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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 ...
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 […]
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. Grace and the Cunningham Motorsports Ford Mustang qualified 13th with a career best 6.554 at over 210 mph.
- 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,...
Aug 31, 2011 · 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. CompetitionPlusAudio.com's Kathy Fisher discusses her monomental career move.
Aug 25, 2011 · 25-year-old Grace Howell is moving up in the NHRA world. This week, Cunningham Motorsports announced that Howell will be taking the reigns of the their Ford Mustang Pro Stock entry, beginning at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis on Labor Day weekend.
Aug 20, 2011 · Super Stock driver Grace Howell will team with Cunningham Motorsports and make her Pro Stock driving debut at the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Indianapolis over Labor Day weekend. The 25-year-old from Aiken, S.C., has been around racing and cars her entire life.
