WOMEN OF POWER • 2025 KALLEE MILLS
From twin turbos to screw blowers and radials to 10.5-inch slicks, Mills has driven a well-rounded variety of vehicles leading up to her move to Pro Mod.
But at the same time, she realizes competition in the Pro Mod world is perhaps at an all-time high across numerous different series and organizations. She’ s going to give it her all and hope that it’ s enough to turn on win lights against both fellow rookies and drivers who’ ve been doing this for much longer.
“ At the end of the day, we can say we want to win all we want, but there’ s a lot more losers than there are winners,” she admits.“ If we just continue to go out and do good and run personal bests and have a consistent car and a good driver that gets the car down through there and does her job on the tree, you can’ t ask for much more.
“ I’ m pretty hard on myself,” Mills continues.“ Even if I win and I have a bad light or not a good light, I’ m still hard on myself. I could win, but I want to be better on [ the tree ]. Even if you lose a round, if you have a personal best and a great reaction time, and the other person is right there with you, that’ s just a race.”
Along with MWDRS Pro Mod events, Mills plans to enter a few PDRA Pro Boost events this season. Once the MWDRS and PDRA seasons wrap up in October, the Mills team will shift their full focus to preparing for the second annual Drag Illustrated Winter Series at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Kallee won in the no-time class driving“ Kong” at the second race of the 2024 / 2025 Winter Series, the U. S. Street Nationals, and she’ s competed in the Pro 10.5 Challenge with the twin-turbo“ Golden Gorilla” at the World Series of Pro Mod for the last two years.
“ I haven’ t missed a Winter Series race ever,” points out Mills, who reached the semifinals in this year’ s Pro 10.5 Challenge.“ When the World Series of Pro Mod was just a single race, we went down and supported Scott Palmer and helped him out. Even when you’ re not racing Pro Mod, when we’ re just sitting in the stands, you can just feel the excitement and the competition and how cutthroat it is. The guys and girls there run 3.63 and they’ re potentially getting bumped.”
This winter, though, Mills won’ t be sitting in the stands. She’ ll be right there in the mix facing off against world champions, big-money Pro Mod race winners, record holders, and icons from all over drag racing. She could line up against six-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion Erica Enders or four-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown, or fellow NPK standouts like Shawn“ Murder Nova” Ellington and Mike Bowman. It’ s a big opportunity, but it’ s one she’ s been training for since she was that young Jr. Dragster driver sitting in the stands watching Pro Mods blast down the track at Tulsa.
“ When you have all the baddest Pro Mod drivers in the world down there for those three races, there’ s no telling what could happen,” Mills says.“ That’ s definitely on my bucket list: run Pro Mod down there at the World Series and going rounds there.” DI
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