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Gary Scelzi Motorsports

Gary Scelzi Motorsports–Dominic and Giovanni Scelzi Aiming for Golden Drillers at Tulsa Shootout

Dominic and Giovanni Scelzi Aiming for Golden Drillers at Tulsa Shootout

Inside Line Promotions – FRESNO, Calif. (Dec. 30, 2014) – Dominic and Giovanni Scelzi are searching for the same thing entering the 2015 season-opening event.

The brothers are heading halfway across the country to compete in the 30th annual Speedway Motors Tulsa Shootout Wednesday through Saturday at the River Spirit Expo Center in Tulsa, Okla., where the feature winners of the prestigious event drawing nearly 1,000 entries will receive a Golden Driller. Continue reading Gary Scelzi Motorsports–Dominic and Giovanni Scelzi Aiming for Golden Drillers at Tulsa Shootout →

Bigfoot

BigFoot Racing–Your 2014 Monster X Tour winner is … Larry Swim in BIGFOOT!!

Your 2014 Monster X Tour winner is … Larry Swim in BIGFOOT!!

December 19, 2014 (St. Louis, MO) – Larry Swim is your 2014 Monster X Tour Winner! It was a tough battle that was played out in 3 different parts of the country with 3 BIGFOOT drivers: Larry Swim in the West, Darron Schnell in the Midwest, and Kevin Koszala in the East. Continue reading BigFoot Racing–Your 2014 Monster X Tour winner is … Larry Swim in BIGFOOT!! →

Uncategorized

Follow A Dream–Jay Blake Profiled on NBCSportsworld.com

Follow A Dream Founder and President Jay Blake is profiled on NBCSportsworld.com, a new micro-site within NBCSports.com dedicated to long-form storytelling. NBCSports.com writer Jerry Bonkowski interviewed many of Jay’s family, friends, team members, and drag racing professionals for this in depth article, linked below. NBC Sports Network’s NASCAR America promoted the piece on their 30-minute daily show, also linked below. Enjoy!

John Force Racing

John Force Racing–Brittany Force Looks Back on 2014

Top Fuel driver Brittany Force talks about her sophomore season with an eye on her third year racing in the NHRA’s quickest and fastest pro category. In 2014 Force raced to four final rounds and three No. 1 qualifiers on the way to reaching the Countdown for the first time in her young professional career.

What was the biggest highlight for you last season?
Brittany Force: The biggest highlight of my 2014 season was locking into the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown in the No. 7 position in Brainerd. That was a proud moment for me knowing regardless of the final races I would be standing on stage at our awards banquet next to the best Top Fuel drivers! Continue reading John Force Racing–Brittany Force Looks Back on 2014 →

Wood Brothers

Wood Brothers Racing–BULLINS TO RETURN TO WOOD BROTHERS AS CREW CHIEF

Wood

HARRISBURG, N.C. (December 22, 2014) – Wood Brothers Racing announced today that Jeremy Bullins will rejoin the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion team next season to serve as the crew chief for Ryan Blaney in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, beginning with the 2015 Daytona 500. Bullins returns to the Wood Brothers organization following a successful three-year tenure with Team Penske’s No. 22 NASCAR Nationwide Series team that produced 21 wins and two consecutive NASCAR Nationwide Series Owners’ Championships. Continue reading Wood Brothers Racing–BULLINS TO RETURN TO WOOD BROTHERS AS CREW CHIEF →

John Force Racing

John Force Racing–Robert Hight driver of the Auto Club Funny Car and President of John Force Racing Inc. looks back at 2014 and also looks ahead to 2015.

