Pro Stock driver Larry Morgan started the 2006 season well, but slumped going in the second half and ended up 11th in the final standings, after two DNQs.

Pro Stock driver Larry Morgan started the 2006 season well, but slumped going in the second half and ended up 11th in the final standings, after two DNQs.

The veteran from Newark, Ohio, has been trying to figure out what the problem is and, after failing to make the field for last year’s finale at Pomona and the season-starting CARQUEST Auto Parts Winternationals here, Morgan thinks he might have an answer.

"We have been checking everything but didn’t take a close look at the brakes until after qualifying this afternoon," Morgan said Saturday night as he checked out of his track-adjacent hotel. Apparently his right rear brake was 50 thousandths off and Morgan thinks that’s the big difference. "I don’t know what happened, but we’re gonna take it all apart and try another set of rotors," he said.