DRO WINS ON THE ICE

HockeyTime USA recently won the Atlanta Amateur Hockey League's Lower Over-35 championship with DRO's own Ian Tocher between the pipes. Tocher says the final game was a thrilling 3-2 victory in overtime and he only let those two goals by because he was thinking about what

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his Tocher Talks column would be about next month. The Agent's not so sure about that, but sends his congratulations anyway. [1-23-2004]

BERNER FLIES IN FLORIDA TESTING

IHRA Pro Stock racer Pete Berner recently recorded a string of 6.40's while testing at Bradenton, FL. During his second day of testing Berner's mountain-motored Pro Stocker ran 6.458 at 214.74! Unofficially, that is the quickest lap in the history of the IHRA Pro Stock.

Berner's incremental elapsed times and speeds: 60-ft - .991; 330-ft - 2.751; 1/8-mile - 4.1831 at 172.14 mph; 1000-ft - 5.418; 1/4-mile - 6.458 at 214.74 mph. [1-23-2004]

PRO MOD NEWS

RADFORD GETS RADICAL

The Agent recently got word that West Coast Pro Mod racer Dennis Radford is going to run a big portion of the NHRA AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod Challenge series. Radford ran the NHRA circuit a lot during the 2002 season and sporadically in 2003. He will start the 2004 season with a brand new Charlie Buck 736-inch big block.

"It's a completely new combination of block and cylinder-heads, it's unlike anything else I've ever had," Radford said. He also told the Agent that Rickie Smith has been testing a similar engine in his 'Vette and went 4.06/180+ in the eighth. Radford will skip the NHRA events at Gainesville and Englishtown and pick up the circuit at Route 66 in Joliet, IL.
(Jeff Burk photo) [1-23-2004]