Austin Prock interview Phoenix (11 Viewers)

[65 Goatboy]

How about real without the emotion? Seen interviews in the past with Snake, Coil, WJ, Mike Dunn, and some others that sure seemed that way.

You know, the Joe Friday-just the facts ma'am.

Nothing wrong with emotion but as many have said it's about what and how it's expressed. Their is no way adrenaline charged auto racing of any kind will not have emotion both good and bad. Pick any high intensity sport.

 

[My Name]

Just saying!

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

What I see in his comment is not a display of intense emotion. It's a pretty measured reply. I'm not surprised that the bottom feeders on Facebook are dumping all over the Procks but surprised at the reaction here to Austin performance on the track and during interviews. What are the crimes here? A crew chief and a driver left their team after achieving great success and moved to another team. They didn't break a contract or bad mouth the team they left. And then they come to the first race with a new car, new parts, new car owner and a tricky track and don't qualify! OMG!!!! and a lot of people on this forum (who know how difficult it is to run a FC ) can't get over it. Then Austin does the unforgivable and blames the track for the poor performance of the car. WELL, no driver has ever done that before.
Jimmy, Austin and Thomas were by far the most successful funny car team last season, and their only crime is that they did poorly in the first 2 races of this season. We all know they are going to figure out their combination very soon and start to go rounds and eventually win races. So why are so many people here treating them like they did something wrong???

 

[65 Goatboy]

What I see in his comment is not a display of intense emotion. It's a pretty measured reply. I'm not surprised that the bottom feeders on Facebook are dumping all over the Procks but surprised at the reaction here to Austin performance on the track and during interviews. What are the crimes here? A crew chief and a driver left their team after achieving great success and moved to another team. They didn't break a contract or bad mouth the team they left. And then they come to the first race with a new car, new parts, new car owner and a tricky track and don't qualify! OMG!!!! and a lot of people on this forum (who know how difficult it is to run a FC ) can't get over it. Then Austin does the unforgivable and blames the track for the poor performance of the car. WELL, no driver has ever done that before.
Jimmy, Austin and Thomas were by far the most successful funny car team last season, and their only crime is that they did poorly in the first 2 races of this season. We all know they are going to figure out their combination very soon and start to go rounds and eventually win races. So why are so many people here treating them like they did something wrong???

All of your points are true. What bothered some and myself was the disrespect and lack of class Austin showed to the Nhra and the Safety Safari. What he said was just not true and was proved by the performance of cars before and after his run. He also disrespected his sponsors, fans and the Nhra by leaving the track early. This was a new teams first race, no reason he couldn't have stayed until Sunday while the rest of the team went back to re-group.

I remember races where multiple teams blamed the track prep with good reason. Pro Stock boycott in Seattle? That is totally different then what Austin did simply out of frustration in the heat of the moment. I bet if you could ask him he would say now that he regrets it.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Just saying!

John Force and Tony Pedregon plus emotion and adrenaline and a championship on the line = KABOOM!