NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya is having an outstanding 2009 race season so far. Sponsored by Target (driving the No. 42 Target Chevrolet) and part of the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates team, Montoya recently finished sixth at Infineon Raceway on June 21, 2009, after battling from the 17-starting spot in the first road course race of the season to earn his seventh top-10 finish for the year. He moved up two positions to 12th place in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings, the cutoff for the “Chase” and is now ready to take on the rest of the races scheduled for the year head on.

Melvin Murry remembers quite vividly the days he spent at the track, as his father drag raced when he was younger. It was his father who helped him develop his love of all things automotive and sparked his interested in customizing cars. “My father took me to car shows and got me interested in all types of cars—especially muscle cars—then we’d wrench on things since he was also a mechanic,” he remembers.

The Monster Energy 2009 DUB Show Tour made its way to Phoenix, AZ on Saturday, June 13, 2009, and was welcomed by not only the desert sun, but thousands of automotive fans, who packed the Phoenix Convention Center excited to experience all that the show had to offer. The Phoenix stop was jam-packed with hundreds of highly customized vehicles and bikes, tons of interactive displays and booths and, of course, an all-star stage, featuring the biggest names in hip-hop!

Dallas, Texas has taken their car culture to a whole other level, as seen at the on June 6, 2009 at the Dallas Convention Center for the fifth stop of the Monster Energy 2009 DUB Show Tour. Guests were treated to tons of visual eye candy, ranging from various customized rides, a Lowrider tribute display, various tricked-out bikes and loads of exotics and luxury vehicles.

Last we saw Terry Kennedy, he was pushin’ a 2007 Cadillac EXT with the Zenetti Skate Team feature back in Issue 56. Since then, he’s moved on up in both the skate world and life. For starters, he traded in his EXT for a 2008 Mercedes-Benz SL550. “I didn’t want something with a lot of room ’cause I was tired of hauling my friends everywhere,” he says jokingly. “I needed a cool little car for me and a nice little hunny.” His choice of the SL was based upon the fact that he wanted to stand out and own a different Benz than his skater crew. “A lot of my friends have Benzes—Ryan [Sheckler] has the CL and Rob [Dyrdek] has the S550,”he explains.

DUB Magazine and Toyo Tires have teamed up to bring you the Toyo Tires “Driven to Perform” MMA Edition. Toyo Tires has been a proud sponsor of the UFC and supporter of mixed martial artists for several years. Read up on champions and legends in the sport, known as “The Spider,” “The Natural,” “Ace,” “The Prodigy,” “Sugar,” “The Axe Murderer” and “Rampage,” and why they are Driven to Perform each time they step into the Octagon.