Rickie Smith Racing
Smith Scores Third NHRA Pro Mod Title with Musi Power
MOORESVILLE, NC — With Rickie Smith’s securement of his third NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Series 
Championship during the NHRA Toyota Nationals at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the number of top-level doorslammer racing championships won using power from Pat Musi Racing Engines jumped up to six in just the last four years. A Musi powerplant has been on board every PDRA Pro Nitrous world champion: Jason Harris (2014), Rickie Smith (2015) and Tommy Franklin (2016). Add to that Smith’s additional NHRA championships (2013, 2014 and now 2016), and Musi power has unabashedly dominated Pro Mod competition across both series.
“Rickie’s run has been astounding. I feel like he’s done everything he could do,” stated Musi, who is currently tuning cars in the Middle East. “I feel like we’ve done everything we could do. It’s been a pretty good run the last four years. Ever since he’s been with us, he’s won championships. He’s a big part of our whole program. He helps with the chassis, and we give him the power and reliability. The combination is obviously a winning one.”
Rickie Smith Dominates NHRA Pro Mod in Atlanta with Musi Power
MOORESVILLE, NC – “Tricky” Rickie Smith extended his points lead in the J&A Service NHRA Pro Mod Drag 
Racing Series with another impressive win at the NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. In the three events contested on the tour thus far, Smith has been in every final round, with a second victory coming in Atlanta.
Smith’s Musi-powered, IDG-backed 2015 Camaro led the pack with a 5.781-second elapsed time at over 250 MPH. He continued his domination in eliminations and was the quickest car in three out of the four rounds of competition, taking down Gerry Capano, Doug Winters and Steve Matusek en route to the finals. Former Top Fuel pilot Khalid Al Balooshi was driving Smith’s backup car at the event, which was also toting a Musi Racing engine that qualified him third. Al Balooshi nearly made it an all-Musi final, powering to the semifinals before succumbing to Kevin Fiscus on a holeshot loss. In the Smith/Fiscus final, Fiscus once again had a holeshot lead, but Musi power allowed Smith to overtake Fiscus early and he never looked back, posting a 5.873 to Fiscus’ 6.072. Smith now sits 147 points ahead of Danny Rowe in the championship points standings.
