Nothing says mojo like a No. 1 qualifier.

Allen Johnson scored an impressive Pro Stock victory at the NHRA Summernationals two weeks ago and proclaimed that he’s found his mojo. He’s so proud of it that he showed it off in first day qualifying at the NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown, N.J.

Johnson covered the quarter-mile in 6.607 seconds at 208.23 miles per hour to beat out this season’s strongest qualifier, Mike Edwards, who was only .003 off of Johnson's Mopar-sponsored Dodge Stratus. If the run holds it will mark his first of the season and the seventh of his career.

Nothing says mojo like a No. 1 qualifier.

Allen Johnson scored an impressive Pro Stock victory at the NHRA Summernationals two weeks ago and proclaimed that he’s found his mojo. He’s so proud of it that he showed it off in first day qualifying at the NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown, N.J.

Johnson covered the quarter-mile in 6.607 seconds at 208.23 miles per hour to beat out this season’s strongest qualifier, Mike Edwards, who was only .003 off of Johnson's Mopar-sponsored Dodge Stratus. If the run holds it will mark his first of the season and the seventh of his career.

Johnson admitted that he outperformed Edwards the old fashioned way. He rolled the dice and gambled.

“Mike’s been qualifying so good that we had to just go for it,” Johnson said Friday evening in the post-qualifying press conference. “We changed some chassis stuff around and hit it down low.”

He didn’t just hit it down low. Johnson murdered the mark with a .964 sixty-foot clocking, .24 quicker than Edwards.

“My dad is doing an awesome job with the motors and the guys are giving me an incredible car,” Johnson said. “Tonight we just rolled the dice and got aggressive. There was cloud cover and the car really worked good.”
 

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