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We are pleased to announce our newest special section at Air Cooled Drag Racing Monthly, ACDRM.com Drag Racer Blogs.  Our first two racers to step up and share their drag racing experiences are Rich Grise and Mark Prothero, both from the Pro Racing Association (PRA).  Click on the banners below to view their latest entries.

CLICK HERE FOR RICH GRISE'S BLOG

CLICK HERE MARK PROTHERO'S BLOG

If you are interested in writing and posting a Drag Racer Blog on the ACDRM.com website you can contact us at jculley@acdrm.com for details.   

James Brooke finished the 2007 Texas Volkswagen Drag Racing Association (TVWDRA) season with a win at the TVWDRA RAce #10 sponsored by Oak Hill Automotive.  Through two races this season, TVWDRA Race #1 sponsored by QUALITAT and TVWDRA RAce #2 sponsored by Reliable Protection Systems he is unbeatable and pulled off a drag racing hat trick, winning the last three races.  With wins over Carl Nolen and Rick Tarter to start the 2008 season he leads the TVWDRA point standings.

James will try to make it four in a row at the next TVWDRA event on May 17th at Temple  Raceway in Temple, Texas.  For more information on this race or the TVWDRA visit www.tvwdra.org.

From Kevin Reynolds of the Pro Racing Association:

"In celebration of the "20th Anniversary of the PRA" (1988-2008) there will be no PRA race fees at the Las Vegas Bugorama "PRA Finals" for racers that have attended all five of the 2008 season races!  PRA Pro Eliminator racers (who do not have PRA race day fees) that make all five races will have $40 removed from their 2009 PRA registration fees.  For those racers that paid entire 2008 season fees in advance, you will receive a refund at Vegas!"

For more information on the Pro Racing Association (PRA) you can visit their website at www.racepra.com.

If you have emailed us in the last few months I may not have received your email due to being deployed so please resubmit all Drag Racer Directory/Database submissions so we can add them.  See below for a few examples:

Mike Lawless     |     Tywon Mitchell     |     John Meade

To view the Drag Racer Directory / Database . . . CLICK HERE.  You can also submit your vehicle by visiting the link above.

With the return of the NHRA season we bring back the Cory Mac Tracker.

This past weekend Cory McClenathan (my favorite NHRA driver) was victorius in my favorite city (Las Vegas) at the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals.  Cory qualified in the #5 position with a 4.597 ET @ 325.30 MPH and was swept through J.R. Todd, Morgan Lucas and Brandon Bernstein en route to the finals.

In his finals match-up Cory faced off against former Pro Stock Bike rider Antron Brown who moved over to Top Fuel for the 2008 season.  Antron qualified 6in the 6th position and ran a 4.703 ET @ 315.93 MPH in the finals but it wasn't enough to beat Cory's 4.664 ET @ 315.86 MPH. 

This was Cory's 30th National event win and the first for him since Richmond in 2006.  He currently sits in 4th place in the 2008 NHRA POWERade Championship Top Fuel Point Standings with 328 points, 87 points behind leader Tony Schumacher.  

Welcome to the April issue of AIR COOLED DRAG RACING MONTHLY.  It seems like it has been forever since I have been able post any updates or changes so this is very exciting for me.  For those who did not know I am in the United States Air Force and have been deployed to the Middle East and will be here for at least a few more months. Below is me waiting to catch a flight from London Heathrow to Germany. 

It seems I have quite a bit of work to catch up on like the 2008 Event Planner just to mention one section.  For many organizations your season is about to start and some have even held an event or two so we will have a lot to report about.  So we are back and look for more updates in the next few days as I can finally catch up, I missed you guys!

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to check us out and we hope you have a great season!

For past articles and features check out our archive section . . . CLICK HERE