Drag Illustrated Issue 125, September 2017 | Page 95

MATTIAS WULCAN Past FIA Pro Mod cham- pion Mattias Wulcan and his team of Swedish, diehard crew members are proving to be just as successful on the North American continent as they were in Europe. Wulcan drove his “Black Bird” ’69 Camaro to the final round at the last two races, complementing his win at Darling- ton earlier this season. Wulcan was also the low qualifier at Tulsa and the GALOT fall race. “It’s amazing that we can go so steady and so fast all the time,” Wulcan said. “The crew is doing a great job right now. We come together more and more, and we can go do great things together. It’s a big team effort – we’re only four guys flying back and forth (from Sweden). We’re feeling really good right now.” PRO NITROUS LIZZY MUSI With horsepower sup- plied by her father Pat, Lizzy Musi has had the most consistently fast Pro Nitrous car at any given time. The driver of the AAP/Lucas Oil ’15 Dodge Dart solid- ified that reputation when she left GALOT Motorsports Park with the elapsed-time and speed world records. Musi posted an incredible 206.54-mph blast in the PDRA Drag Wars semifinals, then ran a 3.656 at 206.42 to defeat defending world champion Tommy Franklin in the final round. “It was like rolling dice going into the final because we put a bigger tune-up in this thing, unlike anything we’ve done before,” Musi said. “It all came together. The motor took it, the car loved it, and this car definitely loves this track. Then in the first round I had my first .000 reaction time in competition, which was exciting for me as a driver. Everything just came together.” PRO BOOST JEREMY RAY Longtime PDRA Pro Boost competitor Jere- my Ray experienced the most gratifying weekend of his four-year time in the class when he earned his first win at PDRA Drag Wars. Ray also drove and tuned his Roots-blown “Carolina Kingpin” ’63 Corvette to multiple career-best passes in the victorious per- formance, but the ability to run with the GALOT Motorsports entries tuned by Todd Tutterow and Jeff Bohr was perhaps the performance mark that pleased Ray the most. “It’s awesome to finally get a win over here,” Ray said. “I’ve been digging and trying to outrun GALOT for the last few years. Those three cars are tough. Todd Tutterow is a bad dude – he’s one of the best. I finally out-qualified them in Indy, then Ty (Tutterow) and I had to run in the finals. Ty out-qualified me by two-thousandths here (at GALOT), but I was able to outrun (John) Strick- land. Beating him was almost better than the win because those guys are tough – they’re the best.” EXTREME PRO STOCK CARY GOFORTH HOT? PRO EXTREME Mountain-motor Pro Stock veteran Cary Go- forth added a second PDRA world champi- onship to his long list of accolades when he defeated Jeff Dobbins in the Drag Wars final round. It was Goforth’s third consecutive win and fourth final round on the season in his Dean’s Casing Service/Dewayne Higgins Trucking ’14 Camaro. He previously won the PDRA champi- onship in 2014, when he also won the IHRA Pro Stock world championship. “This is number eight for us,” Goforth said of his multiple championships. “I’m sitting here thinking, ‘What am I going to say about that?’ I think for the first time, I’m going to have some t-shirts made to celebrate this one. I’m really proud of this. We worked hard for this one, raced some tough competitors all year. If it weren’t for Dad, Dewayne (Higgins) and our guys, I wouldn’t be here right now.” PRO EXTREME MOTORCYCLE BRAD MCCOY While Drag Wars winner Brad Mc- Coy isn’t in cham- pionship contention this late in the sea- son, he seems to be enjoying his role as a spoiler for the two contenders, Travis Davis and three-time cham- pion Eric McKinney. McCoy did something in the first round of Drag Wars that no one else has been able to do since the season opener, and that is beat Davis to the finish line. It may have been the upset of the year, and it certainly affected the Pro Extreme Motorcycle championship situation. “Travis really needed that round win. He’s a great racer. He even came over and helped me put a new motor in our bike after we raced first round. You can’t get better sportsmanship than that. I felt I did him a favor – that final round (over McKinney) was payback for him helping me,” McCoy laughed. Big winners, record- setters, and who is on a roll in the PDRA PDRA660.com 95