No matter what the outcome of this weekend’s, Nov. 13-16, annual running of the Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona (Calif.), Hillary Will, driver of the Palm Beach Int’l Raceway/KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, knows that she will finish the 2008 POWERade Drag Racing Series in the highest points position of her three-year career.

Will, the world’s fastest female, is currently in second place in POWERade points with only 41 points separating her position and Larry Dixon in fifth place. If Will and the Jim Oberhofer-led (crew chief) Palm Beach Int’l Raceway team qualify for the 16-car eliminations field, they will be guaranteed a top-five finish, a remarkable turnaround from the Ken and Kenny Black-owned team that finished last season in 13th place and in 10th in 2006. No matter what the outcome of this weekend’s, Nov. 13-16, annual running of the Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona (Calif.), Hillary Will, driver of the Palm Beach Int’l Raceway/KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, knows that she will finish the 2008 POWERade Drag Racing Series in the highest points position of her three-year career.

Will, the world’s fastest female, is currently in second place in POWERade points with only 41 points separating her position and Larry Dixon in fifth place. If Will and the Jim Oberhofer-led (crew chief) Palm Beach Int’l Raceway team qualify for the 16-car eliminations field, they will be guaranteed a top-five finish, a remarkable turnaround from the Ken and Kenny Black-owned team that finished last season in 13th place and in 10th in 2006.

“A top-five finish has such a nice ring to it, but our goal is to stay right where we are in second,” Will, a 28-year old native of Fortuna, Calif., said. “Second place in points is as high as we can finish off our great season, and we’re going to do everything in our power to do just that. Our team is awesome and every single one of them deserves it.

“Racing in my home state is always a thrill, but the mystique of racing in Pomona is something that’s hard to describe. We start the season in Pomona each year with so many expectations about the year to come and to finish up this season with a chance to finish second in points is very close to the expectations we had when we started. Sure, our goal was to win the championship, but we’ve accomplished so much this year, including winning our first event. No matter what happens, it will be our best effort, and we know we’ll know we tried our best.”