Allen Johnson has been around drag racing long enough to know one can never say never in this sport. However, the Mopar-sponsored driver feels pretty confident in saying that his 6.591 elapsed time during first day qualifying at the NHRA Mid South Nationals will stand throughout Saturday’s qualifying.

Simply put, the weather at Memphis will be the deciding factor. Allen Johnson has been around drag racing long enough to know one can never say never in this sport. However, the Mopar-sponsored driver feels pretty confident in saying that his 6.591 elapsed time during first day qualifying at the NHRA Mid South Nationals will stand throughout Saturday’s qualifying.

Simply put, the weather at Memphis will be the deciding factor.

“By 11 am today it was already 80 degrees, and when it gets like that you’re not going to see those .971 and .969s,” Johnson said, in reference to the sixty-foot times recorded in Friday’s much-cooler second session.

Johnson is carrying a large measure of confidence into each race because his Mopar is running strong in the latter half of the season. Such a performance increase at the right time in the season suits Johnson.

He continually credits his engine builder/dad Roy Johnson for the performance gains.

“This engine he had in the car was about six or eight horsepower stronger than the engine we ran last weekend,” Johnson added. “We usually perform good in these kinds of conditions and we just went for the throat.

“If I can do my job as a driver, Mark Ingersoll do his as a crew chief, we’ve got the car to beat. We’ve had the car to beat for about the last few races. If we get it together we can win the next four races.

“We haven’t done anything for the past few races. It’s our time and we’re about pissed off.”