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KENNY KORETSKY, RICKIE SMITH JOIN TEAM MOPAR
Team Koretsky has joined with Team Mopar to run a semi-factory backed
two-car Pro Stock effort for the 2001 season. Drivers Kenny Koretsky
and Rickie Smith will drive new Dodge Neons powered by David Nickens-built
Hemi engines.
"I think Team Koretsky switching over to Mopar power is a testament
to just how far this program has come," said DaimlerChrysler Drag Racing
Program Manager Brett Fischer, speaking of Mopar's new Hemi engine project
developed during the 2000 NHRA campaign. "It just demonstrates that
the hard work and determination put forth by Mopar's engineers and development
teams (Nickens Racing and Larry Morgan Racing) is starting to pay off."
JEFF 'ELVIS' MILBURN INJURED
Jeff Milburn is recovering from serious injuries he received in a dirt
bike accident. The Dallas, Texas car builder, best known as "Elvis"
has a broken back, ribs, and collar bone. He currently is paralyzed
from the waist down but doctors at Baylor Hospital, where he is receiving
rehab, are optimistic about his chances of walking again.
Milburn builds street rods, motorcycles, and race cars. He supplied
vehicles for motion pictures and television in the Dallas area, including
"Walker, Texas Ranger." He also worked on numerous drag cars for such
drivers as Gene Snow, Gordon Mineo, Steve Foster, and Doug Foxworth.
TEXAS MOTORPLEX (1986-2001)
The fabled all-concrete quarter-mile known as the Texas Motorplex passed
away today on January 11, 2001 in Ennis, Texas. It was 15 years old.
Originally built by former Funny Car racer Billy Meyer in the spring
of 1986, the Motorplex played host to races as diverse as the NHRA Chief
Nationals, the Winston All-Stars race, and the IHRA Texas Nationals
where Eddie Hill ran the sport's first piston-driven four-second elapsed
time. The track, which sustained a hefty economic blow at the disastrous
2000 NHRA O'Reilly Nationals, never recovered from that and was purchased
by Texas Raceway owner Robert Hutchison.
Hutchison immediately announced an IHRA affilitation, which sealed
the fate of the wheezing old fortress. Running a somewhat faceless and
skeletal Top Fuel show at a so-called "national event" without Funny
Car and, at a track which produced the class' first 5.4-second, 5.3-second,
5.2-second, first 280- and 290-mph runs, is similar to hosting a Card
Show at a facility used to holding Republican and Democratic National
Conventions. Anti-climactic and even a little sacreligious, to say the
least.
Condolences can be delivered to the stricken parties at the hesitantly
anticipated NHRA O'Reilly Nationals this coming October, although this
funeral may come without a casket. Not to mention a crowd.
For an in-depth look at the track changes, check out the Motorplex
story in DRO's Analysis section.
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