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Originally Posted by D.Johns
I’ll admit I was getting nervous every time they(NHRA) said the guide would be in a particular date 2x and those dates came and went. I was simply just trying to get a more competitive engine combo for the shoot-out without having to build another car. Heck this one took me 4yrs to build. Lol. But the NHRA certainly has been great to deal with.
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This eats away at me every day. NHRA was going to accept two different platforms from Ford to be able to keep the 08,10, and 12 Cobra Jets competitive in the shootout. It's tough on the people who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in their Cobra Jet's and Ford won't help their own racers to keep them competitive. I went right to the top with this to Dave Pericak. He basically told me that Mike was in charge. Which scares the hell out of me! He personally sent emails out to the older Cobra Jet owners and said he would help those who wanted to race the shoot out class. Then when NHRA approved it his response to NHRA was that Ford is not interested! It was a stiff kick in the face... When Mike demanded the 500 and 510 HP combination be deleted from the shoot out engine combination NHRA had no choice but to delete it because Mike represents Ford Motor Company. It was on the books for just over a week and Cobra Jet owners had already spent a ten's of thousands of their hard earned money to build that combination and Mike knew this.
A couple of years ago at the PRI show I was standing with a group of Ford Racers at the Ford booth when Mike made a comment about how he extremely disliked the Cobra Jet program. After that Ford released Mike from his previous program, then Dave later put him in charge of the Cobra Jet program...?
This does not work for the guys who have been supporting the Ford name since the beginning when they purchased their 2008,2010, and 2012 Cobra Jet's.
Jim D'Amore