Posts Tagged ‘NHRA Pro Stock’

RMM Fields Skinner and Malsam for 2009 NCWTS Campaign, NHRA Pre-Season Continues with Las Vegas Pro Stock Showdown at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend

By Bram • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: NASCAR, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NHRA, News, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.

Randy Moss Motorsports taps Rookie-of-the-Year Contender Tayler Malsam and former Truck Series Champion Mike Skinner to drive for RMM in 2009

STATESVILLE, N.C. – As the 2008 NFL season comes to a close, New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss is getting ready to kick off his first full season as a NASCAR team owner. Moss and co-owner David Dollar have tapped Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year contender Tayler Malsam to drive the No. 81 RMM truck and former Truck Series Champion Mike Skinner to drive the No. 46 RMM truck in the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.

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Another Pro Stock world title goes to Jeg Coughlin Jr.

By Bram • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Your Series. Your Driver.

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Jeg Coughlin wins the 2008 NHRA Pro Stock World Title (Photo: Dave Kommel/AutoImagery)

POMONA, Calif. (Nov. 15) — “Big Daddy” Don Garlits didn’t do it. Neither did Shirley Muldowney.

By qualifying for this weekend’s 44th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals Saturday afternoon, 38-year-old Jeg Coughlin Jr. did something two of his drag racing idols never accomplished — he won a fourth world championship in a professional category.

Streaking through NHRA’s ‘08 playoffs with an exceptionally strong effort that produced a victory, two runner-up finishes, a semifinal ending, and a quarterfinal result, Coughlin arrived at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona needing only to make the 16-car field to clinch the 2008 title. He’s now won four Pro Stock championships since the start of the new millennium (2000, ‘02, ‘07, and ‘08) to go with his 1992 Super Gas world title.

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