After sitting out for most of the 2009 season the Tuttle Motorsports team with Steve Torrence
behind the wheel made their first appeance of the year in Dallas at the O'Reilly Super Start
Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals. From the first qualifying session through eliminations, Torrence
showed little rust and the entire team lead by owner Dexter Tuttle had a great first outing.
Torrence qualified the Colorfast Top Fuel dragster in the nineth position with a very respetable
3.90 at 310 MPH and faced Brandon Bernstein in the first round. At the light, Torrence got off the
line first with a 0.073 to Bernstein's 0.080 reaction time. But Torrence smoked the tires and had
to lift. Bernstein went on to take the win.
The team plans to compete at the O'Reilly MidSouth Nationals in Memphis on Oct. 2-4, at the Las
Vegas Nationals, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1 and possibly at the season finale, the Auto Club Nationals in
Pomona, Nov. 12-15.
