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Second-round hiccup costs Team JEGS’ Troy Coughlin
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BRISTOL, TN – Staging a turbocharged Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series vehicle can be a delicate 
balancing act, and Team JEGS driver Troy Coughlin was on the unfortunate end of the balance beam during Sunday’s second round of the NHRA Ford Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway.
Coughlin lit the red light on the Christmas Tree, indicating he left the starting line too soon. That handed the victory to series points leader Khalid Balooshi and ended what had been a solid weekend for Coughlin.
Coughlin qualified 13th with his JEGS.com Pontiac and beat Ed Hoover, who was third in Pro Mod points, in the first round.
Troy Coughlin returns to site of career-best outing looking for more
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BRISTOL, TN – The last time Troy Coughlin won an event at Bristol Dragway he was awarded the largest cash prize of his career. This time through, the world champion drag racer would be happy with a simple little statue — the 
special-edition 60th anniversary pewter Wally awarded to the winner of the Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series event to be held in conjunction with this weekend’s Ford Thunder Valley NHRA Nationals.
“We won the Winston Showdown and earned $50,000,” Coughlin said of his Y2K triumph in Pro Stock. “That was a cool deal, for sure, but that was more than 10 years ago. It’s time to make some new Bristol memories and winning our first Pro Mod race of the season and getting one of those rare Wallys would be very special.”
Racing crew chief Jake Hairston’s twin turbocharged 2008 Pontiac GTO until his new car is ready, Troy has become a bit of a cult hero on tour this year as he pits his small block machine up against the giant motor combinations of his rivals. But after posting a few competitive 5.9-second passes, he’s become more than just a sideshow.
Jeg Coughlin earns historic triple victory in Edgewater
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Cleves, OH – For all of his great success in drag racing, including 67 national event victories and five world championships, Jeg Coughlin never experienced a day like the one he enjoyed Sunday at the Ultimate 64 Shootout at
Edgewater Sports Park. Driving his JEGS.com dragster and his classic ’67 Chevy II station wagon, Coughlin participated in four events on Sunday and came away with three victories.
“In all the years I’ve raced, I never had a day like this,” said Coughlin. “This was something special. I was not on fire; in fact I made a couple of ugly runs, but I managed to get by. Once we got rolling, I didn’t think about too much other than the task at hand. The good thing about making so many runs is that you don’t have too many opportunities to get distracted.”
Coughlin began the day with a quarterfinal finish in the rain-delayed $50,000 to win main event, losing a close race by just two thousandths of a second. After that, he reeled off 19-straight round wins between his two entries, beginning the historic rout with a $10,000 payday in the final of the Estes Oil Company Big Bucks event. Coughlin, who is taking a hiatus from the NHRA Pro Stock class this year in order to compete in events such as the Ultimate 64 Shootout, won the final round over another recognizable NHRA pro, Shawn Langdon, driver of the Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster.
Coughlin stays red hot with second Top Sportsman win of 2011
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Joliet, Ill. (June 13) – Taking full advantage of the momentum created by his season-opening win last month in 
Indianapolis, Mike Coughlin struck again as he drove his JEGS.com Cobalt to the Top Sportsman title in the final round of the North Central Division Lucas Oil Series event at Route 66 Raceway.
Coughlin extended his winning streak behind the wheel of his 200-mph Chevy to ten-straight rounds to collect the tenth Lucas Oil Series title of his career. Coughlin drove to a 6.761 elapsed time on his 6.76 dial-in after opponent Kevin Waller encountered a mechanical problem and was late off the starting line. Ironically, Coughlin would have lost the round on a breakout had he run quicker by just two-thousandths of a second, but he managed to lift off the throttle at precisely the right moment.
Team JEGS ready for action at Ultimate 64 Shootout
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CLEVES, OH – After a fun weekend at the JEGS U.S. Open Bracket Championship in Bowling Green, Ky., the JEGS team 
will return to the highly competitive arena of high stakes E.T. racing again at this weekend’s Ultimate 64 Shootout presented by JEGS at Edgewater Sports Park.
The team roster will once again include five-time world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr., his nephew T.J. Coughlin, and his fiancée Samantha Kenny. All three will be driving their distinctive yellow and black JEGS.com dragsters, while Jeg will also be racing his sinister black Chevy II wagon.
The highlight of the Ultimate 64 Shootout will be Saturday’s main event which pays $50,000 to the winner. There will also be three separate $10,000-to-win races and three “second chance” events to go along with a $12,000-to-win high roller event on Friday night.
