Alan P at Indy
I watched the coverage, I didn't even see his run.
I would take 16th at Indy in a minute.
Remember when Charlie Wescott bought Cunningham's Mustang pro stock equipment and tried pro stock? The man who owned Hemi Challenge series could not qualify.
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True, but the rules are, and have always been GM centric. Unless there is a MASSIVE change at NHRA (highly improbable) and a serious set of rule changes, there will never ever be another non GM competitive car out there. Ever.
A little recap. The first big kick in the Pentastar was the switch from VP to Sunoco fuel. If WJ doesn’t and Jeg doesn’t cheat, Pro Stock could run any fuel that passes simple testing. A whiner and a cheater screwed that up.
And it just so happened that the characteristics of the Sunoco fuel are such that the Dodge combination was hurt the most. But WJ was happy and Jeg is still a cheater.
Then the switch to EFI. What a joke. Rather then allow carbs verses EFI and scoop verses the queer hood they run now, NHRA bootlicked Holley and waited for them to crap out a spec system. Or maybe it was the other way round. Maybe Holley bootlicked NHRA. Either way, it sucked.
Rather than letting the best system cause the change, NHRA forced a system down the throats of Pro Stock, and how got hurt more? The Dodge. Why? The head they use has a very short intake port, so to get the required volume to feed 500 inches at 11,000 plus RPM, you made it up in intake manifold runner length.
Uh oh, you can’t do that with the current EFI system because that junk has to fit under that queer hood. Don’t think NHRA wasn’t made aware of this, IF they didn’t know it beforehand.
And let’s not forget the last, critical nail in the coffin of the Dodge Pro Stock effort...the stupid RPM limit. Said to “save money” (who in the hell goes Pro Stock racing and thinks saving money on springs makes sense...no one...the biggest cost according to Chris McGaha and several others is travel and time away from work. So the spring savings is stupid.
The Dodge was 500-700 RPM higher than the GM stuff, and in Pro Stock racing that’s a mile.
So it’s rule after rule after rule killing everything not GM. Pretty much how it’s always been. The fact that Wescott even qualified with the obsolete junk he had is amazing.
