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Earlier season results from Houston and San Antonio are here

April 30, 2004 New OD rules will be in place for the first WCPM race at Boise. The new rule will be 20% OD maximum

Vern Mills has a new ride

Rockingham North Carolina

April 26, 2004 West Coast Drivers perform well in Rockingham. Mike Janis wins at Rockingham, defeating Canadian Al Billes in the final. Janis gets by WC Pro Mod stars Glen Kerunsky and Rick Distefano on the way to the win. The two Canadians sit atop the IHRA standings though, after the first two events.

For full results go to Drag Race Central or IHRA

April 25, 2004. Team West Coast Pro Mod had another great outing. Canadian's Rick Distefano and Glen Kerunsky proved again that the West Coast Pro Mod Association has some of the best competitors in North America as they leave Rockingham first and second in the pint's standings. Rick qualified #2 and went to the semi finals before tire shake got the best of him against Mike Janis. Janis also defeated Glen Kerunsky in the second round and went on to win the event over another Canadian Al Billes. Three Canadian Pro Mod teams are in the top four in the standings. The other regular West Coast Pro Mod competitor, Pat Stoken, failed to qualify for the tough 6.27 bump spot.

IHRA Point Standings after two of 12 events:

1. Glen Kerunsky 161
2. Rick Distefano 159
3. Mike Janis 154
4. Al Billes 135
5. Harold Martin 110
6. Scotty Cannon 90
7. Von Smith 89
8. Shannon Jenkins 86
9. Steve Vick 84
10. Mike Castellana 79

April 23, 2004 Friday Qualifying is done. Distefano and Kerunsky both are off to a great start at Rockingham this weekend for the Spring Nationals. Rick ran an awesome 6.199 off the trailer to sit #2 out of 36 car who atempted to qualify in Friday's lone session. This is the first race that the IHRA is going to three session of qualifying for all the pro classes. Glen Kerunsky ran an out of the box 6.207 , a career best to sit #5 after one round. Fred Hahn leads qualifying with his best of the season and thequickest et of the year in any sanctioning body, a great 6.144. Qualifying resumes Saturday with two rounds one in the early after noon and then, the "Night of Fire" Saturday night.

April 23, 2004 Glen Kerunsky, Rick Distefano and Pat Stoken are all in competition at Rockingham this weekend for race #2 in the IHRA Hooters series. Kerunsky hot after the opening event of the year at San Antonio is looking to keep his winning streak going as he has won his last 7 rounds of competition dating back to the 2003 season where he won the season ending West Coast race at Mission Raceway to clinch the series championship. He continued his winning ways at the IHRA opening event of this year in San Antonio. This weekend at Rockingham, he knows the competition will even be tougher as there are expected to be 40-50 Pro Mods at the Legendary North Carolina facility. High 6.20's probably won't be enough to get into the winners circle but if he can run low 20's or a high team he could end up going rounds. While he is not going to race the whole IHRA circuit he is planning on running four events and possibly as many as six. He could certainly make some serious noise and shake up the series in the "I".

Rick Distefano is also at Rockingham and I'm trying to find out if he is debuting the new 53 or still running last year's. No matter which car he is if, he will certainly be one of the favorites along with Kerunsky. Rick has the car running real well and if they can keep the wick lit to 1320 feet or a little longer the field better take notice. Rick is planning on running the entire series as well as most of the West Coast events.

Pat Stoken is making his 2004 season debut and what an tough task the Montana Driver has. He has a great car and a very strong engine program but the lack of laps could be a hindrance for the team. It will for sure take a career best for Pat to make the field but it is possible and we wish him all the luck in the world. Hopefully he gets at least a strong baseline for when the West Coast series starts up at Boise in a few weeks.

Results from Houston and San Antonio are here

April 14, 2004 Unique Performance is added to the list of WCPM Associate Sponsors. The story is here

April 12, 2004 Go here for pics of Rick Distefano's new car and here for the rendering

April 6, 2004 To All West Coast Pro Mod competitors:

Regarding Full Floater rules for Pro Mod competition.

NHRA has stated that all Pro Mods competing in AMS Pro Mod Challenge events at national events must meet IHRA rules. Therefore Full Floater is mandatory by June 1, 2004. Pro Mods competing in Comp Eliminator and exhibition as West Coast Pro Mods will NOT need to meet the Full Floater standard on nitrous cars. The NHRA rule book does require full floaters for all blown pro mods. Keep in mind this rule could change in 2005. Remember, the Edmonton IHRA race in July and the West Coast Pro Mod event there in September will require a full floater on all Pro Mods.

