Larry Morgan had a bit of a wild ride for himself during J&A Service Pro Mod Eliminations at the NHRA Southern Nationals last weekend. Morgan is driving the Brad Anderson owned and tuned Chevrolet Camaro in the series for the first time and had advanced to race Todd Tutterow in the second round of eliminations on Sunday. As you will see, Morgan’s car came off the starting line and began to wad the tires up very, very hard.
The violent tire shake caused the car to launch across the track and it also caused Morgan to employ his considerable racing experience to keep a bad situation from getting worse. The car gets up into the middle of the race track and essentially glides right down the center stripe, cleaning off some of the timing blocks in the process. Larry is hard on the brakes and you can see him working the wheel to keep the car from heading toward the guard wall.
Ultimately it blew out the front tires and that was about it. We caught up with Larry after the fact that he was laughing when he told us that he was thanking his starts that they did not scratch the paint during the ride. Tutterow advanced to the next round on a nice clean run, but everyone was left talking about Larry’s wild slide down the center of the strip.
No, there was nothing on the track and no, Morgan’s car did not leave anything on the track.
whoopsiedoodle!!
Is that Warren Johnson on the starting line with Larry?
WJ was at the race hanging out with those guys. He lives right down the road.
Nice driving…. saved the car and made it look easy.
Sure looks like WJ
A lot of years driving race cars on view for all to see and appreciate!
I gave up on the NHRA a few years ago.
It\’s good to see a seasoned,talented old-school \”shoe\” like Larry Morgan still with a gig.
Also good to see WJ.
I like his engineering ideas on the new fuel injection manifolds for NHRA Pro-Stock.
Rock on.
WJ AND LARRY ARE OLD FRIENDS AND YES THAT WAS HIM YOU SAW. WJ CURRENTLY HAS 2 COMPLETE PRO STOCK CARS (PONTIACS) SITTING IN HIS SHOP. I THINK IT WOULD BE COOL TO SEE HIM AND KURT BRING A CAR OUT WITH KURT BEHIND THE WHEEL AND WJ DOING THE TUNING. MAYBE A NITROUS CAR—-WHERES THE $ PEOPLE-NEED TO GET THESE GUYS BACK OUT THERE. LOVE TO SEE THEM IN REAL RACING AGAIN-NOT SAYING JUST NHRA BUT PRO MOD ACROSS THE USA-WJ\’s HP AND KURTS DRIVING—-HELL YEAH