WHEELMAN DEFINED
Jeg Coughlin Jr., widely known as one of the best natural driving talents the sport
of drag racing has ever known, launches off the starting line during the NHRA
Spring Nationals en route to his first number-one qualifying effort in three years
with a 6.557-second pass at 210.70 mph in his JEGS.com/Elite Motorsports Chevy
Camaro. “It’s definitely not a huge surprise,” the six-time world champion said of
the team’s significant uptick in performance early in 2017. “We’ve gone through
quite a transition over here at Elite Motorsports. We’re still early in the season
and we have shown some real flashes of brilliance with elapsed time and speed.
Now we are just trying to balance everything to get it all to happen at one time.”
Photograph by NHRA / National Dragster
Royal Purple Raceway | Baytown, Texas | Friday, April 21, 2017
April 2017
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