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Top Sportsman’s Jeff Brooks Adds
to History of Englishtown Success
By Nate Van Wagnen
In addition to his crew, brother Jamie and
father James, Brooks thanked transmission
builder Bernard Weaver, longtime supporters
Kaeser Compressors and
Sonny Leonard of Sonny’s
Racing Engines.
“Our biggest thing right
now is we switched to Big
Stuff 3 fuel injection that
Sonny put on the motor for
us. We did that three years ago
and it’s been amazing. We had
a learning curve when we first
switched to it, but our consis-
tency has improved since then.
When we get to the track we
have loads of data that we can load into the car.
It’s worked out real well for us. I will never, ever
own another carburetor,” Brooks laughed.
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Issue 122
J
eff Brooks doesn’t know
what it is about New Jersey’s
historic Old Bridge Township
Raceway Park, but it’s a track
where he’s enjoyed considerable success
ever since he won an NHRA divisional
race there in Super Gas in the late 1990s.
He’s also earned a runner-up finish in
Super Gas and a win in Top Sportsman
at the NHRA Summernationals in the
past before winning this year’s Sum-
mernationals in his ’51 Henry J Top
Sportsman entry.
“The track’s been good to me,” Brooks
said. “It was a tricky racetrack this past
year with the heat. I didn’t get down the
track on Thursday’s qualifying pass. We
basically came to the conclusion that
it was going to be a slick racetrack all
weekend. We set the car up a lot calmer
and we just hit the right combination.
We’ve been doing this for a long time
so we have enough data with this car
and the track to make consistent runs.”
Racing out of the sixth spot, Brooks
drove his Dan Page-built Kaeser Compressors
entry to round wins over Eric Cabral, Luc Angers,
Bob Cornine and Ronnie Proctor before running
6.84 on a 6.79 dial-in to defeat Ron Riegel in
the final round. It was Brooks’ second win in
three weeks.
“We’re having a great year. We won the NHRA
divisional race at Norwalk a couple weeks be-
fore Englishtown. There were 53 cars trying for
32 spots. The bump was a 6.89, which I think
ended up being the quickest field in NHRA Top
Sportsman history. We didn’t do so well at the
Maple Grove divisional, but then we went to Eng-
lishtown and won there. Any time you can win
two out of three events in a row is pretty good,”
Br ooks added.