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Bates has you covered in MIRock Contingency

Bates Leathers has renewed their contingency sponsorship for the 5th year in a row and has posted $9,600 in contingency. Bates Leathers will also have a display at all MIRock events and can measure riders for their own custom drag racing suits on the vendor midway, so be sure to stop in and see them at the racetrack.

Here are the details: To qualify for the Bates Leathers contingency, the rider must have a Bates Leathers suit and have a Bates Leathers decal on both sides of the bike. Bates Leathers is posting $100 to win and $50 to runner-up in all classes. You can use these gift certificates towards your next purchase of a Bates Leathers drag racing suit.

read/see more about the upcoming 2012 MIRock Superbike Series here

Bentley on Ice if you can make the Price

Whether you have a passion for speed and a desire to put your driving skills to the ultimate test - or you’re simply seeking an exclusive, luxury winter break with a twist - Bentley’s Power on Ice adventure is set to deliver.

Next month Bentley is returning to the idyllic, far-north of Finland – a location where it has shattered two ice speed driving records with the four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen – to offer guests the chance to enjoy driving the 6.0 litre 567bhp (575PS) Continental GT coupe and the 621bhp (630PS) ultra high performance Continental Supersports coupe on one of the world’s most unusual and challenging test tracks.

World's only 3 second Pro Mod bike could be YOURS!

The FBG/Ashley Owens PXM Suzuki is FOR SALE!

read/see more about this one of a kind opportunity here

Your new GRUDGE BIKE!

Imagine the grudge races you'll be able to lock in with

this stealthy, AMA championship winning ZX12!

This Adams Performance built and maintained Kawasaki ZX12 was UNDEFEATED in AMA Formula Superbike!

Read/see more about this sleeper here

Three Championship Year for RMR

story and video by Tim Hailey

No one raced a Pro Street bike as often, as hard, and as winningly as Ronnie Mitchell Racing did in 2011. Riding the hot pink Suzuki Hayabusa known as Rizzo, Bud Yoder took both the Milan Dragway and NHDRO (No Hatin’) Pro Street championships. Mike “Kavos” Kovacevich took over the seat for the Toronto Streetbike Shootout championship. But that’s not all. After winning on a Friday night at Milan, the team made the all night drive to Englishtown, New Jersey and won the prestigious Shakedown at E-town as well. The team made only one MiRock Superbike Series race this year, but they made that trip count too by winning the Rockingham opener. Yoder finished off the year with the Orient Express Pro Street win at the November 2011 Manufacturers Cup, running a career best 7.03 along the way.
 
You can follow builder/tuner Ronnie Mitchell and riders Yoder, Kavos and Michael Bayes as they race their way through the Manufacturers Cup race in this video:

read more about RMR's 2011 season here

When it's cold outside, go indoors

photos and words by Tim Hailey

R2B2 driver Pruett and Chip Ellis talk about trading rides one day

What to do on a December day in Indiana? Go to the International Motorsports Industry Show in Indianapolis, of course. It's indoors after all, and there's lots of cool shit around and cool people hawking it. Here's a brief photo tour.

HTP’s 6 Second Season

story and video by Tim Hailey

It's been called the biggest milestone left in Drag Racing—the first 6 second quarter mile streetbike pass—and it fell this year at the hands of rider Ryan Schnitz and builder/tuner Cecil Towner of Richmond, Virginia's HTP Performance.

read more about HTP's Season of the 6 here

Real Street real sweet for Adams Performance

Rickey Responds to his Critics

Rickey Gadson responded to his critics on the forums after the controversy of replacing himself with Jeremy Teasley in the middle of Street ET at the Manufacturers Cup. Many, or least one, of those critics, had his conspiracy goggles on, but the facts of the issue couldn’t be more plain than as laid out in my article (below).

read the full article, including Rickey's response at the end, and watch the videos here

Gadson vs. ManCup
here’s the story, you decide

story and video by Tim Hailey

I hate to fan the flames of a non-story, but here goes: Last week at the Manufacturer’s Cup, Rickey Gadson was seeking big numbers from and live publicity for the 2012 Kawasaki ZX14. Robert Fisher of Roaring Toyz brought a custom ’12 ZX14, a beautiful metal flake gold and black beauty prepped more for style than speed. With only lowering, a hand-built Brock’s pipe and a miss-matched Power Commander, Rickey ran an 8.99. Now he wanted more and a lightweight rider (his nephew Richard and/or Jeremy Teasley) was the way to go. A knowledgeable crowd of potential customers packed the stands and Mike Seate’s Discovery Channel “Cafe Racer” film crew was on hand to tape what went down.

So Rickey ran upstairs to ask ManCup race director Jay Regan and the track timer for an exhibition pass. He was put off ‘til later, as he was several times until he was told “No.” Rickey was livid, and he vented his frustration in the staging lanes. View his rage in this video:

In an e-mail obtained by Eatmyink.com, Regan explains his decision: “I gained no joy in having to argue with him or deny his time shots. I put the event before mine and RG relationship and now I'm sure I'm the bad guy and that our relationship will suffer because of the decision. But, I knew the potential pitfalls when I took the job. I do agree with, and realize RG is beneficial to the sport overall and if I could have accommodated him without penalizing the event, I would have. But, letting him go and then saying no to the TF Harleys or the Grudge guys would (in my opinion) just start the process I truly hated of Prostar / AMA Dragbike of there being different classes of society. A no from me to him was also a no to all time shot request in an effort to help finish the event no later than it had to—which was 10:35pm by the way.”

read and see more video about this controversy here

Krawiec fulfills Eatmyink pre-season prophecy, wins title

Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson rider Eddie Krawiec carried a 69 Pro Stock Motorcycle point lead into this weekend's final NHRA national event of 2011. In second was Hector Arana Jr. Eatmyink's Tim Hailey interviewed Krawiec at Vance&Hines HQ in Brownsburg, Indiana last week and dug up an interview with Hector Arana Sr from last year at Lucas Oil HQ. Hector discusses his championship win over Eddie at Pomona in 2009.

Krawiec's teammate Andrew hines qualified #1 ahead of Arana Jr, Krawiec and Arana Sr, then won the race over a redlighting Krawiec in the final.

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