Agent 1320 RSS feed http://www.DragRacingOnline.com/agent1320/2013 en DragRacingOnline.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:52:17 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:52:17 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com 1000 http://www.DragRacingOnline.com/_Assets/design2009/logo.png http://www.DragRacingOnline.com/agent1320/2013 Agent 1320 RSS feed With the inaugural Auto-Plus NHRA New England Nationals coming this weekend, New England Dragway and NHRA officials have issued a traffic flow notice for both competitors and fans planning on attending. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:46:33 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The second annual South Coast Community Weekend at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park June 21-23 will offer drag racing fans free admission this Saturday. And fans will be treated to the next round of Pro Modified Racing Association, Quick 32 Sportsman Series, and Pro Bike and Sled Series racing on the Cayuga quarter mile. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:46:33 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com At the Saturday finals of the X-DRL event at St. Louis, Pro X-Treme low qualifier Brandon Pesz's '58 Corvette kept the third driver's door in two days in place, running a 3.690 at 204.91 MPH to down Quain Stott's '63 Corvette, which ran a losing 3.725 at 203.25, with identical reaction times. On the other side of the ladder, Tim Tindle's Mustang outran the Mustang of Todd Tutterow, 3.696 at 204.57 MPH to Todd's 3.743 at 201.70 MPH. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-20.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:46:33 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com In addition to a new series sponsor that X-DRL CEO Jeff Mitchell announced in another online publication last weekend, several of the Agent's most reliable sources report that Mitchell has indicated that he too will be investing more of his own funds into the struggling X-DRL eighth-mile doorslammer series. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:40 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com CEO Jeff Burk has announced that Darr Hawthorne is leaving Racing Net Source LLC effective immediately. Hawthorne has served as West Coast Editor of DRO and Advertising Director for the Racing Net Source family of online publications for almost a decade. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:40 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Robbie Matthews, driving the Kauffman Motorsports 57 Chevy, scored the win Saturday night at Darlington Dragway. The Kauffman Motorsports Team has now won the Sonny Greer Memorial event two years in a row. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-22.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:40 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com It's strictly a juicy rumor at this point, but the Agent's operatives have noticed that ace Al-Anabi tuner Frank Manzo seems to have a bit less presence in the Al-Anabi Pro Mod camps these days. Could it be that bossman KH has some different plans for the Ace? Just wondering. (Marvin T. Smith photo) http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-21.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-21.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:06 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com For the second straight event the NHRA's Pro Mod series had the minimum number of entries. This is especially troubling, the Agent thinks, when it happens at a track like Bristol which is one of the tracks where the class was invented by the IHRA -- which by the way used to be headquartered at the Bristol track. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-21.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-21.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:06 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Grand Bend Motorplex (GBM) in Grand Bend, Ontario, hosted Canada's Biggest All-Bike Race Weekend on June 15-16. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-19.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-19.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:09 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The four AA Fuel Altereds at Cordova's race this weekend will be Kyle Hough driving Nanook, Ron Hope in Rat Trap, Mike Hilsabeck in Arizona Thunder (shown), and Ron Maroney in Blind Faith. (Brad Turk photo) http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-19.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-19.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:09 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com With sixteen nitro funny cars in the pits at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, the first of three Saturday Night Nitro events found Dan Horan Jr. and his Ronnie Swearingen-tuned '66 Mustang funny car grabbing the $3,000 prize. When the evening of racing was over it was Horan's bracket-like 5.81 performances that put his Patriot Mustang in the Famoso Winners Circle with a 5.812, 253.09-mph charge. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-18.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-18.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:20 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Last week we told you of Rodger Brogdon doing a little extra testing on the Bristol track. It evidently paid off as the past winner in NHRA's Comp class won his first Pro Stock race in his 110th career event. He had one previous final-round appearance, in 2011 in Houston, where he came up short against Vincent Nobile. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-18.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-18.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:20 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The Sweden Internationals at Tierp Arena, just north of Stockholm, produced a barnstormer of an event over the weekend - so much so that Euro correspondents Ivan Sansom and Rose Hughes say they were struggling to narrow down a brief news note for the Agent before sending the full report later. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-17.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-17.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:24:29 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Promoters Peter Biondo and Kyle Seipel have announced a change for next year's K and N Spring Fling Vegas bracket race. The inaugural event was held in April and featured over 400 entries. