It’s Mustang Girl Monday brought to you by Team Mustang Girls. This week we would like to update you on Krista Elyse and her experience at the NMRA Spring Break Shootout in Bradenton, Florida this past weekend.
Krista’s first Mustang memory was going to the dealership with her dad to pick out her first mustang. At the time she knew nothing about cars, only that she liked them. She and her dad have always been close and he was a car guy his whole life. He gave up cars to raise Krista and her sister. “Looking back I never realized at the time how something so simple as buying a car would change my life so drastically over the years in so many ways”.
Since then Krista has made a name for herself in the industry as a model, host and drag racer. Krista is currently touring the motorsports circuit as a driver for Team True Blue for Autism, hosting Heels on Wheels radio weekly on the Performance Motorsports Network. She is also writing, and she will be working with In the Pits Racing Radio & Performance Motorsports Network providing event coverage for NHRA & other drag racing & major automotive events.
Krista started racing with the NMRA 5 years ago with her 2010 Grabber Blue Mustang GT as a driver for True Blue for Autism. This year she changed it up with to go racing in Factory Stock in a 1988 Foxbody with a C4/Coyote combo that “basically went from rack to track”. The build came together in about a month and she had no time to test before this past weekend at Bradenton. “My qualifying runs posed an issue. I couldn’t get the tires to stop chattering 20 ft down the line”. After the first runs her team regrouped and took a different strategy for her first elimination pass of her rookie year and Krista was able to pop off an 11.2 at 118 mph. “While I lost first round, it was a big win for the program at JPC Racing to be so competitive the first time out”. Krista would like to thank HP Tuners, JPC Racing, UPR Products, Latemodel Restoration, AEM, Kooks Headers, Dunne-Rite Performance, ProTorque and 13-Three Motorsports for making this year possible. “I could not have gotten this build together without their help, especially Eric holiday who is my crew chief. This build and my True Blue for Autism charity is dedicated to my nephew Ben who is autistic and to others in the same situation”.Each week Team Mustang Girls features a different woman and her Mustang. Check out the past featured ladies from Mustang Girl Monday and submit your own Mustang story at TeamMustangGirls.com.