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 Mike Etter: Owner/Driver/Crew Chief
Etter Motorsport’s Goal:
To provide a winning team that will promote our marketing partners products and services, by utilizing the teams ever increasing success and experience, as a catalyst into the world of Drag Race television, printed media, radio, and the internet. (Photo Courtesy Fastpixs.com)
Mike is 54 years old with over 30 years of racing experience, leading to his qualification to drive both alcohol and nitromethane fueled funny cars in IHRA and NHRA professional categories. Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario Canada, Mike has lived in Edmonton Alberta, Waterdown Ontario, and finally settled into a modest home and race shop setup in Brantford Ontario where many of his close friends also reside.
The team has been able to consistently qualify in most of the IHRA national events at which they competed. They have also been very successful in the UDRA and WAR association races, winning the Featherlite Trailers Can-Am Nationals in 2003 and the UDRA Inaugural Toronto Motorsports Park Thunderfest in 2005. Finally, in 2005, the team won the UDRA Funny Car Championship.
Mike has been featured in articles by renowned Canadian Automotive writer Jim Kenzie of the Toronto Star and Tim Miller of the Hamilton Spectator, He has also appeared on various television and radio broadcasts and interviews in both Canada and the USA to promote the drag racing sport.
Mike is a licensed mechanic and currently works for PHH Arval, a PHH Corporation Company as a PM Scheduling Consultant and greatly appreciates their support.
Mike and Etter Motorsports are also advocates of safe racing and have worked with various police agencies and educators to get racing off the streets and onto the track.
Career Highlights:
2006 UDRA Runner Up to our good friend Jody Gucwa and the Reflexions Racing Team 2005 UDRA Funny Car Championship Best 1/4 Mile Speed: 239.36 MPH Rookie of the Year in 1977 Going to the quarter finals in the 1978 NHRA Division One Bracket Championships Qualifying 3rd at my first AHRA National Event at Spokane, Wa. in a Nitro Funny Car with only four previous runs in the car. Stepping on the "loud pedal" of a Nitro Funny Car for two years Racing against legends like "240" Gordie Bonin, Don Prudhomme, Frank Hall, Henry Harrison and Mike Miller. Winning the Can-Am Featherlite Nationals in 2002 at St. Thomas Dragway Winning our first race of 2005 with a new team, the Inaugural Toronto Motorsports Park "Thunderfest" June 25/05
Personal thanks to:
My parents and sisters for their love and support and for giving me the opportunity to do what I love. All of my friends who, over the years, have bashed a knuckle, crushed a toe, or have been “gassed” by the engine exhaust, trying to help me win. You know who you are, and you all mean a lot to me.
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