Monday, February 8, 2010

With more items still in route, here are the door prizes that have already arrived to be part of the drawings at Dragway 42's Annual Awards Banquet which will be held Saturday evening, February 13th.

Certificate good for any pair of Goodyear slicks
$1,000+ possible value • Courtesy of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. - Akron

$500 Off of Complete Vehicle Paint Job or
$200 Off of Complete Jr. Dragster Paint Job
Courtesy of Larry Dumire Paint and Body

Ceramic Coating For Pair of Headers or Exhaust Manifolds
$300 Value • Courtesy of Advance Paint Technology LTD of Cleveland

Three Hour Dyno Rental
$210 Value • Courtesy of Big 3 Racing / Big 3 Automotive

DRE Dragster Cockpit Cover
$99 Value • Courtesy of Dennis Ridgeway Enterprises

Safety Inspection and Wheel Bearing Packing Service
$70 Value • Courtesy of Altmeyer's Trailer Sales - Seville

$50 Off Any DRE Custom Engine Diaper
Courtesy of EngineDiapers.com / Dennis Ridgeway Enterprises

(3) 3 Month Trial Subscriptions to "ThisIsBracketRacing.com"
$45 Value Each • Courtesy of Luke Bogacki

Free Race Weekend - 3rd Annual "Steel City Practice Tree Race"
$30 Value • Courtesy of Steel City Drag Race Promotion

$25 Custom Vinyl Lettering/Decals Certificate
Courtesy of Sarah Baehr • SB Graphix

Vintage Drag Racing DVD
$20 Value • Courtesy of Paul Suloff Enterprises - Geezer Gathering

(24) Parts and Service Discount Coupon Books
Courtesy of Serpentini Chevrolet - Tallmage

ENTERTAINMENT

Funny Stop Comedy Club - 2010 VIP Pass
Good For 2 Free Admissions Each Week
$800+ possible value • Courtesy of FunnyStop.com

Party of Ten - Free General Admission for the Group
Up to $100 Value • Courtesy of Funny Stop Comedy Club

(30) Buy One Game - Bowl One Game Free Certificates
Courtesy of Stonehedge Family Fun Center - Cuyahoga Falls

DINING

$25 Dining Gift Certificate
Courtesy of Wing Warehouse/Scorchers

(2) "Dinner For 4" Certificates
Courtesy of CiCi's Pizza - 10 Area Locations

(2) Two "Free Meal" Certificates
Value Up To $23.98 • Courtesy of Huddle House - Seville

APPAREL ITEMS

(3) SureGrip(TM) Mechanics / Sport Utility Gloves
$16.95 pair value • Courtesy of ProFox Racing

(3) Nostalgia Funny Car T-Shirts - Size XL
(3) 50th Anniversaary T-Shirts - Size XL
(6) Black / White T-Shirts - Size XL
Courtesy of S&W Race Cars

(3) Wind-It-Tight Engines T-Shirts
Size 3XL • Courtesy of Wind-It-Tight Engines

T-Shirt and Can Koosie Gift Packs
3XL - 2XL - XL - Ladies
Courtesy of DragRaceResults.com

T-Shirt and Headwear Gift Packs
2XL - M - SM
Courtesy of Luke Bogacki's "ThisIsBracketRacing.com"

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Just as we completed this list above, a large selection of 30 additional items arrived courtesy of the Summit Racing Equipment Retail Store in Tallmadge.

These additional items include:

For the shop: Parts washer, tool bag, plug gapping pliers, tire claw clubs, torque wrench, socket racks, tool box liner, and pit mats.

For relaxing in your pit area or the grandstands: Pullover jackets, soft coolers, folding chairs, banners, and thermal mugs.
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Thanks to all of the businesses that have donated door prizes to this year's Dragway 42 Awards Banquet.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Dragway 42 is proud announce the renewal of the Dragway 42 track contingency program sponsorship with safety equipment manufacturer ProFox Racing for the 2010 season for all of our racing classes.

ProFox Racing first joined Dragway 42's family of contingency sponsors in 2009 and gained wide acceptance due to the nature of their products and their coverage of Dragway 42's Top, Mod, and Street classes for the big cars and all 3 of Dragway 42's junior dragster classes.

Although safety equipment is not immediately thought of as a "speed secret", Dragway 42's top 3 racers in the Jr. Fuel class standings, the points champion in Jr. Stock, and the points runner-up in the Street class during the 2009 season were just some of the racers who picked up additional cash for their individual race wins while wearing ProFox Racing safety equipment.

