The Spirit of Texas Top Fuel Hydro Preparing for the 2012 "Run for The Ring!"
8000 horsepower comes alive at the hit!
"The 2011 season was without a doubt the biggest challenge of our racing career" said Kirkland , owner of David Kirkland Racing. "We started off the year with the boat and crew sporting the promotional colors of our newest marketing partners, Rockstar Energy Drink and Makita Industrial Tools . The boat rolled out of the trailer and ran 251 miles per hour qualifying, and 248 miles per hour for the win in the finals! Winning the season opener last year was very important on so many levels. Getting the lions share of the national television exposure for our sponsors and marketing partners demonstrates our ability to offer the best value in motorsports marketing!"
David Kirkland Racing (DKR) is a professional racing team that competes in the Lucas Oil Championship Drag Boat Series featuring the "Spirit of Texas" Top Fuel Hydro. Top Fuel Hydros are the fastest boats in the world. These boats have the acceleration of the space shuttle, and will reach speeds in excess of 250 miles per hour in less than 4 seconds! DKR is one of the most recognized teams in the sport. Featuring Scotty Lumbert at the wheel, (one of the best in the business) and the almost world famous "Fuel Monkeys" crew we have raced continously at the pinnacle of the sport on a national level for over 20 years.
Winning at the "Showdown in San Angelo"
Upside down and backwards at 150 miles per hour
We had just crashed the fastest boat in the sport and the Wheatland opener was only 2 weeks away
" Scotty and his dad Ray had their " Public Nuisance" boat at home and offered it to us. It had been parked for several years and needed major updating, and a thorough going over. We headed to Texas knowing it would take the whole crew and a lot of hours to make it to Wheatland. But winners never quit, and quitters never win!
The fuel monkeys went to work and began the process of going through, engines, drives, electrical, fuel systems, and all of the components that make a Top Fuel Hydro run. You just can't put a man in one of these hydroplanes without total confidence that all systems are ready to race, and the clock was ticking.
