because you want to SEE it

Championship contender Arana Jr. looking to sweep Dallas weekend

DALLAS, TX – One of the Pro Stock Motorcycle competitors favored to earn the Wally at the Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals, Lucas Oil rider Arana Jr and Sr Final - JolietHector Arana Jr. now has a chance to double up when Charlotte eliminations continue this weekend during the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex.

The No. 2 qualifier was geared up to take on No. 15 Shawn Gann in the first round of eliminations before deteriorating track conditions and rain postponed the entire event. While Arana isn’t concerned about the makeup race, a compacted schedule does throw a few wrenches into the team’s weekend plans.

“You know, it’s a completely different scenario now,” Arana said. “Normally we have four runs of qualifying any given weekend, and we were able to try all different kinds of things. Now we’re going to be racing during qualifying. That takes out some of the testing we would normally do during qualifying.

“Qualifying is now racing as well, and that means we’re now going to be racing the whole weekend. It should be good though. We’re all doing the same thing, so it’s an equal playing field. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”

After laying down a few fast passes in Charlotte, Arana feels confident in how his bike is performing. Even with the change in location for eliminations, Arana plans to take it one session at a time, making any needed adjustments along the way.

“We’re going to leave the bike alone for the most part,” Arana said. “The setup we have on the Lucas Oil Buell now was working in Charlotte pretty well. The plan is we will make one pass in Dallas and hopefully be able to tweak on it and go from there.”

A schedule for this weekend’s AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals will be released later this week.

Share
  • MBE Button 290x
Team/Series News
Follow Us On Facebook
Facebook Pagelike Widget