Past NHRA Pro Stock champion Jim Yates confirmed in his NHRA.com blog that he's going to call it quits following next weekend's NHRA O'Reilly Spring Nationals in Houston, Tex. After 405 consecutive races in a Pontiac, Yates said that he was having a hard time letting go of racing.

Past NHRA Pro Stock champion Jim Yates confirmed in his NHRA.com blog that he's going to call it quits following next weekend's NHRA O'Reilly Spring Nationals in Houston, Tex. After 405 consecutive races in a Pontiac, Yates said that he was having a hard time letting go of racing.

"I have to admit that a part of me is having a hard time letting go of racing, but at the same time, I am excited about what the next chapter of my life will bring," Yates wrote in the blog. "It is sort of ironic that my first race in my Pontiac Trans Am began in 1990 at Houston Raceway Park, and 19 years later, my final and 405th consecutive race (408th overall) will end at Houston Raceway Park. It sure is funny how things happen, isn't it?"

Yates career includes 25 national event victories in58 final rounds. He's a two-time Pro Stock world champion who finished in the top ten an incredible fourteen times since 1991.