Recently, the ceremony of awarding the latter-day champion NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, and the tradition has been selected to pilot the nomination Road To Future. Rookie of the year was Drew Skillman, debuted in professional drag racing in February 2015 in the first phase of the national championship in Pomona. Besides the award, the pilot of the Elite Motorsports received a check for $ 20,000.
The decision of the commission, consisting of the most popular journalists in the US automotive publications, does not cause absolutely no problems, because teammate twice champion Erica Enders Stephens was the only debutant, was held in playoff series Countdown To One.
In the championship Skillman started very confidently, and at the first event made it to the finals. Among other achievements, it is worth noting the novice rider second place at the prestigious US Nationals, winning the Midwest Nationals at St. Louis, the first three places in qualifying and fifth position in the standings in the championship.
«This is incredible! — Says „Rookie of the Year.“ — I could not imagine that at the beginning of his professional career, my achievements will be assessed as high. Many people congratulated me after the ceremony, some of them I had never seen before. I was shocked by the number of people who closely followed me throughout the season. The mobile phone is still torn by wanting to share with me these wonderful emotions. In my plans for the 2015 season was to open an account with their victories and finish in the top 10. Now I can say that we have a team of its even slightly exceeded. At some point I realized that he is able to finish the championship in second place. But we must be realistic: sometimes I just do not have enough experience. In 2016 we intend to fight for the first place. »
Recall that in the next season to unconditionally dominated throughout the year Erica Enders Stephens and promising debutant Drew Skillmanu join five-time NHRA champion Jag Coughlin, who simply was not equal to zero. And it is nearly complete Dream Team, which will compete with the strength is not for everyone.