April 6, 2004 New addition to the West Coast Pro Mod family: Kenny Lang is profiled in the Team/Drivers section

March 29, 2004 Mission Raceway's June 26-27 WCPM event will be a 12 car field. Thanks to Mission Raceway for their decision to bring the field up, giving the racers a better chance, and the fans more cars to see Sunday. Thank you Mission Raceway!!! To all the racers contemplating this event (the week before Edmonton's IHRA National event), please contact me with regards to your entry. I would like to produce a limited "edition souvenier poster" for this event and want to include every car that will be there. Let me know!!!

March 24, 2004 Dennis Radford and Kirk Kuhns were match racing at the 'Mopars at the Strip" event in Las Vageas

March 24, 2004 Steve Cartier was out testing for the second straight weekend and he looks like he will be a player on the WCPM circuit. Check out his new ride out at Woodburn.

March 27, 2004 Rod Pearce (below) is the newest member of the West Coast Pro Mods

March 16, 2004 We are only a few days away from the first event of the season that will feature a couple West Coast PM stars. Kirk Kuhns and the "NITROUS MAN" himself, Dennis Radford (the only driver running a nitrous combination to win the West Coast Pro Mod series). They will match race this weekend at the "Strip" at LVMS. They are part of the specialty show "Mopars at the Strip". After this weekend, a number of the West Coast Pro Mod teams will be at San Antonio for the season opening IHRA Texas Nationals March 26-28. Rick Distefano, 2004 WCPM series champion Glen Kerunsky and Dennis Radford are confirmed competitors from the WCPM, to race at San Antonio. We will keep you up to date on other drivers taking part. Two Month's later, the first WCPM event of the year goes at Boise Idaho.

We would like to take the time to officially announce a couple series assocaite sponsors for the 2004 season. The series is proud to have on board Dynamic Concrete Pumping out of Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, Rolling Mix Concrete from Calgary and Edmonton, Breckenridge Excavating from Calgary and Radford Trucking from Baker City Oregon.We have three or four more major sponsor announcements for both series and contingency sponsors coming soon. The series is really taking shape and you will see from the companies brought on board that this is THE "Premier Independent Pro Mod Series" in North America

Preseason Vegas and Phoenix pictures are now up

March 11, 2004 Mike Janis signs Eaton Automotive as Major sponsor for the 2004 season. He will race 7 AMS and 11 IHRA events. Go here for his press release.

Upcoming events

Competition Plus Spring Warm-up this weekend March 12-14 at Virginia Motorpsort Park

March 8, 2004 Canadian Pro Mod standout Carl Spiering was at the Super Chevy Show in Bradenton Florida last week and ran very well in its first outing in the ex Tim McAmis 63 Corvette. Spiering bought the car Tim McAmis drove last year and set et records on the AMS tour. The car went 6.08 last year. In his first outing of the year Spiering went a 6.27 best to qualify #2 in Pro Mod legal trim. Gary Irving was #1 qualifier in Nitro Coupe trim with a 6.15.

March 2, 2004 Rockingham Pre Season Test (new rule change for rear ends in IHRA announced.)

Not much action to speak of from Rockingham this past weekend because of moisture in the form of the white stuff, ya that's right, snow fell in the area throughout the week. There was still snow along the banks of the track while cars made laps on Friday and Saturday. Go to Rockingham's web site and click on the Sunday page and go half way down to the John Montecalvo picture from the right lane to see all the snow. Plus there is a gallery at the bottom of the page with the white stuff. While it did warm up substantially on the weekend, the moisture and the water table close to the track surface made it difficult for the track to dry properly. They were working on the surface all weekend and a number of short runs were made, but nothing of note. Todd Tutterow, John Montecalvo, Quain Stott, Pat Musi and Paul Athey were a couple of the big name drivers that were hoping to test. Montecalvo, Athey and Tutterow did make squirts and Todd sheared off a rear tire. Whether or not that was the capper for the IHRA or not, a new ruling was announced yesterday. "Effective May 25, 2004, all entries in IHRA Pro Modified competition must utilize an aftermarket full floating or live axle rear end assembly".

The delay in the effective date was selected to provide a fair and reasonable amount of time to perform the necessary upgrade that will be mandatory at the ACDelco Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park May 28-30, 2004.

December 2003 to February 2004 Archives

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