Possibly the best news of the weekend for John Force Racing was the progress that Robert Hight and crew chief Jimmy Prock have made with their Auto Club Ford Mustang. With nearly every run they got from point A to point B. In the night session last night they were bitten by some bad luck but when it counted in the last qualifying session they brought their “A” game to Rt. 66 Raceway.

“Last night on the night run that is what we thought it might run. It looked like it should have run that. It closed the gap on a spark plug and then it dropped a cylinder. That wasn’t a tune up issue. It wasn’t anything but just bad luck. Had we run that 4.14 last night we would have been in a lot better shape both runs today so we started behind again,” said Hight.

“I was really paying attention to who was qualified and who could bump us back and who couldn’t when I was in the lanes. When it came our turn to run I knew we could not get bumped out and lots of our guys we trying to tell Jimmy to go for low ET. I spoke up and said no. I said we need to go down the race track. If we mess up tonight we are dead. We would go into first round still hunting. If we make a respectable run it will give Jimmy something to tune for first round. I don’t care who we are racing or anything else. It has got to start going down the race track. It was a nice run. It wasn’t a barnburner but Jimmy can look at that run and see where he can tweek it. We need to tweet and not hunt.”

“Trust me I am ecstatic about going down the track. The next thing after this is we need to go to the next race no matter what happens tomorrow with the same parts. We can’t go and hunt next week for something else that is going to maybe make us better. We need to work out what we have. I home that come Indy we have the same parts on this Mustang and we have just refined this combination. We don’t need to be searching and hunting and testing every week. We have to refine this just like Guido has done with Ashley’s Mustang.” 

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