FLOWMASTER TO SPONSOR ADRL SERIES

Flowmaster has signed a multi-year agreement naming the company as title rights sponsor of the new American Drag Racing League as well as the official exhaust technology company of the ADRL.

The outlaw Pro Modified series will also feature prize money and championship bonuses totaling more than a half-million dollars for the six-race 2005 season. At two of the ADRL events racers will be able to earn points towards the AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod Challenge Presented by TLR championship. [1-31-2005]

NUMBER 2 ALL THE TIME

The NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series will be carried exclusively on ESPN2 in 2005. Last year NHRA was carried on a combination of ESPN and "the deuce." ESPN2 is available in 88 million households. The Agent advises that you check your local television listings the weekend of each event because the schedule is, as they say, "subject to change."

Returning to the booth will be Marty Reid and Mike Dunn. David Rieff will return to trackside reporting and will be joined by Gary Gerould, who served as on-air commentator when NHRA racing was covered on ABC's Wide World of Sports.

NHRA 2Day, hosted by Marty Reid, will begin Sunday, Feb. 13 at 11:30 a.m. (ET) and will run for 39 consecutive weeks.  [1-31-2005]

NHRA TESTS ON REV LIMITER FOR NITRO CARS GO WELL

Brandon Bernstein drove the Bud King during NHRA pre-season testing over the weekend at Phoenix with the MSD rev-limiter device installed. Crew chief Tim Richards has two

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versions of the device on the Budweiser Top Fueler, one restricted the max rpm to 8100 and one with the limit at 8400. According to an MSD tech, with the 8100 rpm limit the Top Fuel car ran a best of 325 mph and change; with the 8400, a best of 330 mph and change.

According to Richards, with the 8100 limiter installed, when the rpms went to about 8200-plus, the device retarded the ignition timing by 20 degrees. On the 330 pass with the 8400 rpm limiter installed, the engine never exceed 8250 rpm so the device never took any timing away. In both cases the MSD tech that was on site said the device worked as advertised and started pulling timing out exactly four-seconds into the run.

The only questions that remain unanswered are how the device will effect ET's and what rpm limit will NHRA finally settle on? [1-31-2005]