TX.

Haney has had success in both Pro Mod and Drag Radial within the Mid-

West Pro Mod Series last year and this year had a runner-up finish in Radial vs. the World at Lights Out 9 in February, another runner-up in RvW at the Mid-West series season opener in early March, a semifinals appearance at the elite Sweet 16 RvW event later that month, and picked up the RvW win just a couple of weeks ago for Radial Revenge at Tulsa Raceway Park, a track he co-owns with fellow racer Todd Martin.

Haney promises to bring a different attitude to the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Series.

“I'm going to figure out if I can get with NHRA, because the very first pass I make down an NHRA race track, I'm calling Stevie [Jackson] out. Maybe me and him will have a little grudge race on top of qualifying. Hell, if he wants to go every one of the qualifying rounds against each other, I'll do that.” Haney added. “And anybody else that has a little bit of oomph, if they want a piece of 'You Know My Name,' they know where to find me. I'm going to be in the NHRA Pro Mod pits and they can come find me anytime they want.”   [04/19/18]

Racing at the K&N Spring Fling Million began Wednesday with over 400 entries. Wednesday’s winner received $30,000 with over $60K in prizes and awards randomly handed out.

With dragsters and door cars running separately until round six, by round seven there were eight cars left, evenly split between the two. The racers were Andy Schmall, Peeps Pennington, Dom Meziere, Bradley Johnson, Jack Sadler, Marko Perivolaris, Buddy Ferrell and George Lewis.

Sadler turned on the red light to advance Johnson, Meziere took the win light against Lewis, Pennington ran out to move Ferrell ahead, and Perivolaris used a better reaction time to advance over Schmall. Three dragsters stacked against the one door car of Meziere for the semifinals.

In the first half of the semis, Johnson, who was the big winner two weeks earlier at the Four-Wide NHRA Nationals, turned it red against former ‘Fling winner Perivolaris, while on the other side, Meziere, an NHRA national event winner, and his fast door car used a better reaction to take the best of Ferrell. And so, the final was door car vs. dragster; two California drivers who know where the winner’s circle is.

With Perivolaris receiving the head start, both drivers had good reaction times, but it was the Perivolaris who in his first three rounds of eliminations today had a .000, .000, and a .001 reaction times to start his day. Perivolaris won the last day at the 2017 version of the Spring Fling Million and with this the first day of the event, he has stretched his wins at the ‘Fling to 19 straight wins.

Thursday will find competitors going straight into eliminations with no time trials, for another $30,000-to-win day. It will also highlight the Racepak Bounty Reward for the person who beats Wednesday’s winner. The main event is the Million contested on Friday, where the actual payout is dependent on the actual number of cars in competition but is guaranteed to be at least $200,000.  (John DiBartolomeo photo)  [04/19/18]

When the United Nitro Funny Car Championship raced at Tucson Dragway on April 13-14 there was an added incentive for drivers to sharpen their starting line prowess.

WELD Wheels announced competition for the UNFC Perfect Light during United Nitro Funny Car Championship races. WELD Wheels will award a pair of Perfect 16 x 16 Beadlock Wheels to the first UNFC driver to leave the starting line with a perfect .000 reaction time.

If no UNFC driver leaves the starting line with a .000 reaction time during eliminations, the closest to a Perfect Light will be awarded two Perfect Wheels from WELD at completion of the 2018 United Nitro Funny Car Championship. To be eligible for the WELD Wheels Perfect Light prize, a driver must prominently display a WELD Wheels decal on the side of his nitro funny car in both qualifying and eliminations during United Nitro Funny Car championship races.

With a .080 reaction time in the semifinal round of eliminations, Jason Rupert is the current front-runner for the UNFC Perfect Light award with four events left.    [04/19/18]

CRC Industries, Inc. has introduced the new CRC BRAKLEEN Pro Series Brake Part Cleaners. The new line of professional-use aerosol cleaners includes four formulations: Non-Flammable, 50-State Compliant, Non-Chlorinated (5 gal. shown), and Non-Chlorinated with less that 45% VOCs. The three Non-Chlorinated products have upgraded formulas and more leaning power than their standard-size counterparts. The new professional-size cans have increased fill weights with greater than 25% more product, which means less recycling required. These products come with CRC PowerJet® actuators, which provide a stronger spray.   [04/19/18]