DHL to Sponsor Scott Kalitta Nitro Funny Car

YPSILANTI, Mich., (April 10, 2007) - Kalitta Motorsports, a professional drag racing team based in Ypsilanti, Mich., is pleased to announce that DHL will be a new sponsor of the Scott Kalitta-driven Nitro Funny Car currently competing in the 23-event, 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. The yellow and red decorated 8,000-horsepower DHL Toyota Solara Funny Car will make its debut at the upcoming SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas on April 12th through the 15th, 2007.

Conrad "Connie" Kalitta, team owner, drag racing legend and Scott's father, is the owner and founder of Kalitta Air, a worldwide air freight company based in Ypsilanti .

Kalitta Air, a strategic partner with the United States Postal Service and the Department of Defense, provides end-to-end network solutions for all mail to the Middle East and Persian Gulf for civilian and military personnel.

Kalitta Air, in cooperation with DHL, provides mail transportation, security and all terminal handling services to DHL’s Bahrain hub, as well as other Defense Department locations throughout Iraq , Afghanistan and Kuwait . According to Mr. Kalitta "it takes a great deal of team work and coordination between Kalitta Air and DHL to deliver the staggering volume of U.S. mail from around the world, into and out of these countries."

DHL, founded 38 years ago in San Francisco , Calif. , has built the world's premier global delivery network by trailblazing express shipping in one country after another. Over 220 countries and territories later, DHL has grown to be the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry.

"We're thrilled to have DHL on board with us," Scott Kalitta said. "The relationship that my dad and Kalitta Air have built with DHL is tremendous, and we are looking forward to building upon that relationship with DHL in NHRA drag racing with our Kalitta Motorsports Funny Car team."

Kalitta returned to the Funny Car class last season after many successful years at the helm of a Top Fuel dragster. He won the NHRA Top Fuel World Championship in 1994 and 1995 as well as 17 NHRA national event trophies, but got his first professional NHRA national event win under the carbon fiber canopy of a Funny Car in Houston in 1989.