Mike Castellana displayed the driving abilities of a champion this weekend alongside an equally impressive team that made their record-setting abilities quite obvious at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey during the NHRA SuperNationals. In just their first outing this year with the JEGS ProMod Challenge, Castellana came close to a final round victory, but would have to settle for Runner Up honors this weekend. He started the day from the No. 11 qualifying spot, but that didnt stop him from wading through the best Pro Modified has to offer  first in Rd. 1 against Taylor Lastor whose 6.078/239.40mph pass wasnt enough to make up for Castellanas starting line advantage (.050 to .093), who stayed ahead for the win with a 6.089-second pass at 238.98mph. In Rd. 2, Castellana again used a .066-second reaction time to gain the advantage over Kirk Kuhns 6.502/234.78mph pass, to get the win light by a considerable margin considering his 6.098/235.60mph performance  approximately 24 feet at the stripe. This team is starting to get back in race mode, said Castellana about his string of holeshot victories. Weve been doing the R&D program for so long that we had to knock a little rust off and get back to racing to win here in Englishtown. Being so involved with our engine program, we like to outrun the competition, but well take a win however we can get it. In the semi-final round of action in Englishtown, Castellana unloaded the quickest and fastest pass by a nitrous car in NHRA competition  6.048/239.65mph  which destroyed the previous record for these combinations by over a tenth of a second and 7 miles per hour. With the stage set for an incredible final round between the quickest blown and nitrous Pro Mods in the history of the NHRA JEGS ProMod Challenge, Mike Castellana faced off with Josh Hernandez to crown a winner and put an end to an ultimately tragic weekend considering the loss of fellow racer, Scott Kalitta, on Saturday. Both cars left together, (Castellana .055 to Hernandez .050), but the race would end just after the 1/8th mile as Castellana ran into problems and had to abort the run, giving the win to Hernandez. We couldnt find a better place to be in the final round than here in Englishtown in front of all the fans, said a satisfied Castellana. We got past some good racers en route to this final and our crew worked really hard this weekend with the short week and turnaround from Budds Creek. We knew starting a new engine program would be challenging, but we knew there was a lot left in this combination, so its all starting to pay off now. Ive got to thank Shannon, Brandon, Reher-Morrison and Speedtech Nitrous for all theyve done to put this Al Anabi AWESOME 68 Firebird in the final round three races in a row.

Be nitrous Kudos to Sandy Wilkins, Gary Kobbee and Speedtech owner Mike Castellana on ganing up a wing at Budds Creek this weekend. Collectively the trio brought home a goldman in Top Dragster, Top Sportsman and Pro Modified racing. Nitrous Lives Here.

Congratulations to Curt Frederich on his Top Sportsman win in Milan this weekend. Also a big check this out to Speedtech's Pat Stoken on his 6.02 blast during eliminations and to Speedtech owner Mike Castellana for his runner up finish and 6.05 ET at 237.50

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE SPEEDTECH CUSTOMERS WHO PUT IT IN THE DASH FIELD THIS WEEKEND IN COMMERCE, GA. NICE JOB TO THE RAFTERY GANG ON BEING #1AND MAKING A FINAL ROUND APPEARANCE WITH THE SUNSET RACECRAFT/JERRY BICKLE BUILT GTO

CONGRATS TO SANDY WILKINGS AND CREW ON THE WIN TODAY IN ROCKINGHAM. THE FLEA DRIVEN MACHINE USES A SMALL BLOCK CHEVY AND A LITTLE TICKLE OF NITROUS TO RUN CONSISTEN 7 TEENS DURING ELIMINATIONS.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STOKEN FAMILY FOR MAKING THE QUCIKEST NITROUS ASSISTED PASS EVER. THE STOKEN FAMILY LOGGING COMPANY, TIM MCAMIS BUILT, REHER MORRISON POWERED MACHINED COVERED THE QUARTER MILE IN 6.06 SECONDS TONIGHT IN ROCKINGHAM , NC DURING THE FINAL ROUND OF QUALIFYING.

CONGRATULATIONS TO KEITH RAFTERY, KURT DAMRON JR AND MIKE KILR ON THE FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES THIS WEEKEND IN BELLE ROSE NHRA SPORTSMAN SERIES EVENT.

Considering the overwhelming number of Speedtech customers breaking into the once elusive 3-second zone over the 1/8th mile in the past few weeks, the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based company has decided to take things to the next level once again. This time, though, its not another ground-breaking development in nitrous technology from Speedtech that will take racers to the performance level they want to be at; its a 5,000 dollar incentive. While running a 3.90 has been the lifetime goal of many racers, Speedtech and the many quality engine builders they work with have made this a very attainable goal. As has become their calling card in years past, Speedtech has announced that they will provide a $5,000 reward for their first customer to break the 3.80-second barrier during Pro Nitrous eliminations at a 2008 FLOWMASTER American Drag Racing League event. We know how hard these guys work to go out and run like they do week after week, said Speedtech Business Manager Jason Sharp. And considering the amount of time and effort these teams have exhausted in the off season, both on the dyno and on the track, we feel its only a matter of time before a Speedtech team knocks down a 3.80-lap. Feel free to stop by the Speedtech Innovative Nitrous display on the manufacturers midway at the 2nd annual Shelor.com Spring Drags at Tulsa Raceway Park in Tulsa, OK over the weekend of April 25 and 26th.

