CARRIER BOYZ RACING: Dave Connolly No. 2 after first day of qualifying

17TH ANNUAL NHRA O'REILLY SUMMER NATIONALS
HEARTLAND PARK TOPEKA - TOPEKA, KANSAS
MAY 26-29, 2005

CARRIER BOYZ RACING
PRO STOCK CHEVROLET COBALT
DAVE CONNOLLY - DRIVER
TERRY ADAMS - CREW CHIEF

Qualifying:
Session 1 Friday: 6.751 seconds at 204.66 mph (#2)
Session 2 Friday: 6.735 seconds at 204.85 mph (# 2)


Dave Connolly No. 2 after first day of qualifying
in Carrier Boyz Racing Pro Stock Colbalt

TOPEKA, Kan. (May 28, 2005) - What a difference a week makes.

One week ago, Connolly was racing in Columbus for Mike Dzurilla and 
Bullet Motorsports and qualified No. 5.  This weekend at Heartland Park 
Topeka, Connolly and team are under the umbrella of Carrier Boyz Racing 
and after two of four qualifying sessions the Elyria, Ohio driver holds 
the No. 2 position on the qualifying ladder for the NHRA O'Reilly Summer 
Nationals presented by Castrol GTX.

In the interim, Connolly's week has been hectic to say the least.  On 
Monday, the 22-year-old racer, who as a Pro Stock driver has five wins 
in 11 final rounds, including two wins in three final rounds thus far 
this season, learned that team owner Mike Dzurilla was disbanding Bullet 
Motorsports for financial reasons.  Connolly then spent the remaining 
part of Monday, all of Tuesday and into Wednesday trying to salvage his 
ride.

Then late Wednesday, Andy and Mark Carrier, owners of Carrier Boyz 
Racing, which fields the FRAM AirHog Top Fuel dragster driven by Cory 
McClenathan and the Autolite XP Super Stock H-Automatic '67 Nova driven 
by Steve Graham, announced that they had reach an agreement with 
Dzurilla for a one-race deal to field the Pro Stock car for the Topeka 
event, after which Carrier Boyz Racing and Dzurilla will continue their 
negotiations regarding the future of the team and the continued 
involvement of Carrier Boyz Racing.

So for now, Connolly is concentrating on the job at hand qualifying the 
Carrier Boyz Racing Chevrolet Cobalt, with power supplied by Bill 
"Grumpy" Jenkins, for the O'Reilly Summer Nationals.

After an afternoon rain delay yesterday, Connolly showed no ill effects 
of the goings on of early in the week.  In the first qualifying session, 
Connolly covered the Heartland Park Topeka quarter-mile in 6.751 
seconds, followed by a 6.735-second pass in Friday's final qualifying 
run.    

Connolly and veteran crew chief and former Pro Stock driver Terry Adams 
have two additional qualifying opportunities to improve on their current 
elapsed time of 6.735 seconds when qualify resumes later today.