Category: Team Reports
Stemper becoming young star in ADRL PXM
Two final round appearances at the start of the ADRL 2012 season didn’t hurt Casey Stemper’s feelings one bit. Although the young gun was well on his way to becoming a star in the Pro Extreme Motorcycle class with his previous accomplishments, scoring two finals in as many races certainly secured his place in the [...]
Stemper scores second final of season in ADRL PXM
Casey “the kid” Stemper makes Pro Extreme Motorcycle look easy – and that’s not an easy thing to do. In only the second race of the season for the ADRL 10 race tour, Casey and the family Stemper have already scored their second final round appearance. The youngster began the weekend by qualifying number two [...]
Stotz Racing starts season off on a mission
Great Season Opener After running the first turbo streetbike 6 second (6.98) pass at the Manufacturers Cup Finals in November many people thought I should leave the bike alone. That has always been hard for me to do and this was no exception. I knew that even with a 6.98 our bike only went 199 [...]
No Joke Racing takes 2 at The Rock
While his hometown of Sebring, Florida, basked in the annual glory of it’s 12 hour sports car race, Ken Edwards took his No Joke motorcycle drag racing team up to Rockingham, North Carolina to claim it’s own slice of success. The team returned triumphantly home from the Honda-Suzuki of Sanford Spring Bike Open and the [...]
Stemper takes first Minute Man of the year in PXM
Casey Stemper may be one of the youngest racers in the ADRL, but he quickly earned his place as a valid contender in the Pro Extreme Motorcycle ranks in a short amount of time. At the ADRL season opener Stemper put any questions as to his abilities to rest with the triumphant capture of his [...]
Team HTP Performance Race Report 3-19-2012
Team HTP Performance traveled to Rockingham Dragway for the 1st of 8 Mirock events this past weekend. Richard Gadson joined the team this year with his nitrous Kawasaki ZX-14 Real Street bike. HTP recently added a MoTeC M84 standalone ECU and custom nitrous kit. Danny Cox and Ryan Schnitz are back with their nitrous Suzuki [...]
D.M.E. Racing ready to begin 2012 season
As a proud member, vendor and “Real Street” class MiRock race series sponsor, D.M.E. Racing would like to extend a congratulations and our appreciation to all the fans, racers, sponsors and officials that made 2011 another successful race season!!! We certainly need to acknowledge and thank our immediate sponsors to include NLR, Catalyst Racing Composites, [...]
Amazon Drag Racing Team Goes Nitro!
Amazon Racing’s Carrie Seifert Tate, a.k.a. The AMAZON is going to be competing in the All Harley Drag Racing Association (AHDRA) Pro Drag Class in 2012. She’ll be piloting her brand new 2012 Hawaya Racing Pro Dragster Nitro Harley-Davidson this season. Carrie and her husband and Crew Chief, Kerry Tate, have been racing their Super [...]
Alwine,Dryden,Hogan announce return to Top Fuel in 2012
Amongst a crowd of fans and supporters during the 2012 Dealer Power Sports Expo being held in Indianapolis Indiana Korry Hogan along with all members of the Alwine,Dryden,Hogan Top Fuel Motorcycle Drag Racing Team stepped in front of the Dragbike Live cameras with Editor Doug Ray and officially announced Hogan’s and the teams return to [...]
Stotz Racing debuts all new CBR1000RR Pro Street
Stotz Racing debuts their new for 2012 race season CBR1000RR Pro Street motorcycle. Kent Stotz and team owner said the bike is ready and will be campaigned this season. The all new CBR1000RR will be piloted by son Frankie Stotz. Make no mistake this is not the original red CBR1000RR that became the first turbocharged [...]
Star Racing announces riders, plans full NHRA circuit
Dragbike Live broke the news last month that plans were in the making for the return of Star Racing to the NHRA ranks. It now has become officially official. While attending the Dealer Trade Show in Indianapolis Indiana Jackie Bryce of Star Racing informed our Editor Doug Ray of the news. The Star Racing team [...]
Hogan to attend Indy Trade Show
Korry Hogan will make an appearance at the Indianapolis Dealer Expo show February 18th and 19th. If you have been wondering what his plans are for this coming year, stop by and talk to him and get the “straight” story directly from the source. Along with Korry, Mike Dryden, and John Alwine, something “new” [...]
