Misconception on a slow stocker winning

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by cicero819

Gary you have one of the best and probaly one of the first to have won a Wally right in your backyard in Mark Yaccavone. The late great Steve Taylor told me his secret to his success was to make sure to not line up on the previous cars groove but just off completly with street tires. Good luck. Claude

Mark Yaccavone, is still the only fwd national event winner (especially on the NHRA side of stock eliminator), and I forget the guys name (it's from a thread from 2-3yrs ago), but there was a guy who currently is the only NHRA divisional event winner (either from the year before, or after '86 when Mark won his race in E-town)! If memory serves me correctly, Marks win was in a Ford, and that other guys win was in a Mopar product, thus there are several first's out there waiting for fwd slower rollers:

1. No GM product has won a NHRA national or divisional event ever!

2. No fwd car has won a NHRA national/divisional event so far this century!

3. No fwd car has finished in the top ten NHRA national/divisional points standings!

4. I'm not sure where the IHRA is with regards to this (Michael Beard I hope you will enlighten me here), but I think the above applies to IHRA too (unless you or that Cavalier stocker racer from back in the '80's who inspired me to build/race my car, did it)?

5. There's never been a multiple event winner with a fwd stocker!

There's five REALLY BIG reasons I continue (as best I can), to race my fwd slower roller. Once I get my financial house in better shape, I'm going after all of those that aren't nabbed by someone else out there with the appropriate race cars...I like a challenge, and my $5k slower roller is waiting for it's chance to show (by more race time), it's capable of
winning too.

Oh, and one more thing, where Jody and Toby's stockers are concerned, only Jody's car qualifies as a slow stocker, since any car that runs quicker than a 12.00 is still in the faster half of stock eliminator, and Toby's G/SA is (even by alphabetical listings), one of the faster stocker cars known the nation over....just sayin'.