Dirt
Wreck at Chicago sends
Adam Flamholc into rush to
prepare a replacement
By Brandon W. Mudd
S
wedish Pro Mod pilot Adam Flam-
holc was racing at Gateway Motorsports
Park as part of the
Street Car Super
Nationals: Anarchy Under
the Arch IV. Not unusual, as
several incredible Pro Mod
aces were also on the property
at the St. Louis-area facility
to compete.
What makes Adam’s case
unique is that he destroyed
his car the prior weekend at
Route 66 Raceway during an
event there.
“Well, in the last qualify-
ing round, the car – we had
made three solid runs when
we qualified number one
– steered to the right and I
lifted,” Flamholc said. “We
took the car back and I took
it apart, checked the shocks,
checked everything, couldn’t
find anything wrong.
“In the first run of eliminations, it did the same
thing; went straight to the right. When a car like
this goes to the right, there’s something wrong
with it. It should go to the left because the mo-
tor steers them to the left. I lifted and steered it
back to the groove and I slowly got back on it and
the car started bouncing from side to side. My
foot bounced a couple times on the accelerator
a couple of times and I hit the left wall – hard –
after the finish line.”
The beautiful ’63 Corvette Flamholc raced is
now being front-halved. So what’s a racer in need
to do? That racer goes out and buys a new car,
a 2012 Mustang to be precise. And he brought
it to Gateway just a few days after acquiring it.
“Yes, sir,” he said. “We went and got it and we’ve
been working 24/7 with it since Sunday. There
was more work that needed to be done than we
expected. We had to take the motor and the trans-
mission and some things out of the old car and
then we found some stuff on the new car that we
didn’t like, so we had to change a lot of things
in it. We had to move the X
bar in the middle to get the
transmission in it and move
a lot of new stuff everywhere,
but we had like six or seven
people working nonstop on it.”
While the international
drag racing star did plan on
purchasing a new car, one
that is quarter-mile legal
in order to race full time in
America next season, Flam-
holc didn’t necessarily plan
on having less than a week
to actually buy it and turn it
around in order to race with it.
“I don’t like to give up,” he
said. “We race hard. I race
this full series in the US, I
race a full series in Russia,
I’m tuning six or seven cars
in Europe. I go to between 25
and 35 events every year all
over the world and I don’t like to give up, espe-
cially when I’m driving myself.
“But this is kind of extreme.”
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