We'd like to welcome Garry Fauble to "Race City USA". Garry moved his Custom Paint shop business here from Oregon to Kannapolis, NC. He also has a pro mod style '36 "Super Charged" Oldsmobile that he plans on running in the Mooresville Mad Dawgs.  More later...............

 Jeremy Youker Racing and Youker Motorsports are excited and proud to announce they will have a triple threat of Junior Dragsters competing at Mooresville Dragway in the 2007 season.Jeremy,a former top dragster competitor has put his racing on hold for the 2007 season in order to jump start the junior program.Drivers for the three team cars will be younger brother Jerrod Youker competing in a 2004 Halfscale with a complete body wrap done by Transcal Graphics in Hickory N.C..Daughter Briana,will compete in a 2005 Gibbs Racecars Junior.Son Jake will compete in the Barrs car that Jerrod campaigned briefly in 2006.All three cars are completely fresh and ready to roll.Help will be provided at trackside from "POP" Ron Youker and family friends Tim Finney and John Trester...Be on the lookout for the Youker Motorsports "triple Threat"!!!

Dan Whisnant of WCS Racing Engines has been busy this winter getting motors ready man local racers for this upcoming season. Dan built the motor of Charlie Doss, who won our Doug Herbert Performance TOP Eliminator division and also Farmington's TOP champion Mark"Pork" Jones from East Bend, NC.  Jones, a runner-up at a"Dirty MO" Pro Drag race last year, had already got his motor freshen and ready to go by the "Wiz". Also, Frankie Marshburn has got his Ford power plant refreshed by WSC and has made it to "Dirty MO" to test. Reports have him picking up several hundredths with the new combination. Marshburn was also runner-up at Mooresville last year in his fast Ford Mustang. The "Bird Man" Michael Martin of Hickory, NC is having a slick new paint job applied to his Chevy Beretta for '07. He had got his Chevy on track at the end of '06, also dipping down to the 5.20 zone. Look for big things out of the "Bird Man" this year. Dan's daughter Gail was also getting use to the tricky MD track at the end of '06. Her wheel standing 4.90 Dragster is being 4-linked by Steve Eckard this winter. Look for the mom/school teacher to turn her season around this year at "Dirty Mo". Daddy Dan is also adding a fuel injection system on her car, similar to the one on his Monte Carlo. Look out for some 4.70's ! "Dan the Man" Whisnant is still debating whether to step up in performance, as he has a bigger pig he may put in the two time winning Chevy. Whisnant and his WSC, H & D Sportswear, PBM Performance Products, Calico Coatings Monte Carlo posted two back to back wins this past year. It maybe hard to break away from that winning combination to a 4.90 et set-up. Will see soon.

Holder's High Performance man Darrel Holder of Brevard, NC has recently purchased the former Junior Houston owned Race Tech Dragster. Holder, helped to sponsor our Thanksgiving Left Over Nationals, and races in Top Eliminator with a wide range of cars. He's most known by his Nova. He does have his '57 Chevy and Rear Engine Dragster for sale on Racing Junk.

 Multi-time Foot Brake winner and former Dirty Mo' champion Chris Plott is reportly having his "Cougar Daddy" Mercury repainted for '07. David Spaugh is appling the white, maroon and black paint to the '70 Cougar. Chris is also adding new rims (wheels) all the way around. He's also rewired the car with adding a new painless wiring control panel. The "Cougs" came within one point of pulling the 2006 title at Mooresville this year. He also posted the most wins and won the Foot Brake "Race of Champions" this past year.

  "The Junk Yard Dog" David Lambert of Kannapolis, NC will be ready for the Race Tech Mad Dawgs come Saturday, May 12th, as he took delivery of his new 1968 Chevrolet Camaro last week. Lambert, a twice IHRA Spring Nationals winner at Rockingham in TOP Sportsman, sold his former '68 Camaro at the end of last year. He had Tim McAmis of Hawks Point, MO built him a new Camaro for the upcoming heads-up, automatic Quick 8 wars at Mooresville and surrounding tracks. The car is the latest state of the art machine with a pro style foater rear-end, carbon fiber components, race-pak computer and McAmis short style wing molded into the body. Last year Lambert's Camaro with Chad Tilley driving got runner-up at Mooresville's one and only Mad Dawg race. Power will come from a 738 motor with three stages of nitrous, and a new Rossler style Turbo 400 transmission. Add together with the new TMRC chassis this new combination could very well  produce some 4.10's in heads-up wars. So, the "Bat" better watch out for the "Dog" in 2007 !      More to come this week.  

