Tune in to your favorite radio station in Houston, San Antonio, Austin or Corpus Christi and you are likely to hear about the upcoming O'Reilly Auto Parts IDRC Lone Star Nationals. Event flyers, programs, coupons and posters are being sent directly to 195 O'Reilly Auto Parts stores in the state of Texas.

"We've teamed with the leader," says IDRC National Director Michael Ferrara, "O'reilly Auto Parts represents the epitome of a business focused on growth. O'Reilly Automotive expanded its business by 203 stores in 2001. Growth has been the focus of IDRC from the start. Our racers, sponsors, and fans sincerely appreciate O'reilly Auto Parts commitment to our sport compact culture and movement. We look forward to building a lifelong business relationship."

The O'Reilly Auto Parts IDRC Lone Star Nationals is coming to River City Raceway in San Antonio on April 13th and 14th to make history again. This time the event will be bigger and better than ever. The biggest names in import drag racing be joining the Lone Star’s quickest and fastest for $25,000 in event payouts and points in the $186,000 National and Divisional championship, the crowd will also get to see the Texas debut of the SR-1 Team Drag Challenge, the 2002 IDRC Starter Girls and the Meguiar’s Movement One People’s Choice car show.

River City Raceway has a place in sport compact drag racing history. On November 11th, 2001, an incredible race took place. Under the sun of San Antonio, the Hoyos Racing Ford Focus driven by Matt Hartford and the AEM Drag Civic of Stephan Papadakis faced off at the IDRC’s quickest central-division track. Handicapped by a full-second head start, Stephan Papadakis took off and never looked back blasting to a new FWD world-record of 8.12-seconds at 180mph. Beating Steph by just a hundredth of a second, Matt charged to a new IDRC Pro Class record with a 7.07 at over 195mph.

O'reilly Auto Parts will also be the title sponsor of the IDRC's Long Horn Nationals race scheduled for November 9th and 10th. As the second to last event in the IDRC's 2002 series, this event is expected to also set new records for the state.

O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ: ORLY) is one of the largest specialty retailers of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories in the United States, serving both the do-it-yourself and professional installer markets. Founded in 1957 by the O'Reilly family, the company operated 875 stores within the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas as of December 31, 2001. Visit O'Reilly Automotive on the web at www.oreillyauto.com.

IDRC, Inc. is the world's largest lifestyle motorsports event producers with 15 national events in nine regions across the United States. IDRC's only business is event production and this privately-owned corporation leads in event attendance, coverage and record-setting performance. Now in its fifth season, event attendance is expected to reach nearly 200,000 while coverage of events is expected to reach a projected 2.5 million enthusiasts.