“MY DAD ASKED ME WHAT I WANTED FOR A CAR, A STREET
CAR,” SHE SAYS, “AND I WAS LIKE, ‘DAD, I DON’T WANT A
NEW CAR. I JUST WANT YOU TO BUILD ME A RACE CAR.’ SO
HE PUT TOGETHER WHAT WE NOW CALL THE ‘GOLDEN PANDA.’”
Four years as an A student paid off last May
when Mills earned her bachelor’s degree in strate-
gic communication from the University of Central
Oklahoma, opening up her schedule for even
more racing.
She plans to continue racing in X275 this sea-
son, chasing her first victory in the class at events
like Duck X Productions’ South Georgia Motor-
sports Park races, as well as Mid-West Pro Mod
April 2020
Series races. She’s looking to improve on three
runner-up finishes in MWPMS X275 competition.
In fact, Mills considers her first runner-up fin-
ish to be the highlight of her young racing career
so far, but not for the obvious reason. She lost
in the final round of the PSCA’s 2018 Heads-Up
Hootenanny at Gateway Motorsports Park in
St. Louis, but so did her father, who fell in the
Radial vs. the World final. They didn’t return
home to Tulsa with a trophy, but since they were
able to share the final-round experience in two
highly competitive classes, Mills chalked it up
as a victory.
“I want to win – I’m a winner and I’m very
competitive, but most of the highs of my racing
career aren’t winning,” Mills begins. “And it’s crazy
because we win a lot. I mean, my dad wins a lot
and I’ve been to multiple finals, but it’s just that
I like the camaraderie and the family aspect of
racing, and going and hanging out with our family
friends that we don’t get to see as often as we’d
like because they live halfway across the country.”
T
HE MILLS RACING crew was testing at Orlan-
do Speed World Dragway in February last
year, preparing for Lights Out 10 at South
Georgia, when Kallee dropped the big ques-
tion: “What’s it going to take for me to drive
‘Kong’?” she asked DeWayne.
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