Four-time Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney pointed out last season that she hoped to have a Top Fuel team for the 2008 season with Top Alcohol Dragster driver Sheila Kopchick as the driver.

Muldowney’s vision of fielding a car under the Doug Herbert umbrella didn’t pan out in time for the first race of the season, the NHRA CARQUEST Winternationals in Pomona. Four-time Top Fuel champion Shirley Muldowney pointed out last season that she hoped to have a Top Fuel team for the 2008 season with Top Alcohol Dragster driver Sheila Kopchick as the driver.

Muldowney’s vision of fielding a car under the Doug Herbert umbrella didn’t pan out in time for the first race of the season, the NHRA CARQUEST Winternationals in Pomona.

“I have hopes that the team might come out in the middle of the year,” Muldowney said. “I think there’s enough equipment out there that we could buy it if we needed to. I really don’t know what’s going to happen.”

The program, Muldowney said, is contingent on sponsorship.

“We have a certain amount, but it is not enough,” Muldowney added. “I don’t want to go out there and just stroke it. If we do get it, fine. If we don’t -- that’s okay too.”