
Truck and tractor pulling season is fast-approaching and competitors are chomping at the bit to get back on the track. On May 15-16, The Pullers Championship returns to the Track at Holzhauers in Nashville, Illinois. The fifth annual, invite-only affair will once again host the crowd favorite Super Stock Diesel Trucks, and some of the heaviest hitters in the class will be on the grounds. Among them, you’ll find Craig Dickey—driving both Cummins Killer II and Cummins Killer III, Brady Ingram piloting the Scheid Diesel second-gen, Van Haisley’s Rock Hard Ram, Erik Stacey’s Smoknya HD, Terry Biggs’ Deadpull, Zander Lee in Kong as well as One Nation, and Marshal DeBroux driving Flam-A-Bull.
Source: https://www.thepullerschampionship.com/

Ultimate Callout Challenge is on the horizon, and the folks at UCC are starting to roll out competitor features to help attendees get to know the drivers and their trucks. In 2026, not only is last year’s UCC champion, Josh McCormack, returning to Indy, but so is 2024 champ, Kenny Bruner. Both of them are bringing even more firepower this time, including deep 5-second eighth-mile capability… On top of that, drivers like JT Bowden, Jonathan Hooper, and Myer Stump are trying their hand at UCC for the first time. Of course, this year’s UCC will once again be accompanied by a weekend of ODSS racing and the highly anticipated $100,000 to win Seventy2 Fast race. Be in Indianapolis the weekend of June 5-7th.
Source: https://ultimatecalloutchallenge.com/

If you’re in (or can be in) the southwest Wisconsin area this coming weekend, we think you’ll like what you see. The spring running of the Hub City Dirt Drags is going down at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Richland Center. Festivities begin May 8th with the Friday night lights truck show and a test & tune style truck and tractor pull. Back in the light of day on Saturday, a show ‘n shine transpires from 10 am to 4 pm, Hub City’s burnout boulevard is open for business from 12 pm to 5 pm, and ATV, UTV, and dirt bike drags commence starting at 11 am. At 3 pm, the main event kicks off with the trucks hitting the track for further 300-foot dirt drag action.
Source: https://hubcitydirtdrags.com/

After a rough Q1 for the new car industry with average sales down around 7% year over year (with one as high as 14%), we're seeing big pushes by the OEM's to get their sales numbers up. Now the reasoning here is educated speculation on our part, but it's based on what we're seeing in sales and news. The sales are not odd, however, the aggressiveness is.
Ford has recently stated that they are focusing on more affordable options for buyers (more $40k vehicles), and shortly after they released their latest Employee Pricing For Everyone Deal. A deal only offered three times in the last couple decades.
GM saw roughly a 10% drop in sales, one of the bigger drops. They've pulled out the ole 0% financing deal, which is not odd for this time of year, however the more recently added incentives available for many vehicles are above and beyond the norm.
Stellantis has also followed suite with the same 0% deal, plus a couple other incentives like GM.
Whether or not these sales are coming from Q1 number woes, the sales are real.Either way it has become a great time to buy a new car.

SDK Performance is going drag racing with a 6.7L Power Stroke. But it won’t exactly be what you’d expect from the company with a 1,300 hp 7.3L sitting in its shop. Instead of running a 6R140 TorqShift, the 6.7L V-8—which benefits from a ’22 model year bottom end, RCD stage 2 valve springs, and ARP head studs—will have a 4R100 behind it thanks an SPE Motorsport billet adaptor plate. The all-billet shaft, four-speed automatic was built by Summit Performance Transmission, complete with Raybestos clutches, a triple disc Precision converter, and a billet flex plate. Based on a two-wheel drive, 2014 F-250 chassis that’s been shortened and lowered, it will sport a 1970 F-250 body up top.
Source: https://sdkperformance.ca/

If it’s not the fastest BMW 335d out there, it’s certainly close. Matt Santjer of Santjer Performance Development has spent years pushing the limits of the M57 platform (BMW’s tough-as-nails, inline-six 3.0L) and his compact sedan recently logged a 3.83-second 60-130 mph time on the Dragy. The car sports a proprietary triple-turbo setup, can be detuned to run 5.90 Index (which it did last week at Rudy’s Spring Truck Jam), and has been 8.90s in the quarter-mile on that same 5.90 tune-up. Santjer’s next plan of attack is to make an all-out, quarter-mile pass in the near future. He’ll be looking to run 8.60s, if not 8.50s, through the 1320…
Source: https://greenhandlemedia.com/2026/04/fresh-records-new-personal-bests-at-rudys-spring-truck-jam/
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