NEWS NUGGETS DIXON TO DRIVE ALAN JOHNSON TOP FUEL DRAGSTER IN 2009: Two-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon will climb into the seat as the driver of the Alan Johnson Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel dragster for the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle season, with Jason McCulloch as the team’s crew chief...

Have you moved on? Up? Know someone who has? Let us know: editors@sema.org. The Yokohama Tire Corp. named Jim MacMaster as its COO. In addition to the responsibility of Yokohama’s daily business operations, MacMaster will also retain his current title of executive vice president, business division...

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Nitro Funny Car drag racer Paul Lee acquired 100% of the common stock of McLeod Industries Inc., including the Weber Clutches brand, according to reports in Aftermarket News and Aftermarket Business.

The Interior Department will now allow other federal agencies to approve a commercial development (road, power plant, homes, etc.) on their own authority if it is determined that the project will have no impact on a threatened species.

Don Prudhomme Racing selected Spencer Massey as driver of the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company Top Fuel dragster for the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. Massey, who won the 2008 Top Fuel Championship in his first full season of International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) competition, will...

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