The NHRDA is proud to announce it's partnership with ARP, Automotive Racing Products, as the "Official Fastener" of the  2012 MBRP Diesel Drag Race Series!

Well folks after many Rough weekends & a lot of hard work from a lot of good people, this team finally has this car shook down & in true contention for the sevens. There have so many changes & new technologies involved with the new car that it has taken this much effort to get her there. We have made 12 pass` on it since last Wednesday & it just keeps getting faster. We now have a 172 mph pass in the ¼ with a 8.06 et. I have no doubts we will hit our 7 by the end of the year.

Emily Herod Driver of the Nitrous Express Dragster had her sights set upon becoming the next World Champion early in 2011.  Emily and team traveled up from Texas to the FASS Nationals at Indianapolis in June to debut the car and they won the event.
 
Soon after Indy they  began preparations and testing  for the World Finals in September and her quest to become World Champion.
 
Mike Woods owner of Nitrous Express was on hand at Heartland Park and was very excited to see his team blow away the competition by running a 8.13Et at 173.70mph
 
I have been on cloud nine since last Saturday! Of course I would never have gotten there without God. Mike Wood and the entire Nitrous Express crew have worked their butts off preparing the car for every race and I want to give them a big thanks for that! I have had so much fun racing that car this year and winning the World Championship put icing on the cake. I met and raced great people at the events,  
everyone was friendly to me and my family. We are looking forward to next year and maybe we can pull off another championship. Thanks to the NHRDA for great hospitality and putting on great events and races !
Sincerely,
 
Emily Herod
2011 Top Diesel World Champion
 

It seems like only yesterday that the NHRDA season began, but here it is already September and the season is over!  The good news is that your support was not wasted; we are the NHRDA Top Diesel World Champions!  
Emily’s driving skills and a lot of luck landed us in the winner’s circle this weekend at the World Finals in Topeka, Kansas.  We had some pretty stiff competition when Dan Scheid showed up with the worlds quickest and fastest Top Diesel dragster as well as John Robinson’s Cummins powered Funny Car.  We were lucky enough to qualify #1 when Sheid’s dragster experienced waste gate problems on his first qualifying pass and was shut off with engine problems after his burnout on his last qualifier.  Robinson’s funny car exploded a turbo charger on his first qualifying pass and was not able to return to competition.   Matt Handwork in the Bone Shaker Altered put on an excellent show for the crowd as did all of the competitors.   It rained both days and cut qualifying to only two passes.
After struggling with rain, an uncooperative injector and a finicky dual fuel pump tune up we were finally able to battle our way to the finals facing the Bone Shaker altered.  We had experienced several engine backfires in the burnout so we decided to forgo the burnout ritual in the finals and just get the car staged and hope for the best.  When the tree dropped Emily cut her best light yet in the NX dragster and never looked back as Matt experienced trouble at mid track and was forced to shut off.  Our 8.13 ET was a big disappointment but it was good enough to clinch the World Championship!
 Our racing season is far from over however.  We still will attend the remaining NADM events in Columbus OH, Denton, TX and Orlando FL.  Plus we are going to try to set a new land speed record in the standing mile in late October at THE TEXAS MILE event in Beeville TX.  That’s right, a LSR in the Nitrous Express diesel powered dragster.  We have it geared to run over 275mph so all we need now is some open space and a little luck!

We have now had four straight successful events where the crowds were quite good and the number of competitors were also strong. Either the industry is picking up or we must be doing something right for such success! You contribute daily supporting our sport and we want to thank you for that support during the trying times and economy. DIESEL Motorsports® has three more events before the end of the year and we ask that we continue to make those successful to show the continued growth toward the last of the year.



Weekend on the Edge

What a Weekend on the Edge! Drags Friday night 94 trucks, 3-4000 people in the stands! Saturday Dyno at Edge, over 100 trucks, free food, 2-3000 people! Saturday night sled pull at Pioneer Stadium, 70 trucks pulling in front of 2-3000 people!

