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The challenge to win<br />
is one sentiment that’s shared by<br />
Dodge drivers in every series.<br />
In the United States Auto Club<br />
National Sprint Car Series, the Tony<br />
Stewart <strong>Racing</strong> Enterprises Mopar<br />
team placed three drivers in the Top<br />
10 in 2004. Jay Drake won his first<br />
USAC sprint car title.<br />
The up-and-<strong>com</strong>ing Sport Compact<br />
class saw Scott Mohler race his Mopar<br />
Dodge SRT-4 Neon dragster to second<br />
place in the points standings. He<br />
bought his Neon off the lot in 1998<br />
Dragster<br />
and is still running the original Neongeneration<br />
body.<br />
In the Busch Grand National Series,<br />
Kahne finished 11th in the points<br />
standings last year. Watch for him this<br />
season, joined occasionally by<br />
Crocker. Mayfield ran only one Busch<br />
race last year, but he’s racing this season<br />
in a Dodge owned by fellow<br />
Nextel Cup driver Rusty Wallace.<br />
DRIVEN TO WIN<br />
Mopar expanded its menu<br />
of racing excitement in 2004<br />
by making its impressive first foray<br />
into the sport of drifting, where drivers<br />
are judged on their ability to<br />
“drift” the rear end on turns. Samuel<br />
Hubinette had Mopar sponsorship as<br />
the driver of a Dodge Viper Competition<br />
Coupe (see page 27) in the<br />
Formula Drift Championship Series.<br />
For the Mopar Dodge SRT-4 Sports<br />
Car Club of America ProRally teams,<br />
a successful 2004 season concluded at<br />
the Lake Superior race at Houghton,<br />
Mich. Doug Shepherd, chassis engineering<br />
director for <strong>Chrysler</strong> Group<br />
Ted Musgrave drives the No. 1 Mopar Dodge<br />
at the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series<br />
Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway<br />
in Martinsville, Va.<br />
22 www.uawdcx.<strong>com</strong>
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