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:22:57 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Included in the note to the Agent from Sansom and Hughes was this photo. Oh and we thought the attached photo of a recycling bin might amuse you, Sansom wrote. Yes, we are amused. OK, now somebody translate for us, please. (Ivan Sansom photo) http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:22:57 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Pro Stock driver Greg Anderson was eager to debut his brand new Summit Racing Chevrolet Camaro and an improved qualifying performance and semifinals finish boosted the Mooresville, N.C.-based driver's spirits on what was already bound to be a very special weekend. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:22:57 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Some of you may have missed the announcement last week that San Antonio Raceway president, Freddy Cruz, has signed on for the track to host their first Mickey Thompson Tires DragRacingOnline.com AA/FC Challenge event on October 4-5. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-16.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:22:57 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Doug Evans of Source Interlink Media has been elected the Chairman-elect of SEMA and joins two newly elected Board members to help lead the association for the 2013-2015 term. Evans fills the position held for the past two years by Nate Shelton of B and M Automotive Group. Shelton will begin serving his term as Chairman in July. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-14.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-14.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:19:50 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com There will be racing under the lights Saturday, June 15, at Auto Club Famoso Raceway where they'll feature over sixteen Nitro Funny Cars, Top Fuel dragsters, Fuel Altereds, a host of exhibition cars and close out the evening with Jet dragsters thundering down the concrete quarter mile. There are two big nitro sessions at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. followed by the MavTV/Lucas Oil jet dragsters. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-14.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-14.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:19:50 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Nine races remain before the field of NHRA championship challengers is reduced and the six-race Countdown to the Championship begins. But Steve Torrance, of Kilgore, Texas, prefers to secure a berth as soon as possible. He is 11th and separated from 10th place by 56 points, 396-340. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-15.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-15.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:17:03 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com After denying that the X-DRL had not paid some of its racers for the Bristol and No Problem Raceway races X-DRL president Jeff Mitchell admitted in an impromptu news conference Friday at their St. Louis race that they hadn't been paying their racers. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-15.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-15.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:17:03 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The Lethal Threat Racing team of Pro X-treme racers Todd Martin and Brandon Pesz are off to a fine start in the 2013 X-treme Drag Racing League season, as Pesz is first in points through three races while Martin is just three points behind in second. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:16:19 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Drag racing icon Roy Hill begins a busy summer stretch this weekend at Bristol Dragway, site of the 13th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Tri-Cities Area Ford Dealers. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:16:19 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The same source that gave the Agent the news about the IHRA taking over the lease for the Tucson track says that all personnel working at the former Firebird track in Phoenix have been released and they are starting over from nothing. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-13.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:16:19 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com At the 6th Annual NHRDA Indiana Diesel Shootout at Lucas Oil Raceway, Jarid Vollmer (shown) set a new NHRDA Pro Street Diesel record with a run of 8.81 at 157.08 mph. Vollmer and the Bully Dog team made an even quicker run at 8.70 but couldn't back up that run. The previous record was a 9.12. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-12.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-12.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:10:10 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Rodger Brogdon and the ProtectTheHarvest.com team could have a leg up on the Pro Stock field during this weekend's Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. Brogdon tested his Chevrolet Camaro at the Bristol track last week, making several runs down the tricky surface. His was one of a handful of teams that tested, and that could bode well for Brogdon at the event. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-11.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-11.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:09:39 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com The Joe's Transmission TNT Super Series saw 28 cars return to Cayuga Dragway at Toronto Motorsports Park this past weekend. Andrew Stirk from Brampton, Ontario, and David Surmatchewski of Oakland, Ont., both took event wins in the REVS Full Throttle Powersports weekend. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-10.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-10.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:09:04 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Some teething problems with a new car kept Bruce Boland out of contention for the last Pro Modified Racing Association race, but the car and team will be ready for the next round of PMRA action during the South Coast Community Weekend June 21-23 at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:07:07 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Bakersfield, California's Auto Club Famoso Raceway will host the popular Saturday Night NItro events on June 15, July 13 and September 7. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:07:07 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com Pro Mod racer Mike Knowles recently got off the racetrack and took a trip to Driven Experiences in his home state of Colorado. http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2013/1320-xv_6-9.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:07:07 -0500 DragRacingOnline.com