Nitro Crew Chief Shuffle

[Pete]

anyone care to elaborate on the other half of this rumor concerning, or not concerning, the stringer performance TF team?

my bet is Jim O joins Kloeber at Stringer

 

[Jer]

my bet is Jim O joins Kloeber at Stringer

Hope your right!

 

[mick]

one week later. does anyone know anything besides paul lee is skipping vegas next weekend, and will return sans jim o.?

 

[zippy]

Hint...hint

http://competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/paul-lee-makes-changes-to-his-nitro-funny-car-crew

 

[BOO BOO]

It will be interesting to here the story about what's going on in Clay's camp. My 2 cents if Jim O is in and Klobler is out that's a step backwards. If Jim O is additional set of eye's that's a different story.

 

[mgty3whlr]

I'm thinking a second set of eyes. Clay and Klobler have been really good friends for a very long time and it looks like Clay has some pretty good funding now.

 

[Rajunz]

Klober gone, Jim O taking over Clay's car.

I don't get that. Why would Klober be gone? That car has been running well since last fall. Jim Os car, not so much.

 

[mikebcurve]

I certainly hope Klober stays. They really deserve a chance at an NHRA championship after all of their IHRA success together.

That being said I notice a lot of negativity toward Jim Oberhofer taking over. I would think he could do well. Wasn’t he the one who tuned Doug Kalitta to a lot of his most successful times? Even Alan Johnson seemed to struggle a bit with funny cars.

 

[Pete]

I certainly hope Klober stays. They really deserve a chance at an NHRA championship after all of their IHRA success together.

That being said I notice a lot of negativity toward Jim Oberhofer taking over. I would think he could do well. Wasn’t he the one who tuned Doug Kalitta to a lot of his most successful times? Even Alan Johnson seemed to struggle a bit with funny cars.

I don't see Kloeber going anywhere and would be stunned if that happened....but on the flip side, if it is a cut and dry addition of Jim O, you'd think there would be an announcement by now

 

[Randy]

I don't see Kloeber going anywhere and would be stunned if that happened....but on the flip side, if it is a cut and dry addition of Jim O, you'd think there would be an announcement by now

In before Mike English says it already happened.

 

[Mike]

RG, I dont believe myself sometimes

 

[Jer]

Jim Oberhofer named crew chief on Clay Millican Parts Plus Top Fueler

Stringer Performance will have a new crew chief when it rolls into the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals this weekend in Las Vegas as Jim Oberhofer will take over the tuning on the Parts Plus Top Fuel dragster driven by Clay Millican for the remainder of the 2022 season.

www.nhra.com

Im sure kloeber will land something soon,right after he got his new office chair too lol.

 

[Scoe]

Wow

 

[Paul]

What in the world did Kloeber do to get shit canned? Top 5 in points isn't too bad.

 

[drag racer]

agree - i believe Kloeber to be one of the best crew chiefs out there, and has a 3.6X tune-up but was under immense pressure to not hurt parts (or let's say - extend the life of parts longer than Torrence, for example) because of the small Stringer budget

 

[Ramjet]

What in the world did Kloeber do to get shit canned? Top 5 in points isn't too bad.

Do you know for sure he didn't quit?

 

[mick]

remember when rob wedland was suddenly released from one of the dsr funny cars? i think it may have been johnny gray's?
we never heard anything on that one either, and that car was no slouch........sometimes things happen and the rest of us are probably better off not knowing.
.......that being said, i can't believe this news either.

 

[5150 mechanic]

Maybe some personal work related stuff. I thought he owned a business of some sort that he had to tend to in the past.

 

[Pete]

I am a bit stunned by this...I just hope Jim O can fit in and keep that freight train rolling

 

[Jer]

agree - i believe Kloeber to be one of the best crew chiefs out there, and has a 3.6X tune-up but was under immense pressure to not hurt parts (or let's say - extend the life of parts longer than Torrence, for example) because of the small Stringer budget

I always thought that maybe true about parts,has to be hard to be a crew chief and not run full blast.