CONSISTENCY WORKS FOR ALLEN
Sun, 2009-03-08 08:00
When someone mistreats you, you kill them with kindness.
When you’re not the quickest or fastest Pro Nitrous car in competition, you kill them with consistency.
That’s the path New Iberia, La.-based Stan Allen took to the winner’s circle at the ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza V hosted by Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas. When someone mistreats you, you kill them with kindness.
When you’re not the quickest or fastest Pro Nitrous car in competition, you kill them with consistency.
That’s the path New Iberia, La.-based Stan Allen took to the winner’s circle at the ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza V hosted by Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas.
After stopping Tim Savell in the first round with a 4.124, Allen used a 4.049 to beat Pat Stoken and a 4.033 to take out low qualifier John Pilcher before getting the best of Jim Halsey in the final round.
Halsey beat Allen out of the gate, but backfired the engine late in the run. That was the break Allen needed.
“We were never dominant, but we did get after it hard every round,” Allen said. “Being consistent paid off and in the end the track came back to us. We weren’t the fastest in every round but we were fast when we needed to be.”
Allen has been racing in the Pro Nitrous division long enough to know that it’s never your weekend until the final win-light comes on.
“You have to keep fighting at it,” Allen admitted. “In the back of your mind you always want to believe that win is yours.”
Sometimes you need all of that hope when you face a racer the caliber of Jim Halsey, a driver who had been as quick as a 3.84 the week prior and was the second quickest qualifier in Pro Nitrous.
“I’ve been in Jim Halsey’s position before and know what it’s like to be that killer car,” Allen admitted. “It’s never your win until that light in your lane flashes. You just have to run your race and hope it all falls in your corner.”
When you’re not the quickest or fastest Pro Nitrous car in competition, you kill them with consistency.
That’s the path New Iberia, La.-based Stan Allen took to the winner’s circle at the ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza V hosted by Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas. When someone mistreats you, you kill them with kindness.
When you’re not the quickest or fastest Pro Nitrous car in competition, you kill them with consistency.
That’s the path New Iberia, La.-based Stan Allen took to the winner’s circle at the ADRL Safety-Kleen Dragpalooza V hosted by Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas.
After stopping Tim Savell in the first round with a 4.124, Allen used a 4.049 to beat Pat Stoken and a 4.033 to take out low qualifier John Pilcher before getting the best of Jim Halsey in the final round.
Halsey beat Allen out of the gate, but backfired the engine late in the run. That was the break Allen needed.
“We were never dominant, but we did get after it hard every round,” Allen said. “Being consistent paid off and in the end the track came back to us. We weren’t the fastest in every round but we were fast when we needed to be.”
Allen has been racing in the Pro Nitrous division long enough to know that it’s never your weekend until the final win-light comes on.
“You have to keep fighting at it,” Allen admitted. “In the back of your mind you always want to believe that win is yours.”
Sometimes you need all of that hope when you face a racer the caliber of Jim Halsey, a driver who had been as quick as a 3.84 the week prior and was the second quickest qualifier in Pro Nitrous.
“I’ve been in Jim Halsey’s position before and know what it’s like to be that killer car,” Allen admitted. “It’s never your win until that light in your lane flashes. You just have to run your race and hope it all falls in your corner.”
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