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car. He also won the North-South
Shootout at Maryland International
Raceway, where Terry accepted the
Best Appearing Car award.
“We all wanted [Terry] to drive the
car, but I think he was having just as
much fun being on the outside and
getting to watch it go down the
racetrack,” Glenn III says. “It was my
favorite season of racing. Especially
with Terry’s diagnosis that we all
knew about coming into the year,
just having him be able to go to the
races with us and to spend that extra
time with him was awesome. It was
a really fun year.”
As the family tries to forge ahead
with the 2020 season after Terry’s
passing, they’re working to debut a
brand-new car later in the season.
Glenn III’s new Jerry Haas-built, Buck
872ci-powered ’68 Firebird is almost
ready to hit the track. But the family
plans to run Terry’s GTO at the upcoming
Pro Line Racing Mid-Atlantic
Showdown presented by Frederick
Line-X at Virginia Motorsports Park,
largely as a tribute to him.
As for Mandy, she’ll continue to run
her Buck-powered Race Tech dragster
in Top Dragster 32, though she
has her mind on a potential move
to Top Sportsman in the near future.
“I would love to race Top Sportsman,”
Mandy says. “It’s my ultimate
goal. It would be the pinnacle of my
racing career to get to jump into a
Top Sportsman car, just like the rest
of my family, and do well. One of my
uncle’s wishes was for me to get to
drive his car. So we’ll see what the
future holds. But this year I’m going
to finish out the year Top Dragster,
and next year you might see me in
a really pretty, orange GTO.”
Going racing without Terry will be
hard, but going racing is what the
Teets family does. Even if it’s
without one of the team’s founding
members.
“I can’t imagine going to the racetrack
and not feeling like he’s with
us,” Mandy says. “One of my biggest
fans in my racing career has been
my uncle. Very encouraging, very
loving, very positive, and I’m really,
really going to miss that about him.
I’m going to miss having that thousand-kilowatt
smile slapping me on
the back and saying, ‘Way to go.’ I’m
going to miss that.”
“Everything we do is family,” Glenn
III adds. “It’s me and my dad, my
sister, my mom. My wife pitches in
and my brother-in-law and others
pitch in when they can, but we’re a
family operation. We don’t have a
crew of five or six guys tuning on
stuff. We kind of like it that way. It’s
how we grew up. My parents met
at the racetrack and we grew up at
the racetrack. That’s why it means
so much to us. It’s going to be hard,
but I’m looking forward to it. We
belong at the racetrack. When we
get back out there, I think we’ll feel
a lot better.”
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