It was no easy trip for Bob Tasca, III as he collected his second win of his career, and second this year, beating Mike Neff in the final round of the Toyo Tire NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway.
Tasca had to get past Ron Capps, Robert Hight, John Force, and Mike
Neff to collect the Wally his mother had earlier predicted was coming
his way.
“My mom's my biggest fan, team photographer,” Tasca said in his post
race interview. “Very fortunate to have a lot of wonderful people
around me. My guys, you know...if you see what goes through a race
weekend, when you're throwing rods out and almost burn a car down and
fixing a body...it is an unbelievable amount of energy and
concentration. You hate to see something happen to Mike, I mean
obviously he doesn't cut point two lights, I mean obviously something
happened, he got distracted, it's happened to me, on more than one
occasion. But it does come down to every little thing means so much in
what we do. The guys gave me a hot rod that put me in a position to win
and I did my job and the rest is history.”