JEG'S FOUNDATION GETS PLEDGES

Team owners Sara and Don Schumacher, Funny Car driver Whit Bazemore, and crew chief Lee Beard have each pledged to donate $500 to the Jeg's Foundation "Racing for Cancer Research" whenever Bazemore takes a national event victory. The Agent has always had a warm spot for Bazemore because he was a drag racing photographer before he climbed into the driver's seat. Now we want Baze to win even more -- and it's all for a good cause. (3-26-2004)

EIGHT TRACKS JOIN NHRA

The NHRA expanded its member track program, signing eight new drag racing facilities. All will participate in the NHRA Summit Drag Racing Series and the NHRA O'Reilly Auto Parts Jr. Drag Racing League.

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The North Central division is adding three new member tracks. Thompson Drag Raceway, located northeast of Cleveland, is the lone quarter-mile drag strip to join the division. Midstate Dragway in Havana, Ill., and E.T. Raceway in Bloomfield, Ind., are two eighth-mile tracks joining the NHRA.

Rusk, Texas, is the home of the South Central division's newest quarter-mile facility. Cherokee County Motorsports Park joins the NHRA and will host one of the divisional events that make up the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. The eight-mile drag strip at Houston Motorsports Park also joins the division.

The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series also will make a stop at the newest member track of the Southeast division, South Georgia Motor Sports Park near Valdosta, Ga., approximately 60 miles northeast of Tallahassee, Fla.

The West Central division will be joined by Oahe Speedway in Pierre, N.D., while Bonanza Dragway in Walla Walla, Wash., is the newest member of the Northwest division. Both facilities house an eighth-mile drag strip. (3-26-2004)