NHRA Nitro Funny Car Driver Scott Kalitta Posts a Solid No. 9 Qualifying Effort in Las Vegas
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Commerce, Ga.
Apr 25, 2007
Scott Kalitta
“We finally found our consistency in Vegas, ” Kalitta, a 45-year old resident of Palmetto, Fla., said. “That’s something we’ve been trying to do since we brought our new Funny Car out at the beginning of last year, so to say that we are happy with Vegas is a huge understatement.
“We’re looking to Atlanta now to continue that momentum. I’m really excited to see what we can do there. Hopefully we’ll apply what we learned a couple of weeks ago and just keep getting better and going more and more rounds. ”
Kalitta returned to the Funny Car class last season after many successful years at the helm of a Top Fuel dragster. He won the NHRA Top Fuel World Championship in 1994 and 1995 as well as 17 NHRA national event trophies, but got his first professional NHRA national event win under the carbon fiber canopy of a Funny Car in Houston in 1989.
The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals begins Friday, April 26, for the Funny Car class with one qualifying session at 4:30 p. m. (ET), and then another qualifying session at 7:30 p. m. Two more qualifying sessions follow on Saturday at 12:30 p. m. and 3:30 p. m. The top sixteen qualified cars will race Sunday in final eliminations beginning at 11:00 a. m.
