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August 4, 2004 Sonoma California Autolite Nationals

The Home event for Don Hudson Racing was this past weekend at Infineon Raceway. This race has always been tough as the best TAD drivers on the west coast converge on the state of the art drag strip. With the weather in the high 60's and 70's all weekend we did not get the hot conditions more favorable to the BAD's we were hoping for, but we still wanted to give it a home team effort.

Go here for all the details.

July 22, 2004

Bill Jeffery photo

Results from Seattle are here.

Press release for Seattle's NW Nationals

Don has been on a "roller coaster" ride so far this season in TAD competition.

After qualifying #1 at Pomona he was full of optimism, but went out in round two and then at Vegas he was a first round casualty. At Divisional races, he has a win and a couple r/u's to go along with two semi final finishes. These results have him sitting #11 nationally, and #2 divisionally. But are one spot lower than he and the team were hoping for. With the expected heat this weekend, the chance for a blown car to succeed are better than 50/50 and he has one of the best-blown cars in the country. He has been under the weather for the last few weeks and a race win would be just the tonic for him and the team, as they want momentum for their home national event at Sonoma next weekend.

Don would like to thank all his sponsors including Chase Chevrolet for their support and to all his crew for their hard work so far this season and all his friends for their help in moving his family to their new 'digs'.

Don also wants to put out congratulations to the "KID" Morgan Lucas on his new driving gig with Joe Amato Racing. "Way to go, even though I have kicked your butt twice this season".

July 7, 2004

Results from Sonoma Divisional are up. Points are updated

A semi final finish which match Chris Demke leaving us a round back still.

June 30, 2004

Don is ready to battle this weekend at Sonoma for the Lucas Oil event at Infineon Raceway. After the tough battle three weeks ago at Woodburn where the team went to the semi finals he knows he is in for a tough go for the second race in a row. The surface and prep at Sonoma is great and I expect we will be at or near the top of the pack after qualifying. We need a good result to stay in the hunt for the division championship, and have to keep Chris Demke in our sites. He is one round ahead of us and we want the Peen Rite team bad!

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June 19, 2004 Photos from Woodburn are up.

June 14, 2004 A tough test this weekend at the Lucas Oil Event at Woodburn Dragstrip netted us a semi final finish. Go here for all the details. points are updated as well. Hope to have photos in the next couple days from Woodburn.

May 24, 2004 YES!!!!!! We won!

Go here for Bakersfield qualifying and race results. Point standings are updated as well.

May 21, 2004 Bakersfield California is the stop for Don Hudson and team for the Pacific Division's 4th Lucas Oil event of the 2004 season. With two runner-ups at the team's first two events, they are primed to take the next step and get away from the bridesmaid label. Bakersfield has been both good and bad for Don, as last year he went to the final, defeating Chris Demke (round 1) and Fred Notzka (semis) before bowing out to Mark Niver in the final round. Two years earlier Don lost in round one to Kevin Brown. Don wants to seek revenge on two final round losses to Demke this season, and Demke wants to get Don after losing to him at this race last year. The team has all their ducks in a row this weekend, and will do what it takes to get the win. Check back throughout the weekend to see how we are doing.

Saturday April 10, 2004

Photo page from Vegas is now up.

Monday April 5, 2004

April Fool's day is over and this is not trick. Welcome to Don Hudson Motorsports Racing website. Our team is one of the up and coming TAD teams on the West Coast, and will challenge at every event we compete at. Our goal is to keep both our fans and sponsors up to date on our racing venture's, as we travel from Arizona to British Columbia, from Pomona to Indianapolis and Chicago, in hopes of finishing in the top three in Division 7 and the top 15 in the national standings. Go to our navigation bar to find out the results from every event, the team history and car specs. Find out who our hard working crew is and go to our great sponsors web site's and support the companies that support Drag Racing.

This weekend we are at Las Vegas and hope to get the race in, the the weather played havic today. The forcast is not much better tomoorow but in Vegas the odds and weather can change with the spin of a roulette wheel!

Results from this weekend are here

April 2, 2004 For immediate release. Courtesy SpeedZone Magazine

Hudson Racing wants to one-up his 2003 result here in 2004.

Don Hudson came oh so close at the 2003 version of the Summit Nationals, here at the Strip @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He went to the final round against the most buoyed BAD in 2003, David Wells (driving the ex-Rick Santos car and tuned by Norm Grimes), and was side by side against David until late in the run, and ended up losing by half car length. That result set up the Stockton California owner/driver take a more aggressive run in his program.

Don ended the year with two runner-ups and a #6 placing in the tough Division 7 point standings and a top 30th placing in the National standings.

The team went into the 2004 season with more optimism, and a confidence to improve both placing's. The team had a great start at the season opening Winternational's, as Don qualified #1 with a career best 5.379/251. He backed up that run, in round one, with a win over Randy Johnson with another 5.30 (a 5.39). In round two, he wheel stood the car big time and unfortunately had to lift. At the next event, the divisional at Phoenix, Don proved the #1 spot was not fluke, as he took the pole again. He went to the final round, but lost to Chris Demke. His two late round finishes put him in the top ten nationally in this, the early part of the season. Heading into Vegas, he wants to continue the roll. With a very tough field expected at Vegas he knows 5.30's or low 5.40's will be necessary and expected from his "Chase Chevrolet" backed BAD.

Beside Chase Chevrolet, Don has some added support for this weekend's event at Las Vegas. It comes from Busted Knuckles garage.com, "The Gift Company with an Automotive Flair", and Tiki Farm.com, "a unique gift mug company". As well, Don wants to thank the team's associate sponsors, Red Line Oil, Clay Smith Cams, Vorn Hagen Body Shop, E-Pels of Palm Spring California, PJ Vaz, Lenco Transmissions and Hudson Classics.

While the team is under no illusions that they can ride on the coat tails of their success of the last two events, especially in a sport that lasts only 5 seconds, and you can go from "Hero to Zero" quicker than John Force can say, "I saw Elvis at 1000 feet".
They know a top three finish in the division and a top 15 finish nationally are both within reach.

Photos are courtesy Speedzone Magazine (photographers include Rich Carlson, Bill Jeffery and Jim Kelso.)

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