NHRA.com reports that Funny Car racer
James Day, the son-in-law of mega-team owner
Don Schumacher, has landed a major sponsorship deal with rock-n-roll legend
Stephen Pearcy and
Top Fuel Records.
Day and his
DLS Motorsports race team will compete at all 24 races with
Dave Fletcher and
Chris Nance sharing tuning duties.
Pearcy is the frontman for the platinum-selling heavy metal rock band
RATT who is continuing his involvement with NHRA Championship Drag Racing after a successful run with
Top Fuel driver
Clay Millican in 2007.
Millican was sidelined indefinitely when his team owner,
Evan Knoll, scaled back his racing interests.
"It's really exciting for me to start with a team from ground zero,"
Pearcy said. "They remind me of a hard core rock band chasing something
they're so passionate about. This year marks the 25th anniversary of
RATT and 2008 is the Year of the Ratt on the Chinese calendar so we are definitely ready to Ratt n' Roll this season."
Read the entire article at
NHRA.com.