The Lucas Oil I 10 Speedway will be celebrating the upcoming holiday weekend by treating its fans to the Thanksgiving 200 this Saturday night November 29th. The quarter mile paved oval, located at the Colorado River Fairgrounds in Blythe-California, will be presenting red hot racing action from the Street Stock, Pro Four, West Coast Pro Truck, Mod Lites, Legend and Bandolero divisions. This special evening of racing is being presented by the Palo Verde Valley Times and Hoosier Tires.

The revolutionary SV43 Outerlimits powered by Chief Engines and Whipple Superchargers was crowned as the 2008 Super V Unlimited World Champion. Drivers Joe Sgro, Nigel Hook and Mike Fiore drove the high powered V-hull to victory on Sunday to edge out the 47' Fountain dubbed "Cat Killer". In the now familiar livery of Ferrari red and LUCAS OIL, the #77 team sent a message to the competition with this new advanced design of boat and reliable power package.

In the 2008 NHRA Drag Racing season, many records have been shattered, but one championship title that might have been unnoticed is the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Comp championship where 26-year old, Shawn Langdon is its first back-to-back champion in the history of the sport. Unlike last year when Langdon surged to the front of the pack and kept his Lucas Oil points in contention throughout 2007, this year, he had to overcome a deficit and made a strong charge to overtake his fellow Super Comp racers. “I started off the year with a new T&T SuperCars dragster and began the season very well winning our first race,” said Langdon with a smile.

Morgan Lucas concluded his 2008 NHRA POWERade Top Fuel season with a first round loss to Doug Herbert at the 44th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. The Lucas Oil Stabilizer team ran a time of 3.986 seconds, 280.08 mph to Herbert’s winning pass of 3.928 seconds, 298.93 mph. Lucas will finish the season in the No. 12 position in the NHRA POWERade Top Fuel points standings with 966.

The Lucas Oil Fuel Treatment team with Top Fuel racer, J.R. Todd at the helm was eliminated in the first round of competition by European Drag Racing champion, Urs Erbacher at the 44th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway. Todd left the starting line first with a great reaction time (.064 - .083) and held the lead until Todd had to back-pedal due to tire shake around the mid-track area and found himself in arrears when he reached the finish line to Erbacher.

It had the simplicity and ease of a Saturday night race, but the Ricky Johnson Off-Road Grand Prix at Perris Auto Speedway on Saturday, November 8, added 800+ hp trucks, a few right turns and plenty of jumps and managed to transform a ½-mile dirt oval into a off-roader’s dream. “We had so much fun out here today,” commented GP4 winner, Carl Renezeder. “The track kept coming in rather than going away as the evening and the racing went on, and I had a great time battling with Adrian Cenni for 20 laps. I hope the fans had as much as we racers did.”

Lucas Oil Fuel Treatment driver, J.R. Todd can look back at his 2008 season and smile knowing that his name could become a part of racing lore. If Tony Schumacher runs the table on the Top Fuel field, with a win at the 44th annual Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, Todd can end his season and become the exception to the rule; that is if he doesn’t win himself adding more to this interesting legacy. In conversations from this point on he’ll be bantered about as the only driver to snap the ‘Shoe’s’ year-end 31-round, seven race winning dominance when he defeated him in the finals at the Dallas race. Could history repeat itself?

t’s the last drag race of the 2008 NHRA season and before the clock turns to the next year, Lucas Oil Stabilizer Top Fuel pilot, Morgan Lucas would like to close it out with a signature-ending highlight victory at this weekend’s 44th annual Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. His famous sponsor and family-owned business, Lucas Oil Products is based in nearby Corona and racing in his back yard is something Lucas relishes. It’s an opportunity that only comes twice a year and after a semi-final performance in the season opening Winternationals in February, now Lucas would love to rock the house and bring home that elusive first Top Fuel victory.

Despain Motorsports closed out it's 2008 racing season by running very consistently in posting four top 5 finishes and two top 10 finishes out of seven events entered. In the last two visits to Burnside, KY's Lake Cumberland Speedway, Elliott continued his success at the South Central Kentucky racing facility by scoring two more top 5 finishes with a 4th place finish on Saturday, August 30th and a 2nd place finish on Saturday, September 27th.

Lake Havasu City-Arizona's Chris Gerchman won the R&L Carriers 75 and his first SuperClean Modified Racing Series event of the year, November 8th at the Lucas Oil I 10 Speedway, in rather convincing fashion. But it was Jimmy Dickerson winning the series championship, and the unexpected circumstances that led to it, that was the subject of conversation during the night.