Bobby Bennett

Success has never been so rewarding. Every time Kalitta Motorsports has won a round, Feeding America has been better able to feed the nation’s homeless. The Ypsilanti, Michigan team announced recently they and primary sponsor DHL would team up to donate to Feeding America, the largest charity worki…

News flash... Erica Enders is a human being - though her performances may sometimes look robotic. The four-time NHRA Pro Stock champion, with her win on Sunday at the NHRA Gateway Nationals, extended her point lead to 120 with a final round victory over Dallas Glenn. The victory marked her eighth of…

Stevie “Fast” Jackson was feeling bold Sunday afternoon. After all, the two-time NHRA Pro Modified champion had just beaten Justin Bond in the Pro Modified final, and it was his first win since April 2021. Please understand that Jackson admits to having only two heroes in drag racing - six-time Pro…

Cruz Pedregon cannot help it. He gets to meet all the cool people. Last month he met NFL Defensive Lineman Danielle Hunter and members of the Minnesota Vikings when he was invited to visit the team’s preseason training camp. He’s also crossed paths with professional wrestler Bill Goldberg and ATL Ra…

I wouldn’t have given us 23 days to make it, much less 23 years. But here we are at an age where social media is the norm, still killing it in a website world. CompetitionPlus.com has become a way of life for our dedicated team. Our way of life has been in traveling the globe to bring you the latest…

In the 1980s, iconic wrestling promoter Jim Crockett developed a promotion he branded as a Bunkhouse Stampede, where the participants fought in a battle royale format complete with rivalries and, if needed, weapons until one man was left standing. This season’s Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdo…

The last time they did this, it worked very well. Kalitta Motorsports and CMR Constructions and Roofing partnered for a theme car driven by Shawn Langdon, and the program delivered a marketing home run. Langdon drove his way to a Top Fuel runner-up finish. This weekend they’re hoping for the same ma…

Joe Comella won last season’s Dodge Hemi Challenge, and although he should have been overjoyed, the perfectionist in him just didn’t let him go into overload elation. This year, ditto. From Thursday’s Q-2 session, Comella established himself as the driver to beat with an 8.421 elapsed at 158.80 mile…

Travis Shumake hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps as a professional nitro racer. Today, he took another step forward in the process by adding Sheetz, a family-owned convenience store chain based in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as the primary sponsor on the Randy Meyer Racing-owned Top Alcohol Drags…

Doug Engels always knew how prestigious and lucrative the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals could be. Monday afternoon, as he beat Frankie Aragona Jr. in the final round of Competition Eliminator, he learned another valuable lesson. Engels, who lives in Watertown, South Dakota, and races NHRA’…