Yes, former IHRA Pro Stock champion Steve Spiess is racing in NHRA Pro Stock this year. No, he’s not doing it exclusively.

Spiess was running Pro Stock during the IHRA Spring Nationals in Rockingham, NC, and fared quite well, qualifying tenth.
Yes, former IHRA Pro Stock champion Steve Spiess is racing in NHRA Pro Stock this year. No, he’s not doing it exclusively.

Spiess was running Pro Stock during the IHRA Spring Nationals in Rockingham, NC, and fared quite well, qualifying tenth.
 
“I never said that we were going to completely go away from this place,” Spiess said. “We kept everything and we're going to run three or four of them, maybe more.”

The Pontiac GTO Spiess was running in Rockingham was the same one he branded the “Spiess Shuttle” for its tendency to run quick elapsed times. He converted an older car over to run the NHRA.

One could easily wonder how the transition has been for Spiess in converting from the big engines to smaller and back to big.
 
“It's kind of like riding a bike,” Spiess explained. “Once you're in a car everything should happen just fine as long as you go straight, it'll be fine.”