Points leader Coughlin eyes more success at Route 66
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CHICAGO, IL – Mike Coughlin will be looking to extend his lead in Top Sportsman’s North Central Division points 
standings when he brings his powerful 200-mph JEGS.com Chevy Cobalt to this weekend’s Division 3 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Route 66 Raceway.
“We got off to a great start this year with the win in Indy, now the challenge is to see if we can pick up where we left off and then maintain that pace for the rest of the season,” said Coughlin, who already has two Top Sportsman D3 championships to his credit. “I like the fact that we are heading to Joliet for this race because it is one of my favorite tracks. It is an extremely nice facility and I’ve had some success there in the past. It’s a track that is very friendly to fast cars.”
Coughlin won the Super Comp class at Route 66 Raceway in 2005 and returned in 2007 to claim the Top Sportsman title.
Since his last race, Coughlin and his JEGS Mail Order crew, including Greg Cody and Tony Collier, have done little more than routine maintenance to the team’s Jerry Bickel-built Cobalt. Coughlin believes the car is as good as it can be heading into the race.
Jeg Coughlin Jr.’s ‘Six Shooter’ victory recognized on National Dragster cover
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DELAWARE, OH – The day that “National Dragster” arrived in the mail has long been a special one around the Coughlin 
household.
“With three older brothers and a racing father, the day the ‘National Dragster’ came was the highlight,” said Jeg Coughlin Jr. “We looked forward to it and fought over who got to read it first or you would hear “wait don’t turn the page I am not done reading”; since more than one was reading at a time. I’d sit there and pretty much read it from cover to cover when it was my turn.
“It still holds true to this day.”
The June 10 issue of “Dragster” is going to send even more excitement through the Coughlin clan and JEGS Mail Order headquarters because it commemorates Jeg Coughlin Jr. becoming the first person to collect national event wins in six different classes in the 60-year history of the NHRA.
“It wasn’t anything I ever set out to do,” Coughlin said. “It just kind of unfolded that way and it’s nice to be a part of a unique piece of history.”
Coughlin disappointed with early exit from E-town
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ – After a season-best result at the last stop of the Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, Troy Coughlin was pumped up about this weekend’s 42nd annual NHRA SuperNationals. But some gremlins in
his JEGS.com Pontiac’s electronics left him outside the elimination field with a best pass of just 6.083 seconds at 238.60 mph, .079 seconds off the necessary pace.
“We worked really hard to come here and compete in these NHRA races, and when you have little gremlins come up and bite you here and there, it can put you back a little bit,” said Coughlin, a past winner at the Englishtown event. “The JEGS.com team is strong and we’ll get past this. We’ll go back to the shop, regroup, and make sure we’re 100-percent ready for Bristol in two weeks.”
Coughlin and crew, who posted a first-of-its-kind 5.95-second run in their small-block GTO in Georgia, put some new computerized batteries into service this weekend and Coughlin is pointing to the new apparatus as the probable cause of their issues at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
Big bucks up for grabs at JEGS U.S. Open Bracket Championship
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BOWLING GREEN, KY – The seventh annual JEGS U.S. Open Bracket Championship takes center stage in the world of Sportsman drag racing this Thursday through Sunday at historic Beech Bend Raceway Park.
With big dollars on the line for four straight days, including first-prize paychecks of $10,000 on Thursday and Sunday and $20,000 on Friday and Saturday, the “Big Go of Bracket Racing” is sure to attract the largest stars in the sport.
“This is one of the biggest drag races of the year, no matter what you race,” said Troy Coughlin Jr., one of three JEGS-sponsored drivers competing at the event. “It would be a dream come true for me just to win one day of this thing because you would know you beat the best of the best. Heck, they can keep the check; I just want to win.”
Coughlin will be joined in the Team JEGS pit by his uncle Jeg Coughlin Jr., a five-time world champion, and Samantha Kenny, who is engaged to Jeg Jr. All three racers will pilot JEGS.com-themed dragsters at the event, with Jeg Jr. also running his distinctive JEGS Chevy II wagon.
Troy Coughlin eyes new goal heading into E-town drag race
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ENGLISHTOWN, NJ – JEGS.com pilot Troy Coughlin has won a world championship and drag races across the 
country. He’s competed in a variety of racecars and has usually found success. But in his chosen sport there’s always another milestone to reach, another goal to attain, and for Coughlin the next big objective is claiming a Wally trophy in the Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series.
Coughlin has won Pro Mod races before. In fact, he won an Iron Eagle trophy during the 2005 running of the NHRA SuperNationals, which once again take center stage this weekend at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. But back then Pro Mod was run strictly as an exhibition class and winners didn’t get a coveted Wally, the longtime object of desire for drag racers.
