Haney and Guest prepped for big season, beginning with X-DRL Spring Nationals

Haney and Guest prepped for big season, beginning with X-DRL Spring Nationals

TULSA, Okla. (March 28) - It's been a busy winter at Keith Haney Racing, but the team's drivers know they'll be ready to go when the wraps on the new season are unveiled April 6-7 at the X-DRL Spring Nationals at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park.

After a tough 2012 season, Haney and fellow driver Monroe Guest took their Chevy Camaros down to bare bones for a total make-over.

"We've had a big offseason," Haney said. "We learned a lot last year, and the cars turned a corner at the end of the year and made some good numbers. During the offseason we found some issues in the wiring of the cars that might have hurt us.

"We both cars completely rewired from the taillights all the way to the crank trigger. We are totally ready to roll."

Guest said the new wiring will help the cars in a number of ways.

"I'm feeling real positive about what we've done over the winter," Guest said. "We didn't perform the way we wanted to last year and the winter allowed us to take a real hard look at the cars. The shorts in the wiring system caused the car to not spray the nitrous correctly. Changing the wiring also allowed us to lighten the cars quite a bit, which will help our performance tremendously.

"It's going to be exciting to see what these cars can do because they are like brand new again."

Haney said he's brought back a lot of the personnel who helped him at the tail end of last season.

"We're prepared now. We didn't do a whole lot of changes to the powerplants," Haney said. "We did change our transmissions and our gear ratios. What we've got now is real promising.

"Doug Riesterer, who is the fastest Pro Nitrous guy in the country, is still tuning our cars. Brandon Pesz and the guys from Lethal Acceleration, who helped us to our best numbers of the season last year, are also helping us again. We're not going through all the pains and agony we went through last year."

The next step is to test this weekend at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, a track Haney co-owns, and see how well all these changes will work under race conditions.

"We didn't start racing until the middle of the season last year," Haney said. "And we did good. As a startup team we won more rounds of racing than most teams do in two years.

"We've got Lucas Oil coming on board with us as a major sponsor on our racecars and this team we've put together should be a dominant force right from the start."

Guest said it's going to be fun to open the season with a race in his own back yard.

The X-DRL is going to bring another level of excitement for fans and drivers of doorslammer cars," Guest said. "We're going to get to try some different tracks and get a chance to win a championship in multiple series.

"It's great to have such a big spotlight shown on Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park and we're excited to start the season here."

Tickets for the X-DRL Spring Nationals are still available and can be purchased at either www.x-drl.com or www.tulsaracewaypark.com.