The first annual Nelson Competition Charity Christmas party for the Hope Children’s home located in Tampa was a great success. Over 150 customers, suppliers, friends, four children and the administrator from hope children’s home gathered at Nelson Competition this past Saturday for the cook out and car show. The donations consisted of over one hundred toys from bicycles to basketballs and gift cards for the older children. Mr. John Tatum and the four boys from Hope Children’s Home thanked everyone for attending and for tiding. John went on to say how the gifts were greatly needed during the holiday season for the 63 children from ages 2 to 19 who reside at the Tampa location. If you would like more information as to how you can help these most grateful children go to the web site at www.hopechildrenshome.org

The first annual Nelson Competition Charity Christmas party for the Hope Children’s home

Bradenton FL. October 24 2011 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship

2011 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship Oct.23rd Bradenton Fl. Mike Schmidt the number one qualified in Outlaw 632 worked his way through the field and met up with the Jim Joyce roofing Camaro driven by Eddie Whitlow for the finial. What a race this was as both cars use Nelson Competition Nitrous assisted big block Chevrolets for power. Schmidt hit the stripe first with a 4.66 to Whitlows 4.70 Congratulations to Mike Schmidt and Eddie Whitlow for their outstanding performance               

Bradenton FL. October 24 2011 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship

Jesse Violante shown here with engine builder Chris Nelson run OL 10.5 and NMCA Super Street 10.5 W. Jesse ran some 4.30's last weekend at SGMSP before losing the transmission. So this weekend with a borrowed transmission and converter from Billy Adams' Team Midnight Racing the same problem plagued Jesse in the third round of eliminations. Congratulations go to Jesse and his team for the outstanding effort and all the hard work put forth at the last two races.              

Bradenton FL. October 24 2011 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship

Scott Husted from Holiday, Florida has his ODR/Limited Street Mustang out. The car is usually good for low 4.7's to 4.6 second passes with a twin turbo charged BBC from Nelson Competition. Scott qualified # 5 with a 4.691 sec at Bradenton this past weekend Congratulations Scott for the outstanding back to back runner up performances both at SGMSP on 10-16-2011 and at BMSP on 10-23-2011

Nelson Competition News. 10/17/2011

Nelson competition employee Mike Valerio was inducted into the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame this past weekend in Henderson North Carolina. Master of Ceremonies Bret Kepner and Hall of Fame members recognized Iron Mike as one of the pioneers of pro stock drag racing during its evolution from a cross between a super stocker and a modified production race car. They also thanked him for his contributions to the sport of drag racing and the industry. Mike is also reguarded as one of the best innovators and fabricators the performance industry has known and is the founder of Competition Engineering now a Moroso company. At age 66 Iron Mike is still actively crafting new innovative drag racing products as well as a new purpose built XTF Chevy Camaro for the 2012 ADRL season.

NMCA 2010 World Finials Oct 24th Mike Fratena was the man to beat in the BF Goodrich street radial this past weekend Oct 24th at the NMCA world street finials held at Gateway International Raceway near St Louis Mo. On the way to winning this years championship Fratena`s stellar performance not only produced a win in the tough Street Radial class, but at the same He also managed to set a new NMCA et record of 8.544 . Fratina also holds the NMCA MPH record at 165.44 set earlier this season at Milan Michigan. Mike relies on Nelson Competition for the power and reliability it takes to win championships. Congratulations to Mike and his team for such a great effort.

NMCA 2010 World Finals Oct 24th Frank Meshaw was able to capture the Mickey Thompson Super Street 10.5 point’s championship by defeating Jimmy Robbins in the semi final with a 6.818 to a 7.832. Meshaw also holds the currant NMCA mph record at 218.83 set on July 17th 2010 at Joliet IL. Frank relies on Nelson Competition for the power and reliability it takes to win championships. Congratulations To Frank and his team for such a great effort

2010 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship Oct.17th Bradenton Fl. Mike Schmidt the number one qualified in Outlaw 632 worked his way through the field and met up with the Jim Joyce Camaro driven by Eddie Whitlow for the finial. What a race this was as both cars use Nelson Competition Nitrous assisted big block Chevrolets for power. Schmidt hit the stripe first with a 4.71 to Whitlows 4.77 Congratulations to Mike Schmidt and Eddie Whitlow for their outstanding performance

2010 Outlaw Drag Racing Championship Oct 17th Bradenton Fl. Chad Opaleski who qualified #1 in no boost outlaw stock suspension also won the class.