{"id":69813,"date":"2023-04-12T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=69813"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:51","slug":"sisterhood-of-muscle-jennifer-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2023\/04\/sisterhood-of-muscle-jennifer-fuller.html","title":{"rendered":"Sisterhood of Muscle: Jennifer Fuller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Each\nof the first four women featured in our Sisterhood of Muscle series have been\ndrag racers, but today, we shift gears a bit as we bring you the story of\nJennifer Fuller \u2013 who prefers her race tracks to have curves. With her 2019\nDodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Redeye Widebody and some other Challengers in her\npast, Fuller has raced at road course facilities all over the southeast. In\naddition to serving as a great ambassador for female racers and the Dodge community\nas a whole, Fuller has written a children\u2019s book that encourages young girls to\nfollow their interest in motorsports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We asked Jennifer Fuller who or what inspired her interest in motorsports and her answer was surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been into cars since I was a toddler, and I really have no idea how it started. I\u2019m the only one in my family that loves cars and racing. One of my earliest memories is laying in the back window and spotting a Plum Crazy Challenger, I just knew it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I had to have one someday,\u201d said Fuller. \u201cFrom Hot Wheels and electric track cars as a kid to real life track cars now, it\u2019s a lifelong obsession. Dodge deserves some of the credit for fostering the community of automotive enthusiasts and sponsoring events for us to use these cars for the purpose they were built.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Fuller\u2019s first modern Dodge was a 2013 Challenger R\/T \u2013 which she calls the catalyst of her love for going fast. While she had been to the drag strip and had always enjoyed drag racing as a spectator, her Challenger R\/T was the first that she took down the track. Weekly trips to the drag strip and the support of her local Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> owner\u2019s group gave her the courage to make her first quarter-mile run and from there, she was hooked on the thrill of high-performance driving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She\nimmediately wanted to go faster, leading Fuller to trade her 2013 R\/T for a\n2016 Challenger R\/T Scat Pack in her favorite heritage color, Plum Crazy. This\ncar would serve as a great performance car on both the drag strip and the\nshorter road course tracks until she upgraded to her 2016 Dodge Challenger SRT\nHellcat. That car provided the power to keep up with the vast majority of\nstreet cars, but when the Redeye came out with 797 horsepower, Fuller upgraded\nonce more to the car that she owns, races and daily drives today \u2013 her 2019\nDodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today,\nher 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody is her daily driver about 70%\nof the time and it is the chosen vehicle for longer road trips, calling it the\nmost comfortable car in her garage. Her garage also houses a 2018 Challenger\nSRT Hellcat Widebody and a 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When\nFuller bought her 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, it was her only\ncar, so while she planned to spend time drag racing and road racing, she also\nrelied on this car to get her to and from work every day. She had spent time on\nthe road course tracks at Road Atlanta, Carolina Motorsports Park and Charlotte\nMotor Speedway and had planned to do so with her Redeye, but she wasn\u2019t sure if\nher motorsports budget would be better spent by modifying her Challenger for\ndrag racing or road racing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, she looked into participating in SCCA Time Trials, but she learned that Dodge Redeye models are only permitted to compete in the Unlimited class. That led her to focus on High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) and track days at the various road racing facilities at the Intermediate level, where she is often the only woman in her group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would love to have more members of the Sisterhood of Muscle out on track experiencing just how surprisingly well these cars do out there,\u201d said Fuller. \u201cMy hope is that I can influence some other girls and women to get out and participate in a track day or try drag racing. I have held women\u2019s drag racing clinics at a local track to get more women out there in a safe and unintimidating environment. I also wrote a children\u2019s book about drag racing, Jenny Drives a Race Car<\/em><\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those wondering, while Jennifer Fuller has added some upgrades to her Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, she did not have to add a long list of aftermarket components to enjoy her time at the track. She removed the back seat and added the Direct Connection rear seat delete kit and added higher quality brake fluid shortly after getting the car. When she spends time at the road course, she switches her street brake pads for a set of Hawk DTC 70 pads that handle the prolonged, repeated braking exercises, and she says that the pad swap makes a huge difference on the track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those\nsimple changes have allowed Jennifer Fuller to turn in a personal best lap time\nof 1:51 at Carolina Motorsports Park while at the current Charlotte Motor\nSpeedway (two chicanes), she consistently runs 1:49 laps. As mentioned above,\nshe has also spent time on the legendary road course of Road Atlanta, along\nwith Atlanta Motorsports Park, Pickens Motor Speedway and Virginia\nInternational Raceway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nshe heads to the drag strip, she swaps on a set of Forgestar wheels with Mickey\nThompson ET Street R drag radials \u2013 the same type of tire on the new SRT Demon\n170. She also has a Per4Mance Development to protect the rear differential and\ndriveshaft, while also calming down the rear differential movement under hard\nacceleration. Going forward, she hopes to add some goodies from the Direct\nConnection catalog, once all of the expected items become available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller\u2019s goals for 2023 include more drag racing events, such as the Women & Wheels class of the Street Car Takeover. She attended the event at zMAX and had a \u201cfantastic experience\u201d, along with spending more time on her favorite road course tracks. David Jones, her boyfriend, crew and biggest supporter, also road races his SRT Hellcat, and she hopes to get to some events where both supercharged muscle cars can flex their muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long term, Jennifer Fuller says that her \u201cultimate dream would be to find herself racing on the iconic Woodward Avenue\u201d, but on the grander scale, she wants to continue to encourage other women to pursue their interest in motorsports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy other long-term goal is to facilitate more events for women who might not otherwise feel confident in a motorsports environment, it\u2019s so empowering and I have developed some great relationships with other women through the love of cars. And, who knows, maybe it\u2019s time for a sequel book about Jenny and her Challenger?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each of the first four women featured in our Sisterhood of Muscle series have been drag racers, but today, we shift gears a bit as we bring you the story of Jennifer Fuller \u2013 who prefers her race tracks to have curves. With her 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae Hellcat Redeye Widebody and some other Challengers in her past, Fuller has raced at road course facilities all over the southeast. In addition to serving as a great ambassador for female racers and the Dodge community as a whole, Fuller has written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":69815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[526,2590,2957],"class_list":["post-69813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-challenger","tag-rally-racing","tag-road-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JenniferFuller_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JenniferFuller_Social.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69828,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69813\/revisions\/69828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}