TESTING SCHEDULE FOR THE STRIP
AT VEGAS
The Agent's pick as the best bargain in all of drag racing
is pre-season testing for nitro cars begins at one of the
Agent’s favorite places Las Vegas, or to be specific
"The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway."
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Pre-season testing at Vegas begins with the fifth annual Nitro
Blast-Off January 20-22, 2006. The cool thing is that nearly
all of the NHRA teams show for these test sessions and the
ticket price is a serious bargain. Two weeks later the Strip
has another test session on February 4-6. February’s
Last Chance Test Session is also open to bracket, nostalgia
and racers from other sanctioning groups. The Agent recommends
a three-week vacation to Vegas with weekend nitro testing
at the Strip at LVMS as the bookends and if you’re buying
your tickets in advance tell LVMS honcho Chris Blair the Agent
sent ya. . .on second thought you might be better off to disavow
any relationship with Agent 1320.
Entry forms for both test sessions are available by contacting
Mark Dawson, Las Vegas Motor Speedway's Drag Racing Operations
Coordinator at (702) 632-8264. Event fliers will be distributed
at the Oct. 20-23 ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals. [9-27-2005]
NEW MOPAR PRO MOD FOR WOOD, CRITCHLEY
Agent 1320 has learned that Dave Wood's AMS Staff Leasing
Team has contracted with Jeffers Pro Cars to have a new
Barracuda Pro Mod built using one of brand new '70 'Cuda
bodies designed and built by owner Larry Jeffers and his
crew. According to Jeffers, the shop is just a week or so
away from pulling the first of the radical 'Cuda bodies
out of the mold with the car scheduled to be delivered to
the AMS team by the middle of January 2006.
The Agent has to wonder if engine builder, tuner and supercharger
guru Darren Mayer of DMPE fame is going to put a Hemi in
the 'Cuda for a powerplant instead of the wedge he currently
is using?
On an entirely different subject, the fact that Dave Wood
has ordered a new car for the 2006 season would seem to
favorably indicate his intention to continue racing, and
might lead some to think that he is going to keep backing
the NHRA Pro Mod exhibition series for the near future.
(Jeff Burk photos) [9-27-2005]
NEW TUNERS FOR JIM ODDY’S
PRO MOD TEAM
Although they seem to go unnoticed by most people, future
drag racing Hall-of-Famer Jim Oddy credits his twin sons
Dan and Dave with the engine/clutch tune-up that garnered
the Summit Racing Equipment-backed team the new IHRA Pro
Mod ET record of 6.050 at the Budds Creek race last weekend.
"When
we went out in the first qualifying round and ran a 6.17,
I felt we weren’t going to be bumped so I told the
boys they could try the tune-up they had been working on
for a while," Oddy said. "We put their tune-up
in the car and it ran a 6.098! We came back and my kids
looked at the graphs and said to me 'We need to do this
here, here and here.' We made the changes they wanted and
took the car to the line. I thought it might run a 6.07
something, but it jumped right up on the tires and ran 6.05
flat at 236.46!"
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Dave and Dan Oddy
have the tuning ability they have. The both hold degrees
in engineering and both have been touring and working on
Dad’s cars since they were teenagers. They had to
learn something hanging around Dad for all of those years.
Now you know why Jim Oddy always tells people that he wouldn’t
be still racing if it weren’t for his sons. And please
don't ask us who is who, we still can't tell them apart.
(Jeff Burk photo) [9-27-2005]
