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NHRA on the scene: Indy test session

29 Jun 2016
NHRA News
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Don Schumacher Racing’s Infinite Hero Funny Car team and Morgan Lucas Racing’s Lucas Oil Top Fuel team spent Wednesday at a test session at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, working to refine their cars as we race into summer and the upcoming Western Swing and the stretch run of the regular season.
 
Indy-based NHRA FOX reporter John Kernan was on hand with a GoPro camera to document their efforts and talk to the principals.
 
Tommy Johnson Jr., DSR’s only Indianapolis-based Funny Car driver, got the call to put teammate Jack Beckman’s Dodge through its paces under the command of crew chief Jimmy Prock, who was looking to sort out some problems the team has had negotiating the starting-line area. In back-to-back final-round appearances in Atlanta and Topeka and then in Englishtown, the team smoked the tires in the title bout.
 
Johnson’s first effort was thwarted by a broken rocker arm, and subsequent runs were marred by a loss of traction.
 
Crampton and crew chief Aaron Brooks, who had begun to rebound nicely from early-season struggles, in Norwalk went out in the first round for the third time in the last four events and wanted to work on their setup as well. They ran into the 3.80s on at least one pass.