KB Racing LLC: Line trying to clinch NHRA POWERade PS championship

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KB RACING LLC
NHRA POWERADE DRAG RACING SERIES
SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT PONTIAC GTO PRO STOCK
JASON LINE -- DRIVER

MEDIA CONTACT: Mickey Schultz
PHONE: 425-557-8899
E-MAIL: mschultz@bellsouth.net

SIXTH ANNUAL NHRA ACDELCO LAS VEGAS NATIONALS
THE STRIP AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY -- LAS VEGAS
OCTOBER 26-29, 2006*

*Line trying to clinch NHRA POWERade PS championship*

LAS VEGAS (October 24, 2006) -- Jason Line, driver of the KB Racing 
LLC-owned, Summit Racing Equipment-backed Pontiac GTO, could lock up the 
2006 NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Championship at the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas 
Nationals this weekend.

Line, who leads the NHRA POWERade Pro Stock point standing by 119 
points, needs only to maintain his point lead during qualifying and then 
go one round further than teammate -- three-time and reigning NHRA 
POWERade champion Greg Anderson -- during eliminations to officially 
clinch the championship.  If Line leaves the ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals 
with an advantage of 139 points or better, there is no way that Anderson 
can catch Line.

"We'll just go out and do what we've been doing all season," said Line, 
as he looked forward to once again visiting The Strip at Las Vegas Motor 
Speedway.  "The points always take care of themselves.  Do I want to win 
the POWERade championship? Yes!  But the cool thing is that this is the 
fourth year in a row that the POWERade championship trophy has come home 
to KB Racing.

"KB Racing is a hard working team with great chemistry and we're already 
looking to next year.  If everything goes right for me this year then 
next season I'll go after my second (championship) and Greg (Anderson) 
will be after his fourth.  Because of the team that we have behind us, I 
know we'll be right there in the mix next year."

Anderson feels that with both he and Line in contention for the title, 
it is good for KB Racing and their sponsors.  "If it happens that I 
don't leave the door opening enough for me to have an opportunity at 
(the final race) Pomona or Jason should clinch at Vegas, then I'll be 
happy for Jason," reflected Anderson as the KB Racing team headed for 
Las Vegas. "The main thing is that the championship will reside with KB 
Racing, Summit Racing Equipment, and Pontiac for the fourth straight 
year.  That's a win-win situation."  

Before joining KB Racing LLC and teammate Greg Anderson, Line had a 
diverse background in motorsports, coming up through the ranks as the 
saying goes.  For as long as he can remember, Line knew that "he always 
wanted to be a drag racer."  

Line, like his teammate, is a native of Minnesota, but that's where the 
climb to the seat of a winning Pro Stock car differed. Line started his 
racing career in 1985 as a bracket racer, racing at Brainerd (MN) 
International Raceway in a '68 Chevy Chevelle.

After a timeout for military service (U.S. Air Force) from 1987-1991, 
Line resumed his racing career in 1992 behind the wheel of his 1966 
Chevrolet Belair R/Stock Automatic Station Wagon. He won his first NHRA 
Stock Eliminator national event at Brainerd that year.
    
Near the start of the new millennium, Line headed to North Carolina 
where he worked five years at Joe Gibbs Racing working as the chief 
dynamometer (dyno) engine specialist and was a part of that 
organization's two NASCAR Winston Cup championships with Bobby Labonte 
in 2000 and Tony Stewart in 2002.

Following a chance meeting with Anderson, Line moved to KB Racing LLC as 
an engine tuner on Anderson's car in 2003.  But later that year when he 
had the opportunity to drive a second Pro Stock car for KB Racing LLC, 
he quickly got behind the wheel probably never thinking that one day he 
might win a NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Championship.

"I had hoped to be here, but to be honest, I didn't think there was a 
chance that I would be in Pro Stock competing at this level," said Line. 
"I was trying to get my Stocker going again, and was kind of getting 
back into it because I'd been out of it for awhile, and I missed it. To 
me, drag racing is one of those things that if you can't do it, you 
don't even want to be around it, you don't even want to see it. Until I 
met Greg (Anderson) I wanted no part of it, but after that, it kind of 
changed everything."

After running four races in 2003, in 2004 Line finished runner-up in the 
first two final rounds of his career to his teammate Anderson, before 
retuning the favor in the final round at the spring Chicago race by 
taking the win light over Anderson.  In all, Line went to eight final 
rounds, winning four and earned two top qualifying spots.  He finished 
second in POWERade points.  His efforts were rewarded when he was named 
the recipient of the Auto Club of Southern California Road to the Future 
award, emblematic of being the top professional NHRA rookie of the year.

Line continued the pace he established in 2004 throughout 2005, winning 
four events in seven final rounds, posting two more No.1 qualifying 
positions and finishing runner-up at the King Demon Crown bonus event 
for top Pro Stock qualifiers.  Line ended the year No. 3 in the final 
Pro Stock point standings.

But the crowning achievement has come about in 2006, as the former 1993 
NHRA Stock Eliminator World Champion looks to add another championship.  
Entering the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals this weekend, Line has 
gone to seven final rounds, winning a class-high four and has earned an 
additional five No 1s.  Line has held the top position in points since 
the Denver race.

*Qualifying:* Line continues his quest for the 2006 NHRA POWERade Pro 
Stock Championship when qualifying begins on Friday, Oct. 27, with two 
Pro Stock sessions scheduled for 2:30 and 5 p.m.  Qualifying concludes 
with two additional Pro Stock sessions on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m. 
and 3:30 p.m. Following qualifying, Line begins his quest for the 
ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals Pro Stock title on Sunday, Oct 29, with 
eliminations for all classes beginning at 11 a.m.  *All times are local 
Las Vegas time (PT) and subject to change at anytime.*

*Television:* Qualifying highlights for the Sixth annual ACDelco Las 
Vegas Nationals can be seen on ESPN2 / ESPN2 HD on Saturday (Oct. 28) 
from 10:30 p.m. to 12 midnight.  ESPN2 / ESPN2 HD will also air same-day 
television coverage of eliminations from 8 until 11 p.m., Sunday (Oct. 
29). The elimination show repeats early Monday morning (Oct. 30) from 
2:30-4:30 a.m.  Also, tune in to NHRA2Day on ESPN2 / ESPN2 HD, the 
weekly show that gives you the latest information about the NHRA 
POWERade Drag Racing Series.  NHRA2Day can be seen early Sunday 
afternoon, Oct. 29, from 12:30-1 p.m.  *Television times are Eastern 
Time (ET) and subject to change at anytime.  Check local listings.
*
/KB Racing LLC is owned by Las Vegas businessmen Ken Black and his son 
Kenny Black.  KB Racing LLC fields two Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock 
Pontiac GTOs, one driven by Greg Anderson and the other by Jason Line in 
the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. Anderson has won three consecutive 
POWERade Pro Stock Championships (2003-2005).  Line finished third in 
the 2005 POWERade point standings and was honored with the 2004 
Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future award, 
presented to the most outstanding rookie in a professional category.  
This year KB Racing LLC also began fielding a Top Fuel Dragster, managed 
by Kalitta Motorsports, with rookie Top Fuel driver Hillary Will 
handling the driving duties./

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