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Mike Edwards
Pro Stock Driver Helmet
Young Life/Penhall Pontiac GXP Team

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AUCTION JUNE 6-16, 2009


1998 U.S. Nationals Pro Stock winner

Just more than eight months after the death of team owner John Kight, Mike Edwards fulfilled a goal of the pair when he drove the JK Racing Pontiac to the 1998 U.S. Nationals Pro Stock crown, ending a six-year reign of the Johnson family.

Edwards said about the victory, “It’s unfortunate that John, who meant the world to me, is not here to enjoy this feeling. This is the one race when we put this deal together, we wanted to win. I wouldn’t have been surprised if a big rainbow broke out over the grandstands from him smiling over us reaching our goal. All I can say is this win is for my personal hero, John Kight.”

When Kight died in January 1998, Edwards thought that the dream of standing in the winner’s circle in front of Parks Tower would never come to fruition. But Kight’s wife, Mary Lou, didn’t allow that to end because she knew it was something here husband wanted desperately.

By keeping the team together, the pinnacle in drag racing was reached when he beat the likes of Jim Yates and Kurt Johnson before besting Warren Johnson in the final.

Now more than a decade past that emotional time, Edwards still calls the event the highlight of his career. “ I don’t believe there will ever be a more satisfying win in my career.  When you win Indy it’s like winning the Super Bowl of your sport.”

 

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