Western Tech teaching drag-racing crew skills

casas. and i’m rick cabrera. if you’ve ever wanted to work as a crew member for a drag racing team … listen up! el paso’s own western technical college has started a new program designed to get graduates to the top level of drag racing … the n-h-r-a. abc-7’s darren hunt spent some time at the school today darren. rick, western tech is the only school in the country teaching these skills … and for those of you not afraid to get your hands dirty, it could lead to a dream job working on the fastest cars in the world. the world of drag racing is extremely competitive … especially for new crew members trying to get their foot in the door of drag racing! “this is the best of the best this is the super bowl level of drag racing when you work with nhra … graduates of this program will be ready to go to entry level programs on a professional race team in drag racing.” jack werner is program director at el paso’s-own western tech … where they’re starting a new program in partnership with don schumacher racing. “our relationship with matc tools and dsr racing actually introduced us into an internship program with dsr, through that we developed and realized there’s a need for entry level technicians on the pit crews, so we developed that program here and established that traing.” “the average passenger ca churns out about 300 horsepower, however, these top fuel dragsters, because they burn methane nitro fuel, churn out about 10- thousand horsepower … only elite mechanics can work on these and here at western tech they are preparing students to become members of a drag racing team.” “i got out at bliss and i started school two weeks after my ets.” rachel eckma served two tours in afghanistan and one in iraq as an apache helicopter mechanic. she’s attending western tech using her g-i bill and last summer got her hands dirty while interning for four races with schumacher racing. ” that’s my favorite part about the job, it is, just getting in there and tearing it down and cleaning it up and putting it back together and making it better and faster and louder, i love it … there’s nothing faster or louder or cooler … i spent six weeks with those guys and it was absolutely incredible.” so here’s your chance to be part of an n-h-r-a pit crew! if you’d like to be considered for the new nitro program at western tech … contact the school’s admissions department for details. rick and estela. found but not forgotten! remember last april when many went digging