Chip Ellis
Career Wins: 6
PSM - 6
Career Final Rounds: 9
PSM - 9
Career Best E.T.: 6.89
Career Best Speed: 193.46
2008 NHRA/POWERade Point Standings
#3 644 points
Ringers Gloves Pro Bike Battle
#1 2,255 points
Full Throttle NHRA Pit Crew Championship Point Standings
#2 340 points
Schumacher Electric Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chip Ellis has been red hot this season and he looks to continue that trend this weekend at the FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals at scenic Infineon Raceway, the ninth of 17 races for the Pro Stock Motorcycle class on the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series tour. 
TO see more Race Results visit this website.Sonoma champ in 2006, Ellis looking to stay hot this weekend
07/23/2008
Ellis is third in the PSM point standings with a victory in Englishtown, N.J., a runner-up finish in Atlanta, and one quarterfinal and three semifinal finishes in the first eight races of the year. He has also qualified the Schumacher Electric Suzuki in the top half of the 16-bike field at every event this season, including five No. 2 qualifiers.
The Florida native knows his way to the winner's circle in Sonoma, where he won the PSM title in 2006. Last season Ellis qualified No. 4 and reached the quarterfinals.
"I'm feeling real good about going into Sonoma," said Ellis, who joined Don Schumacher Racing this season. "(Crew chief) Steve Tartaglia has done really well there and I've done really well there, and the Schumacher Electric Suzuki is running awesome. I'm ready to have some fun.
"The fans at Sonoma really love the bikes and to go a tremendous facility like Infineon Raceway where they like the bikes so much is great. I think it'll be a good race for us.
"I'm ready for the challenge," Ellis added. "We've got a stable full of great engines, Steve has been doing a great job with the tune-up and I think we've got a bike that is capable of winning. We've just got to go out there and put together four good runs on Sunday." Ellis looks to ride to top of mountain in Denver
07/07/2008
Schumacher Electric Suzuki Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Chip Ellis enters the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals No. 2 in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series point standings but, make no mistake, he has his sights firmly set on completing the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, which begin following the U.S. Nationals Labor Day weekend, as the No. 1 rider in the class.
Ellis has had the quickest Suzuki in the field the entire season by virtue of the hard work of crew chief Steve Tartaglia, and he's eager to put his competitors in his rearview mirror. The Florida native has qualified the Schumacher Electric Suzuki in the top half of the field at all seven races this season and is riding arguably the most consistent motorcycle in the class. He’s also won once in two final rounds and reached the semifinal round three times.
"My family and I have just been out at the lake on our boat for the 4th of July holiday getting some rest in preparation for Denver and racing out West," said Ellis. "I've qualified No. 1 in Denver in the past (2006) and Steve Tartatglia went to the final round tuning this bike with Angelle Sampey aboard last season, so maybe we can get somewhere between all of that.
"Bandimere Speedway is a nice track and the scenery is beautiful in Colorado. I'm just ready to get there and I look forward to a good weekend."
Because of the mile-high altitude of the facility, the naturally-aspirated Pro Stock Motorcycles have their work cut out for them adjusting to the highest-altitude track on the NHRA circuit (5,860-feet above sea level). "We changed everything except the rider," Ellis joked. "The elapsed times are going to be slow out there. We'll be running between 7.40s to 7.30s in the quarter-mile. As a rider you just have to be a little more patient with the bike because it doesn't go through the gears as fast. It's just different there but different isn't bad. You can definitely feel it as a rider. But our entire Schumacher Electric Suzuki team is confident with the combination we have right now.
