While his rivals rested over Father's Day weekend in anticipation of the
upcoming 39th Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals, reigning Pro Stock champion Jeg
Coughlin Jr. was at Indianapolis Raceway Park winning $25,000 at the JEGS U.S.
Open Bracket Championships.
Coughlin logged more than a dozen rounds of
cutthroat competition against 350 of the best sportsman racers in the country --
including the nine straight he needed Saturday to claim the top prize -- to tune
up for his next Pro Stock race.
"It was a tough-fought battle every
round," Coughlin said. "I went through more household names in one race then you
see in a year. It was brutal, but a lot of fun.
"It definitely doesn’t
hurt to race in a deal like this. The cars are different, sure, but the
discipline you need, the lights you need to cut every round, the focus you have
to maintain, the need to basically perform flawlessly in the cockpit, all of
that helps."