HAMMONDS PARKS TEAM BRIEFLY
Mon, 2009-05-11 12:28
Tom Hammonds announced today that his NHRA Pro Stock race team will be
sitting out the next few races on the Full Throttle Series tour
beginning with this weekend's NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol
(Tenn.) Dragway. Hammonds is confident that the hiatus is temporary,
and hopes to return to racing as soon as sufficient sponsorship is
secured to run competitively.
"We have a terrific race team, and a great program to offer a potential sponsor partner," Hammonds said. "We don't want to just go out and qualify, we want to be competitive, win races and challenge for the Full Throttle championship."
The 42-year-old Hammonds entered his first NHRA Pro Stock contest at the 1996 Mile-High Nationals while playing professional basketball with the NBA Nuggets. He continued to compete part-time on the NHRA tour while still in the NBA. Tom Hammonds announced today that his NHRA Pro Stock race team will be sitting out the next few races on the Full Throttle Series tour beginning with this weekend's NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway. Hammonds is confident that the hiatus is temporary, and hopes to return to racing as soon as sufficient sponsorship is secured to run competitively.
"We have a terrific race team, and a great program to offer a potential sponsor partner," Hammonds said. "We don't want to just go out and qualify, we want to be competitive, win races and challenge for the Full Throttle championship."
The 42-year-old Hammonds entered his first NHRA Pro Stock contest at the 1996 Mile-High Nationals while playing professional basketball with the NBA Nuggets. He continued to compete part-time on the NHRA tour while still in the NBA.
Following his retirement from basketball in 2001, Hammonds entered the NHRA circuit full time. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2003, to complete final coursework in the GM Minority Dealer Development Program and then opened Tom Hammonds Chevrolet in Darlington, S.C. in May of 2004. Hammonds sold the dealership in December 2005 to return to Pro Stock drag racing.
Hammonds' career as an NHRA Pro Stock driver includes three final-round appearances; at Dallas and Las Vegas in 2001, and at Chicago in 2002.
During the first seven events of the 2009 tour, Hammonds has qualified for six races scoring a season-best seventh at Las Vegas, and at Houston, Hammonds posted a career-best elapsed time of 6.611 seconds.
Hammonds was a two-time all-ACC and an All-America basketball standout at Georgia Tech University where his No. 20 jersey was retired, and where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
"We have a terrific race team, and a great program to offer a potential sponsor partner," Hammonds said. "We don't want to just go out and qualify, we want to be competitive, win races and challenge for the Full Throttle championship."
The 42-year-old Hammonds entered his first NHRA Pro Stock contest at the 1996 Mile-High Nationals while playing professional basketball with the NBA Nuggets. He continued to compete part-time on the NHRA tour while still in the NBA. Tom Hammonds announced today that his NHRA Pro Stock race team will be sitting out the next few races on the Full Throttle Series tour beginning with this weekend's NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway. Hammonds is confident that the hiatus is temporary, and hopes to return to racing as soon as sufficient sponsorship is secured to run competitively.
"We have a terrific race team, and a great program to offer a potential sponsor partner," Hammonds said. "We don't want to just go out and qualify, we want to be competitive, win races and challenge for the Full Throttle championship."
The 42-year-old Hammonds entered his first NHRA Pro Stock contest at the 1996 Mile-High Nationals while playing professional basketball with the NBA Nuggets. He continued to compete part-time on the NHRA tour while still in the NBA.
Following his retirement from basketball in 2001, Hammonds entered the NHRA circuit full time. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2003, to complete final coursework in the GM Minority Dealer Development Program and then opened Tom Hammonds Chevrolet in Darlington, S.C. in May of 2004. Hammonds sold the dealership in December 2005 to return to Pro Stock drag racing.
Hammonds' career as an NHRA Pro Stock driver includes three final-round appearances; at Dallas and Las Vegas in 2001, and at Chicago in 2002.
During the first seven events of the 2009 tour, Hammonds has qualified for six races scoring a season-best seventh at Las Vegas, and at Houston, Hammonds posted a career-best elapsed time of 6.611 seconds.
Hammonds was a two-time all-ACC and an All-America basketball standout at Georgia Tech University where his No. 20 jersey was retired, and where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
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