Congrats to Jason Dennis son of Sunset Racecraft owner Tracy Dennis on making a final round appearance in San Antonio this weekend at the Div 4 IHRA race in his Undercover Dragster powered by Sunsetracecraft.

Congrats to Frank Teague on his Div 9 win this weekend in Top Sportsman. Frank uses a dual stage Tech 1 system to make the power with his Dodge. Look for Frank to terrorize at the competition at all the IHRA events this season.

Congrats to the Stoken team on a 3.98 #1 effort to take the Low qualifyer money at the season opening ADRL event and a semi-final appearance.

The ADRL held its first event this weekend in Houston, Texas presented by Drag Illustrated. XTF standouts Steve Gorman and David Janes pairing up in the final with the Wardog machine of Gorman taking the win on a little bit of a whole shot and both cars running identical 4.41 ET's look for more exciting XTF racing in the ADRl this season

With the persistent growth of engine builders having the demand for nitrous motors, we decided to assist in the building process by supplying a billet intake manifold. All in house CNC milled billet runners, tops and accessories. Currently we have a 6 week waiting list due to the huge response we have had from the engine builders.

Speedtech business owner Mike Castellana has taken delivery of his beautiful new 68 Firebird. Look for the Reher Morrison powered master piece to start testing the latest in Speedtech developed products in the near future.

We have just taken delivery of a Haas VF3 Vertical milling center. With this added state of the art maching we are able to develop more products to keep us one of the fore runners in the nitrous community. Look for a even more exciting product line in the months to come.

The duo of Mike Castellana and Shannon Jenkins stunned the Pro Street competition this weekend in Bradenton at The US Street Nationals. After a dismal showing during the qualifying rounds the team discovered a faulty shock in the rear suspension.

The Awesome Motorsports team went on to put together a string of 6.40 runs during final eliminations. To check out the full story on the Bradenton race go to www.raceworks.com and get the full event coverage and purchase photos of the event.

The bad apple gang at SSRE has taken delivery of their new McAmis built 68 camaro and look forward to terrorizing the competition in the NMCA next season. " We're so excited and can't wait to let the clutch out in Bradenton in January" said driver Vinny Budano. "We feel this new car will keep us in front all season and with the awesome power from Scott Shafiroff and Speedtech Nitrous we aim to set records at each race" Look for the bad apple gang to be at an event near you in the future click on the link to checkout the schedule www.fasteststreetcar.com

The Speedtech staff would like to give a BIG nitrous congratulations to the ICEMAN and also Owner of Speedtech for being awarded with crew chief of the year in the IHRA. Shannon toughed out the likes of Mike Kloeber and Jason Beam to bring home his second crew chief of the year award. Anyone who follows racing understands the difficulty of tuning one car but to keep two in the front running and also bringing home a World Championship for Speedtech co-owner Mike Castellana is absolutely amazing.

Join Speedtech in celebrating our first venture into the exhibit World at the 18th annual Performance Racing Industry trade show at the Orlando Convention Center in the Sunshine State in Orlando Florida Dec 1st through the 3rd.

We welcome you to stop by booth number 5359 and 5361 to talk nitrous with the entire Speedtech staff. This is your chance as a vendor or customer to meet and greet the faces of the most powerful nitrous producing company in the nation.

We will have many of the parts we produce out for display and will be happy to answer all of your questions and welcome your feedback about the product line. We also will debut a few of the innovative designs that we have been developing over the past several months for you to get the first glance.

If you plan on attending, please make a point to stop by and chat or let us introduce ourselves for the first time. Newly crowned IHRA pro-mod World Champion and Speedtech co-owner will be with all us weekend as well as the Worlds quickest and fastest nitrous car the Ragin Bull Cavalier in the front foyer of the convention center.

Gil Nevarez wrapped up the Real Street championship this weekend in Fontana, California in the PSCA points standings. The Las Vegas, Nevada resident chose the Speedtech multi 3-stage system to dominate the competition by lowering the class E.T. record several times this season as well as being #1 qualifier at many of the events this season.

The entire Speedtech staff would like to congratulate Chris Alston and his team for clinching the PSCA X-treme Street class World Championship points battle. Chris Chevy II was a dominate force this season re-setting his own E.T. and MPH record at several events. Chris utilizes the Boll Weavel fuel injection 2-stage system to thunder down the quarter mile.

Awesome Motorsports team finishes #1 and #2 this weekend in the IHRA Pro-modified points standing.

This is Mikes first championship as a driver and third as a team owner. The Ragin Bull cavalier was the standard in pro-mod competition this season by winning four national events. 4-time World champion Shannon Jenkins clinched his second championship as a crew chief and also finished #2 behind Mike.

Both cars were on strings this weekend by shattering their own National elapsed times for a Pro-modified Nitrous car at 6.106 and 6.120 look for the dynamic duo in 2006 to stir up the competition in IHRA racing.