Special Section
PRO 632 AMBER DENTON
PRO EXTREME MOTORCYCLE BRUNSON GROTHUS
● BRUNSON GROTHUS is an accomplished competitor in numerous motorcycle drag racing classes and organizations , but a world championship in the PDRA eluded him until this season . Racing on two wheels in Drag 965 Pro Extreme Motorcycle , Grothus competed against past world champions to win three of the five races that included the class on the eight-race PDRA schedule . He ’ s now just the fifth different Pro Extreme Motorcycle world champion in the 11-year history of the series .
“ It ’ s the absolute highlight of my career ,” said Grothus , who rode Robert Varela ’ s turbocharged Excel Glass Systems / Dallas Flat Glass Distributors Hayabusa . “ I ’ ve won a few other Pro Mod national championships , which are awesome , and some E . T . bracket stuff , but if we ’ re being straight-up honest with ourselves , the PDRA Pro Extreme Motorcycle class , it ’ s like the baddest of the bad . If you want to be a bad dog , then you need to come here on the big stage and battle it out . I ’ ve been hunting this for almost 15 years now . I ’ ve been coming for years and years and years and we finally got it done . This is the highlight of my career . It ’ s the culmination of teamwork . It ’ s just unbelievable . It ’ s really hard to describe .”
● AMBER ( FRANKLIN ) DENTON is now a second-generation two-time world champion in the PDRA professional classes , as she won the 2024 Pro 632 world championship . Denton , who won the 2017 Pro Jr . Dragster and 2022 Pro 632 world championships , secured the title by winning three races in six final rounds across the eight-race season . She also qualified No . 1 six times before closing out the season – and her Pro 632 career – by setting a new class E . T . national record . Denton will move up to Pro Nitrous this season .
“ I think it was just a testament to our team this season ,” said Denton , who married 2023 Super Street world champion Blake Denton in September . “ They fought hard all year , and to pull it off a race early was really special for us . It relieved the stress a little bit coming into the World Finals . There were other drivers on our team fighting for a championship . We had a great car all season , but once we finally were able to pull off a win , we carried that momentum . We made a bunch of changes going into Bristol , so winning that race was big for us . It set us up great going into GALOT .”
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