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Rachel Meyer and
her father, Randy
“I definitely
don’t want
to give up the
driver’s seat
– I want to do
both – but I
really like the
mechanical
side of it.”
recorded the third-quickest pass in class history
– the quickest under the current rules package –
qualified No. 1 and reached the final round. “I
didn’t really expect to go setting records and going
all the way to the final,” offers Nataas, a Norwe-
gian enrolled at Antioch University Santa Barbara,
“but the team at Randy Meyer Racing is amazing.”
Giving new drivers an immediate shot at suc-
cess is kind of Randy Meyer’s thing. Megan won
her second-ever national event, the Four-Wide
Nationals, in 2016. Later that year, Rachel qual-
ified No. 1 in her Top Alcohol Dragster debut
and charged to the semifinals in her second race.
Justin Ashley, the 23-year-old son of former Pro
Mod and Funny Car driver Mike Ashley, drove
one of Meyer’s cars to the NHRA Gatornationals
winner’s cirlce in his NHRA competition debut
last March.
The two-car Randy Meyer Racing operation
has a full slate of races on the schedule for this
season. Megan leads the charge with a schedule
of 17 races as she chases the national champion-
ship with primary sponsorship from NGK Spark
Plugs. Justin is slated to run 13 races, while Julie
will enter 10 events. Rachel, a product engineer
who designs the machines that build the seat
suspensions for automakers like Ford, GM and
Tesla, will run four or five races. A fifth driver,
Bill Litton, plans to drive a RMR car at two ear-
ly-season races.
“We have a game plan set in place,” Megan ex-
plains. “We’re trying to use the other drivers on
our team as blockers in the points since I’m not
able to run all of the races. Even though the points
system limits me to 10 national events, we’re able
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