CONTROVERSEY Overwhelms NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle! 

I have to pull for my homeboy Steve Johnson, his race shop is right down the street from my house and he's a great guy

I love your coverage of the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycles. It's great to see behind the curtain and to be able to put a face behind some of the less known names. Keep up the good work 👍

Crashing a Pro-Stock motorcycle is a bit more sketchy than a car with a full cage.. A car breaking loose from a moist track is also a little easier to handle.

The CONTROVERSEY in pro stock motorcycle is the 160 cid twin vs the 113 cid inline 4. Bullshit advantage to the twins but nobody talks about that.

I have spent 32 yrs fighting the weather, working outside, lost thousands of dollars. No biggee, part of life.

This is the equivalent of “you’re lucky she’s holding me back, bro” 😂

cycledrag dude ! awsome stuff, great contient, thank you !

My rain delay story thankfully was at a track that was well maintained and had excellent track crew personal and it wound up working out. I was a struggling Pro ET racer who did everything myself, built everything but the torque converter and transmission out of my garage at home. I had been out of drag racing for a lot of years when I decided to try it again. Had a steep learning curve but finally after 2 years of hard work in the first couple of months of my 3rd year back I happened to hit on a combo my car really liked, it seemed no matter what the weather conditions were the car just kept getting better and better with each pass and so predictable. Anyway at an early season bigger race on the schedule we were on a roll I was cutting great lights and car was responding as usual, the longer we ran it the faster it got. I was starting to take little bits out of it to keep it's consistent behaviour. I finally broke the curse and made it to the finals and it was getting late on a Sunday and the sky's opened up and it poured rain right before our final ! They tried talking us all into just splitting the pot and going home but the Super Pro guys and myself said no.. We want to try and run it off. I was very confident in my car and ability so we waited and the track crew prepped and dried the track and they let us inspect the track and shut down area before we ran. Us Pro ET guys went first and my opponent who had been the guy to beat every week was all of a sudden putting up a number that was significantly lower than mine when all day he had been slower than me but not by this much so was he hurt or was he playing games.?..then i remembered what Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins had said once at Bandamiere in Colorado when several of us young guys were talking to him between classes he told us all "don't worry about the other guy, race the track and run your car and you will win way more than you loose!" So we didn't worry about it and I put all my tune back in the car and put up the number I was confident it would run and lined up and let the big dog eat....my opponent by virtue of a lot slower number got to leave first and out of the outside edge of my focus on the tree I noticed he looked like he only made it about 30' and obviously broke something ....well I didn't flinch and cut a .007 light and dropped the hammer, the car squatted and I was gone like a launching rocket....ran almost dead on my number so my opponent would of had to be perfect to have beat me anyway and I won my first race in nearly 20 years. I have gone on and won many more since then but never forgot the longest day It ever took me to win a race. Turned out my opponent had hurt his car in his last round to get to the finals and it was terminal and couldn't be fixed without tearing it clear down (I think he hurt a lifter, cam lobe and rocker arm/Push rod. They replaced what they could and put up a slower number so he might could get me to jump and go red trying to run him down with such a big advantage....he was hoping it would hold together long enough to make the 1/4 mile stripe and maybe beat me but I called his bluff and ran my race) thank God for Bill Jenkins words of wisdom

I think it's great that the safety of the riders is in the forefront of the competition not just the sport. Congratulations to the NHRA

CycleDrag, excelente trabalho. 👍🇧🇷.

Someday I'm gonna get to a race and get a sticicker so I don't have to watch on my two Tablet but I aa always watch Cycledrag!!!!!

It's that lovely east coast weather, and that ever-present 110% relative humidity. Come out west, we don't get rain here! Our relative humidity here right now in AZ is at a whopping 10%, with 76 degrees and a high of 103 today. Great video, some good racing!

Good call, safety first in my book, bikes can be replaced but a life can't.

Dude you roll out a product as good as any professional producer be it content or network provisions. Really surprised you don't have more followers. Push your content even harder, people are thick headed. And thanks bro for all you're doing. 🤙🏽

Pro stock in NHRA is so messed up because it’s the only Pro class that that one brand gets a rediculous displacement advantage over another brand. In the Pro class all motors should be the same size! i guess popularity overrides the difference between right and wrong.

I want to see them racing, not crashing !! Correct decision ! Safety first !

Safety is paramount in ANY racing. It doesn't matter if it's on a bike or in a car. I've made too many evening passes when the dew was settling at 160+ on two wheels.

I worked at NEDway in the early 80's and it never failed, the NMRA meet was almost ALWAYS rained out. It was unreal how bad it was.

Loving the channel here in the UK Jack keep putting up the excellent content as ever all the best Les.

I love drag racing! Cant wait till the nhra comes back to seattle this summer!

Nice win Chris. Good coverage Jack.

