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

Indy ORP: Dave Grubnic final notes (Motorsport.com)

INDIANAPOLIS, (Sept. 3, 2007) — At the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis Labor Day Monday, native Australian Dave Grubnic, driver of the Zantrex-3 Top Fuel dragster, unexpectedly saw his hopes of winning the world’s biggest and most prestigious drag racing event fade away in a cloud of tire smoke in … Read more

Schumacher soars to sixth U.S. Nationals crown (USA Today)

Every time Tony Schumacher was tempted to ponder the NHRA championship picture, he’d remind himself that the first step was defending his Mac Tools U.S. Nationals title. That simple, businesslike approach paid off Monday at O’Reilly Raceway Park as Schumacher blazed to his sixth Top Fuel victory in drag racing’s marquee event and fifth in … Read more