NHRA Top Fuel Veteran Doug Kalitta Is on Verge of Something Special

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NHRA Top Fuel Veteran Doug Kalitta Is on Verge of Something Special
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Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year.

Doug Kalitta has been down this road before. This year, he's hoping that the end of that road has different look to it.The next milepost on that road is this weekend's Texas NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex at Ennis, Tex.The 59-year-old NHRA Top Fuel Dragster pilot with Michigan roots has come from almost nowhere to becoming the driver to beat in the Countdown to the Championship—the NHRA playoffs.

'Yeah, it would be good to pinpoint exactly,' Kalitta says when asked if he could point to what's changed for the team that's led to the almost instant success in the Countdown. 'For whatever reason, it just took us a little bit of time to find, I guess, consistency more than anything, with those two Countdown races.'Whatever it is, obviously, I'm happy that it's going well.' Okay, Doug.

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