For 2010, racers in ANY Dragway 42 class will be eligible earn an additional $25 for a class win at any Summit SuperSeries points event or any holiday weekend or other special event with an advertised purse of $1,000 or more to win. That cash is paid out, on the spot, on race day, at the pay window along with the regular class winnings.

To be eligible, a racer must be a participant in Dragway 42's 2010 point series, must display a ProFox Racing decal on both sides of their vehicle, and must have purchased $150 or more worth of merchandise from ProFox Racing.

The $150 purchase amount can be from any single invoice or the total of multiple invoices.

For those racers who have purchased merchandise from ProFox Racing in previous years, ProFox Racing is graciously allowing the $150 threshold to be met through the combined total of purchases made for the eligible racer in 2008, 2009, and/or 2010.

ProFox Racing offers a full line of SFI certified racing gear including fire jackets, fire pants, firesuits, gloves, shoes, underwear, head socks, and neck collars.

ProFox Racing's premium driving suits, shoes and gloves are among the best in the industry, crafted with care and pride with your safety being their highest priority. All have SFI certified ratings from 3.2A/1 to 3-2A/5.

ProFox Racing has a strong reputation in the industry for excellent customer service, with all products being shipped directly from their Toluca Lake, California facility.

ProFox Racing's assortment of premium racing gear is very competitively priced and the company is offers free shipping on many of its orders.

For more details concerning ProFox Racing's full selection of premium racing gear, visit their website at ProFoxRacing.com or click their banner ad which is located in the left hand column of each page of our website, all year long.

An example of ProFox Racing's SFI 3.2A/5 certified racing jacket and pants, their SFI 3.3/5 certified racing gloves and mid-top racing shoes, and SFI 3.3 certified helmet support neck collar will be on display at next weekend's Dragway 42 Awards Banquet.

ProFox Racing has also donated multiple pairs of their SureGrip (TM) mechanics gloves which will be awarded as door prizes at the February 13th banquet.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

When Ohio's own weather predicting groundhog stuck his head out today and saw his shadow, Buckeye Chuck predicted an early Spring.

Well that forecast works out wonderfully for Dragway 42's racers as they chomp at the bit for a chance to shake off the snow and ice of Winter, and get to work on the more seasonal activity of drag racing.

The time to prepare those machines to hit the track is now!

Do not forget, Dragway 42's "Spring Opening Weekends" are scheduled for Saturdays and Sundays, March 20-21 and 27-28.

With that schedule and Buckeye Chuck's blessing, Dragway 42's racers will be making passes on the West Salem track anywhere from two weeks to six weeks earlier than those who using our various neighbor's facilities.

Thank you Buckeye Chuck! Please meet with Mother Nature and make sure that she is on board as well!

Monday, February 1, 2010

For those who love to wait for "final call to the staging lanes", the banquet version of that PA announcement is here... NOW!

The order deadline for the Dragway 42 Awards Banquet is TODAY... Monday, February 1st and is only offered at this point as an online, credit card purchase.

As a reminder, tickets are offered on an advanced purchase basis ONLY. No tickets are sold at the door.

For those not familiar with the event, many of the details as well as the links to place your banquet ticket order are found by clicking the shield icon .

NOTE:

As a reminder, anyone who has already ordered their tickets online but did not include their special award nominees in the "note" section of their order still has time to submit their votes.

Use the 'For Track Related' email link found in the left column of this page to send your choices for any or all of these categories:

"Rookie of the Year", "Most Improved", "Hard Luck Award", "Wrench of the Year", "Sportsman of the Year", or any special category.

Tuesday, January 27, 2010

Although Dragway 42's racing season 'officially' began on January 1st with the track's 11th Annual Hangover Nationals, racers can now begin to make their plans for the remainder of the season with the release today of Dragway 42's full 2010 schedule.

Dragway 42 will kick off the springtime portion of its 54th consecutive year of racing with a pair of Saturday and Sunday events on March 20-21 and March 27-28.

The nearly 100 event schedule for Dragway 42's 2010 season picks up steam with more weekend action in early April. The middle part of April sees the first Friday Night event of the year on April 16th with a 1/4 mile Test & Tune and Grudge Racing program that continue each week through October 29th.

