POMONA, Calif. (February 13) – This
weekend’s O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals marks the start of Greg Hunter’s second
season in Top Alcohol Dragster competition. The former TAFC driver enjoyed a
productive rookie season in 2012; the new driver-team combo of Greg and the
Kenny Gilmour Motorsports team made progress every race weekend, steadily
improving their performances. Now they’re ready to continue that trend during
the new season.
“I’m really looking forward to this
season after getting the first year under my belt. We got a lot of bugs worked
out of the car last year and learned what it takes to run at this level. The
guys are excited to get back to the track, back to turning the wrenches and
working the tools. We’re expecting to have a consistent car that can go A-to-B
and win some rounds this year,” said Hunter.
2012 was an exciting year for Greg. He
drove the Kenny Gilmour-tuned ExactAir Top Alcohol Dragster to four round wins,
including one at his debut race, the Las Vegas national event. Hunter’s
career-best numbers improved after almost every race, ending with a 5.38 best
at the fall Las Vegas race.
“Last season was definitely a great
learning experience,” Greg said. “We went to lot of tracks that I had never
been to. Going to Chicago, we got to race some of the top cars in the country.
Just winning a few rounds was just awesome.”
Hunter and the ExactAir/Kenny Gilmour
Motorsports team will have a packed schedule once again this year. They’ll
start off this weekend in Pomona and continue racing the Western region races,
both national and regional events. Plans are to travel east as well, to run at
the Denver regional and national events in Texas. Their season will conclude as
it began at the Pomona fairgrounds in November.
The Top Alcohol Dragster season
officially begins during the first qualifying session on Thursday afternoon.
Two more sessions follow on Friday at 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm. First round of
eliminations is scheduled for 3:30 pm on Saturday, with the rest of
eliminations continuing on Sunday.
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