Everyone loves to see their friends succeed and that’s why we were smiling doubly wide two weekends ago at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas watching our pal Steve Matusek capture a win in the J&A Service Pro Mod class. Matusek won the Wally driving the Aermotive sponsored Camaro that’s one half of the Aeromotive/Agave Underground team. Both cars are tuned by Jimmy Rector and the second machine is driven by Danny Rowe. The pro mod class has been insane over the last few years with basically double the number of entries than can qualify at every race. The show is beyond words.
Steve is the founder and president of Aeromotive and that’s where he spends all of his non-race car driving time. The company has been killing it on the fuel delivery side of hot rodding for more than 20 years now and they have fuel pump solutions for everything from cars that make 300hp to the pro mods that make 3,000 and up. They race what they sell and they use that experience to make the stuff even better. FACT.
NHRA Pro Mod Driver, Steve Matusek, Clinches First Pro Mod Victory at 2017 NHRA Spring Nationals
Lenexa, KS – April 26, 2017 –Steve Matusek, a founding member of the Real Pro Mod Association (RPM) achieved a new milestone by winning his career-first Pro Mod race at the 2017 NHRA Spring Nationals. Chalking up the win at last Sunday’s NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series event at the Royal Purple Raceway, he was recorded with an impressive 8.985 second pass at 124.96 mph.
Matusek defeated Danny Rowe in the quarterfinals before racing against top qualifier, Castellana. While Castellana set the national elapsed time record in his second pass registering 5.685 at 259.99 mph, he fell to Matusek in the semi-finals. In the final race of the series, Shane Molinari left the starting line before the Christmas Tree activated.
Matusek said, “It felt great to have a win so early in the season against such a strong field of competitors. I could not have done this without the support of my wife Lori, Danny Rowe, his wife, Val, and Jimmy Rector! We make a strong team.”
The next scheduled NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Race will be held this weekend, April 28-30, at the eighth annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte, NC.
Final finish order as follows: 1. Steve Matusek; 2. Shane Molinari; 3. Mike Castellana; 4. Jonathan Gray; 5. Danny Rowe; 6. Mike Janis; 7. Troy Coughlin; 8. Shannon Jenkins; 9. Chuck Little; 10. Michael Biehle; 11. Eric Latino; 12. Steven Whiteley; 13. Larry Morgan; 14. Khalid alBalooshi; 15. Sidnei Frigo.
