Although he came within an eyelash of winning the 2007 NHRA POWERade world championship, Rod Fuller is not looking back on what could have been but rather to what lies ahead for 2008. To say the rising Top Fuel star is hungry to win would be a severe understatement. The 2007 season was a banner year for the driver of David Powers' Caterpillar dragster, but the six-time Top Fuel winner isn't satisfied playing the role of best supporting actor.
His determination is easy to detect. Case in point: Less than three months after undergoing major reconstructive knee surgery -- an operation that strategically happened just five days after the completion of the 2007 NHRA season -- the popular racer was back...