Anheuser-Busch ended its sponsorship of the NHRA.
The St. Louis-based division of Anheuser-Busch InBev also announced that it will end its 30-year relationship with Kenny Bernstein Racing’s NHRA team. The brewery said the three-decade relationship was the longest in motorsports history, eclipsing STP’s 28-year sponsorship of NASCAR’s Richard Petty.
Budweiser has sponsored the NHRA since the early 1980s and is celebrating its 30th season with Kenny Bernstein Racing. The Budweiser-Bernstein relationship is …Â Details
 Boy racers could soon have a venue for drag racing and burnouts if plans for a motorsport park on the outskirts of Palmerston North go ahead.
Developer Paul Barris has been reviewing designs and assessing public demand for a park at the former Golf City site on Railway Rd.
Features would include a racetrack, drifting area, burnout pad, motorbike jump, foam landing pad, recreation area and …Â Details
The specialty-equipment industry lost two innovators this past week with the passing of safety pioneer Jim Deist and SoffSeal’s Gary Anderson, a founding member of the Automotive Restoration Marketplace Organization (ARMO). Deist was 80, Anderson 64. … Details
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In the movie business, cars are expendable. They’re not respected, nowhere near cherished, subject to abuse and constantly thrashed. It doesn’t matter if the cars are Ferraris or Ford Crown Vics, the job of any vehicle in a movie is to tell the story effectively — even if it must be destroyed in order to do so. And in a movie like Fast & Furious (opening April 3) the cars do a lot of storytelling. We should know; we went … Details