Apr 12, 2022
Jim Yates and Johnny West join host Brian Lohnes on this
episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast. The two highly decorated
veteran racers have turned their considerable experience into the
kind of working knowledge teams desperately need in modern drag
racing. For Yates that is coaching and crew chiefing rookie pro
stock racer Camrie Caruso and for West it is working with a myriad
from the biggest to the smallest in the sport in order to help get
their programs on track or down the track faster.
Jim Yates talks about a wide range of topics from how his
teaching methods have changed with age, how pro stock cars have
evolved, and how he is working with this fresh team to turn on win
lights during a pressure-packed rookie season. He recounts a famous
story from 1994 where he took the legendary Darrell Alderman to the
cleaners twice on the starting line perhaps to the dismay of Buster
Couch. A great conversation.
Johnny West talks about his development and engineering of
parts on nitro cars, his history in drag racing, and his approach
to working with smaller teams to sort their programs out. It is the
basic bedrock knowledge of a veteran racer being used to better the
cars and thereby the sport. West tells of his astonishment to get
the call from the CAPCO Contractors team to work on Billy
Torrence’s car and how it has been a great experience thus
far.
Two guys who live and breathe drag racing telling their
histories. What’s better than that?!
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