When the SRX Superstar Racing Experience announced, last December, a partial driver lineup–and Ernie Francis Jr.’s name appeared among drivers like Bill Elliott, Helio Castroneves, Bobby Labonte, Michael Waltrip, Paul Tracy, Willy T. Ribbs, Tony Kanaan, Greg Biffle and Marco Andretti–plenty of people asked, “Ernie who?”
As you’d guess, his phone has been ringing since the six-week series ended. There’s plenty of interest in a kid who’s 23, has seven straight Trans Am championships, and is now also an SRX race winner. More important, he finished the series in second place, behind NASCAR champ Tony Stewart.
Francis is “an amazing talent,” Tony says. “Ernie Francis is going places,” Michael Waltrip adds.
SRX is a made-for-TV series that uses 750-horsepower, late-model-style cars that Ray Evernham, former NASCAR champion crew chief for driver Jeff Gordon, designed and built.
The six races aired in prime time on CBS–not CBS Sports,…
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