Mooresville had a great day for Test-N-Tune this back the first of March. Defending MD Foot brake champion Paul Shell, Jr. of Lexington, NC was on hand shaking down his small block powered '66 Chevy Nova. The Holcomb Brothers of Troutman, NC where out with Clark's new Ford Mustang. They sold their former Hot Rod Fairlane and when to Iowa to get the new 'Tang. They plan own racing either Hot Rod or Super Rod with the new Ford. Number two finisher in the Drake Coating Junior Dragster division last year Ashley Strickland of Concord, NC was also out with her new TOP Eliminator Dragster. She turned a 4.98 ET (even with a mis-shift) with the former Jimmy Childers Dragster. She plans on still racing Junior Dragster this year, and racing a few TOP races with her new "big car". Another young gun (gal) to watch out for in 2007. Chad Tilley of  Lexington, NC debut his newly repainted Chuck Chapman paint scheme this past weekend.  Tilley, with a new 706 Billy Albert power plant record some sub-one second sixty foot times at Mooresville testing. Going by the 330 times, Tilley said he such be able to run some 4.20's with the Stroupe built Pontiac Grand Am in the Race Tech Mad Dawgs. Will see about that come Saturday, May 12th. Cause the "Junk Yard Dog" David Lambert was out with his new '68 McAmis built Camaro Saturday at Mooresville. The car has plenty of power with the 738 Buck motor and new Turbo 400 transmission. After the veteran Lambert gets all the new bugs worked out of the sleek new Camaro he'll be right in the thick of things by "Dirty MO" first Race Tech Mad Dawg race. Add Jamie Chapell of

Yadkinville, NC as a new Mad Dawg entry for 2007. He purchased the former Richard Penland Stroupe built Pontiac Grand Am late last year. Wally did some updates to the sleek entry and Chapman done some repainting on the Pontiac body. Jamie who formerly campaigned  the "Backyard Bullet" Camaro, also purchased Chad Tilley's Albert built 632 to battle in the heads-up Quick 8 wars. Former multi-time Top winner at Mooresville Dragway Russ Whitlock of Mocksville, NC has purchased a TOP Dragster for the upcoming race season. He's had "00" Charlie Doss do some updating to the chassis and Albert Performance is doing the machine work for the Sunrise Tire Store owner. Wildman Russ is the twin brother of Race Tech Mad Dawg racer Ron Whitlock. Wes Thompson of Mooresville, NC son of our major "Dirty MO" team standout Joe Thompson has sold his Long Car. "Hot Rod" Wes gone the way of the doors for '07. He's purchased a Chevrolet Corvette to now give those "long car" guys a fit with. Thompson drove his dad's Barracuda some last year, making several rounds in the TOP division with the Mopar entry. Watch out for this young gun with the "Doors" on '07.I

   Travis Varner and the gang was just letting everybody know that they took the "SUPER CUDA" to Jeff McBride of Showtime Restoration today to get new quarter panels put on it and to get it primered. Then it's off to David Long to get some paint put on it. It will still have "SUPER CUDA" on the side because it just wouldn't be the same without it but the car will be painted solid black and will have black wheels on the front. "I have been raggin my dad about driving, it so he told me that I will be doing the driving in it this year so I will be testing out some doors in "07. I've heard that old Wess Thompson is getting into some doors this year also so hopefully me and him can give them long cars something to be thinking about. I'm still gonna drive the dragster some but i have been wantin to test out the old Barracuda ever since the old days when I was watching my dad from the bleachers when the "SUPER CUDA" was yellow and plus I got to see if I can't show my dad a little something in the old door car," said Varner. Travis was the 2006 TOP Rookie of the Year at Mooresville.