Drag Racing Career
As a Top Alcohol Dragster rookie in 2004, she won three of the season’s final five races, including the 50th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis, and the season-ending Automobile Club of Southern California event at Pomona, where she shared the winners’ circle with her father - NHRA’s first ever father-daughter winners. She finished the year fourth in national driver points.
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