Wed, 18 Jun 2008, 03:14 PM Scott Kalitta and the DHL Funny Car to make Special Appearance at Picatinny

Courtesy of Todd Myers

YPSILANTI, Mich. --

Scott Kalitta

Scott Kalitta, driver of the DHL Toyota Solara Funny Car, and his team and their race car will make an appearance tomorrow, Wednesday, June 18, at Picatinny U.S. Army Base (New Jersey) from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Kalitta and the DHL team are scheduled to "warm up" the car once with General William Phillips for the military personnel and their families in attendance. Kalitta will be signing autographs as he and the DHL team interface with the attendees.

Kalitta and the DHL team raced to their first runner-up finish of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series at the previous event in Joliet, Ill., just south of Chicago.

Kalitta is the son of team owner and drag racing legend Conrad "Connie" Kalitta. He returned to the Funny Car class in 2006 after many successful years at the helm of a Top Fuel dragster. He won the NHRA Top Fuel World Championship in 1994 and 1995 as well as 17 NHRA national event trophies, but got his first professional NHRA national event win under the carbon fiber canopy of a Funny Car in Houston in 1989.