When the NHRA was making history at the inaugural Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte, N.C., late last month, T.J. Zizzo was busy.
The 34-year-old Top Fuel driver was delivering on a promise he made to his wife, Jen, 15 years earlier.
“The whole situation boiled down to my wife quitting smoking 15 year ago,” Zizzo said Friday. “I told her back then if she quit smoking, I would take her to Spain. Needless to say, as a good husband usually does, we’re always a little bit behind on our promises, but last October I told my wife that she deserved to go to Spain because she had quit smoking many, many years ago.”
Zizzo and his wife, who teaches Spanish at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., made the trip to Barcelona during the week of March 22.