The NHRA Pro Stock championship push begins in earnest this weekend for the Team Mopar® Pro Stock duo of Allen Johnson and Richie Stevens Jr. at the ProCare Rx NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown, N.J. Johnson and Stevens are focused on emerging from the first event in a six-race stretch on a path to making the final cut in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship.
The pair is well aware an all-important gamut begins at Old Bridge Township Raceway. Only eight events remain before the NHRA Countdown to the Championship reduces the Pro Stock field to the top eight drivers in the points standings. With so many events packed into such a short time frame, the drama and tension levels in the Pro Stock ranks will be high—a good thing for NHRA fans, but not so good for the Pro Stock drivers.
Johnson is currently fifth in points, with only a 41-point lead between him and the eighth and final Countdown spot. Stevens is 10th in the Pro Stock standings, with only 36 points separating him from the final berth in the Countdown. With Mopar HEMI® power and past successes at the Englishtown venue on their side, Johnson and Stevens are well positioned to shift their Countdown aspirations into overdrive this weekend.
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