“Working with Pro Line really elevated our Pro
Mod game,” Micke says. “We got more and more
involved with the Pro Mod stuff with Pro Line and
then we got teamed up with some good customers.
Most of those customers were NHRA Pro
Mod stars, like three-time world champion Troy
Coughlin, but M&M’s expansion into the Pro
Mod scene also bled over into the PDRA with its
multiple eighth-mile outlaw doorslammer classes.
“Jay Cox has been with us forever,” Micke says of
the perennial top 3 Pro Nitrous star. “We teamed
up with Jay and got into the PDRA with him. It’s
really taking off well for us now. Pro Mod is a
huge part of our business.”
March 2019
M
icke first appeared on the cover
of Drag Illustrated in late 2013,
shortly after being crowned the sea-
son champion in both ADRL Pro Drag
Radial and NMCA Super Street. It was
his first full season teamed up with Carter as the
driver and tuner of the now-iconic blue Malibu.
Even with all of Micke’s remarkable performances
since partnering with Carter, he still considers
that season to be his best yet.
“That was a good year for us,” Micke says. “It
was a busy year because we ran the car in two
different series with two different style tires, and
one was quarter mile and one was eighth mile.
That was probably our best overall year. That
was a killer year.”
Micke points out that he and Carter first start-
ed racing together with Carter’s Malibu in 2012
after several years racing in the same circles. The
duo formed the foundation of an ideal partner-
ship over the course of their first two seasons
together, proving to each other their intentions
and the methods they would use to turn those
intentions into results. The two each bring their
own unique talents to the table, but they share
a nearly identical mindset.
“One thing you’ve gotta understand about Ja-
son: everything Jason does revolves around that
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