my bet is Jim O joins Kloeber at Stringer
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Hope your right!
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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.
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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.
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
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RG, I dont believe myself sometimes
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Im sure kloeber will land something soon,right after he got his new office chair too lol.
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
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What in the world did Kloeber do to get shit canned? Top 5 in points isn't too bad.
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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
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Do you know for sure he didn't quit?
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.
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.
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Maybe some personal work related stuff. I thought he owned a business of some sort that he had to tend to in the past.
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I always thought that maybe true about parts,has to be hard to be a crew chief and not run full blast.
