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QUAIN STOTT RUNS 228+ IN PRO MOD
NO BLOWER CARS UNDER 6.50 AT MID-MICHIGAN! IHRA GIVES BLOWER CARS MORE GEAR!!! The quickest supercharged car at Mid Michigan was Fred Hahn driving for Jim Oddy at a 6.507 which got him the eighth qualifying spot. .Further down the ladder we find Al Billes and Allen Pittman. After the event was postponed, IHRA gave the supercharged contingent the good and bad news. The good news was that the new minimum gear ratio would be 4.71. The bad news was that the blower cars wouldn't be able to change the ratio until they complete the postponed Mid-Michigan race which will give the supercharged racers just four days to change and ready their cars for the Wednesday qualifying session at Norwalk. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER Agent N20 and a couple of staffers from DRO are going to attend the event this year and the first guy we are going to look up is Rome - if he isn't street racing and annihilating some elitist street snob with a trick paint job. A HUNDRED MORE CUBIC INCHES FOR PRO MOD
ODDY DECIDES TO BUILD A NITROUS PRO MOD! Oddy told Agent N2O that he will finish this IHRA season with the team's supercharged car but will immediately begin working on developing a nitrous powerplant for the 2001 season. There is plenty of incentive for the veteran Pro Mod team owner and engine builder to build a nitrous car under IHRA's current rules. Nitrous cars currently are allowed to weigh 300 lbs less than a blown car, don't have a rear gear restriction, are allowed three clutch discs instead of a two and can build a 710 inch engine instead of the 526 inch that the supercharged cars are restricted to. Oddy believes that he will be able to develop an engine combination that will deliver the 2000 hp needed to be a hitter in the Pro Mod class. He bases that upon the fact that 500-inch Pro Stock engines are making around 1300 hp and 800+ inch engines are making over 1600 hp. With the 400-600 hp nitrous systems available, it isn't far-fetched to believe that the Summit backed team can make over 2000 hp. Agent N20 can't wait to see how the team of Fred Hahn, the Oddys, and team consultant Tom Anderson do with a car that has approximately the same horsepower they have now but that weighs 300 lbs less than what they have now! SHAFIROFF RETURNING TO PRO MOD? JERRY HAAS TO DRIVE MUSTANG IN NMCA 550-HP NOS PLATE SPY PHOTO Shannon Jenkins made a lot of supercharged racers breathe a sigh of relief at Cordova. Given the controversy between the blown car owners and the nitrous-powered crews, Jenkins' first qualifying shot of 6.38 lap stacked up nicely after Troy Critchley hit a 6.30 in Johnny Rocca's blown '49 Merc during the second round of qualifying. No carburated nitrous car ran in the 6.2s as did Rocca's Merc and Oddy's '54 Corvette, but they were solidly in the mid 6.3s and Jenkins saw that as a harbinger of the future. Sources told Agent N2O that an IHRA official went to Jenkins and asked how quick he thought his Viper would run. Jenkins reportedly told the official, "My car can run in the 6.20 range." That wheezing sound you hear is the blower racers, fearing more possible restrictions, letting out their breath. SUDDENLY IT'S 1957 IN 2000: MOORE'S '57 SHOEBOX IMPRESSIVE IN DEBUT
One of the nicest guys to run Pro Modified, Pat Moore, returned to action at Cordova. Moore was last seen driving a '67 Camaro for Pro Stock racer Larry Nance. Moore showed at Cordova with a new Tim McAmis car with Charlie Buck nitrous engines and ran 6.30s out of the box. A look in this team's pit showed that between rounds these guys were putting in eight new rods and pistons or whatever it took go to the line with a chance to win. Agent N2O thinks these guys will be in the winners circle sooner than later ASHLEY'S BACK IN PRO MOD
The scourge of Gotham, Mike Ashley, was another Pro Mod racer making a return to the sport at Cordova. Sporting a trick Batman like paint job and a life-size replica of the Statue of liberty in his pit Mike Ashley debuted his new '57 shoebox. While the team struggled at Cordova remember that in 89-90 Ashley owned the Pro Mod speed title at 214 and change. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME DEPARTMENT: IT'S JUST A DECAL FOR GODSAKE!
Memo to tech officials and racers: IT'S A DECAL! OK? Oh and just for the record: multi-time Pro Mod world champ Scotty Cannon had an NOS decal on all of his supercharged cars. IT'S JUST A DECAL! DOES THE CIA KNOW ABOUT THIS? The Agent (I swear I don't know any Russians) also heard that Summit put some cameras in the car for use by the company for their web site and the team was told those had to go. You would think that IHRA officials would like a record of what goes on inside that car during a run. MISSING IN ACTION DEPT
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If
there was any remaining doubt that the nitrous-injected Pro Mods are
making 2000 hp or more, Quain Stott erased that with a 228+ mph lap
at Central Michigan Dragway. During the second round of qualifying Stott
ran the fastest speed for an IHRA legal Pro Mod car ever with a 228.19
lap. That broke the previous mark for fastest one time speed which was
held by Fred Hahn at 227.65, Stott's numbers were as follows: 1.063
sixty foot time, 4.187/182.88 in the eighth, 5.398 to the thousand foot
mark, and 228.19 in the quarter. Stott also set on the pole with a 6.39
elapsed time and was the only car in the .30's. 
This
photo of Tampa, Florida racer Rome Harmon's Nova came across the Agents's
desk. Rome races at Orlando Speed World and was at that track's annual
street racing extravaganza, the World Streetnationals. The Agent can
hear you guys out there laughing at this car, but you should stifle
that urge. The Nova is a real sleeper that runs consistently in the
low nines and may have cracked the eights by the time you see this.
Stage up with this guy and you better be ready or he'll clean your clock.
