Koretsky joins Pullin for new ‘Zero to Hero’ television program

While watching LE Tonglet last year become only the third NHRA rookie racer to win a Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championship, Stephen Pullin, Executive Producer Disruptive Studios, began wondering just what it took to do such a thing.

Not long after Tonglet’s dominating performance in the six-race Countdown to the Championship brought the title to the Tonglet Racing/Nitro Fish Pro Stock Motorcycle team, Pullin came up with an idea.

“I thought of a television series called ‘Zero to Hero’,” said Pullin, who has been a producer for 25 years and recently produced 130 episodes of the hit TV shows Pinks and Pinks All Out.  “In the professional league of NHRA, LE is truly someone who was a zero and became a hero.  It’s that special quality that the great racers have within them.  That is what our first episode is about.  And, when you add "Captain Chaos" Kenny Koretsky and his Nitro Fish Gear sponsoring Tonglet, it is a perfect brand name to be teamed with a guy like LE.

“I just think it is a great story.”

It was so compelling that Pullin has teamed with Koretsky to tell it in the premiere “Zero to Hero” 30-minute episode that will air on Speed sometime in the fall.  Koretsky is the executive producer.  Pullin’s crew began filming at this weekend’s Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.

“I am excited to have the opportunity to showcase the LE and the Tonglet Racing Nitro Fish team,” said Koretsky.  “I think Stephen will do an excellent job of telling stories the NHRA fans will really enjoy.”

Pullin emphasized that his programs “will bring a completely different slant on racing and racers.  We are going behind the scenes to see what goes on in their daily lives, where they come from, where they work and what their families are like.  This show is about the racers, not the racing.  This type of series is a perfect opportunity for teams and their sponsors to develop star-building media properties of their own designed to reach wide audiences.

“I hope a lot of the other race teams will get behind us.”