AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for March 26th

The AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for March 26th Guests: Kasey Coler, Tony Pedregon, Bobby Santos III and McKenna Haase;

The AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for March 26th was recorded in front of a live audience at Green Street Pub and Eatery, 911 N. Green Street (SR 267) in Brownsburg, Indiana. Every other week, or as is alternatively scheduled, AutoSportRadio.com Host Don Kay sits down with the movers, shakers and decision makers in the motorsports industry. Here is the recording for the show from 3/26/24 – Enjoy!

Kasey Coler,
As part of his responsibilities as NHRA’s Vice-President Track Management & Operations, Kasey Coler oversees the NHRA-owned and operated facilities in Indianapolis, Gainesville, and Atlanta. While they are primarily known for their NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events, Coler has helped to expand their schedules to include a wide-ranging schedule of events that include the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, NMRA and NMCA muscle car races, NHDRA motorcycle events, and the Ultimate Call Out Challenge Diesel festival, just to name a few. In 2019, Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis will feature 165-days of on-track activities while Gainesville Raceway and Atlanta Dragway are each expected to have nearly 100 days of racing apiece.

Tony Pedregon,
Two-time NHRA Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon stepped out of his 10,000-horsepower hot rod and into the FOX NHRA broadcast booth in 2016, making his broadcast debut at the season-opening Winternationals alongside veteran play-by-play announcer Dave Rieff.
Tony began his professional drag racing career in 1992, qualifying for his first event behind the wheel of a Top Fuel dragster before moving to Funny Cars in 1995 for owner Larry Minor. In 1996, Pedregon went to work for 16-time Funny Car champion John Force, campaigning a second Funny Car for the team en route to winning the inaugural Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future Award.
Winning 43 national events in 76 NHRA final rounds on his career, Pedregon has driving experience in several NHRA categories, including Funny Car, Top Fuel and Top Alcohol Dragster.

Bobby Santos III,
Robert Santos III is an American professional racing driver from Franklin, Massachusetts. He graduated in 2004 from Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School. Santos, nicknamed "Bobby New England", is the grandson of Bobby Santos, a former modified racer. His sister, Erica Santos, is also a racecar driver. He is the cousin of former University of New Hampshire quarterback Ricky Santos.
After his stint in stock car racing, Santos returned to his roots, racing the full NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour for Bob Garbarino's Mystic Missile Racing team and a limited schedule in all three USAC divisions. Santos also made select appearances in the NEMA ranks in 2009. Santos' post-NASCAR career has been highlighted by wins in many of the nation's largest midget races, including the Turkey Night Grand Prix and Copper World Classic. He also won the 2020 Little 500 USAC Sprint car race at Anderson Speedway.

McKenna Haase,
McKenna Haase is a 26 year old racecar driver from Des Moines, Iowa. She first fell in love with racing after accidentally meeting NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne in a shopping mall when she was in 3rd grade and was also inspired by her cousin, Trenton, who started racing junior sprints when he was 6. When she was 13, she started her own race team, Team Haase Racing LLC and began racing box stock outlaw karts in 2010. She funded her team through seeking her own sponsorship and has continued managing THR from 2010-2023. She began racing sprint cars primarily at Knoxville Raceway when she was 17, and in her second season she became the first female to win a sprint car feature at Knoxville in 114 years. In 2018, she picked up her 5th career feature win at Knoxville Raceway. Her mission since she began operating my own race team at the age of 13 has been to work in unison with partners, fans, and teams to create not only a winning race team, but a faith based race team focused on honesty, excellence, and integrity both off and on the racetrack. She is committed to putting her partners first and strives to be a good advocate for them as well as her fans and fellow racers. Throughout her career she's gained seat time behind the wheel of outlaw karts, micro sprints, midgets, asphalt late models, and sprint cars. Outside of racing she was a Finance major at Drake University where she was the president of the Drake Investment Club. She's appeared on NBC's American Ninja Warrior Season 11 and 13 and Fox Sports 1's This Racing Life. She also owns her own youth driver development program, Compass Racing Development LLC, which was founded in 2015 as a faith based youth racing program to give kids opportunities in racing they wouldn't have received otherwise. In 2019, she founded Youth Racers of America Inc. as a way of helping kids nationwide to have a more accessible path into racing. Today she lives in Indianapolis and races 410 sprint cars across the Midwest.