{"id":101012,"date":"2025-06-03T06:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/kallee-mills-motorsports-storms-shakedown-in-m-town-with-n-t-275-triumph-and-3-60-second-career-best-in-scarlet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:18:22","slug":"kallee-mills-motorsports-storms-shakedown-in-m-town-with-n-t-275-triumph-and-3-60-second-career-best-in-scarlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/kallee-mills-motorsports-storms-shakedown-in-m-town-with-n-t-275-triumph-and-3-60-second-career-best-in-scarlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallee Mills Motorsports Storms Shakedown in M-Town with N\/T 275 Triumph and 3.60-Second Career Best in \u201cScarlet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gloomy forecast could only delay, not derail, Kallee Mills and company at US 131 Motorsports Park<\/a>, where the team clinched the N\/T 275 title with the \u201968 Camaro \u201cKong\u201d and lit the boards with a personal-best 3.601-second pass in the screw-blown Pro Mod Camaro \u201cScarlet.\u201d Rain erased Wednesday testing at the Shakedown in M-Town, but tuner Lee White hustled once the track dried. Scarlet ripped a 3.66 in Thursday shakedowns, then thundered to 3.601 to qualify third in what proved the quickest Mid-West Drag Racing Series Pro Mod field to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cShakedown at M-Town was unforgettable here at Kallee Mills Motorsports. I finally got my own win at a Duck X Productions event,\u201d Mills said, a member of the Drag Illustrated 30 Under 30 Class of 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scarlet\u2019s 3.601 came when the team most needed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cRolling into Q4 we were sitting right on the bump with a .65 and my team knew we needed a low .60 to be in the top half of the field. We rolled up and went 3.601\u2014that put us number three in a tight field.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-round tire shake and a .004-second red-light pushed Scarlet into the Slammers bracket, yet Mills and crew used the extra laps to prove the pace was no fluke, carding a 3.62 while working through the second-chance race.<\/p>\n

While Scarlet cooled, Mills turned her focus to Kong and the N\/T 275 ladder. Recent chassis and suspension changes paid immediate dividends, and each pass edged the gorgeous gold Camaro closer to the final.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe made some major changes to Kong and they definitely made a difference,\u201d she said. \u201cI told her on Friday night after all the things she was pulling that if she didn\u2019t straighten up she was getting left in Michigan, but she came through with a win so we loaded her up and she\u2019s going to get some much-needed love.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last round Mills and Kong faced Todd Bennett. Both cars left together, but Kong surged ahead by a car length to seal the victory and deliver Mills\u2019 first Duck X event win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am seriously living my dream; I\u2019m on cloud nine. I am truly blessed with the people that I am surrounded by,\u201d Mills added, praising crew chiefs Mikey, Tayler, and her father, Dewayne, along with lead tuner White: \u201cNo matter the tire or combination, Lee [White] can make a car go fast and he makes my job easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She also made sure to single out the wider team that keeps the operation rolling.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my mom and dad, thank you for instilling values and always having my back no matter what. I can\u2019t say enough about my team and my family for all their hard work on the cars. And a big thank you to Paul and Jeanne Hayden and American Pride Golf Carts for their unwavering support. It was also super cool to have Larry and Brody Jeffers come out, spend the weekend and support us \u2013 it\u2019s always a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The weekend haul \u2013 a class victory, a career-best 3.60, and a pair of stout 3.62s \u2013 has the Oklahoma-based operation brimming with confidence heading to the Summer Smackdown, June 26-28 at Flying H Drag Strip, the fourth stop on the Mid-West Drag Racing Series tour.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on June 3, 2025. \"Drag<\/p>\n

The post Kallee Mills Motorsports Storms Shakedown in M-Town with N\/T 275 Triumph and 3.60-Second Career Best in \u201cScarlet\u201d<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A gloomy forecast could only delay, not derail, Kallee Mills and company at US 131 Motorsports Park, where the team clinched the N\/T 275 title with the \u201968 Camaro \u201cKong\u201d and lit the boards with a personal-best 3.601-second pass in the screw-blown Pro Mod Camaro \u201cScarlet.\u201d Rain erased Wednesday testing at the Shakedown in M-Town, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}