Twenty years ago Bill Kuhlman ran the first quarter-mile 200 mile per hour lap. Today another Pro Modified driver did the same thing in half the distance.

Jason Scruggs ran 200.86 during the first qualifying session at the ADRL Dragstock event in  Rockingham, NC.

For Scruggs, the assault on the 200-mph promised land was sometimes a hit and miss adventure. 

“We’re like most all of these racers out here in that we can struggle at times,” Scruggs said. “Here lately we’ve struggled onto making the car mile per hour a little better. We’ve been doing a lot better since we got some of the tire shake out of it."

Twenty years ago Bill Kuhlman ran the first quarter-mile 200 mile per hour lap. Today another Pro Modified driver did the same thing in half the distance.

Jason Scruggs ran 200.86 during the first qualifying session at the ADRL Dragstock event in  Rockingham, NC.

For Scruggs, the assault on the 200-mph promised land was sometimes a hit and miss adventure. 

“We’re like most all of these racers out here in that we can struggle at times,” Scruggs said. “Here lately we’ve struggled onto making the car mile per hour a little better. We’ve been doing a lot better since we got some of the tire shake out of it."

Three weekends ago, he flirted with history after running a 199.11 in Norwalk, Ohio. Scruggs ran 197.08 in a tireshaking effort during a Friday shakedown effort. 

“We are still working with it, but for me to go 200 miles per hour, I had to take a chance but that wasa chance I’m was willing to take. I knew we stood a good shot of doing it, but we all know this sport is half luck and half skill.”