Moments in JEGS 50-Years / Mike Coughlin wins final Pro Stock Truck race

Mike Coughlin wins final Pro Stock Truck race
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NHRA believed it was onto something great when it started the Pro Stock  
Truck category in 1998 but less than four years later the announcement came 
down  that the class would be shelved at the end of 2001. The controversial 
decision  put a premium on the final stretch of Pro Stock Trucks races as 
everyone in the  category vied for the last few Wallys up for grabs.

JEGS.com truck racer  Mike Coughlin had come into his own in his Chevy S-10 
and had five national  event victories to his credit -- including two at 
the U.S. Nationals -- when the  final race in the class came together at Auto 
Club Raceway in Pomona. Coughlin  usually is a pretty quiet guy but even the 
soft-spoken Ohioan let it be known he  wanted that last trophy as much as 
any he'd raced for before.

It wasn't  going to be easy and Coughlin knew it, yet he still managed to 
take down class  heavyweights Craig Eaton, John Lingenfelter, Todd Patterson, 
and Greg Stanfield  on the final day of the season to earn a permanent 
place in the history  books.



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