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PRO STOCK, PRO MOD TESTING AND RUMORS BEGIN

Agent 1320 got a call from Bradenton, Florida where several Pro Mod and Pro Stock teams are testing. Judging from the numbers the Agent was told some of the cars were running, they might want to change the name of the track to Twilight Zone Dragway.

Here's an example. Bob Rieger is testing his brand new Tim McAmis-built '57 Chevy with a Brad Anderson bullet under the hood. The first full lap down the track the car made was a respectable 6.27/220 lap. The corrected altitude was near sea-level and temps were in the mid 70's (virtually perfect supercharger weather). The car ran a respectable 4.06-seconds in the eighth-mile which usually converted to a low 6.20 lap when blown cars had a 4:71 gear and a 106-inch rollout tire last season. Rieger ran his time using the IHRA-mandated 109-inch minimum rollout tire and 4:56 gear.

If Rieger's times are any indication, blower cars apparently will be appreciably slower in the 2002 season. The numbers that really stunned the Agent were the 60-ft times, which, according to Rieger, were .981 and .979. That would be the best 60-ft times Agent 1320 has ever heard of for an IHRA-legal Pro Mod, and equal to short times we have seen run by Alky funny cars.

The Agent isn't saying that Rieger's times are bogus, only that those times are a quantum leap over the best sixty-footer that the Agent knows of, which is a .987 by Bill Kuhlmann driving one of his blown alky cars.