#50-Holigan Racing, based in Dallas and owned by Dallas’ Michael Holigan, will compete in Saturday’s O’Reilly 300 NASCAR Busch Series race with Houston, Tex., native David Starr behind the wheel. Of course, if you have been tuned in to Spike TV every Saturday morning at 10:30am/et, you already knew that. That’s when Reality Of Speed, the nation’s most-watched motorsports reality television show airs. The show, the brainchild of Holigan, began airing Jan. 3, and will continue to air a new show every week for at least 52 total weeks. It follows the triumphs and travails of Holigan Racing’s Enzyte Chevrolet team with Starr and the Samsung/Radio Shack AMA Motorcross team, which is fielded from the same shops. What Team Enzyte is hoping to unveil this week at Texas is exactly how strong they are. The fluke mechanical problem at Las Vegas was disappointing, especially since the team has no owners’ points to fall back on for provisional starting positions. Following a good testing session at Texas Motor Speedway last week, Holigan, Starr and crew chief Todd Myers feel the team could quickly gel. “We have all of the ingredients,” Holigan said. “A little bit of luck, and we were in good shape at Las Vegas. We were going to be fine on qualifying time – not the pole but solidly in the field – and we felt we were going to have a good race setup too. I really feel a top-15 finish was in the cards for us there. Team Enzyte scheduled 15 NASCAR Busch Series races for this season (its next race is the Apr. 10 event at Nashville, Tenn.) but already has the pieces in place for a full-season Busch Series run in 2005, and an eventual multi-car team. Holigan is a former volume home-builder and contractor with his own nationally-syndicated television show. He purchased the assets of TKO Motorsports, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team. Starr, one of the top names from NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series, drives the Busch car, and continues driving the NASCAR Truck Series entry of Spears Racing. Todd Myers, a veteran who has worked previously with such names as Jamie McMurray, Brendan Gaughan and Starr, is crew chief. Lifekey Healthcare, Inc. is sponsoring the Busch team through its brand of Enzyte, the once-a-day tablet for natural male enhancement. The show follows the lives of drivers, riders and members of both the NASCAR and AMA Holigan Racing teams as they prepare and compete on the grueling circuits.(Williams Company PR)(3-30-2004)
