This is Bracket Racing - Instructor Biographies

Read about the credentials and accomplishments of your ThisIsBracketRacing.com instructors.

Guest Instructor - James Monroe James Monroe is a two-time NHRA Division 3 JEGS Super-Quick Champion and has been voted by his peers as the Division 3 E.T. Driver of the year on three different occassions. Over the course of his decorated racing career, Monroe has accumulated a multitude of track championships and big dollar bracket victories. More recently, he has been a force in fast dragster competition. Thus far in 2010 alone Monroe has won the NHRA Summit Nationals in Top Dragster, along with a pair of Division 3 Lucas Oil Series Events. At one stretch this summer, he appeared in the final round in six of seven events attended! View Full Story	Guest Instructor - Shawn Langdon To the casual NHRA fan, Shawn Langdon is the likeable, personable Top Fuel teammate of Morgan Lucas, and a successful professional competitor behind the wheel of his Lucas Oil/Speedco backed Top Fuel Dragster. At just 27 years of age, Langdon is living his dream, and the dream of countless other hot rod enthusiasts: as he makes his living in the seat of the quickest and fastest machines known to man, the Top Fuel Dragster. View Full Story
Guest Instructor - Bruce Deveau Bruce Deveau grew up in the pits of New England Dragway in Epping, NH. By the time he was old enough to drive, he was at the track every weekend, running beat-up street cars and handling crew duty on his friend’s 11 second Dodge Charger. From the crew position, Bruce learned the art of bracket racing, dialing, strategy, and concentration. View Full Story	Guest Instructor - Michael Beard Had it not been for a chance encounter, Michael Beard’s sports resume may have been most highlighted for being picked last in gym class. View Full Story
Guest Instructor - Brian Folk Like each of our 2009 “Guest” Instructors, Brian Folk is a second generation drag racer, having grown up helping and watching his father Ron race throughout the Midwest and across the country. In fact, Brian comes from quite a racing pedigree... View Full Story	Guest Instructor - Troy Williams, Jr. What hasn’t Troy Williams, Jr. done in the world of sportsman drag racing? He is a former winner of the Million Dollar Race. He has an IHRA World Championship to his credit. He has earned a pair of Moroso 5-Day Points Championships (one of just four racers to have won multiple Moroso titles). He is a former B&M Series World Champion. He is a former Tenn-Tuck Triple Crown Bracket Series Champion. He has over 10 national event victories to his credit. He has earned well over $1,000,000 in his illustrious racing career. And he’s still in his 30’s, with a lot of good racing left ahead of him. View Full Story
Guest Instructor - Peter Biondo Peter Biondo was born in 1971 in Queens, New York. While growing up, playing hockey in local leagues around the neighborhood was how Peter spent a lot of his afternoons. On the weekends, Peter would go with his family to the drag races. It didn't take him long to figure out that drag racing was his passion. View Full Story	Guest Instructor- Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Pro Stock racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. admits he's the forward-looking type, which serves him extremely well when he's streaking down the quarter mile behind the wheel of his 1,500-horsepower JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt. View Full Story
Guest Instructor - Danny Waters, Jr. Like each of ThisIsBracketRacing.com’s 2009 guest instructors, Danny Waters, Jr. is a second generation drag racer who essentially “grew up” at the race track. Danny has said that there was never any doubt that he’d be involved in racing, as it was a way of life for as long as he can remember. View Full Story	Guest Instructor - Jared Pennington Jared “Jed” Pennington is one of the most successful Footbrake competitors in all of drag racing. Pennington has a racing pedigree, as he grew up in central Alabama watching and helping his father Bob compete at facilities throughout the southeast (Bob Pennington is still an active competitor today, at age 68). Jared took the wheel himself at an early age, and developed into one of the premier bottom bulb racers in the region and the country. View Full Story
Head Instructor - Luke Bogacki Luke Bogacki is a professional drag racer, competing throughout the country in a variety of competition vehicles and classes. In his fourteen year racing career, Luke has amassed nearly 250 event victories and over $1,000,000 in prize money. He has proven throughout his career to be versatile and capable of winning in virtually any sportsman drag racing class or event. View Full Story