HOUSTON (April 29) – KLR Group driver Erica Enders’ return to her home track ended almost as soon as her race started.

Enders’ Chevrolet Cobalt bogged on the starting line in her first-round matchup Sunday at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway, and she fell to good friend Larry Morgan.

“When I let the clutch out, the car just stuck the tire and bogged,” Enders said. “It’s like I left in third gear, which I didn’t do. The car just bogged. Finally it caught back up and went through low gear. Down the rest of the track, it was pulling fine. I closed an eight-car gap to three or four, but dadgum, it wasn’t even close.”

Enders’ pass was 6.723 seconds at 208.84, the slowest run she made all weekend. Enders qualified No. 6 with a 6.575 at 210.64, and her three other qualifying passes were with .023 seconds of that number.

Morgan advanced to the quarterfinals with a run of 6.655 seconds at 208.55 mph.(...)
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HOUSTON (April 29) — Karen Stoffer had her best outing of the season Sunday at Royal Purple Raceway, riding her GEICO Suzuki past reigning world champion Eddie Krawiec and Chip Ellis for a steady semifinal finish at the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals.

Starting from the No. 6 qualifying position, Stoffer got a free pass against Ellis when the veteran rider left the Tree -.001 seconds early, an automatic disqualification. Stoffer still rode out the pass and posted a 6.960 at 191.70 mph.

Up next was two-time and reigning Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Krawiec, who had qualified No. 3 on his Harley-Davidson V-Rod. But this time it was Stoffer who had the quicker bike, running a 6.907 at 192.85 mph to Krawiec’s 6.928 at 192.41 mph.(...)
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HOUSTON (April 28) – Leah Pruett won’t stay down long after a rare first-round loss in the NHRA Pro Mod Series by ProCare Rx. Pruett and her R2B2 Racing team vow to get back to work after she was eliminated on Saturday night from the O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals Royal Purple Raceway.

“We’re going to test on Monday,” Pruett said. “We’ve got a lot of things we want to fix with the car, and I’ve got a lot of things I want to fix inside the driver compartment. Hopefully, that will prove advantageous.

“I’m really not sure what’s going on. Last year, I had spectacular lights, and earlier this year in testing, it was awesome. Now, I don’t know, at these races, I just can’t get it. I need to work on something.”

Pruett lost in the first round to Troy Coughlin despite running a better elapsed time. Pruett went 5.972 seconds at 249.86 mph in her ProCare Rx Ford Mustang, but lost to Coughlin’s pass of 5.997 seconds at 247.70 mph. The difference was Coughlin’s better reaction time.(...)
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HOUSTON (April 24) – GK Motorsports driver Erica Enders carries some confidence and momentum into this weekend’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway.

Enders is coming off a runner-up finish in the 4-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway, a result that prompted a phone call from Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden, a 10-time world champion.

“Bob Glidden actually called me on Monday after the race,” Enders said. “We talked a couple weeks ago, too, when I called him after Grumpy (Bill Jenkins) died. He called me on Monday, and the conversation starts out as, ‘Gosh darn it, I thought you were going to win.’”(...)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 24, 2012) – When it comes to competing at zMAX Dragway near Charlotte, N.C., Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitor Michelle Furr can very nearly do no wrong. Last fall, Furr dominated the Super Comp category there to win her very first national event, and she was also runner-up in Super Street to come oh-so-close to a widely and wildly coveted double victory.

The simple truth is that Furr returned to zMAX Dragway and collected her second national event win at the lauded facility in the recent NHRA Four-Wide Nationals by way of efficient starting line skills and a keen ability to drive the finish line stripe, including a dead-on-the-index 8.90 in round four to earn the Strange Engineering Perfectly Strange Performance Award for the category – a particularly notable fact since she hadn’t even competed at a national event since winning last fall. There’s no doubt about it: Furr and the prestigious North Carolina racetrack make a wicked combination.(...)
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Topanga Canyon, CA (April 25, 2012) — A comprehensive simulated test session at the Lockheed Martin Low Speed Wind Tunnel at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Georgia facility coupled with a day spent testing in the hot Carolina sun following the NHRA FourWide race has provided the Kalitta Motorsports Tequila Patron Toyota Camry Funny with new critical information which will be applied to this weekend’s 25^th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals event.

After a successful weekend at the NHRA FourWide race in Charlotte, NC, Del Worsham, crew chief for Team Patr?n, stayed behind and spent the day testing a new clutch combination that he has been fine tuning all season long with the DHL Funny Car team. While Worsham saw excellent results with the clutch combination and plans to implement it this weekend, another benefit of the test day was being able to run the DHL Funny Car (which is setup identically to the Patron Funny Car) in warm and humid weather conditions.(...)
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BAYTOWN, Texas (April 20, 2012) – Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car is steadily moving forward and into the sixth race of her professional NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series career this week at the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries at Royal Purple Raceway in Houston, Texas.

The 23-year-old daughter of 15-time Funny Car Champion John Force took her first shot at Four-Wide two weeks ago at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, N.C. She qualified in the no. 12 spot with a run of 4.151 seconds at 301.47 mph. The Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car was up against a trio of Jack Beckman, Cruz Pedregon and Todd Lesenko. Fellow rookie Lesenko smoked the tires early, but Force dropped a hole and was eliminated in first round by the numbers of Beckman and Pedregon.

“First round of eliminations on Sunday my Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car dropped a hole and just kinda slowed my car down, so it lost a lot of ET and mph because of that. The guys (Beckman and Pedregon) went around me so we lost first round. I felt really good about four-wide after looking at our 60-foot and 330-foot incrementals from Sunday and a couple of the qualifying runs. Seeing that reminds me that we have potential for a good racecar, but we’re just working out the kinks still as a new team.

“I’m so excited to be back at Royal Purple Raceway where I’ll be running in my Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car. We weren’t as successful in Charlotte as we would have liked to be, but my Traxxas crew tested the Monday after four-wide and has been working really hard these last couple of weeks to get our car sorted out, hoping to make some change before going into Houston. I think we have a great race car and I’m excited to see what we can do this weekend in Houston,” Force said.(...)
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HOUSTON (April 23) – Karen Stoffer and the GEICO Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle team are keeping an eye on this weekend’s weather forecast for the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway.

Stoffer and the team are hoping for hot weather conditions in Southeast Texas this weekend because high temperatures and humidity have a balancing effect on the Pro Stock classes.

“Houston has been a good track for us over the years,” Stoffer said. “Hopefully Lady Luck will shine down on us again, we’ll make the right calls and everything will stay together.

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Lizzy Musi will be on WFO Radio‘s NHRA Nitro show tonight at 7pm. In case you’ve been living under a motorsports rock for the last few days. Musi was involved in a crash at Bristol Dragway that has caused quite a stir. She was on FoxNews this morning discussing the accident on America’s Newsroom. If you follow the link you can watch her interview. Sorry it won’t let us embed it on the site.

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If you follow our social media outlets you know that we were hanging out with Lizzy Musi and crew at Bristol Dragway this weekend for the ADRL Spring Drags III. It was an absolute gorgeous day for racing in Tennessee. Lizzy had posted up a great qualifying time of 4.34-second at 170 MPH which sat her 12th before the final round of qualifying. After a few changes to the car and the temperature had dropped at the track Lizzy was anxious to get out to her last round confident that she could better her time.(...)
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