Driver: Morgan Lucas
Date of birth: November 27, 1983
Hometown: Brownsburg , IN
Sponsor/Car: GEICO Powersports/Lucas Oil Top Fuel Dragster
Crew Chief: Jimmy Walsh
Career Wins: 13 (Top Fuel 3, Top Alcohol Dragster 10)
Career Final Rounds: 19 (Top Fuel 6, Top Alcohol Dragster 13)
Career Best Elapsed Time: 4.474 seconds (quarter mile), 3.814 (1,000 foot)
Career Best Speed: 333.33 mph (quarter mile), 316.38 mph (1,000 foot)

PERSONAL

• Marital Status: Single
• Height/Weight: 6'2", 170 lbs.
• Education: Riverside Community College
• Youngest professional driver on the NHRA circuit

Top Fuel driver and multi-car team owner Morgan Lucas is driven by the challenge of competing at the top level of professional drag racing. But it was his love of the drag racing community itself that spurred his career choice. His incredible will to win came later.  Lucas was 10 years old when his father took him to the NHRA World Finals, where he met Darrell Russell, an up-and-coming driver of a Top Alcohol dragster. Russell autographed a bent front wheel from his dragster for Lucas, who knew right then what he wanted to do when grew up.

Completely enthralled with the sport from that day forward, Lucas followed a well-worn path to the professional ranks, taking the logical growth steps through Junior Dragsters, Super Comp dragsters, and Top Alcohol Dragsters before finally reaching the Top Fuel class.

Within a week of turning 16, Lucas earned his Super Comp license and began racing a car capable of covering the quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds at 175 mph.  In 2002, Lucas took the next step and moved up to the renowned Darien and Meadows Top Alcohol Dragster, a hot rod capable of 5.2-second runs at 275 mph. By this point, Lucas had learned how to race and win-and he did so with regularity over the next two seasons.  Midway through 2004, Morgan's favorite driver, Russell, lost his life in a tragic accident at the St. Louis event.  Lucas has since honored Russell's memory by becoming one of the best drivers in the sport. His GEICO Powersports/Lucas Oil dragster now threatens for the title of every race.

In 2009, Lucas reached the playoffs and contended for the Full Throttle championship late into the season.  He ended the 2009 season with three victories at Atlanta , Brainerd and Memphis and is a force to be reckoned with during the 2010 season.