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IF IT’S A-B VERSUS COCA-COLA, WHO WINS?
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Reading the financial pages this morning, the Agent noticed that Anheuser-Busch Cos. have expanded their distribution of Hansen Natural Corp.’s products to bars, restaurants and nightclubs from an earlier agreement that covered retailers and liquor stores. The beer maker began distributing Hansen drinks including Monster, Lost and Unbound to retailers in mid-2006.
Then the Agent received an email citing a Wikipedia posting that says that in 2005 Coca-Cola Enterprises began distributing Rockstar Energy drink products within the U.S. and Canada, except the Northwest and Northern California.
With Coca-Cola’s POWERade brand the title sponsor of NHRA pro drag racing and A-B’s Budweiser and Monster sponsoring the two Bernstein cars, where does that leave the possible return of Jerry Toliver with a Rockstar sponsor? [2/14/2007]
NITRO SHOOTOUT AT FONTANA
The Nostalgia Funny Car Association and All American Fuel Dragsters have come together to present the Nostalgia Nitro Shootout on April 21st at Auto Club Dragway at Fontana, CA. The show will consist of Nostalgia Top Fuel, Nostalgia Nitro Floppers, A/Fuelers, AA/Gas, A, B & C/Gas and Nostalgia Eliminator I, II & III all on one day.
The group is accepting 150 pre-entered racecars only for the one-day event at a cost of $50 entry fee for car and driver. For now you can get more information from AA/FD President Rick Rogers at (805) 438-3133 and there will soon be an online website for entry forms.
MARX MAKES HIS MARK
Ed Marx from Bakersfield, CA, took his "brand new" Corvette Pro Mod to test at the Las Vegas PSCA event. He got a best of 6:24 at 228.85 mph on his fifth pass. A former PSCA racer, and TAFC owner/driver, this looks like his strong suit finally – Marx made six passes for the weekend and NO hurt parts. (Rich Carlson photo) [2/14/2007]
TORCO BECOMES JOLIET TITLE-RIGHTS SPONSOR
Evan Knoll’s Torco Racing Fuels will be the sponsor for the NHRA national event to be held June 7-10 at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL. Seems a good choice, as the northern Illinois event is only one state away from Knoll’s Decatur, Michigan-based company. [2/14/2007]
THE SIGNAL GOES NORTH!
The Sports Network (TSN) in Canada will televise the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series' entire 23-event schedule in 2007, dedicating nearly 60 hours of programming to NHRA. It is the sixth consecutive year that TSN has featured NHRA POWERade Series programming.
Highlighting TSN's 23-event, 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series telecast schedule will be coverage of the final round of eliminations from each event. The complete NHRA schedule is available at tsn.ca. [2/14/2007]