{"id":98659,"date":"2025-02-06T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/j-r-todd-will-race-throwback-kalitta-flying-service-livery-at-pre-season-event\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:18:29","slug":"j-r-todd-will-race-throwback-kalitta-flying-service-livery-at-pre-season-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/j-r-todd-will-race-throwback-kalitta-flying-service-livery-at-pre-season-event\/","title":{"rendered":"J.R. Todd Will Race Throwback Kalitta Flying Service Livery at Pre-Season Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kalitta Motorsports is paying tribute to the late Scott Kalitta with a throwback livery at this weekend\u2019s race, the Pro Superstar Shootout, in Bradenton, Fla., the team announced today. The 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series begins March 7-9, 2025, at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Todd\u2019s Team Kalitta GR Supra Funny Car will sport the bright red Kalitta Flying Service livery of the Funny Car Scott Kalitta raced to his first NHRA national event win in 1989 at this weekend\u2019s SCAG PRO Superstar Shootout. Kalitta won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1994 and \u201995 and is one of only 19 drivers to win races in both Top Fuel and Funny Car.<\/p>\n

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After finishing second in the final season standings in 1993, Kalitta became the first Top Fuel driver to win four straight races in 1994, reaching the winner\u2019s circle at Columbus, Ohio, Topeka, Kan., Denver, Colo. and Sonoma, Calif. He won five races that season on the way to his first NHRA Top Fuel title. The next season, he won six races and his second-consecutive season championship and followed the championships with a runner-up finish in 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot to me to run a Scott Kalitta tribute car,\u201d Todd said. \u201cScott\u2019s family lives in the area, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be at the race again this weekend. It\u2019s a big deal \u2013 I\u2019ve always wanted to run a throwback car since I started with Kalitta Motorsports. I ran the \u2018Bounty Hunter\u2019 car in my first race driving for Connie (Team Owner Connie Kalitta), and now, to drive a throwback to Scott and Scott\u2019s Funny Car that I have the honor to drive means a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure the fans will like it \u2013 any time you have any sort of throw-back, it draws a big reaction from the fans. When (Ron) Capps rolled out the Snake (Don Prudhomme) tribute cars the last two years at Indy, it went over really well with the fans. I\u2019m really looking forward to it \u2013 I was at the shop and got to see the body. It looks sweet, and so does the throwback t-shirt design so I think it\u2019ll be really well received by everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThrowbacks are always really popular with the fans, and we\u2019re all looking forward to seeing this car on the track,\u201d Team Kalitta General Manager Chad Head said. \u201cWe did this for Connie. He leads Kalitta Air and Kalitta Motorsports \u2013 this throwback is a tribute to Scott, but it\u2019s for Connie more than anything else \u2013 we just wanted to find a meaningful way to thank him for what he does. He didn\u2019t know about it until he saw it today \u2013 he loved it. Mission accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on February 6, 2025. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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Kalitta Motorsports is paying tribute to the late Scott Kalitta with a throwback livery at this weekend\u2019s race, the Pro Superstar Shootout, in Bradenton, Fla., the team announced today. The 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series begins March 7-9, 2025, at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.\u00a0 Todd\u2019s Team Kalitta GR Supra […]<\/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-98659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98659","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=98659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}