COUGHLIN'S MOMUNMENTAL TURNAROUND
Sun, 2008-10-12 12:28
Funny how 24 hours can change a situation.
Following Friday’s second session, defending NHRA World Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. was No. 13, outside of the provisional 12 carried into Saturday’s final sessions at the NHRA Virginia Nationals in Richmond.
No problem for the thirteen-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion as he went all the way to the No. 2 spot, losing the top spot on speed to nemesis Greg Anderson.
Coughlin's 6.554 elapsed time at 209.10 mph also set a Virginia Motorsports Park elapsed time record. Funny how 24 hours can change a situation.
Following Friday’s second session, defending NHRA World Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. was No. 13, outside of the provisional 12 carried into Saturday’s final sessions at the NHRA Virginia Nationals in Richmond.
No problem for the thirteen-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion as he went all the way to the No. 2 spot, losing the top spot on speed to nemesis Greg Anderson.
Coughlin's 6.554 elapsed time at 209.10 mph also set a Virginia Motorsports Park elapsed time record.
The 38-year-old Coughlin was considerably happier at the end of Saturday's action than he was Friday evening when his disagreeable JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt left him stranded. According to Coughlin, the team "changed everything but the paint and the driver" overnight and the dividends were obvious.
"I was rolling up there hoping something else didn't go wrong but that feeling went away real quick when I did the burnout," Coughlin said of his run of record. "I could just feel how sharp the motor was. She was raring to go. There was a crispness to the sound it was making that I hadn't heard in a couple of races.
"As I was charging down the track, clicking through the gears, I knew it was flying. I was just waiting for the finish line to get there so I could hear what we had run. I knew it was going to be a big number and I was right.
"What a job by the entire team. There was a lot of hustling behind the scenes to make me look good out there. Carl Foltz told me he was on to something and I think I just felt what he was talking about."
Coughlin will open against No. 15 qualifier John Nobile, who went 6.590 at 208.97 mph, which was a career-best pass for the native New Yorker.
Following Friday’s second session, defending NHRA World Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. was No. 13, outside of the provisional 12 carried into Saturday’s final sessions at the NHRA Virginia Nationals in Richmond.
No problem for the thirteen-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion as he went all the way to the No. 2 spot, losing the top spot on speed to nemesis Greg Anderson.
Coughlin's 6.554 elapsed time at 209.10 mph also set a Virginia Motorsports Park elapsed time record. Funny how 24 hours can change a situation.
Following Friday’s second session, defending NHRA World Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. was No. 13, outside of the provisional 12 carried into Saturday’s final sessions at the NHRA Virginia Nationals in Richmond.
No problem for the thirteen-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion as he went all the way to the No. 2 spot, losing the top spot on speed to nemesis Greg Anderson.
Coughlin's 6.554 elapsed time at 209.10 mph also set a Virginia Motorsports Park elapsed time record.
The 38-year-old Coughlin was considerably happier at the end of Saturday's action than he was Friday evening when his disagreeable JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt left him stranded. According to Coughlin, the team "changed everything but the paint and the driver" overnight and the dividends were obvious.
"I was rolling up there hoping something else didn't go wrong but that feeling went away real quick when I did the burnout," Coughlin said of his run of record. "I could just feel how sharp the motor was. She was raring to go. There was a crispness to the sound it was making that I hadn't heard in a couple of races.
"As I was charging down the track, clicking through the gears, I knew it was flying. I was just waiting for the finish line to get there so I could hear what we had run. I knew it was going to be a big number and I was right.
"What a job by the entire team. There was a lot of hustling behind the scenes to make me look good out there. Carl Foltz told me he was on to something and I think I just felt what he was talking about."
Coughlin will open against No. 15 qualifier John Nobile, who went 6.590 at 208.97 mph, which was a career-best pass for the native New Yorker.
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