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FAST TRACK IN INDY LEADS TO NEW NATIONAL RECORDS AT THE JOKER MACHINE INDY NATIONALS

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, September 26, 2003 - AHDRA's first appearance at Indianapolis Raceway Park ended with plenty of excitement and new marks in the record books when Steve Stordeur of Goshen, OH, blazed the quarter mile with a 6.378 at 220.58 MPH in the final round of Screamin' Eagle Nitro Harley Top Fuel competition. Riding on the Mancuso Harley-Davidson sponsored bike, Stordeur bettered his own record ET (6.389, set in 2001) with the winning pass over RMC Racing's Drums Brancaccio of Nutley, NJ. Fellow teammate Johnny Mancuso (Houston, TX) scored the MPH numbers that were good enough to set and back up a new MPH record with a 219.47 pass in Sunday's opening round of eliminations, ousting Doug Vancil's record of 217.25 set earlier in the season.	Stordeur - Top Fuel
In S & S Pro Stock action, Tom Bradford of Eagle, WI, improved his marks in the record books with a 7.293 quarter-mile ET record with the win over Dirk Higgins of Kirby, OH. Bradford also captured new 1/8-mile records with a 4.614 and a 152.57 MPH pass.	Bradford - Pro Stock
Tripp Nobles (Statesville, NC) "tripped" the ET record numbers in the finals of Screamin' Eagle V-Rod with a 9.572 at 141.42 MPH over Jamie McNaughton of Milwaukee, WI, who scored the top speed of 141.62 MPH. Both McNaughton and Nobles took the V-Rods into the fifties over the weekend, bettering the existing record of 9.726.	Nobles - V-Rod
James Dixon of Dubuque, IA, landed the new Dragmasters Hot Street top marks with his 10.430 ET and 128.25 MPH 1/4-mile numbers. Donnie Huffman (Lakeland, FL) came away with the win over Dixon in Sunday's final round.	Huffman - Hot Street
Other highlights included a first-time JIMS Pro Fuel win for Ohio's John Martin. Martin and the Aces and Eights H-D team came with several hundred fans in tow from the Cincinnati area and found themselves in the final round with Sam White after a center-line infraction from a disappointed Russ Hildenbrand (Ruffsdale, PA) disqualified his 7.074 at 194.58 over Martin's 7.089 at 169.06 MPH pass. Martin went on to win with a 7.078 at 181.74 MPH over White's 7.247 at 19.14 MPH.	Martin - Pro Fuel

Michael Mulderink of Chicago took the Kresto Pro Drag win over Russ Welch (College Station, TX), while Gary Stroud (Valparaiso, IN) upset defending champion Frank Dove in the Hayes Jeweler Pro Gas final. Dove, of Hughesville, MD, held the top numbers of the day with a 7.814 at 172.85 MPH, but mechanical gremlins kept him from making the final round call.

Mulderink - Pro Drag

Stroud - Pro Gas

Junior Pippin of Conyers, GA, was on pace all weekend and won the Joker Machine Pro Modified title with an 8.464 at 153.04 MPH over Ohio's Paul Smith. Doug Morrow of Daytona Beach, FL, was the winner in Rivera-Primo Street Pro with a 9.304 at 147.04 MPH over defending champ Travis Lummus's (Asheville, NC) 9.318 at 146.70 MPH. Lummus finished the weekend with the low ET of 9.132 and top speed of 150.60 MPH.

Pippin - Pro Modified

Morrow - Street Pro

Defending champion Dale Miller of Liberty Center, OH, took the Redline Oil Super Gas win over Maryland's Shawn Vantucci, while Julian Seaman (Emporia, KS) scored another Nonpareil Super Sport win after defeating #1 qualifier Wanda Poff (York, PA) in the final.

Miller - Super Gas

Seaman - Super Sport

Mike Harrison of Uniontown, OH, defeated Wayne Pugh (Peralta, NM) for the Performance Corner Super Eliminator win. Returning to competition late in the season, John "The Juggler" Burdynski of Houston, TX, won the SEP trophy after defeating Charlie Walker of Brandon, MS. Chuck Eldridge (Philadelphia, PA) defeated John Hendrzak (Creswell, OR) in the Syn3 ET final.

Harrison - Super Eliminator

Burdynski - SEP

Eldridge - ET

The ESPN2 Inside Drag Racing crew was on hand for all the action at Sunday's Joker Machine Indy Nationals. Broadcast dates will be posted later in the week on www.ahdra.com.

Geoff Arnold and the crew from Joker Machine put forth great promotional efforts for the first AHDRA event at IRP. Fans will be glad to hear that plans are in the works for a big return in 2004.

Next up for AHDRA is the Screamin' Eagle Performance Parts Nationals presented by The Carolina Harley-Davidson Dealer Association, October 4th and 5th, Rockingham, NC.

For more information on the 2003 AHDRA National Points Series, please contact 336-924-2095 or visit www.ahdra.com.

Final Results - Indy