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Oct 4, 2010 · In her first year racing in the Super doorslammer category, Howell proved her worth and raced to the final round of competition at the Division 7 event in Tucson at Southwestern Int'l Raceway. The next season, the aspiring competitor increased her efforts by two when she began racing in Stock as well, driving a '70 Mustang in the B/SA class in ...
Dec 1, 2007 · Grace's affection for drag racing started at a young age. Since day one, her father, Bill Howell, has been running Super Stock in his '70 Drag Pack Mustang. Until Grace was born, her...
- Ford
- 2 min
- 1995
- Shirley Shahan
- Shay Nichols
- Judy Lilly
- Erica Enders
- Grace Howell
- Camrie Caruso
Shirley Shahan, who had already made NHRA history as the first female event winner with her Stock victory at the 1966 Winternationals, made it into the trivia books again as one of NHRA’s first female Pro Stock contestants, competing at the 1971 Springnationals in Dallas. Shahan was already an accomplished winner long before her big Winternationals...
Shay Nichols also was at that Dallas event in 1971 and also failed to qualify and ran on and off again for the next five years, but only for a total of six NHRA national events, and qualified at two: the 1972 World Finals in Amarillo and the 1976 Winternationals, but lost in the first round both times. Nichols admittedly got into cars as a way to a...
“Miss Mighty Mopar” had already built an amazing résumé in NHRA’s Sportsman ranks before a short, late-career move to Pro Stock that spanned just three races over two seasons. Lilly began racing in Littleton, Colo., in 1961 with a D/Sports ’61 Corvette and won class honors at the 1965 Winternationals, which got the attention of Chrysler racing’s Bo...
Enders’ story is well known to today’s fans. A standout competitor in NHRA’s Jr. Drag Racing League and the star of the Disney movie Right on Track, she graduated to “big cars” and won her first national event in 2004, in Super Gas at her home track in Houston. She moved up to Pro Stock in 2005 and failed to qualify in her debut at the Winternation...
Howell followed Enders into the seat of Cunningham’s Ford and also experienced middling success, qualifying for three races out of 15 without scoring a round-win. She did also earn a small part of Pro Stock trivia as part of the first Pro Stock race involving two female drivers when she and Enders made up half of the first-round quad at the Four-Wi...
Caruso is a third-generation drag racer, following her father, Marc, a Pro Mod racer, and grandfather, Joe, who competed in Super Gas, Top Sportsman, and Pro Mod. Before moving to Pro Stock this season, Caruso competed in Jr. Dragster, Super Comp, Top Alcohol Dragster, and Mountain Motor Pro Stock. She qualified in her debut at the Winternationals,...
Jul 10, 2012 · Second-generation NHRA drag racer Grace Howell announced on Monday that she has parted ways with the Cunningham Motorsports Ford Pro Stock team owned by Jim Cunningham, effective immediately. Howell, 26, was tabbed as the new driver to replace Buddy Perkinson in the Cunningham entry at the NHRA U.S. Nationals last September and entered 15 NHRA ...
Howell, 26, joined Cunningham Motorsports in August 2011, making her debut in the team’s Pro Stock Ford Mustang at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. In 15 races, she qualified for Sunday’s final eliminations three times and recorded a career best run of 6.558-seconds at 210.67-mph.
Apr 17, 2012 · Aiken, SC – Grace Howell entered this past weekend’s NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAx Dragway knowing she would be challenged not only at this track, but with Four-Wide Racing. The team came through in a big way.
MOHNTON, Pa. --Grace Howell comes in to Maple Grove Raceway for the 27th annual Uni-Select Auto Plus NHRA Nationals ready to get in the show. This will be the 3rd race for Grace in the competitive field of Pro Stock. She has yet to make race day and is determined more than ever to make that happen.
