MOVERS & SHAKERS
GANGSTER: Kissinger Racing patriarch Kerry
DREAM TEAM: PDRA race director Tyler Crossnoe (back left) and competition and tech director Lonnie Grim
jump in on a shot of marketing director Will Smith (front left) and tech guy Vinny Laudicina, who later hopped
into a pair of Jr. Dragsters for a grudge race during Thursday testing at the PDRA Summer Nationals.
Kissinger takes the family dog, Gangster,
for a walk around the pits at South Georgia
Motorsports Park. Kissinger’s son, Jarrod,
is chasing the PDRA Top Dragster 32 world
championship after a runner-up finish at the
Mid-Atlantic Showdown at Virginia.
MR. 200: Second-generation
Pro Stock Motorcycle rider
Hector Arana Jr. throws on
his leathers to prepare for
a ride down the Norwalk
quarter mile aboard his Lucas
Oil bike, which he rode to
the first 200 mph Pro Stock
Motorcycle pass in 2018.
STUNNA SHADES: PDRA Elite Top Sportsman
hitter Derrick “DB” Brown walks the staging lanes
at South Georgia Motorsports Park, where the
North Carolina-based driver traded out his usual
ProCharger-boosted Camaro for a nitrous-assisted
Chevy S-10 that he took to the second round.
BACK IT UP, BOSS: Krista Baldwin, who serves as
the creative director at McLeod Clutches during
the week and races the McLeod A/Fuel dragster
on the weekends, waits to back up company
owner Paul Lee in the McLeod Racing Funny Car.
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