Al Ackerman

[shawn fleischmann]

I just want to once again congratulate Al Ackerman, Dave Ring, and everyone who helped him this year on his unbelievable championship run coupled with an Indy win. Not only did he score the most points in NHRA Competition Eliminator history but he also won the championship by the largest margin. Al has worked a long time on building and perfecting his 4 cylinder program and all of the hard work finally paid off. The ProStart car was a consistent contender to win every race you attended.

Also, congratulations to Glen Treadwell on his 2nd Place championship finish in his ProStart built G/ED. Like Al, Glen also builds all of his own motors and this just shows you that hard work really does pay off. Glen's dragster is actually Richard Bourke's A/ED before he stepped up to A/Fuel.

 

[Professor Dave]

Not only did he score the most points in NHRA Competition Eliminator history but he also won the championship by the largest margin.

Shawn,

Al's point total of 717 fell one point short of Bruno Massel's total of 718 last year. The really impressive fact about Al's championship run is that he took no permanent index in doing it!

But Shawn is right in taking pride in the fact that both the champ's and runner-up's cars were built by his dad, as was the car in my avartar-if any one ever wants a race car built of any kind, Pro-Start is the place to call!

 

[squid]

great Job guys