MSD Ignition Blog

 The inaugural 4Wide Nationals at ZMax Dragway was rain-delayed and wrapped up Monday morning. In Top Fuel, they ran four-wide all the way down with Cory Mac taking the win over Doug Kalitta with Antron Brown finishing third and Doug Herbert in fourth. In Funny Car it was John Force followed right behind him is daughter Ashley Force Hood with Ron Capps coming in third position and Matt Hagan wrapping up the four-wide lanes. In Pro Stock, Greg Stanfield wins on a holeshot over Bob Yonke with Rodger Brogdon in third and finally Rickie Jones rounding out the foursome. In Pro Stock Motorcycle Matt Smith holeshots Hector Arana for the win with Junior Pippin in third and David Hope in the last slot. Congratulations to all the winners!

 MSD Ignition made it out to the first ADRL race of the year in our new regional Tech Support Trailer. Its packed with testing equipment, product and support equipment to diagnose, test and check out a racer’s ignition. During qualifying the weather was optimal and several record setting passes were made, but unfortunately the event was rained out on Saturday, the day of eliminations. Follow along as we took a few pictures of the event:

 Tony Schumacher added a fourth NHRA Gatornational trophy to his collection taking out teamate Antron Brown in the top fuel final. Tim Wilkerson was strong and steady during eliminations defeating Bob Tasca III in the funny car. Pro Stock had Jason Line taking on Mike Edwards with Jason taking the wally with a holeshot win! Pro Stock Motorcycle had Eddie Krawiec outrunning Shawn Gann in the final for his sixth career victory. Congratulations to all the winners!

 In a race that went 16 laps -- nearly 25 miles -- past its scheduled distance, after an incident earlier in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Busch took advantage of a strong restart to grab the lead during the second attempt at a green-white-checkered and crossed the finish line .482 seconds ahead of runner-up Matt Kenseth.

 The Monster Jam is in El Paso this weekend and a few of the trucks are in our parking lot rebuilding and gearing up for the Sun Bowl show! We have the Batman truck as well as the Captain’s Curse here with Howie Dalton, John Seasock and Alex Blackwell getting them tuned up. Both trucks, as well as most of the Monster Jam fleet run MSD Pro Mag 12LTs!