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HOOVER WINS
Ed Hoover, from Gilbert, SC, posted a 6.260-sec pass at
222.11 mph in defeating Mitch Stott in the Pro Mod final at Darlington.
Hoover said he went 4.07 to Stott's 3.98 at the half-track mark and
knew "I was done for then," but when Stott drifted toward his lane he
just stayed in it to pull out the win.
Although he won with his traditional nitrous setup at
the Groundhog Warm-Up, Hoover said he's waiting on delivery of two new
'63 Corvettes from Tommy Mauney, with at least one of them equipped
with a blown engine to start the season.
"We're keeping all our nitrous stuff, too," Hoover said.
"We're just gonna see how the class goes. I'd hate to see it go all
blown. I don't like it, Alcohol Funny Car has never appealed to me in
any way, but I love winning, so what are you gonna do? It's a damned
if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation."
THE DARLINGTON STRIPE
Steve Hall's 1951 Mercury was one of the prettiest cars
on the grounds at Darlington International Dragway, but left with a
bruised skin after brushing the left guardrail in the NMCA Pro Street
final against Annette Summer's '67 Camaro.
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| The infamous "Darlington stripe" usually is
reserved for stock cars at the speedway just down the road, but
Steve Hall earned his own stripe the hard way at Darlington Int'l
Dragway. |
Hall, who was racing in the right lane, said when he shifted
to third shortly past half track, his rear tires started spinning and
the car made a hard move to the right, but when he let off the gas,
it unloaded the chassis and it started back toward the centerline. "I
was worried that I was going to hit Annette (Summer), so I locked the
brakes up and cut the wheel back to the right, but it looked like it
was going to go straight into the wall," he explained. "So I hit the
parachutes and it helped jerk the car back around straight, but right
about then I blew out the right front tire and I couldn't steer it anymore.
If it hadn't done that, I don't think it'd even have hit the wall. But
to be honest with you, I was lucky and had a little help from above,"
Hall concluded.
Fortunately, the damage was mostly cosmetic and Hall expects
the car will be back in shape for the NMCA opener Feb. 23-24, at Moroso
Motorsports Park, near West Palm Beach, FL.
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| Steve Hall built his blown 526 c.i. Chrysler
Wedge-powered '51 Mercury in 1997. He plans to run it full-time
in Outlaw Pro Street trim this year in the National Muscle Car Association's
Super Series, as well as in the five-race ProMedia schedule. Hall
ran a career-best 6.88 at 202 mph during the Darlington test session.
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