GAME FACES Intensity isn’ t an issue for Pro Extreme Motorcycle standouts Ashley Owens( left) and Jeff House, pictured here before throwing a leg over their respective bikes for a qualifying pass down Memphis International Raceway at the PDRA Memphis Drags.

HOT ROD Drag Week star Tom Bailey posed for a photo with former Tonight Show host Jay Leno during a visit to the comedian’ s legendary garage, which houses his vast car collection. Leno might have an impressive stable, but he’ d be hard-pressed to find anything that would compete with Bailey’ s street legal, 3,500-horsepower“ Sick Seconds”‘ 69 Camaro.

ADDRESSING

THE MASSES Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park’ s Todd

Martin, along with longtime track and event sponsor RacingJunk. com’ s Tony Lund, welcome a crowd in excess of 10,000 to the facility’ s annual doorslammer extravaganza – the“ Throwdown at T-Town”

– earlier this fall.

TICKET TAKER

Internet famous racer and all-round good dude Billy Driscoll gives DI photographer Chris Sears the“ all is well” signal along the starting line of South Georgia Motorsports

Park in the days leading up to Donald Long’ s“ No Mercy 7”.

TURTLE POWER“ Disco” Dan Schoneck of Minnesota-based Schoneck Composites, and former true 10.5 heavy hitter, was on hand for the big money drag radial blowout in Valdosta, Georgia, in early October, lending a hand to his many friends in the outlaw street car ranks.

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