Morgan Lucas Racing

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How the heck did J.R. do that???!!!!!I’m absolutely speechless. OK, granted, you have to accept that the kid was going to win a race at some point and you might have expected him to do it long before this late in the season, but beating Tony Schumacher in the final??!!! The guy who hasn’t lost a single round of racing since Norwalk? The guy who had a seven-race win streak going??J.R. beat him. On a holeshot. End of story.In a ...

“This place is unreal!”I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone exclaim that statement over the weekend at zMax Dragway in Charlotte. If I did, I might be almost as wealthy as Bruton Smith himself.We expected the new track to be impressive, but even I was stunned by the size, layout, and accommodations of this incredible racing showplace. No, we didn’t get to see four cars racing simultaneously but I was told be several of Bruton’s ...

The U.S. Nationals always delivers. The “Big Go” was just that. I couldn’t even begin to share every storyline and incidental development I personally witnessed over the weekend.But I can state without question that one of the most indelible images I will definitely carry away with me is the look of total and unmitigated disappointment and frustration on the face of Morgan’s dad, Forrest, as he stood at the starting line during eliminations on Monday and watched the racers which ...

Cruel. Just plain cruel.Is there a better word to describe what happened to Morgan on Sunday? OK, fine, there are a couple of other words that might be more on the money but someone’s kid might log onto this page and we wouldn’t want to get angry emails from parents.In case you missed it, Morgan was having a great weekend in Maple Grove and it looked like he might have enough momentum to FINALLY get into the top ten and ...

Bring back the quarter-mile.This isn’t aimed at the NHRA or anyone in particular. This is just a personal reaction to what I’ve seen in the past four national events. The track is too short. It needs to be 1320 feet. Not 1000.One of the greatest accomplishments in the history of sports, in the opinion of many, was Abner Doubleday’s decision to make the distance between the bases in baseball 90 feet. Perfect. Think about it. A runner who hits a ...

Time is running out. Brainerd, Maple Grove, Indy. Then, the Countdown to 1 begins. If the Countdown to 10 were to end right now, Morgan would miss the title tournament by 9 points and J.R. would be 103 points short. So, unless the boys begin to pick up some round wins pretty soon, well, don’t make me write it.It’s not going to take a lot of complicated mathematics to analyze how Team Lucas fared on the Western Swing. There were ...

Only 10 points. Half-a-round of racing. Not much, is it?It must seem like a million miles to Morgan. He has been flirting with the top ten all season. A round win here, a couple there, and the top ten remains just out of his reach. He has four more races to get into the Countdown to 1 and then he’ll either have as good a shot at the championship as the other nine racers in the playoffs, or—for the second ...

One of the great debates in drag racing these days—especially since the arrival of multi-car teams—revolves around team orders. There have been some real nasty arguments throughout the sport over the pros and cons of teammates taking a dive for the benefit of the other and I’m not going to weigh in on the issue now.But there’s a flip side to the scenario and we saw it Sunday in Denver. Morgan and J.R. raced in the first round, meaning that ...

Hey guys, can we start having some fun yet?For cripe’s sake, can someone get the email address of the Luck Fairy?This is really taking the word “sucky” to unheard of levels.Cory Mac. It’s hard not to like him. Man, he’s been there and back. At one time, was probably the best known driver in Top Fuel when he was driving for Joe Gibbs and was sponsored by McDonalds. Those were some heady times for Cory and just about everyone knows ...

As lousy a weekend as I think I’ve had at a national event in a long time.And to make matters worse, I drove down to E-town with my two sons, Will, age 18, and Sean, age 12, to enjoy the race. They don’t get to travel to many races with me during the season and we were having a great time—until Scott’s accident. Talk about a major mood swing.The energy at that track was utterly eliminated when word was received ...

Morgan advanced to the semi-finals this weekend in Joliet, but he could have gone further than that with another run in the semi’s similar to either one of his runs in the first two rounds. That 4.599 in his Round 1 win over Alan Bradshaw would have come in handy against Hot Rod Fuller two rounds later. End of the line.The last time Morgan advanced to the semi’s was at the first race of the year in Pomona. It was ...

Another exasperating weekend, Sports Fans.There wasn’t too much in the way of drama for Morgan or J.R. in qualifying since, with only 15 entries, everybody who showed up was going to make the field. But you certainly would like to qualify as near to the top as possible to bring a little attitude to eliminations. J.R. was ninth quickest at the end of the day on Saturday while Morgan was fourteenth. Not scintillating but at least they were going to ...

I didn’t make the trip to Bristol this weekend but thanks to the glorious immediacy of the Internet and several drag racing websites--along with a cell phone—I never feel as if I’m that far away from a national event. Things for the guys looked pretty promising during Top Fuel qualifying. There were only 16 cars on the entry list. Every pays, everyone plays.Morgan wasn’t exactly a Cruise Missile in qualifying. It became apparent that a solid 4.50 car was going ...

I was sitting in the ESPN production truck as the second round of Top Fuel was beginning on Sunday. There had already been a lengthy delay in getting the Southern Nationals started because of on-and-off rain showers throughout the morning and the gray skies looked as if there might be another rain delay any moment.But the rain held off long enough for Round 2 to begin and I was anxious to see how J.R. would handle Bob Vandergriff after getting ...

When is it going to stop hurting?J.R out of play in Round 1. Morgan off the board in Round 2. This year isn’t working out the way it was supposed to.Las Vegas is such a rowdy, over-the-top, off-the-chart kind of place. You don’t want to suck there. You want to feed off the energy that drowns that town and spend Sunday night having a few pops with your guys, laughing your ass off at things that aren’t even funny, hitting ...

Now THAT was a pretty wretched weekend, people.A DNQ in TA/D, a DNQ in Top Fuel for JR, and a first round strike out for Morgan. What was the good news?I’m still thinking.Morgan and JR got an interview on ESPN’s pre-race coverage, the feature that was shot with them earlier in the year was aired, and away from the track there was some positive energy. But the reason we go to the races is to win, not for the positive ...

I’m pretty speechless (and that doesn’t happen very often). Morgan didn’t qualify for the Gators. Hey, these are the freakin’ Gators, Dude. One of the oldest races in the sport. Huge, rowdy, unruly fans crammed into the grandstands. Smokin’ hot women—a lot of them from the University of Florida about 15 miles away. You DON’T want to be sitting on your ass on Sunday in Gainesville.Morgan missed the Top Fuel field by one. Sixteen cars get in. He was 17th.  ...

What a weird race. In every class, the cars that ruled qualifying were no-shows when the day was over. But let’s just stick with Top Fuel where the stars of qualifying (except for David Grubnic) were back in the barn when the final round was taking the stage at around 4:30 MST.But long before then, Morgan and J.R. were spectators. And both of them weren’t very happy about it.Morgan got tripped up by Larry Dixon in the first round thanks ...

Ya know what’s really strange about the first race of the year? The off-season seemed so long to people like me who get to goof off for a few months but the off-season goes by in a nano-second for the guys who race. Everything just dragged on since November for me without any NHRA drag racing going on. But when I spoke to a bunch of racers in Pomona this weekend, they all basically said they couldn’t believe the season ...