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- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-10 02:54:27)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-10 02:26:06)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-08 17:56:30)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-08 17:56:29)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-08 06:26:17)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-08 00:02:51)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-07 17:40:19)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-07 17:40:18)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 17:06:39)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 08:01:43)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 06:28:04)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 01:46:23)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 01:41:22)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 01:36:20)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-06 01:15:39)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-05 15:05:03)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-04 17:39:52)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-04 02:09:11)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-03 20:33:30)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-03 16:13:51)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-02 09:58:21)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-02 07:57:04)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-02 02:23:14)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-02 00:39:01)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-01 20:23:58)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-01 19:40:17)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-01 16:31:00)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-09-01 09:08:11)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-09-01 09:08:10)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 20:31:44)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 20:09:31)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 18:52:59)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 11:49:06)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 11:49:05)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 06:24:51)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-30 02:02:22)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season. In August, he accomplished the first goal. This past weekend, he put the finishing touches on a dominant second half of the season by accomplishing the second, sweeping the final two Super Street points events of the season to pull away for the season title. Click for Full Story

- Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Roaring to the Finish - DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Two Events from Season's End First things first: As far as the season points standings are concerned, any huge changes during the final two weeks of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season would be something of a surprise. Make that, a fairly major surprise. Work Stock. Street Diesel. Super Street. Modified Diesel. Those are the four classes in which drivers and teams have been pulling throughout one of the most exciting, competitive seasons in DHRA history, and with two events remaining, the standings - at least at the top - are all but set. Click for Full Story

- New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
New Face on Top - First-Time Entrant Meyers Wins in Quick Diesel at Atlanta This, basically, was what the Quick Diesel class was all about. When the DHRA installed the class prior to this season, the idea was to allow new drivers - perhaps teams and individuals on a relatively limited budget - a chance to compete for victories, and maybe a season title. The emphasis wouldn't be on equipment. Or money. The emphasis would be on driving skill. The overall hope was to draw new drivers to DHRA Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series, one of the nation's fastest-growing series of motorsports. Suffice to say Brandon Meyers got the idea. Click for Full Story

- Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Looking Forward - A Question-Answer Session with Competition Director Dave Dunbar On July 18, 2006, the Diesel Hot Rod Association announced that Dave Dunbar will take over as DHRA Competition Director on January 1, 2007. Dunbar has spent the last six weeks talking to DHRA fans, drivers and sponsors about the long- and short-term future of the sport. As the DHRA prepares for its event Saturday at Atlanta Dragway, Dunbar discussed the last six weeks and how he sees the future of DHRA. Click for Full Story

- Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Doing it His Way - Miller Finds Success with Ford Power Stroke Ben Miller figures it's as good a reason as any. Miller, a 36-year-old Indiana-based diesel sled puller, could have done what most diesel competitors do. He could have run a Dodge with Cummins engine. It would have been easier. It would have meant success faster. And it would have been cheaper. A heck of a lot cheaper. What it wouldn't have been, Miller figures, was nearly as satisfying, or as interesting. And it sure wouldn't have been as much fun. Click for Full Story

- Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Ford Tough - Balish Pulling Plenty of Power from Ford Diesel Engine His is not the most dominant truck in his class. At least not yet. And a glance at the top of the DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series season points lists doesn't reveal the name of Bruce Balish. But look a little deeper and it's there: And when you find Balish's name, you'll have found one of the most compelling stories of the 2006 DHRA season. Because Balish, a 43-year-old sled puller, has gone against what is generally considered the grain of the sport. Click for Full Story

- Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Changing the Approach - TS Performance Racing Goes to Old Faithful Inline Mechanical P/Pump Dennis Perry isn't sure if the moment will come this weekend. If it does, and if TS Performance Racing rolls out its new and improved truck at Rockingham, N.C., this weekend, Perry promises a few things: The moment will be exciting. And it will important. And unforgettable. The moment Perry is anticipating is when Bowling Green, Ky.-based TS Performance debuts its 2001 Dodge Cummins after completing the switch from an electronic VP44 injection conversion to a mechanical inline pump. Click for Full Story

- Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Breaking Through - Haisley Scores Much-Awaited First Victory of Season Van Haisley's the first one to tell you: The 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Sled Pulling season hasn't been the sort of season to which he is accustomed. Sure, there were reasons for his early troubles. And he understood a lot of it wasn't his doing, or that of his team. But the 47-year-old Fairmount, Ind., competitor is a winner, and not winning - and not being as competitive as he would like - wasn't something that sat well. Which was why this past weekend was a big deal to Haisley. Because for once this season, everything worked. He read the track right. He took the right line. And those dominant new trucks, the ones that Haisley said will lead the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling series into the future, weren't so dominant. Click for Full Story

- Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Back on Top - Defending Super Street Champion Ingram Wins for First Time This Season Brad Ingram believes things are turning around. Not that the first part of the DieselPower! Sled Pulling season was bad for Ingram, exactly. It's just that Ingram -- the defending Super Street season points champion - very much expects to win, and through the first three events of this season, that had proven unusually difficult. A second-place finish in the season opener. A second-place finish in the second week of the season. In the third event, Ingram did not attend because of his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Then, came this past week: Ingram, a longtime force in diesel motorsports and for several seasons one of the most prominent names in the Diesel Hot Rod Association, won for the first time this season, taking first place in the Super Street class at the Gasconade County Fairgrounds in Owensville, Mo. Click for Full Story

- Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Successful Debut - Newcomer Miller Scores Big Early in Street Diesel Class Robert Miller leads his class after three events. That's a big story, but in Miller's case, it is only part of the story. It's also one of the best stories of the early part of the 2006 DieselPower! SledPulling Series season. Because this is a story not just about success. And it's a story not just about surprise results. It's a story about a comeback of sorts, one that even the person who made it didn't expect to be quite so successful so soon. Click for Full Story

- Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
Three in a Row - Watson Wins First Three DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Modified Events They came from three or four states away, and fans filled the stands for what some said was the biggest diesel sled pull ever in Western Pennsylvania. Those who came saw what they wanted: They saw a few dominant performances. They saw a lot of powerful diesel trucks. Notably, they saw no rain. And they saw what anyone who has been paying attention to the DHRA's 2006 DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series has gotten used to seeing: They saw Chris Watson dominating his class. Click for Full Story

- All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
All About the Pulls - Severson Leads Super Street Class in DieselPower! Sled Pulling Series Craig Severson had heard it often. Before he did it for the first time, he'd heard what he said a lot of people hear about sled pulling, diesel or otherwise. «There's a lot of talk from guys who haven't hooked to a sled,« Severson said recently. «Everybody's worried about breaking their trucks, and how hard it is on the truck.« Then, Severson tried it. «It didn't hurt the truck at all,« Severson said. That was four years ago, at what was known as the Thunder in Muncie, a Muncie, Ind., event that is now the DHRA Nationals. It was then that Severson first tried sled pulling. Click for Full Story

- A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run (2010-08-29 15:02:53)
A Powerful Performance - Eventful Indy Nationals Features Palmer's Record Run The rains came Sunday, washing away what likely would have been one of the most memorable finishes in DHRA history. That was the end of the weekend. But it was what happened during the rest of the 2006 Diesel Nationals that DHRA official Eric McBride - and more importantly, the sport's fast-growing fan base - likely will remember long after it ended. Records were set. A rivalry was heightened. And maybe as memorably, a driver set an example for sportsmanship that not only captured the spirit of DHRA, but set a tone for the future. Click for Full Story

- Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey (2010-08-29 06:25:22)
Something Special - Season Title Caps Memorable Season for Palmer, Stuckey The way Philip Palmer sees it, it was a team thing. All the records? The memorable runs? The victories? The season points title? He had something to do with it. He did, after all, drive the Stuckey Racing/Team Green Dodge Ram 2500, the truck that became the dominating force in 2006 in the Pro Street class of the DHRA's Pro Diesel Shootout Drag Racing Series. Click for Full Story

- Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition (2010-08-29 06:25:22)
Pleasant Surprise - Counts Wins DHRA's National Bracket Racing Competition It wasn't as if Darren Counts had a grand plan, exactly. Still, once he gets going toward something, Counts said he isn't really the type to go halfway. In that sense, it's hardly a surprise that Counts - a 33-year-old first-year competitor at the Great Lakes Dragway - had success this season. How much success? Plenty. More, in fact, than rightly could have been expected. And enough to be crowned the 2006 DHRA DieselPower! Drag Racing Series champion, a crowning that likely will mark the final title of the DHRA's old bracket racing format. Click for Full Story

- Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title (2010-08-29 06:25:22)
Mission Accomplished - Ingram Wins Second Consecutive Super Street Season Title Brad Ingram had two goals this season. As it turned out, he accomplished them both in a big, big way. The first goal: Win the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza in Terre Haute, Ind. The other: Win the DHRA's DieselPower! Sled Pulling Super Street class series for a second consecutive season.