Members of MPE Motorsports and Rolling O Store Headed to Sudan …
Mark
and Lauren Pickens have pledged to donate 10% of the winnings for their
Top Fuel dragster to assist in war-torn Sudan. Lauren, along with two
other members of the drag racing community, will visit Sudan later this
month on a missions visit.
What started out as a plan to bring awareness to a
poverty-stricken war torn region, has turned into an effort that will
take three members of the drag racing community to the other side of
the world later this month.
Mark and Lauren Pickens adorned their 8,000 horsepower Top Fuel
dragster with the logo Hope4Sudan in hopes that that the Clay
Millican-driven dragster would inspire others to support the children
of Sudan, a country in northeastern Africa.
The team debuted their dragster during the NHRA Toyo Tires Nationals
and the vision of the decorated dragster was enough to inspire an
announcer to comment, “Sudan is something I never envisioned on a race
car.”