WHO DUN IT? NO JUSTICE

Mark your calendar, CSI-Las Vegas fans. Longtime motorsports sponsor Justice Brothers appears on the Thursday, April 14th episode entitled "4x4". After a Las Vegas auto-convention model is found murdered, the suspect is questioned in the Justice Brothers trade show booth. You'll have to watch the show to find out what happens. CSI-Las Vegas airs on CBS at 10:00 p.m. {Eastern & Pacific). [4-13-2005]

NICE GOING, WARREN, BUT PONTIAC JACK STILL HOLDS THE TITLE

Warren Johnson became the oldest man (61) to win a race in a NHRA professional class, but Top Fuel racer "Pontiac Jack" Ostrander is still the oldest to win in a drag racing - Professional Category by virtue of his win a couple of years ago in Top Fuel at an IHRA event. Ostrander is saying how old he was when he won but considering that he ran one of the first Scotty Finn dragsters back when the agent will assume he is a little older than Warren Johnson. By the way, a tip 'o the Agent's Stetson to Warren for his performance at Houston. (Zak Hawthorne photo) [4-13-2005]

TEN-POUND TEMPEST IN A TEA POT

A couple of days ago the Agent reported the info he'd gotten from several Pro Stock racers/team owners and one Pro Mod team owner about the discrepancy between the scales at the NHRA national events at Gainesville and Houston. Reportedly, racers such as Warren Johnson, Larry Morgan, Mark Pawuk and Jeg Couglin Jr. said the scales were really only 5-10 pounds heavy at Gainesville and that amount of weight removed from a Pro Stock car wouldn't have any significant effect on its performance.

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The Agent would then have to assume from those racers' statements, if true, that the next time Warren, Mark, Larry or Jeggy happen to get beaten by, oh, let's say, Greg Anderson or Jason Line and those guys' cars are five or 10 lbs light at the scales, then no one would care since that weight wouldn't have had any real effect on his or their performances...Yeah, right! [4-13-2005]