ATLANTA (May 3) – Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Sr. has been plenty fast in the two NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle races of 2012, but he doesn’t have much to show for it – yet. The past Full Throttle Drag Racing Series champion hopes to change that in this weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. “I’m really happy with the way things are going right now,” Arana Sr. said. “The... 

ATLANTA (May 2) – Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Jr. carries a lot of confidence into this weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. Arana Jr. qualified No. 2 in last week’s Pro Stock Motorcycle race in Houston and later posted the best pass of the meet in the semifinals of eliminations. Arana Jr. raced on to the finals, and although he lost when Andrew Hines had a perfect .000-second reaction time,... 

  HOUSTON (April 23) – Hector Arana Sr. is heading to this weekend’s O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries in as close to a state of Zen as a Pro Stock Motorcycle rider gets. For Arana, the season opener in Gainesville was a rushed affair all the way around. But after a seven-long break between races, his Lucas Oil Buell is in tip-top shape and, for once, he didn’t have to kill himself... 

HOUSTON (April 23) – Karen Stoffer and the GEICO Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle team are keeping an eye on this weekend’s weather forecast for the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway. Stoffer and the team are hoping for hot weather conditions in Southeast Texas this weekend because high temperatures and humidity have a balancing effect on the Pro Stock classes. “Houston has been a good track for us... 

  HOUSTON (April 23) – If there is one thing Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Jr. learned during the seven weeks since the last NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle races is that he doesn’t make a very good drag racing spectator. “It seems like last year since we’ve raced,” Arana said. “I went out to watch the national event in Las Vegas (which didn’t feature bikes) but being there just made me want to race that... 

  A Motorcycle Street & Strip Breaking News Exclusive (March 14, 2012) The 2012 Pro Stock Motorcycle season opener in Gainesville, Fla. last weekend turned out to be anything but what LE Tonglet and Nitro Fish owner Kenny Koretsky expected. While Tonglet ran a very strong race with the horsepower in his Suzuki GSXR, it was obvious to Koretsky that it was not enough to overcome the apparent lack of parity in the class . . . and that it is... 

  Anne Hansen Racing teamed up with Danny Krier Racing this past weekend for the Gatornationals. I had the wonderful opportunity to drive Danny Krier’s Pro Stock Motorcycle. We came out strong in Q1 qualifying 10th with a 7.11, but then moved down the ladder to 22nd running a 7.11 and a 7.12 with a strong headwind. We were moving in the right direction, but we ran out of time. Overall, it was a true learning experience for the team and... 

Krawiec Sets New Pro Stock Motorcycle ET Record in Qualifying GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 12, 2012) – Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle®/Vance & Hines rider Ed Krawiec completed a clean sweep of the Pro Stock Motorcycle competition at the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals, defeating his teammate, Andrew Hines, in the final round of the rain-delayed eliminations at Gainesville Raceway. Riding a Harley-Davidson® V-Rod® motorcycle,... 

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 11) – Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Sr. helped bring the Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville crowd to its feet Sunday with a lengthy second-round staging duel with Matt Smith at the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals. With neither rider willing to stage, perfectly legal according to the rules, NHRA chief starter Mark Lyle finally ordered the two bikes to pull off the starting line. NHRA officials did let them have another... 

GAINESVILLE. Fla. (March 11) – GEICO rider Karen Stoffer performed well Sunday in the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals at Auto-Plus Raceway in Gainesville, but her Suzuki came up short in the second round of Pro Stock Motorcycle eliminations. Stoffer had the better reaction time in both her first- and second-round matchups Sunday, but after beating Shawn Gann in the first round, Stoffer was out-run by Hector Arana Jr. in round two. Stoffer had...