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S&W TO SPONSOR MOROSO 5-DAY BRACKETS

S&W Race Cars has signed to be the title sponsor for the 2005 and 2006 5-Day Brackets Championships at Moroso Motorsports Park in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Scott Weney, president of S&W, is a two-time winner of the event as well as the 2000 IHRA Funny Car World Champion. "As we approach our company's 50th anniversary," he said, "we are especially proud to be associated with the 5-Day as it celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2006." [8-22-2005]

HORAN NOSE JOB

The Agent received a spy photo, shot from high in the rafters of Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car pilot Dan Horan’s San Fernando Valley shop. Horan's flopper was docked championship points after the body on his ’66 Mustang was disqualified with too much front overhand at the recent Goodguys VRA Pomona event.

Horan’s crew, known as the "brain surgeons" is working hard to finish the shortening job and repaint the body prior to the next Goodguys event at Seattle to keep the boss in the points hunt. If body overhang was so important to enforce at the Fairplex event, the Agent wonders why tech officials let Horan run in eliminations with the rules-bending body in the first place. . .or was car count in front of the SoCal crowd more important to Goodguys management? [8-22-2005]

WOLTERS SURFACES AT THE 'NERD'

The Agent had been wondering what had become of former Gateway International Raceway manager Rod Wolters. Wolters, who was responsible for the building of the new and improved St. Louis facility as well as the Nebraska "Cornplex" drag strip, was evidently called upon to step in and run the Brainerd International Raceway after a management "housecleaning." [8-22-2005]

FLOPPER FRENZY

Agent 1320 received this photo of another Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car nearing completion, this one for owner Marc Roy. Florida's Dale Smith crafted the Plymouth mini-Satellite fiberglass body and the chassis is currently set-up with a Donovan 417, its getting the finishing touches at Dave Tuttle's Race Car Fabrication shop in Northern California.

Roy hopes to have the flopper finished for the Goodguys Finals at Famoso Raceway on Oct. 29-30. [8-22-2005]

FEWER FACTORY-BACKED TEAMS FOR GM IN SPORTS COMPACT?

The Agent hears that GM will continue to be very active in the NHRA Sports Compact series with plenty of racers driving their brand of sports compact cars with GM power. What the Agent was told was that there simply won't be as many fully funded GM factory teams. [8-22-2005]