Jerry Toliver will drive the Rockstar Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car for Don
Schumacher Racing in the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, beginning at the
Winternationals in Pomona, Calif., Feb. 7-10, 2008, it was confirmed today by
team owner Don Schumacher.
A native of California, Toliver returns to his
first full year of NHRA Funny Car competition since 2004. The popular,
articulate and outgoing racer skipped the 2005 and 2006 seasons and ran all but
four national events in 2007 under his own banner with Rockstar
backing.
Rockstar, Inc., maker of Rockstar Energy Drink, returns as
Toliver's primary sponsor on the Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car, a major associate
sponsor on the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge driven by Ron Capps, and as an associate
sponsor on the rest of the Don Schumacher Racing teams.
Phil Shuler, who,
along with Todd Okuhara in 2007, tuned the Mail Terminal Services Dodge for Jack
Beckman and the Mopar/Oakley Dodge for Gary Scelzi, was named crew
chief.