Austin Prock interview regarding his Q4 run (29 Viewers)

[Percboy]

Blaming NHRA for not proper oil clean-up before his "up in smoke" Q4 run......justified or excuse?

 

[NitroLuver]

Blaming NHRA for not proper oil clean-up before his "up in smoke" Q4 run......justified or excuse?

I think it's a bit of an excuse. Buddy Hull's fire and oil down occurred down the track well after where Prock spun the tires. Prock was in the same lane has Buddy Hull and his run was immediately after Hull's fire/oil down.

 

[Rich D]

Sour grapes, but understandable considering how big a blow this was for a team with high expectations. We all want to see genuine off the cuff emotions from our drivers, but I don't think that does a lot for Austin's likeability. Considering the driver in front of him just had an incident that had the potential to kill him, his attitude could have been tempered a bit.

 

[Nitro Fiend]

It's almost unbelievable to me what he said. With the Tasca team being such a high profile story in the off season they get to the first race,struggle, and he handles it the way he did. I believe they will have a successful season on track but I hope Ford has some PR people that can coach him up. I get it, he was mad but he could have gained fans by more carefully choosing his words. Bob Frey said it over the weekend - If you want to get interviewed when you win you have to get interviewed when you loose as well.

 

[z28]

there well could have been oil there but that fails to explain the other three qualifying attempts. I'm sure they'll be testing heavily until Phoenix. If you recall in 2024 they had a terrible test session in Bradenton but came back pretty good.

 

[yoda]

Clean up was about, what- 30minutes? A car sitting in the ready box, tune up set on kill and a driver on the outside sweating bullets in Q4 and then the weather/atmospheric changes... Yup- that won't end well.

 

[Ugly Duckling race team]

even during testing prior to the race they couldn't get the car down the track. at this point a DNQ couldn't happen to a better team and I hope to see it continue to happen with this group, especially with the way they did John dirty. Plus as pointed out the next 3 pairs after Prock made it down perfectly fine.

 

[Rajunz]

I thought that his interview could not have been any worse, he came off as a sore loser. He struck the tires by the time he got to the Christmas Tree on that pass, no one oiled the track at the starting line. He should have just manned up and said that they need to figure some stuff out, instead he sounded pathetic. The first thing that came to my mind was shades of Tanner Gray!!!

 

[CS]

He's a spoiled brat who will blame everyone and everything whenever things go wrong. Others got down the track in Q4 after him with no additional track prep. Consider the fact that in testing they didn't run well. Also keep in mind that chassis is the same in consistent pipe that BT3 ran last year and BT3 kept blaming the crew. He needs to learn humility when he loses he loves the mic and cameras when he loses he wants as far aware as possible. I'm sure all the other JFR fans loved to the DNQ I know I did - KARMA baby it's a bit**!

 

[Butch]

From reading all the comments above, nobody remembers when things didn't go well for Snake, Big, Shirley and others. Then getting a mic stuck in their face. This sport has lacked RAW Emotions for a long time.

 

[CS]

From reading all the comments above, nobody remembers when things didn't go well for Snake, Big, Shirley and others. Then getting a mic stuck in their face. This sport has lacked RAW Emotions for a long time.

Harry - you're right I think most of us still remember him punching that innocent tow vehicle last year and the dent it made