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Kurt heads to Gainesville for NHRA event

March 6, 2010

                    

            

GLENDORA, Calif. (March 6, 2010) –  2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch will return to his drag racing roots during the 41st running of the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals March 11-14 at historic Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway.

The driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge for Penske Racing is set to get behind the wheel of his rebuilt 1970 Dodge Challenger next weekend to compete against a field of between 70 and 90 veteran “Super Gas” racers who no doubt will be champing at the bit to line up against one of the biggest names in motorsports.

Busch will make a minimum of three “time trial” passes on Thursday March 11 and the field will return Friday morning, pair off, and begin eliminations.

“Gainesville is one of the marquee events on the NHRA calendar and it’s a privilege to compete against the best Sportsman racers out there,” Busch said.

Super Gas is one of seven different Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series (LODRS) classes that will be contested at the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals. The LODRS is NHRA’s “sportsman” series that is home to a wide variety of racers from hobbyists to highly-competitive, highly-invested teams to young drivers with aspirations to move up to the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

Busch bought the Dodge Challenger in 2008 and began the process of getting it into race shape in March of 2009.  The car is powered by a stroked 6.1 liter Hemi, weighs 3000 pounds and puts out an incredible 1167 horsepower. While Busch feels at home behind the wheel of his Sprint Cup car he is aware that this will be a new and exciting environment for him.

“Sportsman racing is no different than any other type of racing, you need seat time.  I spent over 30 hours at Roy Hill’s drag racing school, and have had two tests in my own Challenger, but that’s nowhere compared to the seat time many of these guys have in their own cars.  We are going to go out there and do our best competing against these talented Sportsman racers,” Busch said.

Busch’s love affair with drag racing began back in the early 1990’s when he met a pair of Las Vegas based NHRA racers - George Marnell, a Pro Stock racer, and Dave Bush (no relation), a Super Comp competitor. And when Kurt began driving in the Sprint Cup Series for Penske Racing, he got to know NHRA Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon as they were both sponsored by Miller Lite. 

He got the idea to compete in an NHRA event after taking part in the opening night of zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C. in September of 2008 and one of the rare off-weekends in the NASCAR schedule coincided with next weekend’s 41st running of the prestigious Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals.

The Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals has been the site of many of NHRA’s most compelling moments and the track where some of the most important performance barriers in the history of NHRA were broken, including most importantly Kenny Bernstein’s legendary first 300 mph pass which took place in 1992.

For tickets for the 41st annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals, log on to www.ticketmaster.com or call 800-884-NHRA (6472).

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 JOLIET, Ill. -- A permanent smile is beginning to form on the face of NHRA Top Fuel star Hillary Will, driver of the 8,000-horsepower KB racing, LLC dragster, as she and her team make the trip to Joliet, Ill., just south of Chicago, this weekend, June 5-8, for the annual running of the Torco Racing Fuels Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway.

At the previous NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event in Topeka, Kan., last Sunday, Will, the world's fastest female (334.65 mph), won the first Top Fuel title trophy of her three-year career. She became the 11th female to win an NHRA event, and the Ann Arbor, Mich., resident has been overjoyed ever since the triumph.

"It's still all just starting to soak in," Will, a 28-year old native of Fortuna, Calif., said. "It's been a whirlwind since we won, and I've not had a lot of time to just relax and think about it. I'm still pinching myself to make sure it's not all a dream.

"It's a huge relief for me and my KB Racing, LLC team to finally get a win. We've been through a lot together, and we've been through some really tough times together, but going through the down times makes us all appreciate this accomplishment even more. We've had to fight through quite a bit of adversity, but we persevered and it paid off.

"Route 66 Raceway is a great facility, and the race track is one of the best in the country, so we're really looking forward to racing in Joliet this weekend, and hopefully we'll have a chance to make it two wins in a row."

Will became the 8th female Top Fuel winner in NHRA history with her Topeka victory. She joined other auto racing female winners in what has become the year of the woman racer so far in 2008. Recently, Ashley Force became the first female event winner in the NHRA Funny Car class, and Danica Patrick became the first woman to win in the Indy Car Series earlier this year. Also, in May, Melanie Troxel became the first woman to win event titles in both of the NHRA's nitro-fueled classes - Top Fuel and Funny Car.

Will is currently in 4th place in POWERade championship points.

At the first two events of this season's 24-event NHRA national event schedule, Will set the track record for speed, for either gender, at both of the quarter-miles at Phoenix Int'l Raceway (334.32 mph) and at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona (Calif.) (334.56 mph). Will's speedy blast in California established her as the fastest woman ever in drag racing. She and the KB Racing, LLC team were also the fastest of the racing weekend (tie) at the third event in Gainesville, Fla., with a 330.63-mph lap. They were again the fastest team of the fifth event in Las Vegas, 331.85 mph.

A former standout in the Top Alcohol Dragster class, Will moved up to the quickest and fastest NHRA professional class, Top Fuel, in 2006 behind the wheel of a newly formed team owned by Las Vegas businessman Ken Black and managed by Kalitta Motorsports, the multi-car team founded and owned by drag racing icon Connie "the Bounty Hunter" Kalitta. She won her first Top Fuel event trophy in Norwalk (IHRA) in her rookie season and made her first NHRA final-round appearance in Memphis later that year. She finished the season in 10th place in Top Fuel championship points in '06. Will picked up an emotional first NHRA national event title in Topeka, Kan., June 1, 2008.

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