There's a storm brewing for NHRA Pro Stock driver and Competition Eliminator Robin Hood, Rodger Brogdon. Soon the tempest will hit the strip. 

For Brogdon, this storm is the design on his forthcoming Pro Stocker from KB Racing bearing the name of his Rooftec brand, a roofing company that has aided countless storm victims in getting their properties back to normal. 

"The whole car is a big giant storm with lightning bolts, tornadoes, and everything else on it," Brogdon explained. "Even though I'm not a storm chaser, I know the car will draw a lot of attention. I just wanted to do something a little bit different."

Brogdon's business also specializes in new home builds and will be cojoined in the 2023 NHRA Camping World Series by iconic brand Owens Corning in his run for a title. 

Brogdon was loading up his transporter so veteran chassis builder Jerry Haas could drive it to Chandler, Az., to participate in this weekend's Professional Racers Organization Nitro Spring Training session at Wild Horse Motorsports Park outside of Phoenix, Az. 

Brogdon is ready to get in his first laps after a significant win where he didn't even have to dump the clutch.

Brogdon became the third Pro Stock champion of the Virtual Hot Rod Association, a nine-race fan vote series where votes decide both qualifying and round wins. He won four races, including the season's final event, the World Finals, staged at the non-existent Ontario Motor Speedway. 

"I think it's incredible," Brogdon said. "I didn't know I had that many fans, but obviously, I got some that cared enough to vote about me, so I'm very excited."

Brogdon has visions of success on the track; he hopes others do as well in his pet project, the Rooftec D4 Competition Eliminator Bonus Fund, which pays out up to $300,000 in prize funds. 

In the third year, Brogdon is building the foundation for a robust NHRA D4 Competition Eliminator program. 

"It's just the overall excitement and racers appreciation that keeps me coming back because it's a lot of work for me, I'll be honest with you," Brogdon said. "But it's very well appreciated, and heck, it's a lot of fun having 35, 40 cars, division races again is the way it was 15 or 20 years ago. 

"We have got guys coming from California way up from the Northeast, like the Boston area and everywhere else, to run our division  for that money this year."

Brogdon has even offered parking space on his Houston property for those traveling from afar to make the challenge of racing this program not so challenging logistics-wise. 

"I can probably park 15 rigs back here if they need somewhere to park them," Brogdon added. 

As if the 225,000 reasons to run NHRA D4 Competition Eliminator weren't enough of an incentive, Brogdon plans to dangle an additional carrot for the participants. 

"Now people can come run our series and not even have to claim D4, which makes it really cool," Brogdon explained. "We have six divisional races, two national meets, eight total. You can run them all, you can run six, you can run seven, but you got to run at least six to qualify. 

"Let's say you run six races, and whatever your total of points accumulation is out of your best six or just the six you run is the points you're going to get. We have a little something special if you win the Houston national meet and the Dallas national meet, you get a $25,000 bonus."

And for Brogdon, all of this going on is quite a storm to chase.

"It's one of those rare good storms, though," Brogdon surmised.