PPE Drag Racing Friday night at Rocky Mountain Raceway

ET Bracket Class
1st Place Chris Kendall Rock Springs WY 15.00 14.99 91.00
2nd Place Karl Matin Riverton 16.13 16.10 82.66

Quick Diesel New Era Diesel Class
1st Place Lynn Ross Marblehead, OH. 12.14 103.92
2nd Place Jason Hurt North Ogden UT 12.62 115.26

Unlimited
1st Place Dimitri Millard Highland ID 10.30 133.13
2nd Place Josh Gruvs Zimmerman MN 10.51 131.63


Edge Dyno Day Winners, Edge Plant in Ogden UT

Highest Horsepower Overall 1st
Custom Auto 2001 GM 1356.9 HP 2173.8 TQ
Highest Horsepower Overall 2nd
Alligator Performance 2006 GM 1099 HP 1852 TQ
Highest Horsepower Overall 3rd
Johnny Curtice 2005 Dodge 879 HP 1326.9 TQ
Highest Horsepower for Dodge 1st
Lance Croft 2004 Dodge 840.4 HP 1588.7 TQ (excludes overall winners)
Highest Horsepower for Ford 1st
Houston Denter 2010 Ford 563.5 HP 1169 TQ (excludes overall winners)
Highest Horsepower for GM 1st
Zach Fuller 2005 GM 842.6 HP 1468.1 TQ (excludes overall winners)
Highest Horsepower Fummins 1st
Greg Lance 2002 Ford Body Cummins Engine 679.6 HP 1306.8 TQ
Highest Horsepower on Diesel Only
Alligator Performance 2006 GM 1026 HP 1654 TQ
Lowest Horsepower Colby Neeley 1985 GM S10 39.5 HP 75.4 TQ
Lowest Torque John Hall 2001 Ford 229.2 HP 453.7 TQ (Excluding lowest HP winner)


