When the Spring Fling brand came to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway six years ago, it included racing in two categories: Super Pro and Pro (or Box and No Box). When the event changed to the Spring Fling Million with a potential payday of $1,000,000 two years ago, co-promoters Peter Biondo and Kyle Seipel opted to race just one category, Super Pro due to the increasing number of cars. However, not wishing to forego the support of the Pro racers, the decision was made to include an elite 38-car Pro field. Just as door cars are kept separate from dragsters in the Super Pro class, so do the Pro 38 racers, who run to a class winner and then that person is inserted into the following Super Pro round in addition to earning an extra $500 from W.W. Williams Racing.

In addition to the win Wednesday night, Marko Perivolaris earned a bounty on his head courtesy of Racepak. The person beating Perivolaris Thursday earned themselves a Racepak Sportsman Data Logger. That lucky person turned out to be Tony Farmer from Midland, TX, using a dead-on the dial with a “3” to defeat Perivolaris in the second round of eliminations.

For the quarterfinals with six cars remaining, the two door cars of Al Quigley and Scott Stockton were hanging in there with the remaining dragsters. When the smoke cleared from the round, Quigley, Luke Bogacki and Lane Dicken remained and for the semifinals, based on his .002 reaction time, Dicken received the odd-car bye run to move him directly into the final.

In the semis, Quigley picked the wrong time to miss the ‘tree with a .057 reaction time to Bogacki’s .011, moving Bogacki into the final. Dicken took his bye run by hitting the ‘tree with a .006 and shutting off early, but the .006 gave him lane choice in the final. Dicken, who was a runner-up in the 2016 Million to Jeff Verdi, would be facing off with last year’s Million-dollar man, Bogacki.

Bogacki left the line first with a .008 reaction time and it was Dicken’s fate to miss the ‘tree with a .021, which gave Bogacki room at the finish line for the win.

“I didn’t start off today driving that well,” said Bogacki, “but it came around for me. And I think I like this place.”  (John DiBartolomeo phioto)    [04/20/18]

This bit of art certainly caught the Agent’s eye. Strange is offering free delivery and handling on any order that contains a ring and pinion gear set. The offer is UPS Ground only and in the contiguous United States. Excludes truck freight and oversize fees.

The Agent must ask, has John Mazzarella come out of retirement?

[04/20/18]

​Williford Racing dominated Pro Street last year winning all four XDA 2017 events. Can they repeat?The Xtreme Dragbike Association season gets underway April 27-29 at Maryland International Raceway (MDIR) with some of the best professional and sportsman motorcycle drag racers in the country.

Since their announced return in December, Chris and Jason Miller have been working non-stop to put together an extremely organized program at some of the best tracks on the East Coast. With the new season comes new tracks, rules changes, purse increases, and $120,000 in contingency funds.

One of the most exciting changes for the 2018 in the XDA is the new E.T. points system. Now, racers that run well all year will make the Top 10 in points, and the racer that went the most rounds all year will be the Champion. This will reward the ET racers that are consistently winning rounds every event.

The Street ET class will also take advantage of the new E.T. points system. This sportsman class is for street-legal motorcycles only and is great for new riders that are looking to get into the sport.

Also, the XDA will be taking the Top Sportsman winner (5th round) and advancing him into the 6th round of Pro E.T. to take a shot at an additional $3,000. Now every Top Sportsman racer has a chance at $3,000 in Pro E.T. on Saturday, $3,000 in Top Sportsman on Sunday, and an additional $3,000 in Pro E.T. on Sunday for a total of $9,000 in just one weekend.

The 2018 XDA schedule is:

April 27-29: Maryland Int’l Raceway

May 18-20: Atco Dragway

June 22-24: Virginia Motorsports Park

July 27-29: Maryland Int’l Raceway

Aug. 24-26: Virginia Motorsports Park

Sept. 21-23: Maryland Int’l Raceway  [04/20/18]

Several NHRA drivers will participate in a charity event on Thursday, April 26, before the Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway. As a kickoff event of the Cooperative Christian Ministry’s “I Love My City” county-wide service project, Charlotte Motor Speedway and Coca-Cola Consolidated will distribute more than 800 cases of Coca-Cola, Dasani and Powerade to Concord and Kannapolis Police and Fire departments, the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Department, EMS and area volunteer fire departments.

Beginning at 12:30 p.m., eighteen local public safety organizations will line their vehicles down the zMAX Dragway entrance and receive free drinks from the speedway’s community service Pit Crew, NHRA drivers, and volunteers from Coca-Cola Consolidated at the Dragway’s handicapped parking lot in front of the tower.

In addition to the drink donation, Coca-Cola Consolidated volunteers will deliver messages of thanks and support packaged in mini Coca-Cola bottles to the local first responders as part of the company’s "Message in a Bottle" initiative.

Drivers Antron Brown, Bo Butner, Tanner Gray, Tommy Johnson Jr., and Leah Pritchett are scheduled to join Greg Walter, Executive VP of Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chris McGee, VP of Community Advocacy for Coca-Cola Consolidated, and Cabarrus County city and town mayors and public officials.   [04/20/18]