Santa Ana, Ca. – Friday, November 19, 2004 – ProMedia Events and the NMRA-Denso Ford Nationals have released the NMRA official event schedule for the 2005 season. The NMRA Denso Ford Nationals, the premier all-Ford heads-up drag racing, car show and swap meet event series in the country, will again produce a total of nine events in 2005. The NMRA will return to all of the great national facilities that were featured on the 2004 series tour, including Bradenton Motorsports Park, Route 66 Raceway, Beech Bend Raceway, and Maple Grove Raceway.

With a new major advertising campaign scheduled to launch in January, and the return of ESPN2 coverage, the NMRA Denso 2005 season will be it’s best ever. Charlie Harmon, ProMedia Events Vice President, had this to say about the NMRA and it’s prospects for the 2005 year, “we are excited about this year’s schedule. We have some great venues and wonderful partners who share in our goals of producing outstanding events. You couple this with the stellar level of competition that NMRA participants offer and you have the ingredients for the best Ford events in some of the country’s premier markets.”

The kick-off event of the season, the 4th Annual Nitto Tires NMRA Spring Ford Nationals, will explode into Bradenton Motorsports Park during Florida’s wild and crazy Spring Break weekend. Following Bradenton will be the 6th Annual Bassani Exhaust NMRA Ford Nationals at Silver Dollar Raceway in Reynolds, GA. Opening up the US 131 Motorsports Park season will be the Toyo Tires NMRA Ford Nationals, in Martin, Michigan. As well, the NMRA Toyo Tires Ford Motorsport Nationals has also been moved up a week to the 2nd weekend in June at Maple Grove Raceway. The NMRA is also returning to Atco, Route 66, KCIR, and Beech Bend Raceway for the Nitto Tire NMRA World Finals. New for the 2005 season, the NMRA-Denso Ford Drag Racing Series will be the featured attraction at the 27th Annual Ford Expo held at National Trail Raceway in Columbus, OH over the Labor day weekend.

The NMRA has an action packed 2005 season in store, so make your travel plans now to attend each and every 2005 NMRA Denso Iridium Power Spark Plugs Ford Nationals event. These exciting additions to the 2005 NMRA Ford Nationals schedule will serve to strengthen the NMRA’s status as one of the leading heads-up drag racing series in the world. From its Florida season-opener to its Kentucky Finals, the 2005 season will be one for the record books.

Headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., ProMedia is the leading event promoter and publisher for the sport of street legal drag racing in the United States. ProMedia Events, through the NMRA Ford Nationals and NMCA/PRO Hot Rod & Muscle Car Nationals event series, produces 17 national events that are televised on ESPN2 television which attract over 250,000 spectators and 9,000 participants per year. ProMedia's street legal publications including Race Pages, Fastest Street Car Magazine, and OverRev offer in excess of 200,000 readers per month.

2005 Denso Iridium Power NMRA Ford Nationals Series Schedule

March 10-13, 2005
4th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA Spring Ford Nationals
Bradenton Motorsports Park, Bradenton, FL

April 8-10, 2005
5th Annual Bassani Xhaust NMRA Ford Nationals
Silver Dollar Raceway, Reynolds, GA

April 29-May 1, 2005
2nd Annual Toyo Tires NMRA Ford Nationals
U.S. 131 Raceway, Martin, MI

June 10-12, 2005
21st Annual Toyo Tires NMRA Ford Motorsport Nationals
Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, PA

July 8-10, 2005
2nd Annual Aeromotive NMRA Ford Nationals
Kansas City International Raceway, Kansas City, MO

July 29-31, 2005
3rd Annual Motive Gear NMRA Ford Nationals
Route 66 Raceway, Joliet, IL

August 12-14, 2005
5th Annual NMRA Ford Nationals
Atco Raceway, Atco, NJ

September 2-4, 2005
27th Annual Quarter Master NMRA Ford Expo 2005
National Trail Raceway, Columbus, OH

September 29-October 2, 2005
7th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA World Finals
Beech Bend Raceway, Bowling Green, KY