CREASY MAKES GOOD ON PROMISE TO "WISH UPON A STAR"

At the beginning of the 2007 IHRA - Knoll Gas Nitro Jam drag racing season the defending Torco Nitro Funny Car champion made a pledge to the Wish Upon A Star charity. Dale Creasy, Jr., driver of the Torco Race Fuels Impala SS pledged $100 for each round win the team earned during the 2007 campaign. After 23 round wins and another championship, Creasy will make good on what turned into a $2,300 pledge this weekend when he attends one of the Joliet, Ill. charity's major fun raisers. Wish Upon A Star grants wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. [1/8/2008]

JANIS WILL DRIVE OWN
CAR IN 08

The Agent speculated that Mike Janis might be in line to drive a second car for Team Tindle but his camp informed the Agent in no uncertain terms that Janis WILL NOT be the driver of the 2nd Tindle Car. Janis is taking delivery of his new ‘68 Firebird Saturday and will show it at the 2008 Detroit Autorama followed shortly by a full test schedule. [1/8/2008]

JILL CANUSO NAMED “QUEEN OF DIAMONDS” JET DRIVER

Al Hanna, President of Hanna Motorsports recently announced the choice of veteran professional race car driver Jill Canuso, of Vineland, NJ, as the new driver for the very popular BIC Lighter “Queen of Diamonds” 300 MPH Jet Dragster for 2008. 
Canusco’s background includes racing Motorcycles, driving Midgets, and Professional Monster Truck racing. 

Hanna Motorsports fields a three-car team of professional jet exhibition cars including the “Top Secret” Firebird, driven by Ken Hall, and the “First Strike” Firebird driven by Rich Hanna.  For the past decade, these three machines have performed a 75-90 event schedule each year. [1/8/2008]

SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT THE MARCH MEET

With the 50th March Meet just sixty days away the Agent checked with AAA Raceway at Famoso Track Manager Blake Bowser for a gauge of how pre-entries are running for the historic event.  Bowser noted that their Nostalgia “Professional” entries are running slow with only ten pre-entries so far in Nitro Funny Car and less in AA/Fuel Dragster, but he’s received plenty of phone calls from nitro car owners.  The sportsman categories already have nearly 300 entrants.  Bowser stated that the 8-car Nitro Funny Car field would be re-evaluated if there were enough pre-entries to warrant the expansion to an additional 8-car “B field”. He also said that all Hot Rod Heritage Series events for funny car this year would be eight car fields at points earning races at tracks where the series raced.  

“If we add a B field for Nitro Funny Cars at the March Meet it’ll be for a cash payout, there will be no series points handed out.”  He added, “We are capping the total number of racecars at 500, so if you don’t have your entry in by the end of January - you will be left out.” (DRO File Photo) [1/8/2008]