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White celebrates dream season

Topeka, KS - October 24, 2008
By: Kirk Elliott

 When Jenny White opened the 2008 USLMA season with a win at Altus Speedway in Oklahoma, she wasn’t thinking championship. But after a string of top-10 finishes, the goal was clear, and the 26-year-old driver from Topeka, Kansas completed the mission with a fifth place finish in the series final race.

“We’ve never been big points racers,” said White, who began racing at the age of 7 in quarter midgets. “This is the first year I’ve run the full season of a touring series.”

She ended the year with 2 wins and 10 top-ten finishes in 11 starts.

Her second victory came August 23 at Big Country Speedway in Cheyenne, Wyoming. “It was an interesting weekend as we blew up our engine in practice the day before the race. A friend of ours in Colorado brought up an engine that he had been running, but opted not to continue running it because it had been under-powered. Fortunately, the track was so small, horsepower was not an issue, and we ended up winning.”

Two fourth place finishes and the fifth at Sandia Motor Speedway secured the championship as her closest challenger Ken Walter did not finish the next-to-last race.

The title was many years in the making after White made her pavement late model debut in 1999 at I-44 Speedway. The next year, she tackled the high-banks of I-70 Speedway for the first time, and finished third in points the following season. She later became the first and only female in the long history of the track to win a feature in the premier division. Her other big accomplishment is winning the 2003 World Cup.

“We had a really great year, and I have many people to thank,” said White. “To win a championship in a series like this is a dream come true.”

White will be a guest on “Track Talk” with the Racin Boys, presented by Kenny’s Tile, this Saturday morning (Oct. 25) on Sports Radio 810 WHB.

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