SPECIAL EVENT (DELAWARE, OH.) – Pro Stock champ Coughlin to start new season in a bobsled… (The Auto Channel)

POWERade Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. isn’t wasting any time to return to racing in 2008 as the 51-time national event winner was chosen to be a part of Team NHRA at the third annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, Jan. 3-5, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Coughlin and four fellow drag racers will take on … Read more

Jeg Coughlin Jr. goes bobsleding (Motorsport.com)

DELAWARE, Ohio (Dec. 20) — POWERade Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. isn’t wasting any time to return to racing in 2008 as the 51-time national event winner was chosen to be a part of Team NHRA at the third annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, Jan. 3-5, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Read full story

SPECIAL EVENT (DELAWARE, OH.) – Pro Stock champ Coughlin to start new season in a bobsled… (The Auto Channel)

POWERade Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. isn’t wasting any time to return to racing in 2008 as the 51-time national event winner was chosen to be a part of Team NHRA at the third annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, Jan. 3-5, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Coughlin and four fellow drag racers will take on … Read more

Ford Blue Box on all 2008 NHRA nitro cars (Motorsport.com)

DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 11 — Accelerating safety development in the sport of drag racing, the NHRA and Ford Racing jointly announced today that all cars in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes will be outfitted with the Ford Racing “Blue Box” crash sensors for the 2008 season. Read full story

NHRA mandates crash sensors for Funny Car, Top Fuel classes (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By JOHN STURBIN All vehicles competing in the NHRA’s volatile Funny Car and Top Fuel classes next year will be equipped with Ford Racing “Blue Box” crash sensors, the result of seven months of testing primarily conducted by star-crossed John Force Racing in 2007. Ford Racing offered the crash sensors — mandatory equipment in the … Read more

NHRA: Q&A with Gary Scelzi (Speed TV)

Q: So, we hear you’re running the Chili Bowl in January? Is that true? A: It is absolutely true. I own a USAC pavement car and a USAC dirt car that (17-year-old) Michael Faccinto drives. Read full story