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But the new car ’ s probably added to it some . The engine program is a little bit better than it was last year . He ’ s driving better than last year . I ’ m probably making better tuning calls . I ’ d say it ’ s a combination of a lot of things and all of it coming together at one time . You know how it is . You have good years , you have off years . This year has been a good year for us .
You and JR have been working together for a long time . How rewarding has it been to have that consistent effort turn into strong performance and that first win for JR ?
Look , I ’ ve been with him when he ’ s won in IHRA one other time before . I ’ ve won quite a few races . I got more enjoyment watching him win than I ever have from me myself winning .
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He deserves it . He ’ s one of those good guys . He ’ s truly a good guy and he deserves the success he gets . He works hard at it . It just seems like the past few years , we ’ ve just had some bad luck . We just couldn ’ t make everything click . It seems as of late this year , we ’ ve got all eight clicking . Hopefully we can keep it up the rest of the year . That ’ s the plan .
Talking about the rest of the year , there are two big goals out there for the class : the first official 3-second pass and the PDRA Extreme Pro Stock world championship . Which one of those is at the top of your list ?
I ’ ve had some firsts in my career as far as records and stuff . Probably no one could name that off the top of their head . There ’ s not many people that remember those firsts , right ?
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If I had to choose between the two , I ’ d probably say I ’ d rather have the championship – for him . For him .
For me ? I ’ d rather have the first 3-second pass . Once you make the first 3-second pass , no one has a shot at that again . But someone can win the championship next year .
That first 3-second run has been on the radar for a few years . A few people have come close or ran it in testing , but it hasn ’ t happened in competition yet . What ’ s it going to take to make that run ?
You ’ re right . Jeff Dobbins ran it in testing two years ago . Chris Powers has come close I don ’ t know how many times . [ Cary ] Goforth came close . We ’ ve had the conditions more than once . We ’ ve had a good
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track , we ’ ve had good air at Virginia . I guess it ’ s gotta be one of those lucky passes because look how many unlucky people there have been that ’ ve gone four-flat with a one .
There ’ s no doubt we ’ re gonna have the conditions . I think we may have them at GALOT this year because we ’ re running there in October [ at PDRA DragWars presented by Modern Racing , Oct . 8-10 ]. You could see it at GALOT . The track is good . The air will probably be good . Virginia , definitely . I think this year you ’ ll see it . There ’ s no doubt in my mind this is the year it goes away .
There ’ s no doubt that at one time I really had no sights on it . I wasn ’ t really thinking about . But now more than ever , I think we have as good a shot at it as anyone else .
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