Two days following the Friday night opener, Dragway 42's Summit SuperSeries point season gets underway with the first of one dozen of these guaranteed cash purse events on Sunday, April 18th.

Following the successful pattern begun last year, two to three Summit SuperSeries events are scheduled each month during the heart of the season, culminating with the final points event on Sunday, September 12th.

Racers DO NOT have have to be part of the Summit SuperSeries points program to compete in these events at Dragway 42, but with this year's program paying out $200,000 in cash and prizes, why wouldn't you?

The Summit SuperSeries events will be held on the following Sundays:


Dragway 42's weeknight program gets under on May 4th with the first of its Tuesday night events which will continue each week through October 26th.

These events feature all evening 1/4 mile Test & Tunes along with street and grudge race action. Highlighting each Tuesday night will be 3 qualifying sessions in the 2010 edition of Dragway 42's 100 MPH Club for Street Legal Cars, presented by Big 3 Racing and Big 3 Automotive of Brunswick.

Dragway 42 will also be continuing its decades long tradition of value priced holiday weekend events in 2010.

On the Memorial Day weekend the track will play host to a 3-Day "Cheap Race" program which kicks off with an all evening test and tune along with optional, 100% payback gambler races for Box and No Box cars on Friday night. To add to the racer's winnings, the two Friday night eliminator winners will face of in a one round, Summit Retail Runoff for an additional bonus of $250 in Summit Racing Equipment gift cards.

Saturday and Sunday of the Memorial Day Weekend will see a $1,000 to win race each day with Monday of Memorial Day weekend being reserved as rain date if needed.

The car and driver entry fee of just $50.00 covers the full costs of Friday's test and tune as well as both Saturday's and Sunday's $1,000 to win eliminators.

The Independence Day weekend at Dragway 42 will see a unique schedule that begins Friday night with test and tune event coupled with a no additional cost Box/No Box combo eliminator.

Just as scheduled on the Memorial Day weekend kickoff, this Friday Independence Day weekend event will conclude with the Box and No Box class winners racing a single bonus round for $250 worth of Summit Retail Store gift cards.

Saturday of Independence Day weekend will see Dragway 42's 4th Annual "Appreciation Event" with free race entry into four separate classes that day. This year's "Appreciation Event" will also be the track's IHRA Ironman Classic, with each of the four class winners taking home one of the coveted IHRA Ironman trophies.

Wrapping up the Independence Day weekend will be the 7th scheduled Summit SuperSeries event of the season, complete with a guaranteed cash purse in the Top, Mod, Street classes for big cars as well as the Junior Dragster's Jr. Fuel and Jr. Super Stock classes.

The roar of vintage machines hot rods and Rock & Roll music takes over Dragway 42 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 23, 24, and 25 when the track hosts its 5th Annual "Rock and Race" Nostalgia Weekend.

The exhibition cars and big money bracket racing action returns to Dragway 42 with its annual "Night of Thunder" event on Saturday, August 21st followed by a Summit SuperSeries event the following day.

September's schedule gets underway with Dragway 42's "All No Box" Cheap Race weekend on Labor Day weekend, September 3-5.

The "All No Box" Labor Day weekend program is nearly identical to the Memorial Day weekend with a test & tune and optional gambler race with Summit Retail Runoff bonus on Friday. Both Saturday and Sunday will see their own, separate $1,000 to win eliminators. This event features the "Cheap Race Weekend" philosophy with a $50 car and driver entry covering the entire weekend's program and Monday being reserved as a rain date if needed.

Dragway 42's 12th Annual "Halloween Thing" weekend will be run on October 15, 16, and 17th. Be sure to join us for 3 big days of racing action and Halloween Fun plus the season's final Summit Retail Runoff bonus.

The 2010 schedule continues into the month of November with Sunday events on the 7th and 14th, continuing deeper into the month with the cooperation of Mother Nature.

Recognizing the continuing need for groups, organizations, and car clubs to be able to host their own events on weekend dates, Dragway 42 will again make at least 2 Saturday's per month available to these folks for track rentals during the 2010 season.

Track rental rates begin as low as $495 for a 3 hour rental which includes track prep, necessary staff, and an ambulance on hand for the duration of the event. Use the email link found on each page of Dragway42.com to contact us for more details.

To view the full 2010 schedule at Dragway 42, click the "2010 Schedule" navigation button found on each page of the Dragway42.com website, or click this Dragway 42 shield .