Coughlin hoping for repeat of Indy win in Charlotte (NHRA/JEGS)

Coughlin hoping for repeat of Indy win in  Charlotte

CHARLOTTE (Sept. 19) -- Pro Stock point leader Jeg  Coughlin Jr. ended the 
NHRA's regular season with a big win at the U.S.  Nationals in Indianapolis, 
where he emerged from the No. 12 slot to score his  NHRA-leading seventh 
victory of the year.

Two week's later Coughlin will  once again try to find the winner's circle 
from the 12th position after  qualifying for the Carolina NHRA Nationals 
with a 6.667 at 207.75  mph.

"We've had a magic horseshoe at times this year and I think we'll  need to 
wave it over our JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt tonight to get this thing  
going," Coughlin said. "We hit on both sides of the tune-up in the first three  
rounds so we changed a bunch of components that we thought were hampering us  
going into Q4 and the car reacted really well. The only problem was we gave 
it a  little too much and the track couldn't hold it.

"We're encouraged because  we think we've got it figured out now. 
Everything we changed worked out exactly  like we had hoped and that's exciting. 
We've had our best runs on race day all  year so hopefully tomorrow is no 
exception."

A 48-time winner in the Pro  Stock class, Coughlin will begin the Countdown 
to 1 against Jason Line, who  finished the regular season just behind 
Coughlin in second place. The two men  have raced nine times this year with 
Coughlin holding a 6-3 advantage. Line  qualified for this event with a 6.659 at 
207.94 mph.

"He's made a couple  of good runs this weekend and I expect he'll be ready 
to get after it in the  morning," Coughlin said. "We've had some big races 
this year against Jason. We  know what to expect from one another. It should 
be one heck of a drag  race.

"It's great to have everyone from (team owner) Victor Cagnazzi's  race shop 
here with us this weekend. We've got a lot of hard-working folks  helping 
us with the car and were happy to be here with them. It's kind of neat  to 
see the guys that normally don't get to many races coming out here to see the  
end results of all their effort. Now we need to show them what it's like to 
do  well on Sunday."

Eliminations begin at 11 a.m. with Pro Stock slated to  start around noon.

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