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WHERE DID ALL THESE PRO STOCKERS COME
FROM?
Jeg Coughlin was the 10th different winner in Pro Stock
this year, picking up his first win of the season. Pro Stock continues
to be the toughest professional class to qualify for in all of racing.
Seven former winners of the class failed to make the 16-car field at
St. Louis, including Kurt Johnson and Mike Edwards. Pro Stock team owners
and drivers are lobbying NHRA heavily to increase the fields from the
current 16 car field to 24 or even 32. Apparently NHRA has no interest
in increasing the field for two reasons: The increase in purse that
more cars in the field would cause and the time it would take to run
off the larger field.
'HONEST, THE TIE-DOWN JUST BROKE'
Evidently the racers in Stock eliminator forgot that for
the NHRA tech department Stock means STOCK! Apparently as many as five
cars in the Stock Eliminator category were bounced in tech when it was
found that they had movable ballast. One car was reported to have about
250 lbs of movable ballast.
HERBERT TABS CERNY
Much traveled tuner/advisor Wes Cerny landed at Doug Herbert's
Top Fuel camp and will serve as a consultant to Johnny West. Cerny is
the only other Nitro tuner other than John Force's crew chief Austin
Coil to win a World Championship in Fuel Funny car in the last decade.
He called the tuning shots when Cruz Pedregon won the title driving
for Joe Gibbs.
LAWSON LOSES LUCAS
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John Lawson's Fuel Funny car lost its Lucas Oil sponsorship
effective after the race at St. Louis. Lucas Oil has a huge presence
in NHRA racing and is the sponsor for NHRA's sportsman series. They
also back Bruce Litton's Top Fuel car, which also competes in IHRA.
Rumor has it that Lucas may be scaling back more of its motorsports
sponsorship commitments, and there are some racers and sanctioning bodies
waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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