the transition as seamless as possible. It also makes things easier when Kallee is driving two cars at one event.
“ Everything inside the cars, we’ ve made pretty much the same,” Mills says.“ Where the parachute is, where the shifter is— everything is the same in each car. That way I don’ t have to change my driving a whole lot when I get in the different cars. When all the cars are the same, it’ s like your desk at home. You know where your stapler is. You have the same keyboard. You know where everything is.”
The big difference with the Pro Mod, Mills says, is how quickly it reacts, and consequently, how quickly she needs to react as a driver.
“ When the car goes into tire shake or something, everything happens so fast— so much faster than what I’ m used to before,” Mills says.“ You see things and you don’ t really have time to react. You just have to hope your gut knows what’ s going on. Especially when you’ re going. 860,. 880 to the 60-foot. It just happens so quick up front. That’ s something that’ s been different than any other car that I’ ve driven.”
Mills went into the MWDRS Xtreme Texas Nationals with just a few test passes in the American Pride“ Scarlett” Camaro, then added a few more during the pre-race test day at XRP. She made it into the field in the No. 7 spot and scored her first round win in Pro Mod, winning with a 3.676. Mills isn’ t shy about the fact she was looking for more out of her debut weekend, though.
“ Honestly, we were hoping to win,” she says.“ When we made it down, I went 3.67 or something, I was happy, but I wouldn’ t say I was overly excited about it. I wanted to win. I’ m super competitive, so I’ m out there searching for my first win. But it was good to qualify and to get a round win out of the way. Nobody wants to lose first round. I think that’ s the worst round for me anyways. I think I get more nervous for first round than I do a final.”
In a sentimental homecoming to Tulsa Raceway Park for the spring Throwdown in T-Town, the same race where Mills grew up watching Pro Mods, she qualified No. 9 and earned a side-byside first-round win over Todd Martin, running a 3.731 to beat his 3.744.
“ When we went to Tulsa, I was really, really hoping we could get that win because that was my hometown,” she says.“ That’ s one of the races that I’ ve raced at since I was a kid. I raced Jr. Dragsters at the Throwdown. We had a little issue going into third round of qualifying on Saturday morning where one of the hoses got left loose on the car. We didn’ t get to make the third qualifier. If we would have made the third qualifier, we would have qualified a little bit higher so we wouldn’ t have had to run the No. 1 qualifier second round. But we can‘ what if’ it
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