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 Team:
Team Nickelberry
Motorsports
Town: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Owner/Rider: Glen Nickelberry
Crew Chief/Builder: Tommy
Bolton
Crew: Frank Braggis, Dawen
Braggis, Maurice Anglin, Walter Brown, Anthony Henry
Glen Nickelberry has been competing
on dragstrips across America since he first ran a street bike in
1985. Glen worked his way through the ranks to Pro Gas where he
was running when he met Tommy Bolton at a Soul Brothers race in
1993. The pair decided to join forces and the Team Nickelberry Motorsports
Funny Bike hit the track in 1996. Since teaming up the pair has
won over 50 races in the class, culminating with 3 National Championships.
In 1999 Glen took home the Number One plate in IDBA and in 2000
and 2001 he garnered the honors in PMRA competition. This past May
Glen set the PMRA elapsed time record at 6.77 seconds. Nickelberry
is married to wife Lynn and has two children; Jasmine and Nicholas.
When he's not blasting down the quarter-mile Glen is a master jeweler
and designer, specializing in high end fashion.
Tommy Bolton has been involved with
motorcycle drag racing for longer than he cares to admit both as
a rider, tech man, and a crew chief. In 1989 Bolton became the first
rider to win number plates in four eliminators in the Dragbike!
USA series. Bolton was also the first African/American Funny Bike
rider to top 200 MPH at an IDBA event in Texas in 1990. He later
went on to be the National Tech Director for IDBA for 1992 and 1993.
The bug to go racing again saw him re-enter the sport but this time
as a crew chief. In the past Tommy has been the crew chief for such
notables as Steve Johnson, Michael Phillips and Ricky Gadson. He
has been the crew chief/builder for Glen Nickelberry since 1996.
For 2003 Nickelberry won the PMRA
Championship winning 5 races in 6 final round appearances on the 7
race schedule. He also won an NMRA event at Las Angeles County
Raceway setting the Funnybike track record at 7.000 seconds.
Other wins in 2003 include the Motorcycle Shootout at Tulsa, OK,
where he qualified #1 and set the record at 6.85, and the popular
"Black Sunday" event at St Louis' Gateway International Raceway
where he qualified number one and took the event title.
Nickelberry and Bolton give special
thanks to the people at Vance & Hines - Byron, Joe, Matt and Luciano,
for their help in 2003. |
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