Jerry Toliver will be behind the wheel of a new race car at this weekend's NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla. The driver of the Rockstar Energy Drink Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car tested two days this week with a new chassis during the CSR Eastern Spring Test Nationals at South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, Ga., in advance of the event.
 
The 2000 Gatornationals Funny Car winner made several shakedown runs down Valdosta's quarter-mile in the new Murf McKinney chassis on Sunday and Monday. The Rockstar Energy Drink team then packed up and headed to Gainesville.  

 

Jerry Toliver will be behind the wheel of a new race car at this weekend's NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla. The driver of the Rockstar Energy Drink Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car tested two days this week with a new chassis during the CSR Eastern Spring Test Nationals at South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, Ga., in advance of the event.
 
The 2000 Gatornationals Funny Car winner made several shakedown runs down Valdosta's quarter-mile in the new Murf McKinney chassis on Sunday and Monday. The Rockstar Energy Drink team then packed up and headed to Gainesville.
 
"I think it's going to be a good race car," said Toliver on Monday from Valdosta. "We made a couple of planned shut-off runs to half-track, but after that the track kind of went away so we never made a full pull. The car seems to handle well and the crew did a miraculous job getting it ready. The Rockstar Energy Drink crew received the chassis late Tuesday in Indianapolis and had it ready to go here in Valdosta on Saturday morning. So hats off to the crew. It helps when you have guys that have 110 percent of their hearts into the deal, and that's what we've got over here. We made some good squirts here in Valdosta, now we're off to Gainesville."