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JEGS NHRA Cajun SPORTSnatioals No Problem Raceway Park
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Belle Rose, LA – There will be a total of five JEGS Mail Order entries in competition this weekend at the JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals. Mike Coughlin will in Top Sportsman while his brother Jeg and nephew Troy Jr. will be racing in
Super Comp. In addition, Jeg’s fiancée, Samantha Kenny will also race in Super Comp and Mike’s son, Jack, will be in action with his JEGS.com Jr. Dragster.
Jeg and Mike are both prior winners of the JEGS NHRA Cajun SPORTSnationals. Jeg won the Top Dragster title at the 2006 event while Mike won the Super Comp title in 2005 and also claimed a runner-up finish in Top Sportsman in 2009.
In just thee years of NHRA racing, T.J. Coughlin has already won a pair of national event titles at the 2009 Las Vegas event and the 2010 Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.
Team JEGS driver Samantha Kenny is also a former national event champion, winning the Super Comp title at the Norwalk race in 2009.
The only driver to double at the JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals is Tommy Phillips who drove to both the Super Comp and Super Gas titles at the 2009 event.
All roads lead to the bayou for the JEGS NHRA Cajun SPORTSnationals
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Belle Rose, LA – Located deep in the bayou country of Southern Louisiana, the small town of Belle Rose has become a 
Mecca for NHRA Sportsman racers during the annual JEGS NHRA Cajun Sports Nationals, which takes place this weekend (March 18-20) at No Problem Raceway Park.
Since the inaugural event in 2004, track operator Pat Joffrion and his staff have made the JEGS SPORTSnationals a huge success by creating an atmosphere which combines the competitive elements of an NHRA national event with the down-home friendliness that defines the phrase “Southern Hospitality”.
Intense competition in nine NHRA eliminators; Comp, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, and Sportsman Motorcycle presented by Harley-Davidson.
Jeg Sr. takes his rightful place among drag racing giants
Ocola, FL – Drag racing legend and high performance parts magnate Jeg Coughlin Sr. was inducted into Don Garlits’ International Drag Racing Hall of Fame Thursday night before a packed house at the University of Florida Hilton. Presented for induction by auto racing announcer extraordinaire Marty Reid, Coughlin was joined on stage by his four sons and step-daughter, and was cheered on by a mass of family and friends that made the trip from Delaware, Ohio, for the special occasion.
Troy Coughlin returns to action with a turbo Pro Mod car
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GAINESVILLE. FL – Four years ago, world champion drag racer Troy Coughlin made the bold move to try a turbocharged powerplant in his Pro Mod entry. The results with the brand-new technology were mixed at best, as
Coughlin and his JEGS.com crew mostly struggled to harness the massive amounts of horsepower the combination was producing.
Fast forward to 2011 and this weekend’s 42nd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals, the season-opening event of the Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, and Coughlin is back with a turbo power-adder, looking for much better results, including some victories and a potential run at the championship.
“The technology between now and then has improved so much,” said Coughlin, who abandoned his first foray into turbocharged racecars to chase the National Muscle Car Association title, which he won in 2009. “The parts are better and engines are holding together without damage for a lot longer.
T.J. Coughlin dreaming big as he heads to Gatornationals
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GAINESVILLE, FL – JEGS Super Comp dragster driver Troy Coughlin Jr.’s goal of contending for the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series national championship in 2011 begins this weekend at the 42nd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA
Gatornationals at historic Gainesville Raceway.
Beginning the day after his famous grandfather Jeg Coughlin Sr. gets inducted into Don Garlits’ International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, the significance and prestige of competing at one of drag racing’s “majors” is not lost on the 20-year-old Coughlin, who is known as T.J. to his friends and family.
“If you’re a drag racer than the Gatornationals definitely gets your heart pumping,” T.J. said. “I remember my dad (Troy Coughlin) racing to the final round there when I was 9 years old and I was listening at home. He had Warren Johnson in the final and W.J. beat him that day and I was so upset I threw my shoe at the T.V. My mom just about killed me.
Team JEGS / Pre-race Notes – NHRA Tire Kingdom Gatornationals
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Gainesville, FL – The Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals will mark the season debut for Troy Coughlin in the Get Screened America Pro Mod Series. There are ten Pro Mod events on the schedule for 2011. Last year, Troy Coughlin
drove his JEGS.com Chevy Camaro to a fourth place finish in the highly competitive series.
Troy will be racing a Pontiac GTO in Gainesville that is owned by Team JEGS crew chief Jake Hairston and his family. The car is powered by a 396-cid turbocharged engine and has already run speeds of over 240-mph. Troy expects to drive the Hairston entry for the first two events while he awaits completion of his own Chevy Camaro that will also feature a turbocharged engine combination.
Coughlin honored, humbled as Hall of Fame induction nears
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GAINESVILLE, FA – Jeg Coughlin Sr. always has been quick to deflect praise to the people around him, but this 
Thursday at the University of Florida Hilton it will be impossible for him to avoid the spotlight as he takes his rightful place in the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame presented by Lucas Oil.
Known as much for the high performance parts company that bears his name as his success on the quarter-mile strip, Coughlin will join fellow straight-line legends Joe Amato, Clayton Harris, Leonard Abbott, Rich Guasco, Fred Sibley Jr., and Ed Almquist at the 21st annual fete.
“Someone asked me how it felt to be inducted and I said it seems like it’s going to be a lot more fun accepting this honor in person than having someone go up there after I’m dead and saying, ‘He was a good guy,'” Coughlin said with a laugh. “Gosh, you just don’t think about stuff like this and I’m so thrilled to be included. It’s a pretty exclusive club and it’s darn special to be a part of it all.
“My deepest thanks to Pat and Don Garlits for thinking of me and for keeping this thing alive year after year. I’m sure it’s a lot of work to put something like this together and to keep their museum going but it’s neat they take the time to give us all a place to get together with old friends and talk about drag racing.”
Mr. Aruba Winter Nationals raises $4,900 for JEGS Foundation
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Aruba Winter Nationals in an effort to raise money for the JEGS Foundation Racing For Cancer Research project.T.J.’s Championship Dreams begin Friday in Bradenton
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BRADENTON, Fl – Troy Coughlin Jr. is so focused on success in 2011 that he spent this past weekend at an old airstrip 
to make absolutely sure his JEGS.com Super Comp dragster is ready to fly at this weekend’s Division 2 season-opening Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Bradenton Motorsports Park.
The son of drag racing champion Troy Coughlin Sr. and grandson of Hall of Fame member Jeg Coughlin Sr., Troy Jr. — or T.J. as he’s known to friends — has designs on making a charge at both the NHRA Division 3 and overall national championships in 2011.
He knows this weekend’s race will decide the early tone of his season and he’s placed a large amount of importance on his performance.
Troy Coughlin Jr. starts season in South Florida at Nitro Jam
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PALM BEACH, Fl – With a bright new paint job and a take-no-prisoners attitude, T.J. Coughlin and his JEGS dragster is starting the season with a mini-tour of Florida.
