Scott Kalitta, driver of the DHL Toyota Solara Funny Car Hometown: Mt. Clemens, Michigan Residence: Palmetto, Florida Birth Date: February 19, 1962 Family: Wife, Kathy; Sons, Corey (6/29/93), Colin (12/17/99) Years Racing: 27 Wins/Final Rounds: 18/35 Best Elapsed Time: 4.726 (4.455 – TF) Best Speed: 325.69 (333.95 – TF) Car owner: Connie Kalitta Crew chief: Connie Kalitta, Co-crew chief: Glenn Mikres

In March of 1989 at Houston Raceway Park, Scott Kalitta made his first professional trip to an NHRA winner’s circle after piloting his Kalitta Flying Services Funny Car to a final round defeat of Bruce Larson at the Fram Supernationals. Even more impressive than the win was the fact that he was hobbled by a broken foot. In 2008, Scott returns to competition for the third consecutive year behind the wheel of the 7,000-horsepower, nitro-fueled DHL Toyota Solara Funny Car. Scott raced for many successful years at the wheel of a Top Fuel dragster before returning to the fuel flopper ranks of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series in 2006. Scott began his legendary drag racing career as a crewmember on his father and drag racing icon Connie “the Bounty Hunter” Kalitta’s Top Fuel entries. Scott graduated from crew guy to driver at the 1981 Winternationals where he piloted an A/Fuel dragster, which he drove until mid-way into the 1982 season when he switched to Top Fuel. Scott ran a limited schedule in the dragster before switching to Funny Car in 1985. Four years later he earned his only win in the Funny Car. At the last two events of the 1990 season, he drove both his Funny Car and Connie's dragster. Scott became just the third person in NHRA history to qualify a Funny Car and a Top Fuel dragster for the same event when he qualified at Dallas that year. He became the first to accomplish the feat for a 16-car field. At this point in his career, he decided to dedicate all of his driving energies toward Top Fuel only and his drag racing career took off in earnest. In 1993, Scott finished second in the championship points standings. The next two years, 1994-1995, he won the NHRA Top Fuel championship. In 1994, he became the first Top Fuel pilot to reach four consecutive NHRA national event final rounds. In 1996, while trying to become only the fourth Top Fuel driver to win more than two championship titles, he suffered two accidents, but he went to five final rounds and won the Big Bud Shootout bonus race at Pomona. He finished the 1996 season second in points. In 1997, his last year behind the wheel before an 18-month retirement, he went to two final rounds and won the Topeka event. He finished the 1997 season fourth in points. He returned to the Top Fuel dragster cockpit full-time mid-way into the 2003 season where he raced until the end of 2005. He won 17 NHRA national events in his Top Fuel career. Scott, the cousin of his Kalitta Motorsports teammate Doug Kalitta, enjoys hunting, boating and spending time with his family when he is not racing. © 2008 Kalitta Motorsports