Drag racing has another
licensed female Top Fuel driver as Rome,
New York’s Jessie Harris
completed her licensing runs under the tutelage of potential future teammate
Clay Millican. Today in testing at Gainesville, Florida, the former jet car
driver recorded an impressive 4.66 elapsed time at 314 miles per hour.
Harris began working
towards her license back in October when she made a few 300-foot squirts in the
same Evan Knoll Top Fuel dragster Millican drives on the NHRA POWERade
Championship Drag Racing Series. A few weeks later, Harris advanced to
eighth-mile hits at The Strip in Las
Vegas.
On Wednesday, she made her
first full run – a 4.66 elapsed time at 305 miles per hour. Signing off on her
license was Millican, drag racing school instructor Frank Hawley and Bobby
Lagana.
“This has been very crazy
and exciting,” Harris said. “Now that we’ve got the licensing out of the way,
we can move forward.”