Nitro tuner shake ups coming

[FABMAN]

Good for Jimmy. Nobody is looking out for him as long as Forces sponsorship opportunities are in flux, and he knows it.
Somewhere, another exiled part of the "family" (Coil) is laughing at the hypocracy.

There you go again George.

 

[FABMAN]

He is Moving to DSR it was going next year. John released on Monday to be free to move over sooner

DSR knew this would happen.

 

[Muddy]

The only question is will Prock start tuning Beckman at Vegas or wait until next year. The rest is a done deal.

 

[Leebone]

So it's Beckman? If so, that makes sense. Fast Jack is outside looking in. He could use Prock's help.

 

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So is Medlen gone too or not?

 

[Country21]

Don't think so Medlan is mentioned a few times as part of the brain trust during the press confrence

 

[Randy]

Force just saved himself some end of year bonus money likely due to Prock. First, second or third place might have meant a payday for Jimmy.

 

[turbo ken]

DSR is not a "secure" place to be a crewchief at either. "The Don" fires them without any notice.

 

[Toejam]

Pretty much how most businesses operate. You don't want to be here, then I don't want you here. The same day you turn in your notice (whether it was for 2 weeks or 2 months) is the same day you pack your stuff and leave for good. Happens the majority of the time. With that being said, I hate seeing Prock go. But I don't think the wheels are falling off at JFR just quite yet.

I was one who thought the day Austin Coil left JFR, the team would die! We all know how well that worked out...lol

 

[none]

I was one who thought the day Austin Coil left JFR, the team would die! We all know how well that worked out...lol

Although Austin Coil was The Man, I wasn't concerned that JFR would perish when he left. But I certainly was disappointed that their relationship had deteriorated to the point that he felt compelled to leave, especially the way it ended.

 

[Sean D, shondoo]

If it's true and Prock going to DSR ( he said in the press conference he knew where he was going) than he made the right call. It could potentially be a conflict of interest to have a tuner you know is going to the competitor tuning your car against his future bosses car

If any part of these two sentences would prove to be true, then it says NOTHING of Jimmy Prock's character.

Sean D

 

[parrotwhisperer]

I think Prock will go to Ron Capps. Capps (read that NAPA) NEED a championship. Prock can deliver no question about that. Prock gets a TOP team with budget and a fat paycheck for years to come. JFR can't deliver that right now. JFR may well deliver a pay cut and/or a parked car. John has said he would not fund the car out of pocket and there has been talk of running a partial schedule next year if full sponsorship does not materialize and so far it has not. Prock (and others at JFR) have to take care of themselves. This way Prock comes out on top. Look for others to follow. I think the Don will just move other people/chiefs around and not fire anyone. If he gets better shop/crew people out of the deal that is a different story. The Don will keep the cream.

 

[Country21]

During the press conference yesterday Force said he will run out of his pocket next year if need be

 

[Terry]

Forces says he will fund the car, Force says he won't fund the car, he will be racing next year, he is disbanding his team...everytime he opens his mouth he is telling a different story. I get the feeling he is in a total quandary as to what to do, but telling two or three different stories about what happened and what is coming for the future has to be unsettling at the least to potential sponsors. If I wasn't aware of his ability to run off the mouth and the need to take anything he says with a grain of salt, as potential "partners" might not be, I might wonder if he's going a bit off the deep end....

 

[MHayes]

...he is disbanding his team...

Force never said that.......you may want to go back and read what he said on disbanding again

 

[Terry]

Michael, what I read was him saying that his team was the only team that was losing personnel. That to me sounds like disbanding. THEN he said in the next interview that his team was intact less Prock. As a rule, I'm a pretty careful reader, but I don't read the Force propaganda with the rose-colored glasses some others do, so maybe we DID see two different articles...

 

[MHayes]

Terry, you stated that HE was disbanding him team......to me, that's a lot different than personnel leaving because they want to

 

[Terry]

No, actually HE said he was disbanding his team. “My team is the only team that has kind of been disbanded," Force said." Quoted verbatim from the article currently on Comp Plus. As a rule, I try to not make this stuff up....

 

[mw6789]

Only DSR can afford him? Don't forget the team from Quarter. They could buy DSR if they wanted too. But how did we get to this point? How did we get to the point where crew chiefs are highly paid and highly skilled bomb makers that build these engines in hopes that they won't blow up but they know there's a 80-90% chance they eventually will? Professional drag racing today is too professional. It got to the next level but it's one that most of our heros like Snake, Amato and Bernstien can't afford and the cars are so damn dangerous they had to shorten the track. The price that's being paid for these low ET's is way too high in my opinion. And now we have two national event tracks that might close and yet we're worried about this? Drag racing's economic bubble is going to pop one of these days because the cost of running these cars are more then the sponsors are willing to pay.

This pretty much sums up the whole deal IMO.

 

[Project Paladin]

Did the crew guys leave also?