NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Pro Stock driver Erica Enders is
coming to Las Vegas this weekend to test at The Strip at Las Vegas
Motor Speedway and compete in the fourth annual Las Vegas Pro Stock
Showdown. Enders will be joined by at least 16 other drivers,
including defending NHRA Pro Stock champion and 2008 event winner Jeg
Coughlin Jr., Allen Johnson, V Gaines, Mike Edwards, Tom Hammonds,
Jerry Haas, Ron Krisher, Rickie Jones, Bob Panella, Roger Brogden,
J.R. Carr, Frank Gugliotta, Bob Yorke, Johnny Gray, David Beckley and
Greg Stanfield.
Enders, the only female driver to reach a Pro Stock final round and
earn No. 1 Qualifier status, will drive a Ford Mustang for Jim
Cunningham, owner of Capitol Raceway in Maryland.
“I’ll be testing (and racing) Friday and Saturday,” said Enders as she
was about to board a plane to Las Vegas this afternoon. “It’s a
full-time deal for 2009. I filled in for him at a race last year when
he had a family emergency and that’s how the business relationship
started.