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Tonya Turk
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- Enterprise, AL
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- My Home Track? (tell us who your home track is or where you love to race at?)
- Maxton, NC - the east coast's land speed venue
Bonneville Salt Flats, Wendover, UT
- I am a...? (driver, crew, tech, family, crew, company, track, advertiser, media, photographer)
- Driver, owner, and crew of our 1980 Camaro
- My Type/Syle of Racing? (Tell us what type/style of racing you do)
- Land speed racing
One-mile top speed racing on the east coast
Five-mile top speed racing on the salt
- My Horsepower? (Describe your car and specs)
- Currenlty a 555 ci big block Chev. powered by a Vortech Supercharger giving her 1160 hp this past year.
- My Team? (tell us about you and your team/crew)
- So-Al Racing - My husband and I own the 1980 Camaro. The engine programs are provided by our partner Dave Freiburger (former Editor-in-Chief of Hot Rod Magazine). We have many friends that lend a hand in keeping our car one of the fastest Camaros in the world.
- Sponsored?
- Yes
- My Bragging Rights... (My stats and wins)
- I started driving the car in 2002. Records still standing:
East Coast Timing Association - Apr. 2003 - 168.934 mph; Oct. 2003 - 200.987 mph; May 2005 - 200.789 mph; May 2006 - 206.621 mph
Texas Mile - July 2004 - 208.914 mph
Bonneville Salt Flats - Aug 2004 - 241.414 mph; Aug 2007 - 225.068; Aug 2008 - 246.767
ECTA Points Champion 2003
Top Speed: 251.786 mph
Only woman in three 200 MPH Clubs
Fastest woman in a stock body door slammer
- What i am doing now? (tell us what you are currently doing now...next race, project...)
- Putting down plans for our 2009 Camaro program. Hopefully, it will include my fourth and final 200 MPH Club entry, when we go to El Mirage in the spring.
My husband and I own the East Coast Timing Association with our great friends Joe and Donna Timney. We are in the process of making improvements to our one-mile course and equipment for the five races in 2009. Our track record speed is 260 mph on an open wheel motorcycle....yes you can go fast in one mile!!
- My Website
- http://www.ecta-lsr.com/
- Additional smack about me...
- We have been racing the car 10 years. It, and our drivers, currently hold 11 records on the salt flats. The Camaro was known as the Hot Rod Magazine Camaro 2004 through 2007. Keith and I also work with Hot Rod Magazine helping them run their Pump Gas Drags and Drag Week events
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