NHRA (GLENDORA) – NEWS NUGGETS (The Auto Channel)

MOTORSPORTS’ FASTEST COUPLE, TROXEL AND JOHNSON JR., TO COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER IN 2008: Top Fuel pilot Melanie Troxel and Funny Car driver Mike Ashley announced this past week in Indianapolis that Troxel will drive a second Funny Car in Ashley’s Gotham City Racing stable in 2008. The announcement means that Troxel and husband, Funny … Read more

IHRA: Ashley Resets Knoll Gas Motorsports Park Speed Record (Speed TV)

Mike Ashley, Melville, N.Y., took the No. 1 Nitro Funny Car qualifying position after round one during the Torco Racing Fuels Northern Nationals at Knoll Gas Motorsports Park at US 131. Ashley covered the quarter-mile south of Grand Rapids, Mich., in a track record-setting 4.812-seconds to kick off the first night of the Knoll Gas … Read more