Robert Hight driver of the Auto Club Funny Car and President of John Force Racing Inc. looks back at 2014 and also looks ahead to 2015. Last season Hight won a class leading five races and finished No. 5 in the NHRA Mello Yello point standings.
What was the biggest highlight for you last season?
Robert Hight: Winning five races which was the most of any Funny Car driver last year was the highlight. We had a good run at the beginning of the year and we went to a lot of finals. We went a little flat in the middle and towards the end of the season but getting those five wins was a good start. That was the first full season I have been with (crew chief) Mike Neff and I am excited about next year since we are all staying together. We’ll be looking for more wins and better results. I believe with what we have in place we can really do that.
You have been racing a Funny Car professionally for ten years now, what does that mean to you? Continue reading John Force Racing–Robert Hight driver of the Auto Club Funny Car and President of John Force Racing Inc. looks back at 2014 and also looks ahead to 2015. →

Extreme Speed Motorsports

Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Runs First Laps in Honda Coupe

Tequila Patrón ESM Runs
First Laps in Honda Coupe
Riviera Beach, Fla., Dec. 14, 2014 – Tequila Patrón ESM attacked the 2015 sports car racing season today by running the all-new Honda Performance Development ARX-04b Honda prototype coupe for the first time. Tequila Patrón ESM principal Scott Sharp was first inside the enclosed cockpit racing machine. Continue reading Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Runs First Laps in Honda Coupe →

John Force Racing

John Force Racing–Traxxas Funny Car driver Courtney Force looks back at the 2014 season and also turns her attention to the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing

Traxxas Funny Car driver Courtney Force looks back at the 2014 season and also turns her attention to the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. In 2014 Force raced to four wins (a season high for a female in the Funny Car class) as well as a No. 4 finish in the Mello Yello point standings.
What was the biggest highlight for you last season?
Courtney Force: The biggest highlight for me was becoming the winningest female in Funny Car history, after our Traxxas team picked up our 5th win of my career, in Sonoma, CA. Going into the Countdown and getting back-to-back wins totaling seven of my career, made this a highlight in itself. Continue reading John Force Racing–Traxxas Funny Car driver Courtney Force looks back at the 2014 season and also turns her attention to the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing →

Extreme Speed Motorsports

Extreme Speed Motorsports–Fogarty, Heinemeier Hansson Join Tequila Patrón ESM

Fogarty, Heinemeier Hansson Join Tequila Patrón ESM
Riviera Beach, Fla., – Dec. 9, 2014 –The Tequila Patrón ESM team completes its driver lineup for the 2015 sportscar racing season. Scott Sharp, Ed Brown, Ryan Dalziel and Johannes van Overbeek return as full-season co-drivers of the two Tequila Patrón-sponsored Honda Performance Development ARX-04b coupes. They will be joined by Jon Fogarty and David Heinemeier Hansson. Continue reading Extreme Speed Motorsports–Fogarty, Heinemeier Hansson Join Tequila Patrón ESM →

Follow A Dream Racing

Follow A Dream–Pomona

Jay Blake’s Permatex/Follow A Dream team wrapped up the 2014 season at the prestigious NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif., with its fastest run of all time. In last-shot qualifying, driver Todd Veney, who had been bumped from the near-record field two minutes earlier, ran a 5.53 at 262.85 mph to climb all the way to the No. 2 spot in the Top Alcohol Funny Car field and eventually finished third.

In a wild, backpedaling, on-and-off-the-throttle first round race against Greg Hunter, Veney won with a 7.38. “I don’t think I’ve ever won a round like that before,” he said. “I could see Greg’s car ahead of me early in the run and thought it was all over, but he just missed coming in my lane and our car hooked up and shot right by him for the win.” Veney was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Mike Doushgounian, who bought 17-time world champion Frank Manzo’s car complete when Manzo retired after winning this race last year.

“Not a bad way to finish the season,” said Blake, who spoke at the Veteran’s Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., and at the Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., earlier in the week. “We qualified No. 3 in the second-quickest field of all time, went a couple rounds in eliminations, and made our fastest run ever.”

