This week at Kalitta Motorsports –

Dave Grubnic, driver of the Zantrex-3 Top Fuel dragster, made a trip this week to visit all of the fine folks at Zantrex-3 in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. Dave spent some time talking with the corporate staff about the racing program, and he was also able to spend a great deal of time with a lot of the employees Thursday morning signing autographs and enjoying pastries in what has become an annual event, Donuts with Dave. Thanks to everyone in SLC for making this year’s event such a success! You can read more about Donuts with Dave and other Team Kalitta happenings on our NHRA.com blog…

http://blogs.nhra.com/nhrablogs.asp?blog=kalitta

Hillary Will, driver of the KB Racing LLC Top Fueler, was one of several speakers who spoke to Detroit-area high school students at the annual car show extravaganza AutoRama at Detroit’s massive Cobo Center. Hillary along with NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle driver Steve Johnson, drag racing announcer Dave McClelland, and other racing stars addressed the crowd of about 2,000 students about choosing careers in the auto industry.

Also there to speak was legendary custom hot rod builder Chip Foose. As you may recall, Chip has been involved with Kalitta Motorsports through our mutual relationship with Mac Tools over the past year. Chip’s personally designed paint schemes on Doug Kalitta’s dragsters in Las Vegas and Indianapolis and Scott Kalitta’s Funny Car in Indy in 2006 were huge favorites for race fans.

Upcoming NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event –

ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals
Gainesville Raceway
Gainesville, Fla.
March 15-18, 2007

The ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals begins Friday, March 16, for the nitro-fueled classes with one qualifying session at 1:00 p.m. (ET), and then another qualifying session at 3:30 p.m. Two more qualifying sessions follow on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. The top sixteen qualified cars will race Sunday in final eliminations beginning at 11:00 a.m.

Upcoming ESPN2 TV coverage (ET) –

ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals
3/18/2007-Qualifying 1:30 a.m. - 3:30 a.m.
3/18/2007-Eliminations 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
3/21/2007-Repeat Eliminations 3:30 a.m. - 5:30 a.m.

For more info about Kalitta Motorsports, please visit www.kalittaracing.com