WORLD DOORSLAMMER NATIONALS
ANOTHER
BARRIER
BROKEN
JEG COUGHLIN JR. ADDS INAUGURAL
WORLD DOORSLAMMER NATIONALS TITLE
TO RETIREMENT TOUR ACCOLADES
PULLING INTO THE LANES for the final round of the Drag IllustrateD
World Doorslammer Nationals at Orlando Speed World Dragway,
Jeg Coughlin Jr. could sense something special.
The starting line was crowded with people, giving an outlaw
feel to Pro Stock for perhaps the first time in class history,
and two legends were set to face off in a magical setting of an
inaugural race.
There was a no more fitting finale than Coughlin and longtime
rival Greg Anderson – a pair of icons pitted against each other
with $75,000 on the line – and both delivered in epic fashion.
In a side-by-side thriller that will be remembered for years, Coughlin’s
run of 6.484-seconds at 212.36 mph in his RJ Race Cars JEGS Camaro
edged out Anderson’s 6.485 at 213.81 in his Summit Racing Equipment
Camaro, handing the five-time Pro Stock world champion the biggest
single-race payout in the history of the class, which is celebrating its 50th
anniversary in 2020. It set off a memorable celebration and gave Coughlin
another incredible moment in a career that has been filled with him.
“I’ve been fortunate to run a bunch of big-money bracket races in my
career and I’ve seen the organized havoc like this, and it’s just badass,”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS SIMMONS, ROGER RICHARDS, COURTNEY ENDERS,
STEVE BRENWALD, WAYNE STEWART, DARRELL MARTIN, BEN HEINDL,
LUKE NIEUWHOF, KAYLEE CURRAN, AND DWAYNE CULPEPPER
OUT WITH A BANG JEG COUGHLIN’S
FINAL YEAR RACING FULL-TIME IN PRO
STOCK ALREADY HAS ONE INCREDIBLE
MEMORY THANKS TO HIS VICTORY AT
THE WORLD DOORSLAMMER NATIONALS.
THE FIVE-TIME WORLD CHAMP HAS
PUT TOGETHER A REMARKABLE LIST
OF HIGHLIGHTS, AND THE TRIUMPH IN
ORLANDO ONLY ADDED TO IT.
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