Q&A with Hillary Will’s Crew Chief Jim Oberhofer
Written by David Lamm · June 14, 2006
Hillary Will, driver of the KB Racing-owned, Kalitta Motorsports-managed Top Fuel dragster, is rapidly approaching the mid-point of her rookie season. Her crew chief, Jim Oberhofer, known to most as Jim ‘O’, took the time to answer questions regarding Will’s progress during the first half of her rookie season.
Q: You began testing with Hillary right after she was named driver of the KB Racing LLC-owned dragster, managed by Kalitta Motorsports. Take us through that testing period.
Jim ‘O’: After naming Hillary as driver of the car after Brainerd last season, we put her in Scott Kalitta’s dragster. We kind of retrofitted Scott’s car for Hillary, our goal being that we wanted to get her in the car, make some laps at the Indy test session before the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals and hopefully get her license. On her first full pass, she went 4.67 (seconds) at 321 (mph). From that point on we made a few more laps and she ended up getting her license at the Indy test session.
After that we stayed after a few more races
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