HOT ROD'S WEEKEND OFF
Sun, 2008-04-06 09:49
The race fans were lined up for an autograph and the Top Fuel driver wasn’t even competing.
Hot Rod Fuller chose to spend his off-weekend away from the NHRA
POWERade tour as a special guest of Holt CAT, presenting sponsor for
the IHRA Texas Nationals.
Fuller drives the CAT-sponsored entry on the NHRA tour. He’ll be racing next weekend in Las Vegas. This weekend was devoted to sponsor relations.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an IHRA event and because I’m not racing, I get a lot of extra time to spend with the fans,” Fuller said, as he signed an autograph. “I’ve gotten to hang out with my old sportsman racing friends and add in that I grew up in this part of the country.” The race fans were lined up for an autograph and the Top Fuel driver wasn’t even competing.
Hot Rod Fuller chose to spend his off-weekend away from the NHRA
POWERade tour as a special guest of Holt CAT, presenting sponsor for
the IHRA Texas Nationals.
Fuller drives the CAT-sponsored entry on the NHRA tour. He’ll be racing next weekend in Las Vegas. This weekend was devoted to sponsor relations.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an IHRA event and because I’m not racing, I get a lot of extra time to spend with the fans,” Fuller said, as he signed an autograph. “I’ve gotten to hang out with my old sportsman racing friends and add in that I grew up in this part of the country.”
Make no bones about it; Fuller enjoyed the experience.
“There’s a lot of people out here who don’t get the opportunity to come out and see us during an NHRA event, so this presents a good opportunity to for us to interact,” Fuller added.
Before undertaking the challenge of driving a Top Fuel dragster, drag racing fans will recall Fuller was an accomplished sportsman drag racer.
“I actually won a few IHRA national and divisional events,” Fuller said. “I raced quite a bit with the IHRA during my sportsman years. My brother won a world championship in IHRA.”
For Fuller, the toughest part of the weekend was probably in not being able to race. Parked to his right was a show dragster identical to his regular race vehicle.
“I was thinking about drumming up some crew members and firing that thing up,” Fuller said. “It would be neat to run an eighth-mile event.”
He couldn’t help but notice the other teams giving his car the once over. One team joked they might ‘borrow” the car over the course of the weekend.
“I wouldn’t be surprised, it might make a good parts car,” Fuller added.
Fuller interacts with the IHRA drag racing fans in San Antonio.
Fuller drives the CAT-sponsored entry on the NHRA tour. He’ll be racing next weekend in Las Vegas. This weekend was devoted to sponsor relations.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an IHRA event and because I’m not racing, I get a lot of extra time to spend with the fans,” Fuller said, as he signed an autograph. “I’ve gotten to hang out with my old sportsman racing friends and add in that I grew up in this part of the country.” The race fans were lined up for an autograph and the Top Fuel driver wasn’t even competing.
Fuller interacts with the IHRA drag racing fans in San Antonio. (Roger Richards)
Fuller drives the CAT-sponsored entry on the NHRA tour. He’ll be racing next weekend in Las Vegas. This weekend was devoted to sponsor relations.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an IHRA event and because I’m not racing, I get a lot of extra time to spend with the fans,” Fuller said, as he signed an autograph. “I’ve gotten to hang out with my old sportsman racing friends and add in that I grew up in this part of the country.”
Make no bones about it; Fuller enjoyed the experience.
“There’s a lot of people out here who don’t get the opportunity to come out and see us during an NHRA event, so this presents a good opportunity to for us to interact,” Fuller added.
Before undertaking the challenge of driving a Top Fuel dragster, drag racing fans will recall Fuller was an accomplished sportsman drag racer.
“I actually won a few IHRA national and divisional events,” Fuller said. “I raced quite a bit with the IHRA during my sportsman years. My brother won a world championship in IHRA.”
For Fuller, the toughest part of the weekend was probably in not being able to race. Parked to his right was a show dragster identical to his regular race vehicle.
“I was thinking about drumming up some crew members and firing that thing up,” Fuller said. “It would be neat to run an eighth-mile event.”
He couldn’t help but notice the other teams giving his car the once over. One team joked they might ‘borrow” the car over the course of the weekend.
“I wouldn’t be surprised, it might make a good parts car,” Fuller added.
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