NHRA 2014 Silly Season - Post News Here

[ocdart]

More "Silly Season" happenings for the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season continue to happen so I thought we might as well have a single thread to post them all to:

• NHRA.com (Nov. 20): Announcement that Morgan Lucas Racing will not be running their 2nd car [the Protect The Harvest/MavTV Top Fuel dragster] during the 2014 series since they no longer have the extra funding to go along with the Lucas Oil funding. That put Brandon Bernstein out of the driver seat and Joe Barlam out as the Crew Chief. Both of them started work the very next day as part of Al-Anabi Racing - Brandon as Al-Anabi Racing's General Manager and Joe as the assistant crew chief on Khalid al-Balooshi's gold Top Fuel car. Here's a link to the complete story: http://www.nhra.com/story/2013/11/2...of Rick and Rickie Jones. [/LIST] [/FONT]

 

[Budnicks]

More "Silly Season" happenings for the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season continue to happen so I thought we might as well have a single thread to post them all to:

• NHRA.com (Nov. 20): Announcement that Morgan Lucas Racing will not be running their 2nd car [the Protect The Harvest/MavTV Top Fuel dragster] during the 2014 series since they no longer have the extra funding to go along with the Lucas Oil funding. That put Brandon Bernstein out of the driver seat and Joe Barlam out as the Crew Chief. Both of them started work the very next day as part of Al-Anabi Racing - Brandon as Al-Anabi Racing's General Manager and Joe as the assistant crew chief on Khalid al-Balooshi's gold Top Fuel car. Here's a link to the complete story: http://www.nhra.com/story/2013/11/20/bernstein-barlam-al-anabi/
• NHRA.com (Nov. 20): Veteran crew chief Lee Beard has been named Top Fuel and Funny Car consultant to NHRA and will work closely on Top Fuel and Funny Car initiatives with NHRA’s tech department

ocdart thanks for the update

 

[64BEL]

And Vincent Nobile is switching to a Camaro for 2014. He'll be getting his engines from KB Racing.

No loss. J&J will still win without him.

And Bob Vandergriff 86ed Rob Flynn and took Clay Millican's crew chief (Kurt Elliot) away from him. I haven't heard what's happening with Clay yet. I did hear that Parts Plus hadn't made sponsor payments to the team for some time, so he may be without a sponsor.

 

[Budnicks]

And Vincent Nobile is switching to a Camaro for 2014. He'll be getting his engines from KB Racing.

No loss. J&J will still win without him.

And Bob Vandergriff 86ed Rob Flynn and took Clay Millican's crew chief (Kurt Elliot) away from him. I haven't heard what's happeneing with Clay yet. I did hear that Parts Plus hadn't made sponsor payments to the team for some time, so he may be without a sponsor.

I hope Clay picks up a sponsor, he has earned it... silly season for sure

 

[GrabberOrange69]

Interesting news. Thanks for posting. I hope when (!) the economy gets better NHRA sponsorship can grow back to pre-housing bubble $$$