Extreme Speed Motorsports

Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Enters Tequila Patrón

Tequila Patrón ESM Enters Tequila Patrón
North American Endurance Cup
Two-car team to compete in TUDOR Championship endurance races in 2015
STUART, Fla. – Nov. 19, 2014 – In addition to submitting full-season entries in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) next season, Tequila Patrón ESM will also race in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship’s Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.

The four-race Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup events include the Rolex 24 At Daytona at the end of January, the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March, Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in June and Petit Le Mans in October to close the TUDOR Championship season. Continue reading Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Enters Tequila Patrón →

Extreme Speed Motorsports

Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Submits Entries Compete in 2015 FIA WEC season

Tequila Patrón ESM Submits Entries Compete in 2015 FIA WEC season

Two-car team seeks run full season run in FIA WEC
STUART, Fla. – Nov. 18, 2014 – Following two podium finishes in its first two FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) races, Tequila Patrón ESM found itself in a fierce battle with some of the best prototype teams and racers in the world. Those fights will continue in 2015 as the Florida-based team has submitted entries to compete against the world’s best LMP2 teams as full-season participants in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. Continue reading Extreme Speed Motorsports–Tequila Patrón ESM Submits Entries Compete in 2015 FIA WEC season →

Wood Brothers

Wood Brothers Racing–Late-Race Contact Leaves Bayne, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Team As Spectators For Epic Conclusion to 2014 Chase

Late-Race Contact Leaves Bayne, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Team As Spectators For Epic Conclusion to 2014 Chase
November 17, 2014
Trevor Bayne’s 57th and final ride in the Wood Brothers’ No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion ended prematurely when contact with another car just 60 laps shy of the finish of the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway damaged his car too much to continue on. Continue reading Wood Brothers Racing–Late-Race Contact Leaves Bayne, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Team As Spectators For Epic Conclusion to 2014 Chase →

Richard Childress Racing

Richard Childress Racing–Homestead-Miami Speedway 400

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Homestead-Miami Speedway 400 Post Race Report
Homestead-Miami Speedway
November 16, 2014

Race Highlights:
Richard Childress Racing teammates Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Austin Dillon finished second, fourth and 25th, respectively.
Newman finished second in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, while Dillon finished 20th and Menard finished 21st.
Kevin Harvick earned his sixth victory of the 2014 season and was followed to the finish line by Newman, Brad Keselowski, Menard and Jamie McMurray. Continue reading Richard Childress Racing–Homestead-Miami Speedway 400 →

Summit Racing

Summit Racing–Line and Team Summit’s Adrenaline-Packed Countdown Draws to a Close in Pomona

Line and Team Summit’s Adrenaline-Packed Countdown Draws to a Close in Pomona

Pomona, Calif., November 16, 2014 – NHRA’s 2014 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship was a thrilling affair for Summit Racing Pro Stock driver Jason Line and the KB Racing team. Line entered the Countdown as the points leader and went to the final round at the first race of the playoffs, and at the next race, he powered his way to the final round once more. Ultimately, the intense battle for the championship came down to the very last round of the very last race of the season in truly stunning fashion that demanded attention. The 50th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals will certainly stand out in memory for a very long time. Continue reading Summit Racing–Line and Team Summit’s Adrenaline-Packed Countdown Draws to a Close in Pomona →

Mopar Racing

Mopar Racing–Hagan Clinches Second Career NHRA Funny Crown, Races Mopar Express Lane Dodge to NHRA Finals Win

Hagan Clinches Second Career NHRA Funny Crown, Races Mopar Express Lane Dodge to NHRA Finals Win

· Team Mopar driver Matt Hagan adds second NHRA Funny Car title to go along with his 2011 championship
· Hagan’s crown is the fifth NHRA Pro Class championship in the last four years for the Mopar and Dodge brands
· The Don Schumacher Racing driver earns his second consecutive NHRA Finals victory and a 14th career win
· Tommy Johnson Jr. ends the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs No. 3, putting two Mopar Dodge Funny Cars in the top three spots
· 2013 NHRA Pro Stock champ Jeg Coughlin Jr. ends his season with a semifinals appearance at Pomona and fifth place finish in the Countdown
· Allen Johnson exits early in his Magneti Marelli/Mopar Dodge Dart, finishes sixth in the final Pro Stock standings

