Chris Holbrook's Incredible "Three-Wally Thursday"!...

[Bret Kepner]

Congratulations to Chris Holbrook and Watson Racing for producing an astonishing “hat trick” during competition at the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville (FL). In the span of eight hours, Holbrook and his Watson Racing entries earned three records and three championships on the very first day of competition!

Holbrook opened the event by wheeling his 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet to the quickest and fastest performances in NHRA Stock Eliminator history, (8.519 seconds, 161.13 miles per hour), en route to winning the Factory Stock/A class title.

Holbrook followed by taking his new Watson Racing 2014 Coyote-powered, manually-shifted, black-on-red Mustang GT to the quickest elapsed times in the history of NHRA’s Super Stock Eliminator with back-to-back efforts of 7.902 and 7.900 seconds on his way to winning event honors in the SS/AA category.

Then, Holbrook returned to his silver supercharged Mustang Cobra Jet in the NHRA’s Factory Stock Showdown competition. In the semi-finals, opponent Gary Richard went into a towering wheelstand and ended up in Holbrook’s lane necessitating a brilliant driving job by Holbrook to win the round. In the Factory Stock Showdown championship round, Holbrook repeated his 2013 NHRA U.S. Nationals victory by defeating David Barton’s Dodge Challenger.

Chris Holbrook and Watson Racing scored the first-ever “Three-Wally Thursday” and the actual Gatornationals championships are still four days away! Stay tuned for results!

Read all about the new 2014 Watson Racing Mustang GT at http://competitionplus.com/drag-raci...tock-challenge

[Tom P]

Hopefully that run against Richard is on a video somewhere.
Congrats on some awesome passes, who'da thunk the day would be here so soon when Stockers need the 8.50 and quicker certification. It seemed only a few years ago a full cage wasn't needed.

[D.Johns]

Congratulations Chris and entire team. A lot of hard work that really paid off. Chris truly is one of the nicest guys in the sport.

…now when will we see a 7sec stocker??

[K Stubbs]

How did he win SS/AA with a manually shifted car?

[Brett C]

Originally Posted by K Stubbs

How did he win SS/AA with a manually shifted car?

If I am not mistaken...SS/AAA is auto & SS/AA is manual.

[Bobby Brannon]

Taking nothing away but how do you enter 3 races? Did rules change 2 classes only. But great job on 3 wins. Just saying

[Stephen & Horace Johnson]

Originally Posted by Brett C

If I am not mistaken...SS/AAA is auto & SS/AA is manual.

Armstrong was in SS/AA ...and he runs an auto..im curious howdid they run each other headsup??

[Bret Kepner]

*sigh*

SS/AA = “Super Stock double A manual”, 5.0 pounds per hp
SS/AAA = “Super Stock double A automatic”, 5.0 pounds per hp
SS/BB = “Super Stock double B manual”, 5.5 pounds per hp
SS/BB = “Super Stock double B automatic”, 5.5 pounds per hp
SS/A = “Super Stock A manual”, 6.0 pounds per hp
SSA/A = “Super Stock A automatic”, 6.0 pounds per hp

Bobby, the winner of FS/A runs the winner of FS/B for the Factory Stock Showdown title. It's not a "third class".

[442OLDS]

If he had a choice,I wonder if he would rather trade the three little Wally's for a single BIG one.

[farmco r/sa]

Originally Posted by Bret Kepner

*sigh*

SS/AA = “Super Stock double A manual”, 5.0 pounds per hp
SS/AAA = “Super Stock double A automatic”, 5.0 pounds per hp
SS/BB = “Super Stock double B manual”, 5.5 pounds per hp
SS/BB = “Super Stock double B automatic”, 5.5 pounds per hp
SS/A = “Super Stock A manual”, 6.0 pounds per hp
SSA/A = “Super Stock A automatic”, 6.0 pounds per hp

Bobby, the winner of FS/A runs the winner of FS/B for the Factory Stock Showdown title. It's not a "third class".

is there SS/AAAA, or SS/a/AAaaA or SS/aA/A/aa or SS/B/Bb/BBBc ?