Awesome Video: Listen To Al Segrini And Tom Prock Tell Match Racing Stories In A Kalitta Racing Hauler Lounge


Awesome Video: Listen To Al Segrini And Tom Prock Tell Match Racing Stories In A Kalitta Racing Hauler Lounge

Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall behind the scenes at an NHRA race? We’re not talking sitting in race control or watching a crew guy slip new bearings into an engine, we’re talking about being where the cool stuff is happening. Well here’s your chance and you have to thank Nicky Bonifante and Jon Oberhofer for creating the “Late Night Lounge with Buck and Jannno” video series. Basically you are getting a window into the DHL team hauler lounge and some of the cool stuff that happens there. In this case it is Tom Prock and Al Segrini telling stories of their days as barnstorming funny car match racers and it is truly awesome.

Segrini is a local hero in my part of the world because he ran a nationally competitive car and had big time sponsorship right up into the 1980s. Prock is also a legend in his own right, having driven such monsters as the Prock and Howell F-Troop outlaw gasser, multiple well known funny cars like the famed “Custom Body Dodge”, and he’s the dad of nitro master tuner extordinare Jimmy Prock. The win in this video is two-fold. The first is the fact that Jon and Nicky have a great appreciation for the history of the sport and the guys who built this whole monster along the way. The second is the fact that they are great at sitting back and letting these guys tell their stories which are freaking fantastic.

The Late Night Lounge series is pretty fun and if you have not been watching this episode may spur you along to tuning in as new stuff is loaded. Yes, there is some adult language and most of it is beeped out so if that’s a problem, you have been warned. We think that the stories and the whole scene is great and we think that you will dig it, too.

It doesn’t get any better than guys like Al Segrini and Tom Prock telling the stories of drag racing’s wild past!


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