Pomona, California (November 16, 2014) – The 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season finished just as it started for Matt Hagan, with the Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car driver meeting rival John Force in a final-round battle at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona — except this time the twist was a storybook ending for the Team Mopar star. Hagan exacted revenge for his NHRA Winternationals loss to Force back in February by claiming victory at the 50th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals and putting the cherry on top of a day in which he clinched the coveted 2014 NHRA Funny Car crown, the second of his career. Continue reading Mopar Racing–Hagan Clinches Second Career NHRA Funny Crown, Races Mopar Express Lane Dodge to NHRA Finals Win →

Gary Scelzi Motorsports

Gary Scelzi Motorsports–Scelzi Brothers Battle During Turkey Shootout With Dominic Scoring a Victory

Scelzi Brothers Battle During Turkey Shootout With Dominic Scoring a Victory

Inside Line Promotions – VISALIA, Calif. (Nov. 16, 2014) – For the first time in more than a year and a half Dominic and Giovanni Scelzi were able to race each other during a nonwing micro sprint event last weekend at Plaza Park Raceway.

This time older brother came out on top. Dominic claimed the Turkey Shootout on Saturday night to cap the two-night event, which started out with some rough luck for the brothers on Friday. Continue reading Gary Scelzi Motorsports–Scelzi Brothers Battle During Turkey Shootout With Dominic Scoring a Victory →

Chevrolet Racing

Chevy Racing–NHRA–Chevrolet Camaro Powers Erica Enders-Stevens to NHRA Pro Stock Championship with Win at Pomona Season Finale

Chevrolet Camaro Powers Erica Enders-Stevens to NHRA Pro Stock Championship with Win at Pomona Season Finale
Chevrolet Wins Pro Stock Manufacturers Championship

POMONA, Calif. (November 16, 2014): With her victory in the season finale, Erica Enders-Stevens made history today by becoming only the third female driver to win a NHRA Mellow Yellow Drag Racing Series pro championship. Her Elite Motorsports Camaro powered her to six wins, and one runner-up finish this season in pursuit of her first title. Continue reading Chevy Racing–NHRA–Chevrolet Camaro Powers Erica Enders-Stevens to NHRA Pro Stock Championship with Win at Pomona Season Finale →

John Force Racing

John Force Racing–JOHN FORCE RUNNER-UP FOR CHAMPIONSHIP AND AUTO CLUB FINALS

JOHN FORCE RUNNER-UP FOR CHAMPIONSHIP AND AUTO CLUB FINALS
POMONA, CA — It was a seesaw battle of Funny Car titans today at the 50th Auto Club NHRA Finals as John Force just came up shy of winning his 142 career victory. The 16-time NHRA Mello Yello World Champion was also racing for Funny Car title number seventeen and despite the fact the mathematical odds favored his rival Matt Hagan, Force never gave up and pushed the gas pedal as far as it would go in his 8000 horsepower Castrol GTX High Mileage Mustang. Force understood the 23 points he trailed Hagan by would be tough to make up, but he drove like a machine with a beating heart during Sunday’s eliminations at the iconic Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, California. Continue reading John Force Racing–JOHN FORCE RUNNER-UP FOR CHAMPIONSHIP AND AUTO CLUB FINALS →

Chevrolet Racing

Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Homestead-Miami–Championship

NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
FORD ECOBOOST 400
HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY DRIVER PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT
NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Kevin Harvick Wins 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, Season Finale’ at Homestead
Ryan Newman Finishes Second in Race, Standings

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 16, 2014) – Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Budweiser Chevrolet SS, is the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion following his victory in the season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Homestead-Miami–Championship →