Terry Haddock spent much of his Friday evening and the wee hours of Saturday during the recently completed IHRA Torco Nothern Nationals pinpointing a cause for his massive engine explosion on the starting line. He had the answer his was looking for by the time he made Saturday’s first run. Terry Haddock spent much of his Friday evening and the wee hours of Saturday during the recently completed IHRA Torco Nothern Nationals pinpointing a cause for his massive engine explosion on the starting line. He had the answer his was looking for by the time he made Saturday’s first run.

“The car went out about a half-second and it lost traction,” Haddock explained. “I just couldn’t catch it quick enough. The engine went to 9,600 and caught a valve.

“It’s just one of those racing things that happens and before our run there was an oildown in front of us. We were in the last pair of cars and they cleaned the track and they put glue down and dragged the surface. That tends to make the surface greasy and you’re strapped in the car there is nothing you can do to make it back down anymore. I should’ve expected it to smoke the tires, just not so soon.”