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If you have ever met Jason Sloan (Seen here lining up Charlie) and Tim Matherly, you can tell they have discerning taste buds. It’s usually up to Charlie McCulloch to make sure everyone can enjoy a nice meal at The Sizzler come Sunday evening. Unfortunately for the boys, McCulloch redlit his way out of Exedy Racing Modular Muscle. “The car is working great, but the nut behind the wheel needs tightening up,” McCulloch said early Sunday. Thankfully, he was going rounds in ARP Open Comp. Hopefully for Sloan and Matherly’s sake, he can get a win so the boys can eat well tonight. Otherwise, it may be a PB&J night on the way home.  

Ray Roman works at Competition Auto, and the shop is well represented here at the NMRA NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Sipple’s Speed & Performance. For his part, Roman competed in Circle D Specialties True Street with this 2020 Mustang GT. His car features a Whipple 3.0 supercharger teamed with an ATI damper, Boundary oil pump gears and sprocket, and an in-house HP Tuners calibration. He just swapped over to Baer drag brakes prior to this weekend, and the car also boasts Driveshaft Shop (DSS) 2,000 horsepower axles and one-piece driveshaft, Weld S77 beadlocks, Nitto 555RII drag radials, and Steeda Autosports’ Stop the Hop package. Roman’s best time is a 9.58 at 149 mph, but here at the All-Star Nationals he won the 10.00 class to put a little money in his pocket. 

Tim Flanders used to race his 1986 Mustang GT in NMRA Circle D Specialties True Street, but when the Suncoast Performance 8.60 Street Race class was introduced, he jumped in with both feet. His GT features what could be just one recipe for arriving at an 8.60 car, which is a single turbo Coyote with an automatic. Specifically, Flanders’ relies on a 91mm Forced Inductions single turbo paired with a Fonzie Novelo Coyote engine and a John Capizzie Turbo 400 transmission with a Circle D Specialties converter. Flanders uses a Holley Dominator EFI system to tune the car, and he says when making sure the car can run the number, it’s not super sensitive to weather changes, which definitely helps to stay consistent. The only issue Flanders has had this weekend is he had to replace the new alternator on it Saturday night, but otherwise, everything has worked accordingly.     


There are some lucky kids here this weekend at the NMRA NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Sipple’s Speed & Performance. Innovative Performance Technologies signed on to sponsor a class called Jr Street, where kids ranging from 13-16 years old can race in their own class against kids their age. The class is set up as a bracket class and a parent or guardian has to ride in the car during competition runs. Justin Jones, son of Joseph Jones, is running this 2007 Mustang GT in competition, which as owner of Woodbine Motorsports, of course the car is modified. The GT boasts simple mods because Jr Street is limited to 8.50 in the eighth-mile, but the car benefits from suspension upgrades, a cold air intake and a Woodbine Motorsports tune. The younger Jones is in the final of Junior Street, and his goal is to one day compete in Vengeance Clutch Coyote Stock. By the way, dad Joseph also runs this car in HP Tuners Super Stang.


After having his Exedy Racing Clutch Modular Muscle Mustang and its trailer stolen, Pete Blosser was pretty down. He wasn’t about to let the thieves keep him that way, however. He decided to find a new race car, and it happened that his friend John Russell Sr. had a sweet 1990 Mustang LX race car and agreed to sell it to Pete for a song. The car in question is powered by a Gen 2 Coyote Cobra Jet crate engine boosted by a Whipple supercharger and backed by a Rossler Powerglide with a Coan converter. Tuned by Ben Craven, the Fox coupe is capable of low eights, but he shorts-shifts it at 6,200 rpm to run in the 8.60s in Modular Muscle.


Bill Worstell got his gorgeous 1966 Ford Mustang fastback for just $800 when he was about 15 years old back in the mid-1970s. He fixed it up and got it running, then drove it in high school when he met his wife, Kelly. Worstell raced the car for a few years in the 1980s and had it repainted right after his son and NMRA Vengeance Clutch Coyote Stock racer, Aaron Worstell, was born in 1992. The classic pony car sat in the garage for several years after that, but Worstell realized it was meant to be driven. For the 60^th anniversary of the Ford Mustang this year, he and Kelly road tripped from their home in Missouri to Birmingham, Alabama. From there, they drove to visit family in Charleston, South Carolina before continuing on to North Carolina and to Rockingham Dragway for this weekend’s race. Worstell won the CJ Pony Parts Ford Muscle category with his 1964 Ranchero at the NMRA season opener in Florida, and decided to run his Mustang this weekend to earn some points to help keep his lead intact.


Andy Russell knew he was on a pass in Exedy Racing Clutch Modular Muscle in his New Edge stallion powered by a BES Super Two-Valve engine breathing through a carburetor. In the off-season, G-Force Racing Transmissions performed maintenance on the transmission and he added a new ring and pinion and Strange axles. However, it was a bit too good, as he broke out and fell to Jay Misener in round one. Ever the dedicated racer, he is making his maiden voyage in Bracket today and hoping to adjust to a new tree. 



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