Bobby “Nitro” On BangShift
On the eve of the March Meet, Bobby McLennan shares his thoughts on BangShift about the state of the AA/Fuel Dragster scene.
Here he officially shares his thoughts about the two-car team (the Chrysler shoed by Adam Sorokin and a Chevy driven by Larry Gotelli, Jr.),
Among the hot topics: transmissions have been okayed for testing and match racing, but not competition in the Heritage Series. Of that, he says, “In Top Fuel-as opposed to the Funny Cars, our rules say we run high-gear only. No transmission. We got the okay from NHRA to experiment with a transmission-the Funny Car rule package was put together fifteen years after we did ours. They took a number of components that we had and said, “What if we do this and what if we do that?” I don’t think their rules are perfect, but they certainly sparked a class to build forty-plus cars. (AA/Fuel Dragster team owner) Mike Fuller’s recommendation to NHRA was that with the (bigger) Hoosier tire, we try the transmission to limit the rpm and limit the load that we are putting on our engines and hopefully everything last a little bit longer.”
Eseential reading for the inquisitive nitromaniac.