NORTHERN FORCE RACING DEBUTS NEW SPONSOR AND TAKES HOME SOME HARDWARE

London, ON – Competing in just the eighth race weekend of his career, and just two years shy of obtaining his first NHRA competition license, Jory Elliott put his family owned Super Stock A Modified in the winner’s circle for the first time ever this past weekend during the NHRA National Open in Napierville, Quebec. The team also collected Best Engineered honours at the event, a first for team owner and multi-time event and award winner Bob Elliott.

“This win is just so amazing considering it was our first with the new sponsor and only our second outing of 2012,” said an elated Jory Elliott. “I’m so lucky to be able to do this with my family and to give our team its first win in more than 20 years, it really means a lot to me.”

That win came on Friday the 13th during a warm-up race for the $10,000 Stock/Super Stock shootout on Sunday, a fact that’s not lost on Jory. “I think we’re gonna have to plan to run a race every Friday the 13th from now on,” he said. “We’re pretty much newbies when it comes to class racing so it took us a while to get the car right and for me to find a driving procedure that would work in this car. This was the first weekend where we didn’t change anything from the previous event and it really paid off.”

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