PPE Sled Pulling Saturday Night Pioneer Stadium

Mod class-

1st- Ken Jones Ogden, Utah 288.8 ft

2nd- Terry Thain North Logan, UT 272.1

3rd- Jason Stott Rock Springs,WY 269.6

4th- Russ Presscott Ogden, UT 250.1

5th- Joel Carlson Lehi, UT 239.6


Super Street-

1st- Jefferson Broady Divide, CO 282.3

2nd- Todd Reinert Pinedale, WY 260.5

3rd- Jeremy Neff Elko, NV 256.7

4th- Zach Fuller- Grantsville, VT 255.11

5th- Jason Hurt N Ogden, UT 255.1

6th- Trevor Nieffenegger- Bringham, UT 254.6

7th- Dannie Yearsley Hamer, ID 242.9

8th- Brian Janssen Herriman, UT 242.5

9th- Halston Smith Croyden, UT 232.6

10th -Korey Whitaker Morgan, UT 215.11

11th -Kortney Nieffenegger Brigham,UT 188.8

12th - Kaleab Hales Thatcher, UT 24.1


3.0 Premier Performance Class

1st- Tom Hansen Grantsville, UT 271.3

2nd-Rowdy Bydalek Fort Lupton,CO 268.1

3rd- Todd Reinert Pinedale, WY 265.3

4th- Ryan Thain Benson, UT 260.8

5th- Chris Vorhees Lakewood, CO 256.2

6th- Kortney Nieffenegger Ogden, UT 251.8

7th Wade Fausett Spanish Fork, UT 244.5

8th Trevor Nieffenegger Brigham, UT 246.9

9th- Brice Dolan Ogden, UT 235

10th- Kaleab Hales Thatcher, UT 232

11th- Austin Elsmore Grace, ID 225.8

12th- Nic Morris Montpelier, ID 19.3


2.6 Industrial Injection Class

1st- Rowdy Bydalek Fort Lupton, CO 269.9

2nd- Chris Vorhies Lakewood, CO 266.4

3rd- Tom Hansen Grantsville, UT 265.9

4th- Ryan Thain Benson, UT 260.4

5th- Wade Fausett Spanish Fork, UT 247.10

6th- Brock Catmull Paul, ID 243.11

7th- Micheal Evans Ogden, UT 239.2

8th- Weylin Richards Wellsville, UT 238.6

9th- Michelle Ezell Cleburne, TX 236.8

10th- Chad Baker- Burley, ID 235.1

11th- Ty Zuech Hooper, UT 234.9

12th- Vanessa Stephan Ogden, UT 220.11

13th -Natalie Ortiz St George, UT 214.8

14th- Leo Walton Weston, ID 214.5

15th- Nic Morris Montpeiler, ID 203.10

16th- Colby Neeley Clearfield, UT 46.4

Workstock Class

1st- Chris Kendall Rock Springs, WY 286.4

2nd- Chris Stecklein Idaho Falls, ID 280.9 *tie

2nd- Sean Garn Fielding, UT 280.9* tie

3rd- Matt Martinez Plain City, UT 280.7

4th- Andrew Vigil Big Piney, WY 275.11

5th- Weylin Richards Wellsville, UT 274.3

6th- Wayne Owen West Haven, UT 272.9

7th- Casey Coombs Garland, UT 272.4

8th- Natalie Adams Clinton, UT 270.9

9th- Carl Niefenegger Malad, ID 264.9

10th Zac Gibson Morgan, UT 262.9

11th- Magnum Remington Greenriver, WY 262.6

12th- Ty Zuech Hooper, UT 262.5

13th- Julie Thain Amalga, UT 258.6

14th- Nick Longoria Tremonton, UT 255.7

15th- Skyler Hooks- Highland, UT 255.2

16th- James Coy Garland, UT 253.6

17th- Eric Nelson West Haven, UT 253.7

18th- Matt Miller Riverside, UT 249.11

19th- Brian Tibbitts Grace, ID 230.11

20th- Evan Foxley West Haven, UT 200.10

21st- Justin Tyler Ogden, UT 180.9

22nd- Brandon Tibbitts Grace, ID -------

Going out West for 2 events!

NADM is heading out West for two BIG events in the month of August! When it is hot in the plains you head to the mountains where it is cooler (hopefully)!

This is the 3rd annual for both of these events for NADM and we plan on these being bigger than the last!

Rock Springs WY Sled Pull Aug 6 - HIGH NOON!
NADM's Rockin the Rockies $10,000 Sled Pull August 6th - High Noon!

Sweetwater Fair Complex, NADM classes - Workstock, 2.6, 3.0, Super/Modified, Semis!

Plus . . . United Tractor & Truck Pullers brings their alcohol trucks, tractors as a pre-show!

Dyno all day long - next to Grandstands!
Supplied by Custom Auto, sponsored by Performance Truck Accessories of Rock Springs!

So far we have 5-6 modifieds running! Scheduled to come from the Midwest (unless they break this weekend) Garrett Shield's Black Ice Super Street truck and Ben Miller's Overtime Ford Modified!

Cash paid after event, bring your trucks and pull - $35 to pull plus Fair entry, we are paying back quite a few places depending on the number of trucks!


NADM's Weekend on the Edge has moved to Aug 19 and 20th!

Friday August 19 at the Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City, UT - 4pm gates open/tech, racing starts 7pm - DIESEL ONLY RACE NIGHT!

See NADM web site for classes/rules - www.DIESELmotorsports.US

Saturday August 20th Dyno Day at Edge plant in Ogden, UT. Dyno, vendors, and lunch 8am til 3pm!

Saturday Aug 20th NADM Sled Pull at Pioneer Stadium in Ogden, UT. Gates open 4pm, pulling starts 7pm - 10pm, all NADM pulling classes - see web site for rules.


Street trucks welcome (it's like pulling your hay trailer - really!) WIN MONEY PULLING!

Registration and teching opens at 11 am by PIT.

Sweetwater County Events Complex
3320 Yellowstone Road
Rock Springs, WY 82901

Beautiful weather, over 200 trucks competing in DIESEL drag racing, sled pulling, dyno and Shownshine, over 3500 diesel fans, and A&A Automotive's Vendor Alley providing unheard of bargains made the weekend a picture perfect DIESEL Motorsports event.

Diesel enthusiasts with their families and friends backed their trucks up to the track for 1/4 mile on both sides to watch the excitement of having diesel drag racing and sled pulling running at the same time!

Two of the fastest CLEAN diesel dragsters ran early in the morning, Wade Moody's S-10 Duramax and NX's Duramax rail ran some impressive passes in the 5s and 8s.

Unlimited heads up drag racing trucks ran impressive numbers in the 9s and l0s all day but the two in the finals were winner Bruce Block and runner up Josh Gross.

One of the most unlikely winners was second place in ET Bracket at 18 seconds Estimated Time was Daryl Darlington's Diesel Mercedes four door sedan! Yes even Daryl was shocked and told us he just recently bought the car and questioned whether he should come, congrats Daryl!

