Lamar Stephens Memorial Car Show October 13

October 13th – 9th annual Buford Car, Truck & Motorcycle Show now known as the Lamar Stephens Memorial Car Show will be held at Buford Church of God 4800 S. Lee Street in Buford GA.

Registration begins 8:00 AM – Judging begins at 12:00 and awards will be presented between 3:00 – 4:00.

Trophies will be awarded to Top 25 Cars, Top 10 Trucks and Top 5 Motorcycles, Specialty Awards will be presented for Best Engine, Best Paint, Best Interior, Most Unusual, Ladies Choice and starting this year The Lamar Stephens Award for Best of Show. We will have Thousands of dollars in door prizes including a grand door prize of a new engine donated by Bill Heard Chevrolet. On line Early Bird registration will be eligible for extra prizes. Registration is $20 per vehicle. Vendors spaces is $40. All proceeds will benefit Student Ministries Missions Projects.

For any information contact show coordinators Mike McClure @ (770) 380-9139(M) or e-mail mcclurem@avaya.com or Craig Cothern @ 678-234-8028 please visit the web-site http://www.bufordcarshow.com/ for information as well.

DAVID POWERS MOTORSPORTS TO PART WAYS WITH VETERAN RACER WHIT BAZEMORE

News From David Powers Motorsports
CONTACT: Ted Yerzyk

DAVID POWERS MOTORSPORTS TO PART WAYS WITH VETERAN RACER WHIT BAZEMORE


PITTSBORO, Ind. (Oct. 10, 2007) – Whit Bazemore, a 20-time NHRA Funny Car winner, has been released from David Powers Motorsports to pursue other opportunities team owner David Powers announced today.

“This was an extremely difficult decision to make because Whit (Bazemore) is a very talented driver and one of the sport’s top competitors,” Powers said. “We felt that in looking towards the future of our growing organization it was best to move forward in a different direction. We wanted to give Whit time to pursue other opportunities and we wish him continued success in his future racing endeavors. The entire David Powers Motorsports organization thanks Whit for his commitment and effort to the team this season.”

“We have had an eight-year relationship with Whit Bazemore and he has been a fantastic spokesman for the Matco Tools Racing program and our distributors,” Matco Tools President Tom Willis added. “We want to thank him for representing Matco Tools for nearly a decade and we wish Whit nothing but success in the future.”

The driver of the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster for the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series season will be announced at a later date.

www.matcotools.com

www.davidpowersmotorsports.com

SGMP Division 2 Bracket Finals Photos

Thanks to Marvin T. Smith for sharing his weekend photos from SGMP!
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Old Drag Racers Reunion Photos

Fred Simmons has sent a few photos from Sol and Anne Stewart's Old Drag Racers Reunion held last weekend in Panama City, FL. Hopefully, more photos will be added soon. Thanks, Fred!

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KJ Battles to the 11th Starting Spot in Richmond

Contact: Jon Knapp
TMG Sports Marketing, Inc.

KJ Battles to the 11th Starting Spot in Richmond

The final qualifying sheet for the Torco Race Fuels Nationals in Richmond shows that Kurt Johnson qualified his ACDelco Cobalt in the 11th position based on his 6.681-second, 206.61 mph pass from Saturday morning. However, these simple statistics do not show the tremendous effort the team put forth in securing their spot in Sunday’s final eliminations field, with a last minute engine change between rounds on Saturday. In addition, they do not show the championship implications involved in his first round match-up with rival Allen Johnson, whom Kurt is looking to overtake in this final event of the first round of the NHRA playoffs.

However, just as he has in the week leading up to this crucial race, KJ has kept matters in perspective, looking simply at doing whatever is necessary to get the job done.

“We had said after the Dallas race that if we were to face either (fourth place Coughlin) Jeggie or Allen in the first round in Richmond, it could potentially work in our favor. Although we ran well enough to qualify, we’ve not been up to speed with the performance that this ACDelco Cobalt has been running of late. We had some parts breakage last night, the extent of which did not surface until this morning’s run, forcing us to quickly swap engines between rounds, after which we didn’t make it down the track in the afternoon.

“At times like these, it’s best to take a step back and see exactly where you need to be, determining what went wrong, and what we need to do to fix it. For example, I had .027 and .017 lights on my last runs, which, after struggling in the last two races, allows us to focus our efforts on getting the race car down the race track.

“There’s a lot on the line tomorrow, so we’re going to dig down deep. We have about twenty hours to get this car turned around, and we’re going to do everything we can to do it.”