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CompetitionPlus.com - Drag racing is a sport not just won on the track.

It is not just won in the pit area or back home at the shop. Success in drag racing starts behind closed doors with handshakes, signed agreements, and mutual understanding.

The fact of the matter is the best racers in the world don’t get where they are on skill alone. It takes savvy marketing men and women, successful public relations and relationships with the right people and businesses to turn driver skill into actual round wins.

Paul Lee knows that fact perhaps better than most.

A longtime racer and savvy businessman himself, who owns his own Paul Lee Racing operation alongside a trio of companies under the Wharton Automotive Group, which includes McLeod Racing, FTI Performance and Silver Sport Transmissions, Lee knows that to take his operation
to the next level, he needs the right people by his side.

“I am passionate for this sport,” a confident Lee said. “I’ve loved it since I was a little kid and I am still that little kid today almost 50 years later. This has not been an overnight thing. I’ve been working toward this since I was 13 years old. The lifetime commitment that I’ve made to doing what we are doing is something I am proud of, but I hope for more and that is what we are out here doing now.”

Lee recently paired with industry executive Steven Cole and added savvy marketing person, Top Fuel driver and team owner Krista Baldwin to the Paul Lee Racing team. Baldwin, who not only drives the McLeod-sponsored dragster, but is also the Creative Director for the Wharton Automotive Group, helps take this race team from a single-car operation to a hopeful megateam in the making. Lee hopes marketing a pair of cars from each of the premier nitro categories within the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series is the next step in the team’s progression.

“What I see, when you are out there marketing drag racing, you have the top two classes. So when you are working with a marketing partner now, you have a two-for-one,” Lee said. “Having a Funny Car and a dragster is the ultimate marketing tool in the sport of drag racing.”

Cole has been involved in professional motorsports for over 25 years, which includes time in NHRA, NASCAR and IndyCar. The past 10 years he has worked exclusively in drag racing with high-profile race teams such as John Force Racing, Stringer Performance and with the IHRA drag
racing series.

Lee, who met Cole through a mutual friend – one of the most well-known drivers in NHRA history – hopes this pairing will help take Paul Lee Racing to another level on the track.

“We have some big changes as far as the business part of our team. That is led by bringing in and working with Steve who has been a longtime friend of mine for many years,” Lee said. “We were actually introduced through Tom ‘The Mongoose’ McEwen years and years ago. He was a mentor to both of us. He always said, ‘You guys need to work together’ and now here we are finally working together. The only sad thing is the Mongoose isn’t here to see all of this come together.”

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#10 headed into raceday at the #HeartlandNats 💯 Q2 we had a neutral situation and had to abort the run. But for Q3 we took this #McLeodEquipped funny car to the finish line at 4.07 at 312 mph in 100 degree weather 🔥 We will be head to head with Blake Alexander tomorrow morning at 10:30 am. #PLRFunnyCar
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Heading into race day from the 10th spot! We will take on Ron Capps tomorrow morning. #PLRFunnyCar

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