Team Report: Mike Berry test new PSM in Las Vegas
With a huge storm head towards Denver, the LAT Racing Oil sponsored Pro Stock Motorcycle of Mike Berry and crew hit the road for Sin City! Looking forward to some warmer weather we arrived in Las Vegas on Thursday and set up for our first day of test and tune. With the new look [...]
Phillips listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records
Michael Phillips has been around the racing scene for a number of years and has set many records and won many races during his racing career from street bike all the way to the NHRA Pro Stock motorcycle ranks. Recently a Dragbike Live staff member was in a local book store and just happened to [...]
Star Racing to run NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle class in 2012?
The question was “are you planning to bring Star Racing back to NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle racing in 2012″. George Byrce’s reply, “the only way I would be interested in going back on full scale tour would be with a wheel with five spokes and that would have to include the best rider,best motorcycle, [...]
Gadson races with Speed and Strength in 2012
9 time world champion drag racer Rickey Gadson has announced deal with Speed and Strength and Tucker Rocky distributing for 2012.
Three Championship Year for Ronnie Mitchell Racing/Video Review
No one raced a Pro Street bike as often, as hard, and as winningly as Ronnie Mitchell Racing did in 2011. Riding the hot pink Suzuki Hayabusa known as Rizzo, Bud Yoder took both the Milan Dragway and NHDRO (No Hatin’) Pro Street championships. Mike “Kavos” Kovacevich took over the seat for the Toronto Streetbike [...]
Star Racing celebrates with 2011 European Championship Team
Star Racing hosted six members of the Hungarian-based Sovereign Racing Team last week as they visited Americus, Ga. While the Europeans were in town, Star Racing also held a celebration in honor of the Sovereign Team’s 2011 European Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship win. The reception, held Friday evening at the Southland Ridge Clubhouse, recognized the [...]
Team So-Cal Racing to field two bikes/looking forward to 2012 NHRASeason
Team So-Cal Racing would like to announce a two bike team owned by So-Cal-Custom Cycles to complete in the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Series starting in Gainesville, Florida. Dawn Bauges will pilot one of the team bikes while the other team rider is to be announced at a later date. So-Cal Custom Cycle is [...]
Video: Stotz’s historic 6.98et pass with exclusive interview!
The Dragbike Live.com film crew was on location during the Manufacturers Cup Finals held November 11-13 2011 at SGMP in Valdosta Ga. While filming the event we captured the exclusive video of Frankie Stotz, rider for Stotz Racing aboard his turbocharged Honda CBR 1000RR street bike became the first turbo charged street bike to break [...]
Stotz does it! Takes Honda into the six second zone/CBR1000RR
History made at the Manufacturers Cup Finals in Valdosta Georgia at South Georgia Motorsports Park. Frankie Stotz takes his Honda CBR1000RR into the six second zone running a 6.981 elapsed time and becomes the second rider to break the barrier. Stotz tipped into the sixes amongst early controversy regarding a specific fuel brand, a fuel [...]
RMR Racing crew chief tells it like he sees it when it comes to six second pro street bikes
Ronnie Mitchell is a racer first and a crew chief always. While in a pit side interview here at the Manufacturers Cup Finals at South Georgia Motorsports Park, Mitchell went on the record. Mitchell opened up and went on the record with normally what would be considered off record thoughts. Thoughts, in fact his thoughts [...]
Star Racing goes retro with all new Pro Mod drag bike/Manufacturers Cup
Star Racing will debut their all new Pro Mod drag bike and get this in retro Star Racing colors. A throw back Star Racing’s very successful paint schemes of the past. George Bryce of Star Racing says “it’s a throwback, we are bring out the old color’s, we have a new bike,new rider and will [...]
McBride Expecting Plenty of Competition at Manufacturers Cup Finals 2011
Top Fuel legend Larry “Spiderman” McBride can’t wait to race again, even though the ten-time champion knows winning will not be easy. McBride has been busy overhauling his world record-holding motorcycle and servicing what he calls a “trailer full of motors,” in anticipation of what Spiderman expects to be a highly-competitive race, The Manufacturers Cup [...]
Ryan Schnitz Records First 6-Second Pro Street Motorcycle ¼ Mile Pass/Brocks Performance
Ryan Schnitz has made history, becoming the first rider to record a six-second run on a street-tire bike at the MIROCK ‘Fast by Gast’ Fall Nationals at Maryland International Raceway. Riding the nitrous-injected HTP Suzuki of Cecil Towner, Schnitz recorded a mind-boggling 6.907 elapsed time at 203.06 mph during the first round of eliminations in [...]
