Author: Mike Haag

Courtesy of Geiger Media Global WYNNEWOOD, Okla. (March 4) — Two-time and reigning Pro Stock champion Erica Enders will return to her Sportsman racing roots this season driving the ORTEQ Energy Technologies Super Gas car for Buddy Wood and Cody Ortowski at select races. Enders earned her first NHRA national event victory in the Super Gas class in 2004 before moving into the professional ranks. “ORTEQ has been a big part of our success with the Pro Stock car the last few years, and when Buddy and Cody asked if I wanted to drive their Super Gas car I jumped…

Courtesy of Las Vegas Motor Speedway LAS VEGAS – Odds makers have tabbed Kobalt 400 defending champion Kevin Harvick as the favorite for Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, is a 5-1 favorite for the 267-lap race, according to Boyd Gaming Events. Four-time Kobalt 400 winner and six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, as well as Las Vegas native and reigning Sprint Cup Series champion Kyle Busch are second at 6-1. Johnson won the Kobalt 400 from 2005-07 and again in 2010, while Kyle Busch won the 2009 race. Dale Earnhardt…

Event officials have released the race weekend schedule for the upcoming Texas Mile event which will be held March 31 through April 3 at the Chase Field Industrial Complex near Beeville. Registration is sold out but the waiting list is now open.  For more information, visit TexasMile.net. Thursday, March 31, 2016 2:00 PM- Sponsors and Vendors will be allowed to enter facility 2:30 PM- Registration opens for Driver/Rider Check-In and Tech Opens (must check-in first) 3:00 PM- All participants will be allowed to enter the facility. 6:30 PM- Driver/Rider Mandatory meeting. Drive through will be done first, meet Ryan(Race Director)…

Courtesy of the NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. – As part of the celebration that is the East Coast opener, the AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body will make an offer to area students that they simply can’t refuse: 50 percent off general admission tickets for any race day during the event. Discounted Thursday tickets are $11; Friday tickets are $21 and tickets purchased by students with ID on either Saturday or Sunday will cost $32 each. Every ticket purchased for the thrilling NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event, March 17-20, at Gainesville Raceway, includes pit…

Courtesy of the NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. – Once again in 2016, NHRA’s loyal fans will be able to vote their favorite Pro Stock driver into the NHRA K&N Horsepower Challenge, a special bonus event for the factory hot rod class. The K&N Horsepower Challenge will be held Saturday, April 2, during the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The lucrative event is open to eight drivers, seven of which will be determined by points earned at NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events. The eighth spot will be decided by the fan vote.…

Courtesy of Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. – Organizers today announced the Country 500 day-by-day lineup and put single-day tickets on sale for the very first time.  Country 500 – The Great American Music Fest at Daytona –, will be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 27, 28 & 29, 2016.  Country 500 will take place on the infield of the world-famous Daytona International Speedway, a historic first mega-music festival inside the hallowed grounds of one of the most iconic motorsports venues in the world. The day-by-day lineup for the first-ever Country 500 will feature: Friday, May 27 Jason Aldean,…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations Department FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway has partnered with race entitlement sponsor Duck Commander to raise awareness and funds for adoption in conjunction with the Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday, April 9. To help generate adoption awareness, Texas Motor Speedway and Duck Commander have established a special “Drive Adoption” ticket package for NASCAR’s first points-paying Saturday night race of the 2016 Sprint Cup season. The package consists of two frontstretch tickets for the Duck Commander 500 – NASCAR’s third-largest paying race – and a pair of special…

Courtesy of Matt Donovan, AM Racing AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Wayne Self and his AM Racing team continued their NASCAR Camping World Truck Series initiation at Atlanta on Friday evening, as the rookie driver battled to a 16th place finish in the Great Clips 200. Self, who was making just his second NCWTS start, qualified 20th for the race in his No. 22 AM Technical Solutions Toyota Tundra and was running 14th prior to the final restart. He finished on the lead lap at a track many veteran drivers consider perhaps the series’ toughest. Self was coming off a season-opening performance at…

Courtesy of Stockseth Racing and Geiger Media Global HOUSTON – Mark Stockseth has been a fixture at NHRA drag races for years and more often than not his wife Marshall is by his side. The Stockseths routinely support a litany of racers, including current Stockseth Racing benefactors Erica Enders, Jeg Coughlin Jr., and Matt and Angie Smith. The couple are just as generous away from the racetrack, funding a variety of cancer-fighting charities to honor Marshall’s ongoing fight with the disease. Now they are asking the racing community at large to join in their latest endeavor and support good friend…

Courtesy of the NHRA CHANDLER, Ariz. — Leah Pritchett raced to her first Top Fuel victory Sunday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Jason Line (Pro Stock) also picked up victories at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park near Phoenix. Pritchett used a quicker reaction time and a performance of 3.775 seconds at 323.12 mph in her Quaker State dragster to finish in front of Brittany Force’s 3.774 at 321.35 in her Monster Energy dragster. It was the first all-female Top Fuel final since Shirley Muldowney…