Julie Nataas Finds NHRA Top Alcohol Championship Fails to Open Path To Pro Ranks

Twenty-time NHRA winner is in her last year with Randy Meyer Racing.Nataas ‘deserves a shot, for sure,’ Tony Stewart says.Norweigan-born driver says she looks forward to “going somewhere else and developing as a driver.”Reigning NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster champion Julie Nataas said she doesn’t feel like she has “been passed over yet” for a chance to step up to the professional ranks. “I haven’t looked at it that way,” the Norwegian-born third-generation drag racer said.

I know there's a bigger and greater opportunity there for me, and I definitely have not given up yet.“So I'll enjoy this year and this car, and then I'll be leaving right in my racing, not knowing where I am next year or what I'm going to be doing or what I'm going to be driving,” she said. “I feel like once you close one door, most of the time another door opens, and hopefully that's a positive thing. That's the way I choose to look at it right now.

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