Coughlin bags second top qualifier award of the season (NHRA/JEGS)

Coughlin bags second top qualifier award of the  season

NORWALK, Ohio (June 26) -- Racing to the top in his home  state, Jeg 
Coughlin Jr. of Delaware, Ohio, has proven to have the quickest Pro  Stock car on 
the property at the NHRA tour stop in Norwalk, Ohio. Coughlin  cruised to a 
6.592 at 208.97 mph Friday evening in his JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt  and 
managed to hold onto the position through Saturday's final two sessions to  
lock up the top position on the elimination grid.

"Weather could really  play a role in this race tomorrow," Coughlin said. 
"We ran that 6.59 Friday  night in what is usually the hero session, but this 
morning when we had that  cloud cover we saw plenty of cars running good 
numbers. If we get that again  tomorrow morning it could be really 
interesting."

In addition to this  weekend's national event, Coughlin took part in the 
$50,000 K&N Horsepower  Challenge where he raced to a semifinal finish, worth 
$3,000. Coughlin was the  defending champion of the event, a race he's won 
three times in the  past.

"As soon as I let the clutch out against Mike (Edwards, semifinal  
opponent) the car immediately decelerated so we thought we had an engine  problem," 
Coughlin said. "We swapped out motors before Q4 and it did the exact  same 
thing again, so obviously the problem lies elsewhere.

"I'm a little  shocked. Typically when you have a problem like this you can 
diagnose it right  away with the RacePak data we collect and fix it. We 
weren't able to do that  this time so we'll go over this thing from front to 
back and triple-check  everything to make absolutely sure we're ready for 
tomorrow."

When  eliminations begin, Coughlin will take on No. 16 qualifier Justin 
Humphreys, who  squeaked into the field with a 6.679 at 205.98 mph. Humphreys 
and Coughlin have  not raced one another this season.

In Pro Mod, Troy Coughlin became the  last driver in the class to have 
qualified for all seven races this season when  he posted a 13th-best 6.018 at 
235.43 mph in his JEGS.com Chevrolet Camaro.  Unfortunately, a faulty 
transmission ended his run in Saturday's first round of  eliminations, where he 
lost to Pat Musi.

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