Proud father Gary Scelzi is pumped. His 9-year-old son Dominic, who moved into the Restricted 600 Mini Sprint class after a couple of seasons in Junior Sprints, had a successful weekend back home in California, and four-time NHRA champion Scelzi hopes that some of that will rub off on him and the Mopar/Oakley Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway this weekend.
Scelzi recently announced that he would step away from NHRA competition at the end of 2007 season to spend more time with family and business, and he’s already being true to his promise, with 18 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events left to this season.
“My family is coming with me to Atlanta, ” he said proudly. “We’re coming off a great weekend with Dominic (who turns 10 on May 2) in Visalia, Calif. He qualified third out of 21 cars and ran second in his heat race and fourth in the main, and in the first race where he didn’t have to start in the back as a rookie. So, we’re extremely happy with that.
“And we met with (CRA Non-Wing world champion) Cory Kruseman yesterday to talk about doing some dirt races in my Mopar/K&N/Oakley Dirt Midget, ” added Scelzi, who also fields an Asphalt Midget for 17-year-old driver Michael Faccinto. “Michael will run all the pavement races and Cory, Michael and I will share duties on the dirt car. So, we have a lot of good things happening at Gary Scelzi Motorsports and now we just hope we get to Atlanta and the good things continue. “
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