Defending Winternationals Champ Troxel Wants Encore Performance

 

Defending Winternationals Champ Troxel Wants Encore Performance


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Feb 07, 2007

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Melanie Troxel has two Top Fuel victories (06 Pomona1 and Las Vegas1) after 11 final round appearances. She finished fourth in the 2006 NHRA Top Fuel Point standings with 1,471 points. Established a new NHRA record opening the 2006 season after racing to five consecutive final rounds taking two wins along the way. That led to two ESPY nominations for Best Female Athlete of the year and Driver of the year. Honored by the Billie Jean King’s Foundation as“2006 Sports Woman of the Year”.

Troxel’s quickest elapsed time is 4.458 seconds, set on Sept. 23, 2005 at the Texas Motorplex. She sped to his fastest top speed of 331.04 mph on May 7 in the quarterfinal round of eliminations at the 2006 Summit Racing Southern Nationals in Commerce, Georgia.

She won two Budweiser low qualifier awards in 2006. Her first on May 4 at the Bristol Dragway recording a time 4.539 seconds and May 26 at Heartland Park Topeka set the pace with her run of 4.567 seconds. Melanie Troxel’s first Top Fuel event came behind the wheel of the Jerry Darien-owned dragster at the 2000 AutoZone Winternationals at the Auto Club Raceway in Pomona. DOB: August 31, 1972.


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