Should the sport revive the brand-loyalty rivalries?
You're standing in front of the mirror in the morning. “Absolutely - because I think the same thing about them damn Fords,” he said.
The Mustang driver, in volunteering to swap cars for a grudge match, prefaced his remark by saying, “I've never driven a hunk of s- GM in my life, but I'll drive one … “ĭid Johnson take offense at Tasca's shot at the K&N car's manufacturer? While Head and Tasca both complained that Johnson could have made his point without insulting the nitro-class drivers, Tasca moved the argument to another plane. On a light-hearted note, Johnson got a kick out of Head's remark about this feud being “one senile old man to another.” I don't want to see anybody hurt out there.” I was speaking for every car that's not a fuel car. His contention, he said, was that the racetracks need to accommodate the needs of every racer, “not for the less than one-tenth of a percent of the race cars that are out there.” He said, “Maybe we need to help NHRA get this situation fixed. “But they've got to start looking at it like we're not the only people out there. Then he said, “I have nothing against Bob (Tasca) or any of the guys out there,” he said. He said of Tasca's reaction, “That's the case of a spoiled brat.” I didn't say they didn't have any talent.” I said it didn't take much talent to drive those cars down the racetrack, because everything is pretty much taken care of. He referred to Tasca and Head as “laptop cowboys” who “didn't really listen to what I said - they didn't hear what I said.
“This is just big-time auto wrestling,” Johnson said Friday while preparing to qualify his K&N Pontiac GXP at the National Hot Rod Association's FRAM-Autolite Nationals at Infineon Raceway. I've driven just about everything, but at this point I've got other fish to fry. While Johnson conceded that he “probably got a little overzealous last weekend,” he held fast to his convictions that prompted the war of words.Īs for whether he'll take up Head and Tasca on their dare, Johnson said, “You never know. In the process, he offended Funny Car drivers Jim Head and Bob Tasca, who returned fire and challenged Johnson to drive a flopper - blindfolded, even. Warren Johnson spoke out last Sunday at Seattle about the NHRA's track-prep performance in an effort to defend not only the honor of the Pro Stock class but to force the sanctioning body to make drag racing safer.
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