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Jul 10, 2012 · Dragzine - Drag Racing Magazine. Second-generation NHRA drag racer Grace Howell, 26, announced on Monday that she has parted ways with the Cunningham Motorsports Ford Pro Stock team owned by Jim Cunningham, effective immediately, and will return to the NHRA Lucas Oil sportsman ranks while working on the next phase of her professional career.
NHRA drag racer Grace Howell announced July 9, she has parted ways with the Cunningham Motorsports team, effective immediately. “For as long as I can remember it has been my dream to race as a professional in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series and I can’t thank Jim and Gloria Cunningham enough for helping to make that dream come true ...
Jul 10, 2012 · Jul 10, 2012, 8:47 AM. Upd: Jun 1, 2018, 6:58 AM. After failing to qualify for NHRA eliminations in each of the last two weeks, Pro Stock racer Grace Howell and Cunningham Motorsports today ended their relationship effective immediately. The 26-year-old Howell joined Cunningham Motorsports in August 2011, making her debut in the team’s Pro ...
- 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,...
Oct 4, 2010 · In her GT/LA '93 Mustang. at the 2003 Gatornationals. The waiting didn't take long, and Howell got her wish at the age of 8, when she began racing in the Jr. Drag Racing League. Her successful stint in the junior ranks reached a high point in 1996 when at 10 years old she won the NHRA national championship.
Aug 31, 2011 · audio feature: talking with grace howell, pro stock driver Wed, 2011-08-31 21:30 Grace Howell, a successful Super Stock and Stock racer, makes a huge jump during this weekend's NHRA U.S. Nationals when she makes her Pro Stock debut behind the wheel of Jim Cunningham's Ford Mustang Pro Stocker.
Jul 9, 2012 · 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 final eliminations ...
