BUY THIS BOOK! VISIT DRAGSTRIPS COAST TO COAST

If you are a professional racer or spectator and have to travel to races, don't try it without Allen Brown's National Speedway Directory. It'll be the best $13 (postage included) you'll spend -- trust the Agent on this one. By the way, the 2004 edition lists 330 active dragstrips in North America with 35 in Canada and 295 in the lower 48, plus Alaska. Which state has the most active tracks? Texas has 25 and North Carolina is next 19. Order yours by calling 616-785-0340 and tell them you read about it in Drag Racing Online magazine. [6-14-2004]

AND BUY THIS TAPE

A special CD titled "Hot from the Strip" has been released in conjunction with the 35th annual K&N Filters NHRA SuperNationals at Englishtown, NJ to help raise funds for Becky White, the publisher of Quick Times Racing News who was injured in an auto accident earlier this year.

The hour-long CD features drag racing tunes from the Blast First/Mute/EMI recording duo Big Stick, which includes drag journalist Diana "the Doc" Thomas. "Hot from the Strip" also features some extremely rare, old-school drag racing commercials, snippets from Wildgirl's Rock-n-Racing radio archives, featuring an interview with the late "Big Daddy" Roth, and the voices of drag racing champions John Force, Don Prudhomme, Cruz Pedregon and others. Additionally, there's a "Sounds of the Drags" segment recorded at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park with live recordings of all types of hot rods, including Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars.

"Hot from the Strip" will be available at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park's souvenir stores during the June 17-20 SuperNationals, or by calling 718-626-6457. [6-14-2004]

PARITY NOT PERFORMANCE IN PRO MOD?

Since the IHRA instituted the 20% overdrive rule for their supercharged Pro Mods with the announced intention of bringing parity to the class, the Agent thought it only fair to keep

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track of the class. In the two races at 20% the bump spot has averaged about 6.31 seconds. The Low E.T. has been a 6.17, a number first recorded by Fred Hahn and Jim Oddy in 2000 in Grand Bend, Canada. This year the low e.t. at the Grand Bend event was a 6.221.

At the Virginia race the spread between the number one qualifier and the bump was about 15 hundredths. At Grand Bend it was about eight hundredths. At Virginia the qualified field was evenly divided between supercharged and nitrous cars. At Grand Bend four nitrous cars and 12 blown cars made up the field. One blower car and one nitrous car have made it to the winner's circle. [6-14-2004]