Shortline Express Stores Giving Away Free Tickets to This Week's Las Vegas Lucas Oil

Shortline Express Stores Giving Away Free Tickets to This Week's Las
Vegas Lucas Oil NHRA Event

Shortline Express stores in the Las Vegas area are giving away free
tickets to this weekend's Lucas Oil NHRA Divisional Series event at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Nov 5-4. The event will be featuring Top
Alcohol Dragsters and Funny cars. The tickets are free for the asking
and are good for Saturday's qualifying day. In addition, fans that
have ticket stubs from last weekend's NHRA Las Vegas Nationals can use
their ticket stub to get in to the event for Sunday's eliminations as
well.


Shields Yet to Find Luck at Home Track

Last weekend's Las Vegas Nationals was a chance for Las Vegas' own
Duane Shields to score a big win in his hometown known for high stakes
and good luck. Traditionally, Shields has not had the best of luck at
his home track while doing remarkably well at other venues around the
country.

Sadly for Shields, luck wasn't on the side of the Shortline Express
team this past weekend either. "It's disappointing as the conditions
were good but we had our slowest qualifying position all year, and it
happened at our home track. We have a bug some place as we are off on
the fuel curve" Shields said. Shields "slow" qualifying time was a
5.55 at 274 MPH, good for 14th in the 16 car Top Alcohol Dragster
field.

In round one, Shields raced Mark Taliaferro. Taliaferro got out of the
gate first with a 0.058 to Shields' 0.076. At the finish line it was
Taliaferro getting the win light with a 5.47 at 263 MPH to Shields'
5.54 at 242 MPH. "We dropped three cylinders on the run and you can't
win the race if you are only running on five cylinders" Shields
observed.

The good news for Shields and his Shortline Express crew is that they
have another shot at the Las Vegas track when the Lucas Oil Drag
Racing Series rolls into town, November 5-7. "We are working on the
problem and hopefully we will have it fixed for this weekend's race"
Shields said.