Ashley Force Hood on "The Race Reporters" Wednesday

FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE                Monday, March 15, 2010 

ASHLEY FORCE HOOD  ‘NEWSMAKER’ GUEST 
ON THE RACE REPORTERS RADIO  SHOW; 
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17,  7 P.M. EDT; 
POWERUPCHANNEL.COM   

Ashley Force  Hood, the first woman to win drag racing’s most important 
Funny Car event and  one of America’s most popular drivers, will be the 
Newsmaker of the Week on The Race Reporters radio show,  Wednesday, March 17, 7 
p.m. EDT, on _www.PowerUpChannel.com_ (http://www.powerupchannel.com/) .   
Force Hood finished  second in last season’s NHRA Full Throttle standings, 
with two wins in the  Castrol GTX Ford Mustang. One of those victories came 
at the U.S. Nationals, the  series’ most prestigious race. The daughter of 
14-time Funny Car champion John  Force also advanced to six other final 
rounds and had six No. 1 qualifying runs.  She was NHRA’s top rookie in 2007. 
This will be Force  Hood’s second appearance on The Race  Reporters, the 
top-rated program on the PowerUp Channel.   
Host Michael Knight  will be joined for the journalists’ roundtable by 
Holly Cain, of AOL Online  Sports and AOL Fanhouse; and Corinne Economaki, 
president and publisher of National Speed Sport  News. 
The Race Reporters can be heard “live,�??  downloaded into an iPod, or 
accessed for listening on a delayed basis by  clicking on the show icon at 
_www.PowerUpChannel.com_ (http://www.powerupchannel.com/) . Listeners can  
bookmark the show and sign-up to receive a free “E card�?? with news on upcoming  
guests, at the show’s home page, 
_http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549_ 
(http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549)  . The show  also re-airs several times later in the week (check PowerUp
’s daily programming  listing.) 
Knight is a 40-year  motorsports industry insider and award-winning 
publicist and journalist. The  one-hour show’s format is a “good, hard, honest, 
Constitutionally-protected  conversation on the issues of the day.�?? Previous 
Newsmaker guests have included  Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, John Force, 
Ashley Force Hood, Dario Franchitti,  Joey Logano, Gil de Ferran, Tony 
Schumacher, Brad Keselowski, Scott Pruett,  Adrian Fernandez, Graham Rahal, Larry 
Dixon, Ron Capps, Antron Brown, Robby  Gordon, Hurley Haywood, AJ Allmendinger, 
Bob Tasca III, Terry Angstadt, Scott  Atherton, John Daly and Chris 
Economaki. 
PowerUpChannel.com was  launched last June by VoiceAmerica.com, the largest 
 producer of original Internet talk radio programming in the  world.  
For more information  on The Race Reporters, go to: 
_http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549_ 
(http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549)  . 
The Race  Reporters podcast on  iTunes: 
_http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=319558548_
 
(http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=319558548)  
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Contact:  Michael Knight,  480-661-5240 
_SpinDoctor500@aol.com_ (mailto:SpinDoctor500@aol.com)