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BUDWEISER, AMS TO SPONSOR BILL HILL'S NOVA PRO MOD;
This is the 12th consecutive season that Anheuser-Busch and the Budweiser brand has sponsored the drag racing team owned by Bill Hill and Richard Mathews. AMS Staff Leasing will join the team this year as their major associate. AMS's primary car will be the '57 Chevy that Hill drove last year (photo above), which this season will be driven and tuned by Troy Critchley. Hill and Critchley will form the AMS Staff Leasing team for 2003. As part of AMS's sponsorship of the Bill Hill team, Troy Critchley will build and help tune the engines in Hill's car. "I can't tell you how thrilled I am to continue my relationship with Budweiser and AMS Staff Leasing," said Hill. "Dave Wood and Jeff Lynn (from AMS Staff Leasing) have gone out of their way to help me this season. We will truly be a two-car team. Both Troy and I are going to share information between the two teams. Since our cars will have basically the same drivetrain, both cars' performances should benefit greatly from the relationship." The '69 Nova, which Hill ran at Super Chevy Show events in 2002 as a nitro coupe, is currently being updated at Mark Lynn's Missouri chassis shop and will then receive a new paint scheme. The team plans to begin the year February 13-16 at Darlington (SC) Dragway's WinterNationals event where the team will attempt to be the first Pro Modified car to run the quarter-mile in five seconds. A month later they will attend this season's first NHRA AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod Challenge event at Gainesville, Florida. (Jeff Burk photo) LITTON RE-SIGNS WITH LUCAS; ADDS CREW CHIEF Top Fuel drag racer Bruce Litton has extended his contract with Lucas Oil Products as the major sponsor for the 2003 season. He also announced that Doug Kuch has joined the team in one of the available crew chief positions. Kuch has worked with Darrell Gwynn and Danny Dunn, among other high profile operations. He will join longtime Litton associate Mike Wolfarth in wrenching the IHRA Top Fuel operation. Litton, who finished second in the IHRA 2002 final points standings,
will contest the entire IHRA schedule and a limited NHRA schedule.
DARLINGTON PRO MOD RULES CLARIFICATION Due to many calls from racers concerning rules for the upcoming Darlington WinterNationals event and the Pro Modified classes, track manager Larry Hensley issued the following statement: "I want to make this very, very clear. The rules for Pro Modified for this event are as follows: (1) The blower cars will be strictly NHRA-legal with two exceptions: the minimum weight will be reduced to 2,500 lbs and any blower overdrive will be allowed. No screw compressors! No turbochargers! No nitro! Everything on the car with the exception of the weight and blower overdrive will have to be strictly NHRA/AMS legal, period! We aren't going to allow a Top Sportsman car or an NHRA Competition Eliminator-legal Pro Mod car (which use different rules than what is a legal AMS/NHRA Pro Mod car) to compete in the run for the five-second barrier. (2) Nitrous cars will also have to be completely NHRA/AMS legal unless we tell them different. I hope this statement answers any questions racers may have had."
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BARKLAGE WINGS IT
The Mark Barklage team, with son Zach driving, campaigned a blown Jerry
Bickel-built 2002 Pontiac last season. The trick Grand Am featured a
Pro Stock style wing instead of the normal big wing found on most Pro
Mods. The team's tuner/advisor Kirk Kuhns told the Agent that the car
was spinning the wheels on the back half of the race track almost every
lap. In order to try and fix that problem the Bickel shop fabricated
this new "trick" wing with more deck area and much bigger spill plates.
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Modified racer Bill Hill's race team will compete at all ten of NHRA's
AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod Challenge events during the 2003 season. The
St. Louis-based racer, who drove Dave Wood's AMS Staff Leasing '57 Chevy
at NHRA events during the 2002 season, will drive his own Anheuser-Busch/AMS
Staff Leasing-backed supercharged '69 Nova this year.
