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SADIE GLENN
■ ADRENALINE, camaraderie,
competition, and emotional highs
and lows contribute to the insane-
ly addictive nature of the beast
that is straight-line racing. Sadie
Glenn was sold on it at the age of
10. Blame her father, John Floyd
Sr., who invited his daughter to act
as “crew chief ” on his 1948 Anglia
at the drag strip near their Happy
Valley, Oregon, home.
Glenn beat acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (A.L.L.) when she was six,
and the victory over childhood can-
cer set the tone for a life of deter-
mining and achieving big goals. The
framework was perfect for racing.
One year after her first taste of
the drag strip, Glenn debuted in
NHRA’s Summit Racing Jr. Drag
Racing League. Her seven-year stint culminat-
ed in a track championship, and she diversified
with successful forays into Super Pro, Pro, Super
Comp, and Top Dragster. In 2013, Glenn earned
her Top Alcohol Dragster license with a best time
of 5.50 at 250 mph.
None of that was quite enough, though. In
2015, Glenn launched SR Driven Media, quickly
gaining a reputation as one of the most active and
impactful PR and social media firms serving the
NHRA community. Glenn has represented an ar-
ray of teams and groups, including championship
Pro Stock Motorcycle riders and top 10 Pro Stock
drivers, the Real Pro Mod Association, and the
SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown.
“I can barely remember a time in my life with-
out drag racing. Now I get to rep-
resent some of the best and most
exciting people in NHRA,” says
Glenn, who is married to fellow
Sportsman racer-turned-KB Rac-
ing Pro Stock crew member Dallas
Glenn and is based in Mooresville,
North Carolina.
“I have 100 percent respect
for the clients I work with, and I
couldn’t be more thankful,” Glenn
continues. “My goal is to provide the
best service I can to my clients. I’d
love to someday be the biggest inde-
pendent PR company in NHRA and
possibly expand to include clients
in PDRA or IHRA, too.
“My biggest challenge is finding
time to race. I don’t get to play
more than once or twice a season,
but I’m hoping to change that soon. As a little
girl, I wanted to race professionally, but now
I would be content with a solid Super Comp
dragster capable of running national events
that I could turn lose at a local bracket race,
too. I believe that being a racer is why I’m able
to really help my clients. I’m able to see things
from both sides.” – K E L LY WA DI
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DANIEL YOUNG
■ AT JUST 20 YEARS OLD, Daniel Young
is already an accomplished driver. One
week after turning 18 years old, he en-
tered, and subsequently won, his first
NHRA national event champion the
2016 Gatornationals. The same year,
he won the 2016 IHRA Stock champi-
onship. Ever since, he’s been a force to
reckon with, consistently going rounds.
He’s currently first in JEGS All Star
points for Division 2.
“My dad’s been racing the Gators for a
long time, and I’ve been watching him.
Even just to win first round was cool. To
go the whole way - I didn’t think it was
possible,” Young says of his first NHRA
national victory.
He’s also well known for his videog-
raphy. In 2013 he began playing around
with a GoPro and quickly developed a hobby that
helped give local racers a greater audience.
“I wanted to do something that nobody was
doing,” Young adds. “So I started with local
heads-up stuff at Bradenton. It’s cool for me to
do the spotlight on local people who don’t get as
much publicity. I had the GoPro in the car when
I won the Gatornationals, and it caught a pretty
cool moment. I had it on again when I won the
championship. So now I keep it on for pretty
much every run.”
Young made a video for Lights Out that’s
amassed 68,000 views. He’s recently
slowed his videography to focus on his
career as a firefighter for the City of Lar-
go, but he has plans to continue using
his secondary hobby to highlight his own
racing career.
“I’m a second-generation fireman,”
Young says. “My dad got me into that
and racing. He’s absolutely, positively the
only reason I’ve been able to accomplish
the things I’ve done. He’s sacrificed so
much. We used to bracket race before
the IHRA and NHRA stuff. He sacrificed
a lot. He stepped away from racing to
make sure my brother and I had good
equipment and were able to focus on
our programs.
“So a big thanks to him, as well as Lu-
cas Oil Products, my family, Jeff, Joey
and Joel Warren at Warren Race Engines, and
LearnFirstAid.com.”
Young is successful as a driver, driven to better
himself, and a great promoter of the sport. With
a long career ahead of him, he’s an asset to the
future of drag racing. – L I SA CO L L I DI
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