U.S. Army Racing has bolstered its 11-time championship-winning Top Fuel driver lineup of Tony “The Sarge” Schumacher and Antron Brown with the addition of fellow Don Schumacher Racing driver Leah Pritchett and her team for the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, it was announced Tuesday in preparation for this weekend’s annual NHRA Nitro Preseason Test Days at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.

“Leah has been a great DSR teammate and now she is going to strengthen our Army Racing lineup overall,” said Schumacher, who finished eighth in the final standings this season. “She and that team proved their speed right out of the box and she showed up at the track each weekend as one of the cars to beat. Off the track, she brings great marketing capabilities as one of the more colorful spokespeople in this sport. It’s a win-win for everybody involved.”   [01/30/18]

Dodge//SRT and the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving have announced a new performance-packed one-day drag racing class, featuring the 840-horsepower 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon – the most powerful muscle car ever.

The new “Dodge//SRT Bondurant Drag Racing School” complements Bondurant’s already successful “Official High Performance Driving School of Dodge//SRT” class provided to all customers who buy an SRT model vehicle and includes both classroom instruction and on-track performance driving. 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon owners have the opportunity to participate in either one of these full-day classes at no additional charge.

In addition to the Challenger SRT Demon, the new drag racing course will also feature other Dodge high-performance vehicles, including the 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and Hellcat Widebody, and the 485-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT 392.

Pre-registration for the “Dodge//SRT Bondurant Drag Racing School” began January 12, with the first class starting March 9. Demon and SRT owners register for the class through the Dodge//SRT concierge line, 800-998-1110, as their vehicle identification numbers will be verified. All others register at Bondurant.com/dragracing.

The “Dodge//SRT Bondurant Drag Racing School” will be held at Bondurant’s world-class facility and the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, AZ. The new program is a part of Bondurant’s Golden 50th Anniversary in 2018 and is a collaboration with Dodge, Goodyear, Shell and Pennzoil.   [01/30/18]

Wagler Competition Products a company specializing in diesel performance, has taken its research and development program to the next level by opening Wagler Motorsports Park (WMP) in Lyons, Indiana, about one and a half hours south of Indianapolis.

Jeremy Wagler, owner of Wagler Competition Products, jumped at the opportunity to convert Lyons Raceway Park into a private motorsports testing facility. Built in 1996, the current facility is in excellent shape and was the NHRA North Central Division track of the year in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Wagler plans to expand upon the existing eighth-mile drag strip by adding a sled-pulling track and a professional dyno-tuning facility, Critical Calibration, Inc.

Due to the unique location, CCi is set to become a premier tuning company where initial dyno results can be tested in a real-world, off-road environment on the drag strip or pulling track. CCi will also become the headquarters of Critical Mass Motorsports (CMM), the Wagler/EZ LYNK partnership that campaigns the wild, screw-blown, diesel-powered Pro Mod 1937 Chevy known as the “Screwed Coupe.”

WMP will partner with the Vincennes University College of Technology by offering educational opportunities to the next generation of motorsport professionals.

These events are on the 2018 schedule and will be open to the public:

May 18-20: Team 260 Neglection No Prep

June 8-9: Wagler Diesel Competition

June 14-17: No Box Nationals

July 28: Southeast Gassers Association

The facility is available to rent by contacting track@waglercompetition.com.    [01/30/18]

WIX Filters will receive major associate branding on J.R. Todd’s DHL Toyota Camry Funny Car and Shawn Langdon’s Global Electronic Technology Toyota Camry Funny Car. WIX Filters will also continue to serve as the Official Filters of Team Kalitta and have associate branding on the Top Fuel dragsters driven by Richie Crampton and Doug Kalitta.

In addition, WIX Filters will grow their hospitality presence with Kalitta Motorsports in 2018 with five major activations across NHRA’s extensive reach throughout the country.

“We knew we found a great fit with Kalitta, but we didn’t realize how great this partnership would turn out,” said Jennifer Gibson, brand manager for WIX. “From races ending in the Winner’s Circle to support behind the scenes, last year proved to be extremely successful. We couldn’t be more excited to continue our partnership with the entire Kalitta team.”   [01/30/18]

The 24th annual Nitto Tire NMRA Spring Break Shootout presented by Steeda Autosports will be held March 1-4 at Bradenton, FL.

Special race classes highlight the action-packed weekend. The Terminator/GT500 Shootout features some of the fastest SVT-produced Ford Mustangs on the planet going heads-up. Hellion Power Systems presents the Turbo Coyote Shootout category with 7- and 8-second turbocharged late-model Mustangs.

A growing group of street-legal Mustangs live on the fringe of reality and NMRA gives them a home in Outlaw True Street. Once again, ididit pays big money to bring the quickest Ford street racers on the planet to participate in the ultimate Spring Break battle royale. UPR Products is hosting a class appropriately called King of the Hill where the quickest Terminator/GT500 racers square off against the Turbo Coyote Shootout’s biggest players for bragging rights and bonus money. Presented by Watson Racing, Ford Performance provides the return of the "Snake Pit,” a special class exclusively designed to showcase the Cobra Jets.

For gear bangers, TREMEC will be hosting the famous Stick Shift Shootout for True Street racers to determine who has the fastest manually shifted street Mustang in the U.S. Finally, the fastest 16 cars from Saturday’s QA1 True Street field (usually 120+ cars) will race heads-up on Sunday in the renowned Spring Break Shootout class, presented by JLT Performance.   [01/30/18]

Holley EFI Coyote Twin Independent Variable Cam Timing Control Modules turn loose the full power potential of high-revving 2011-14 Ford Coyote engines. They're compatible with both Holley HP and Dominator EFI systems, ridiculously easy to hook up, and give Coyote engines more than 90 additional foot-pounds of torque right out of the box. The main harnesses are terminated with ford TPS and IAC connectors that make it easy to convert from a drive-by-wire throttle body to a manual throttle body, and four built-in diagnostic LEDs make troubleshooting a snap if there's a cam- or crank-sensor failure. Holley EFI Plug and Play Coyote Ti-VCT Control Module main harnesses include a power tap connector and grounds for adding additional sensors or actuators and CAN bus communication for the Holley EFI ECU for high speed data transfer and diagnostics. Also available are a plug-and-play main harness for 2011-14 Coyote engines with stock cam shafts and stock coils and a plug-and-play main harness for stock cams and Holley EFI coils. If an external map sensor is required, use the available 2-bar MAP sensor.    [01/30/18]