As always it was a stressful couple of months leading up to the season opener last weekend in Moroso, FL. Taking time for some much needed improvements, such as a new front end built at MSP Motorsports, AR Fabrication midplate and Liberty transmission, left no time for testing prior to the race. Living in Chicago doesn't help much either, considering it was snowing the week of the race.

Straight off the trailer, we ran an 8.72 @ 173mph and 8.60 @ 175mph in Saturday's qualifying rounds, talking the #1 qualifying position. The semi-finals paired the Eggum Racing Civic against Stephane Beauregard's Dodge Shelby. Taking the lead off the starting line with a better reaction time, it was an exciting race and there was a huge reaction from the crowd as my civic took the win with an 8.50 @ 175mph to Beauregard's 8.55. I lined up against Kenny Tran for the final round and instantly took the win as he never left the starting line, but still ran another consistent pass of 8.54 @ 177mph.

I became the first woman since 2001 to win in the Hot Rod class (second ever) and this was the first Wally of my career! I must give props to my crew, who made the weekend possilbe, my crew chief Jeromie Hicks, Jim Eggum and Harry Hruska. Definitely an amazine start to the season and we plan on being a top contender the rest of this year.

NHRA and Sony Xplod have stepped it up this year, drawing a huge crowd for the first race of the season. The fans were amazing, filling the stands for each round of racing, stopping by to check out the car in the pits and coming to the autograph session on Sunday.

Check out the links to press from the Moroso race:
http://www.nhrasportcompact.co...d=103
http://www.modified.com/events....html
http://urbanracer.com/articles...9&z=3

Coming up this weekend, the Eggum Racing Civic will be at the SEMA International Auto Salon in Philadelphia, PA. The car will be on display in the Primedia booth April 8-9th and I will be part of NHRA's autograph sessions on Saturday and Sunday as well.

A very special thank you to my sponsors:
Harry Hruska of Precision Turbo & Engine
Jon MacQuarrie of NGK
Craig of Liberty's Gears
Howard Anderson of AR Fabrication
Randell Mathis of Nitrous Express
Zeke Urrutia of Ferrea
Darius Tarman of CP Pistons
Deanna McArdle of Oakley
Josh Knichel of PIT / Wrech Worx
J.D. Childers of B&M Racing
Steve Zielinski of X-treme Graphics
Steve Zieber of American Racing
Bob Nichols of OmniPower USA

Thank You,
Stephanie Eggum





Modified by Eggum Racing at 2:52 PM 4/4/2006

 

congrats on the win

 

great job this weekend...car sounded sooooo much better than last year. keep up the good work!

 

way to go guys... good work!

-Arman

 

Awesome start!! Cant wait for VMP , hold it down Eggum Racing

 

That Front-End is pretty Raw...I likey...

 

Consistancy wins races,and I would have to say you were very consistant! Not a big field of competitors but a tough field.Good luck to you and your crew the rest of the season.

 

congrats on the win keep them coming

 

congratulations on the win and good luck this season

 

woot woot, congrats guys - i know you really worked hard in the off season - good luck the rest of the year

 

Thats awesome, keep it up

 

Congrats Steph, Jeromie, Jim, and Harry. Keep up the hard work and good luck in VA.

Maybe I will be able to come up and check out that beast.

 

ccongrats!!

on a side note - is that the same company that redid Gardella's front end?

 

Fantastic weekend, for the whole team. Congrats on EVERYTHING!!! Wally's are addictive!!! You'll want more, and by the way you are running, you will get more!

Keep up the great work!

 

finally lol after so much struggle.... i think norwood is hitting him self in the head now lol....


oh nice front end

 

Congrats on the wally. Im sure there will be more to come.

A bit off talk buuut...did anybody notice the Milktanks on the model in the 2nd pics...dear lord.

 

Congrats!

I saw you race on Saturday, and I must say, I had goosebumps the whole time!

 

Congrats and love the way the car looks. Just stick with and best of luck for the rest of the season..

 

Congratulations Stephanie!

 

congrats guys

 

this win should put some more sposorship stickers on that on piece front end of your!!!!

 

great job... say hello to jeromie for me.

 

Congrats Steph

 

 

Thank you all so much for the support, it's definately appreciated by all of us on the team. The last few years have been crazy for all of us, so it's awesome to see the payoff.

The front end was done by Jeromie and the guys at MSP Motorsports, Efantis' shop, it was a hell of an ordeal but it turned out gorgeous.