FLOWMASTER NAMED TITLE SPONSOR OF PRO MOD CLASH

AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod Challenge Presented by TLR officials announced today that FLOWMASTER, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement to become the title sponsor for the race-within-a race bonus program for AMS TLR Pro Mod drivers. Formally known as the AMS Pro Mod SHOOTOUT, the official name will now be the FLOWMASTER Pro Mod CLASH.

The FLOWMASTER Pro Mod CLASH will be contested during qualifying at the 2005 ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be televised on ESPN2. Drivers started earning points at the 2004 ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals and will do so through the 2005 O’Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals September 22-25 in Ennis, Texas. The eight drivers who accumulate the most points during that time will earn a spot in the CLASH. (ADRL photo by Roger Richards) [2-8-2005]

TORCO ASSOCIATE SPONSOR ON ALL SCHUMACHER TEAMS

Torco Racing Fuels, Inc., has been named by multi-team owner Don Schumacher as an associate sponsor on all eight of his teams competing in the 2005 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

Torco Racing Fuels is the official fuel of the IHRA series and, through its partnership with ProNitro, LLC, distributes nitromethane to racers in the IHRA series and makes it available during testing sessions to NHRA pro competitors. Torco also provides racing gasoline to the IHRA as well as to the sportsman classes of NHRA.

"This is fantastic," said Evan Knoll, president/owner of Torco Racing Fuels, Inc. "To be associated with NHRA and Don Schumacher Racing is a wonderful thing. While our fuels are legal during NHRA tests, we would like to see our nitromethane used in NHRA competition in the pro classes. We are presently negotiating with the NHRA."

Don Schumacher Racing teams include the Matco Tools Iron Eagle Dodge Stratus driven by Whit Bazemore, the Mopar/Oakley Dodge Stratus steered by Gary Scelzi, and the Ron Capps-piloted Brut Dodge Stratus in the Funny Car class. Also part of the largest team in NHRA history are reigning Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher, in the U.S. Army Dragster, Antron Brown and Angelle Sampey, on the U.S. Army Pro Stock Motorcycles, and Pro Stock Car drivers Jeg Coughlin Jr., in the Jeg's Mail Order/Mopar Dodge, and Richie Stevens in the Team Mopar Hemi-powered Dodge Stratus. [2-8-2005]

PRO-EDELBROCK CHANGES CLASS NAME, RULES

The PRO-Edelbrock Fastest Street Car Drag Racing Series has re-named its Cheap Street class to Car Craft Magazine Street Race and released new rules.

"We had a very hard time developing the class as an entry-level eliminator," explained Charlie Harmon, Vice President of Events for ProMedia, which produces the series. "As there seemed to be no easy way to salvage the original class, we worked hand in hand with Car Craft Magazine to re-develop Cheap Street into Car Craft Street Race, a category we can now truly say is the ultimate real-world street car class."

The mid nine-second class is designed for 1950 and later domestic street-oriented power adder vehicles using small blocks and big blocks, nitrous, blowers and turbochargers on nine-inch wide DOT approved street slicks. For the new class, each event winner will be required to carry an additional 20 lbs. for the next event, and the runner-up will be required to carry an additional 10 lbs. This will be cumulative through the racing season, meaning that each time a racer finishes first or second, more weight will be added at the following event. [2-8-2005]

OSCA ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE

The Outlaw Street Car Association (OSCA -- not to be confused with ORSCA) has set its race schedule and announced that Innovative Turbo Systems will be the title sponsor for the Outlaw 10.5 class in 2005. Innovative Turbo will also be the title sponsor for three races: April 9 at Hardinsburg (KY) Dragway, Aug. 13 at E.T. Raceway in Bloomfield, IN, and Oct. 8 at Edgewater Sports Park in Cleves, OH.

Other dates on the OSCA schedule are: May 14 (E.T. Raceway); June 11 Muncie, IN Dragway; July 9 (Edgewater Sports Park); and Sept. 10 (Hardinsburg Dragway). [2-8-2005]