PEREZ HITS THE WALL AT E-TOWN NOPI EVENT

At the NOPI event at Englishtown, NJ, Carlos Perez’s 1988 Mazda RX-7 crashed at 170.95 mph (7.575 ET) after winning his Modified class first round match against Jason Greenawalt's2001 Nissan Silvia. We’ll have complete coverage of the event later this week in DRO. (Todd Dziadosz photos) [5/7/2008]

TRIPPED UP BY PHONES IN TRIPP CITY & O’FALLON

Michael Dakin of Indian Creek Fabricators in Tipp City, Ohio, tells us that their phones lines are temporarily out of service due to some technical problems with MCI-VERIZON. So keep calling 937-667-5818 or 937-667-4093 (fax) -- they’ll be working eventually.

And if you tried to call DRO headquarters today and got a busy signal or no answer (no, even the Burkster can’t talk all the time) we switched telephone service providers and at first our three roll-over numbers did not roll over. After some minutes on the phone with Charter Communications (we support drag racing sponsors!) reprogramming the system, we were back in business. [5/7/2008]