The MudLife Monster truck was there for the kids to pose in front of and get washable fake tattoos put on them with the Mudlife logo.

Some of the North East's most powerful trucks were there to sled pull on the track right next to the drag strip. Large numbers in all classes lined up to pull and most top pulls were from locals. Wayne Greier's Resurrected Ram and Cliff Carnes' Super street modifieds put on a quite impressive show for the crowds.

A&A's 160 foot tent store had over 50 manufacturers represented with some unbelievable show bargains for the fan's trucks. Many of the manufacturers sent their representatives to talk directly to diesel enthusiasts. Other vendors included Flo-Pro Exhaust (official exhaust), XDP (official .com) and "The Little Power Shop".

Overall a successful show that would make any promoter proud of putting on such an event. NADM would like to thank the track, NADM staff and the competitors for putting on a great DIESEL Motorsports show!

At ARP, we have thousands of parts in stock.  We also can work with you to custom fabricate parts for your special needs. 
These are head studs for John Robinson's diesel dragster.

From John-
"We have switched the fuel systems & turbos over to Scheid Diesel Motorsports. The boost we are now hitting 155 lbs & the hp is up to 1500. We are fixing to do a 5 stop tour out west with 4 truck stop appearences, Aug 1 we will be in Butte MT, Aug 2 we will be in Billings MT, Aug 3rd we will be in Cheyenne WY, Aug 4 we will be in Denver CO. We'll end up at Bandimere on Aug 7 for an event known as Truck Fest where we will be racing. Mahle Motorsports has stepped up to the plate with us as well by building some new pistons for this new engine."

I wish I could tell everyone that the car ran great and we won the race again but no such luck this time around.  We got to the track in Numidia, Pennsylvania on Friday, unloaded the car and displayed it for all the spectators and racers to see, there was a great crowd.  We got a lot of attention and talked to a ton of people.
 
Saturday morning dawned a beautiful day and we warmed up the engine and tranny to get ready to try our brand new combination.  We had lightened the car, removed the front and rear wings to improve aerodynamics, reprogrammed the nitrous controller to eliminate “all” the diesel smoke and installed the new “Big” fuel pump that had shown on the dyno to make an easy 200 more horsepower than the old one.  As they say in Texas, we were loaded for BEAR!
 
At 9:30 AM Emily pulled the car into the burnout box and hit the throttle, WOW!  Copious smoke poured off the rear tires as the turbos spooled instantly with no smoke, except the tires.  This was looking good!  She backed up and staged the car and it instantly got on the converter stalling to 4800RPM’s with the turbos pumping out a solid 40 pounds of boost.  The tree flashed and Emily was on her way to the quickest pass of her life, 1.12 60 ft, 3.17 to the 330 mark, then disaster struck.  As the car shifted from low to high gear the fuel pump drive gave up and the motor went silent, Emily coasted through the eighth mile with a 4.94 @ 134MPH…………….
 
The good news, if there was any, is that the Numidia PA track is at an altitude of 5300 feet.  This usually dictates very poor performance from any internal combustion powered vehicle and it did slow some of the vehicles up to one half of a second.  If this was true with our car then we are looking at 6 second potential at sea level.  Like with most racers, we know what it takes to run a certain ET, a 1.12 60ft time combined with a 3.17 would indicate a mid 4.80 eighth mile and further math indicates the imaginary quarter mile ET to be a sub 7.50 pass.  This gives us hope for the six second zone by the end of this year.

At ARP, we have thousands of parts in stock.  We also can work with you to custom fabricate parts for your special needs. 
These are head studs for John Robinson's diesel dragster.

From John-
"We have switched the fuel systems & turbos over to Scheid Diesel Motorsports. The boost we are now hitting 155 lbs & the hp is up to 1500. We are fixing to do a 5 stop tour out west with 4 truck stop appearences, Aug 1 we will be in Butte MT, Aug 2 we will be in Billings MT, Aug 3rd we will be in Cheyenne WY, Aug 4 we will be in Denver CO. We'll end up at Bandimere on Aug 7 for an event known as Truck Fest where we will be racing. Mahle Motorsports has stepped up to the plate with us as well by building some new pistons for this new engine."