JOIN OUR ONLINE RACE TEAM!

Now that the racing season is almost over, you can play RPM World Virtual Drag Racing online Flash game and compete with other online drag racers from around the world. Be sure to click any of the links to RPM World that you see throughout Drag Racing Online and you will automatically be added to the Drag Racing Online team once you start playing. The points and wins you get will be shown on the scoreboard at the RPM World website, along with the Drag Racing Online team name. If you get enough points so that our team has a presence on the front page of the scoreboard we may contact you to give you a prize of your choice. Prizes may include DRO T-shirts, DRO hats, die-cast cars, etc.

Lets show the rest of the Internet some real Drag Racing Online competition! Click Here to play. [11-04-2003]

FORCE OFF INJURED RESERVES, RETURNS TO POMONA

Inspired by the performance of injured Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, John Force will try to overcome his own injuries this week in a bid to defend his Funny Car title in the 39th annual Automobile Club of Southern California Finals at Pomona Raceway.

Force, who will finish third in NHRA POWERade points this year at the wheel of the Castrol GTX(r) High Mileage Ford Mustang, suffered serious lacerations to both hands in a freak accident last Wednesday at his Yorba Linda, Calif., shop facility.

"I really felt sorry for myself for a couple days," said the sport's most prolific winner (with 109 tour victories), "but I was watching the ball game on ESPN and Favre was playing quarterback with a broken thumb - and it was on his throwing hand.

"I played a little quarterback myself and it's hard to believe he was that good with an injury like that. I figured if he can throw like that with a broken thumb, I should at least try to tough it out."

Despite the injury, Favre made his 198th consecutive start at quarterback, an NFL record. He completed 18 of 28 passes for three touchdowns in a 30-27 Packers' victory and, afterward, he acknowledged that extending his "iron man streak" was a major motivation.

That, Force said, was what brought him out of his funk. [11-04-2003]

MULDOWNEY NAMED TO INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME

Motorsports icon Shirley Muldowney, the first Top Fuel driver in NHRA history to win multiple championships, leads the list of inductees into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame's 2004 class.

The 2004 International Motorsports Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 22, 2004 in Talladega, Ala. Muldowney joins former CART champion Bobby Rahal, former NASCAR president Bill France Jr., Charles "Red" Farmer, who was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers, and former hydroplane racer Bill Muncey as part of the 2004 induction class. The five-member class brings the number of inductees into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame to 106 members. (Jeff Burk photo) [11-04-2003]