ANDERSON MOVES TO T-BIRD

Now before all you Ford fanatics get too excited, we don't mean that kind of Thunderbird. Greg Anderson will be taking a ride with the famous USAF precision flying team. On Feb. 17 Anderson will be trading his Pro Stock Pontiac Grand Am for a Lockheed Martin F-16D.

Thinking about the 25,000 lbs. of thrust produced by the F-16's Pratt and Whitney engine and the 1,500 mph the aircraft can achieve, Anderson said, "I know I'm in for an awesome ride. I just hope I won't be egressing my breakfast, lunch and dinner." [2-2-2004]

DIXON NO BOOB

Larry Dixon proved to know exactly what he was talking about in his Super Bowl pick: New England won by three points. Hope he got some good odds.

But nobody predicted that half-time show. [2-2-2004]

GILBERTSON CHOOSES INTERN FOR POMONA

When Funny Car racer Bob Gilbertson and his team came up with the idea to offer an intern program at each of the 23 races on the 2004 NHRA POWERade tour, they never imagined that they would get over 4,000 entries. A different intern will be chosen for each event.

Michelle Read of Creston, CA was selected to assist the Trick Tank team at the season-opening K&N Filters Winternationals. Read will be mentored by George "Road-Hog" Wallace, who helped the team at the 2003 World Finals and was the inspiration for this program.

Read is a 38-year old legal clerk for the County of San Luis Obispo and has been a fan of all forms of racing since she started going to the races as a little kid with her dad and brothers. She took auto shop in high school, has helped off-road and sprint car teams on a volunteer basis, crewed for her boyfriend with his GTO drag car and is planning on entering her '78 Pontiac Trans Am 400 in the "Pony Express" road race in Nevada this year.

Michelle's reaction when she was told she was selected was: "Woo hoo...yeah baby!" The Agent knows just how she feels. [1-30-2004]

SOME PRO SPONSORS RETURN; SOME DON'T

Edelbrock will return for the third year as the title sponsor of the PRO-Edelbrock Drag Racing Series. The street car series has expanded to eight races in 2004: April 16-18,

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Bradenton, FL; May 21-23, Atco, NJ; June 11-13, Bowling Green, KY; July 9-11, Reading, PA; July 30-Aug. 1, Cordova, IL; Aug. 27-29, Reading, PA; Sept. 17-19, Atlanta, GA; Oct. 8-10, Memphis, TN.

Holley has signed a three-year agreement to become the title sponsor of the PRO Hot Rod & Muscle Car Nationals at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, KY.

VP Racing Fuels has signed up again as the "Official Racing Fuel of NHRA Championship Drag Racing," but they have opted out of the National Mustang Racers Association and PRO organizations. The approved 2004 spec fuels for the NMRA-Denso Ford Drag Racing Series and PRO-Edelbrock Drag Racing Series are from Torco Racing Fuels and Sunoco Racing Fuels. [1-30-2004]