The following drag racing teams and drivers will be utilizing EMP Stewart Components Elecric Water Pumps/Cooling Products on their race cars this season.

Krystos Efantis

Krystos Efantis captured his first BF Goodrich Tires Pro Street Class NDRA Xbox Cup Championship narrowly beating fellow EMP Stewart Components racer Gary White for the title last season.

His margin of victory was just 20 points.

Efantis also broke both the elapsed time and miles per hour records for the division (8.249 ET at Maryland International Raceway in April and 185.36 MPH at Norwalk Raceway Park in October in his MSP Lucas Oil Toyota Supra.

Efantis and his 1997 Toyota Supra is sponsored by Turbonetics, TRD, ATI Transmissions, Justice Race Engines, NX and HFR.

Efantis, who hails from Ijamsville, MD, will return to the NDRA Pro Street division to defend his 2005 championship this season.

Paul Efantis

After capturing the 2004 NDRA Pro Outlaw Rear Wheel Drive drag racing title, Paul Efantis had to settle for second place in the division last year – 108 points behind Justin Humphries.

Efantis and his 2003 Toyota Solara won three NDRA Pro Outlaw RWD events in 2005 – Bristol (TN) Motor Speedway; Maryland International; and Gateway International – and finished second in four other events in scoring the runner-up points finish.

The 25-year-old Maryland driver is sponsored by Lucas Oil and his Justice Racing Engines powerplant is cooled by an EMP Stewart Components Electric Water Pump.

Matt Scranton

Matt Scranton, a two-time National Hot Rod Association Xplôd Sport Compact Racing Series titlest, will get a boost from a new engine supplier in 2006.

His Scranton Brothers Racing Toyota Solara will open the 2006 campaign with a 2JZ engine from last year, but will switch to a new state-of-the-art V-6 engine that Toyota Racing Development’s Gary Reed and Larry Slutter developed later this season.

Scranton also has aligned himself with the C.A.R.S. (Cops Against Racing on Streets) program to provide a safe racing environment for the local Tampa Bay area street racers.

Scranton’s racing accomplishments include being the first sport compact driver to exceed 200 mph.

The 34-year-old driver was also the 2001 NMCA Super Street champion and the 2001 NMCA elapsed time and speed record holder.

Scranton’s Ride Revolution Toyota Celica features EMP Stewart Components cooling products.

Gary White

Gary White won the NOPI Drag Racing Association Pro Street Tire Division in 2004, but couldn’t repeat in 2005 losing the title to fellow EMP Stewart Components driver Krysto Efantis.

White cruised his B.F. Goodrich shod 1994 Toyota Supra fielded by Team Titan Toyota Motorsports to wins at Firebird International, Virginia International and Atco (NJ) Dragway was well as scoring runner-up finishes in seven other events last season.

In fact, White made the final pairing at every NDRA national event in 2005 with the exception of the Tampa race late in the season.

White’s Toyota features a 2JZ-GTE Toyota engine with cooling from EMP Stewart Components. The car is sponsored by Titan Motorsports, Greddy, Fidanza and NX.

White is from New Market, AL.

Warren Johnson

Hailed as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), Warren Johnson pulled a fast one last season announcing his retirement before changing his mind to race again in 2006.

Johnson enters the 2006 PowerAde Pro Stock Division season with 92 career NHRA event wins.

Last year, “The Professior” earned three wins in five final-round appearances and scored six No. 1 qualifying runs.

The 60’s-something Johnson also surpassed the 800 mark for career round wins (818) last season and extended his streak of seasons with a least one final-round appearance to 24 straight seasons.

Johnson, who has a staggering 147 career final round appearances, finished fourth in the final 2005 NHRA Powerade Pro Stock championship standings.

The Buford, GA driver is a six-time Pro Stock Division titlest and was the first Pro Stock driver to eclipse the 180 miles per hour mark (1982) and the 190 mph plateau (1986). He captured his first NHRA Pro Stock title in 1992 and followed it up with nine wins and another crown in 1993.

Pro Stock win No. 50, along with a fourth-straight title at the prestigious US Nationals at Indianapolis (IN), highlighted the 1995 season. In 1997, Johnson broke another Pro Stock Speed barrier when he became the first driver to crack the 200 mph mark.

The legendary driver, who turned 62 in 2005, will again campaign his GM Performance Parts entry that features an advanced design performance engine cooling system powered by an EMP Stewart Components Electric Pump in 2006.

Kurt Johnson

Kurt Johnson posted his best season in recent memory finishing second to only Greg Anderson in the 2005 NHRA Pro Stock final point standings.

 Johnson’s solid finish in the points marked the 13th-straight year he has finished in the Top-10 in the season standings.

The AC Delco Chevy rolled to its best-ever time and speed with Johnsion at the controls last season as the talented driver won an event for the 11th consecutive season. In all, Johnson totaled four victories in seven final-round appearances and for good measure, he paced qualifying four times in 2005.

Johnson, son of the legendary Warren Johnson, broke into the NHRA Pro Stock ranks in 1993 winning the division’s Rookie of the Year Award.

A year later, Johnson became the first driver in NHRA Pro Stock history to break the seven-second mark clocking a 6.988-second pass.

Johnson, 42, is married and the father of three children.

In 2006, he will again pilot the AC Delco Chevrolet Pro Stock entry. The car features an advanced performance engine cooling system powered by an EMP Stewart Components Electric Pump.

Erica Enders

Erica Enders had a dazzling rookie season as the 22-year-old established several NHRA marks in 2005

Enders, who already had a movie – Right On Track – made about her life, became the first woman in NHRA history to qualify in the top-half of a Pro Stock field and the first to reach a final round in Pro Stock when she broke through at the second Chicago event.

Enders' 37 wins in the Junior Dragster ranks and made the jump to the NHRA Pro Stock ranks in 2005 behind the wheel of her Cagnazzi Racing Chevrolet Cobalt.

Again in 2006, the car will be equipped with an EMP Stewart Components Electric Water Pump.

Enders is 22 years old and is also majoring in marketing at Texas A&M University in College Station.