Glad to see Chris back

Enjoyed the video. When are y'all coming to dallas tx

I remember when I used to sail when we had national events, we would go out to do races - rain, hail or shine. I remember we needed to get one more race in a regatta to get our minimum in and it was blowing near 40 knots, we were the only suckers out there!

It's amazing how you see the older vets agree and the young bucks don't!! 💯

".. goin with what the people with experience say" - that's it Tornow, 👍

12:10 look at the qualifying ladder though. everyone advocating the decision except for one were already top qualifiers. the decision was in their favor points wise.

They have a valid issue, BUT what they should really be pissed off about, is that the V’s STILL have a 770 c.c. advantage, and are not the same weight as the inlines

Don't know if it's possible but be cool to see you at Santa Pod in the UK 😁🏆

thank you brother

When your running at speed, the last thing you need it wetness at the top end. Strip and street are two different issues.

If you like motorcycles,you should subscribe to this channel. These guys that don't have huge sponsors and do it for the passion and love of the sport are the ones that need our support. This channel gives attention to the sponsors and in turn it helps the motorcycle community and the little guy.

I was wondering what happened to Jianna, glad she is back !

Bostick needs to remember,....its not street racing. If someone gets killed,...??,.....its not him who is on the hook for it.

I've ridden that track, if its just mist I'd run it.....there is such a long shutdown area you can roll off the throttle and coast to a stop with little to no brake

You're the best Jack, but like pretty much every race track regardless of it being in the states or overseas please try to imporve on voice pickup and sound quality. So many have tried to understand this sport, not able to hear what's said being in stands or on the net, so please work your magic!

Better safe than sorry. LeMans 57 crash probably led to fewer road courses forever. Lot of public backlash. Safety improvements resulted but open road racing started to be banned. And once you are gone, you can’t come back.

I think it was the right call. Egos kill, live to race another day.

Safety first!

It got stupid cold in Gainesville as soon as the sunshine dropped behind the bleachers. Dodging small lakes in the parking lot and cold weather made it a challenge.

24:24 lmao 🤣 😂 😆

Props to Joey for skipping the dog and pony show.

Did they change the Pro tree

At the speeds the motorcycles run now in NHRA and that they don't have roll cages ans Seatbelts is why NHRA said no to the passes due to dew

You are so far ahead in life as compared to where you would be if you crashed its not even close. Live yo race another day.

Cut and dry, every competitor and team agrees to run knowing that NHRA is the sanctioning body….. they agree to run under their rules and they agree that the NHRA has the final say in any discrepancy…. Including weather…..

If it saves even one rider from injurie, it's the right call. I had to laugh when he said if he could still fit his leathers lol!

👍🏽🇺🇸👍🏽 love cycle drag..

Hey can you do Kawasaki krr 150 2t vs big bike 1000 cc pls

There was a funny car track record lining up just after the bikes got shut down

It's a hard call to scrap a session, but you have to respect the NHRA's decision based on potential safety.. I wonder if a " damp" front tyre could be mandated for when the nhra decide it's needed due to conditions. I mean a front tyre which doesn't give the last 1000th of a second in ET ,but has a softer compound and a little tread to aid stopping. Then the " mist " rule could kick in ,mandate the front tyre swap and any teams that needed a run for data or feel could still do a pass and the spectators get there monies worth 🤔

Noway you chance it at 200mph on 2wheels. Live to race another day.

The pro's with good sense agree its a good call by NHRA

Add to Jack's list of what the Pro Stock bikes are missing compared to Funny Cars, chutes and four wheels.

Yep bc if one person gets hurt it's one to many andddd you live to race tomorrow

A lot of the riders wanted to run the only ones that really didn’t wanna run at all were the women almost all the men wanted to run but they were just being nice and putting on that good racer NHRA persona if it’s unsafe for bikes why can the fuel cars run with a wet shutdown area the whole thing shoulda been canceled IMO, back in the day when I raced we had a notebook with tracks and carburetor adjustments etc that had to be made to run at that track back in the analog days data logging was way different like we data logged with Camcorder and would watch the run back in slow motion, and then the good ole pen and paper in 60’s-80’s we had no ideal what a laptop was and never ran ECU’s of any kind, no sensors

that's a tuff one ......

Black leather racer is pissed,,, seems like a majority rule type situation here. Good decision in my opinion

Race! Good luck when you get to maplegrove! RACE!

Dam jack you keep posting when I am in bed lol fantastic as usual stay safe

We had a NHDRO rain out one year awhile ago all paid to get in said no rain came down like the sweet lord was mad at us 😂 called it a day

Angelle was a ER nurse so she is right to err on side of safety.

Jack will you be in Laconia for bike week

SAFTEY first , good call race tomorrow, the ones that wanted to race egos, care about your fellow racers NHRA thanks

So since the Suzuki’s have 4 valves, do the V-Twins get 4 valves too since HD and Buell both have factory 4 valve motors…

Dude why didn’t we see the last race

I agree with Joe they all have the choice to run or not

Do not like the call of how the NHRA wussed out on the bikes

Safety First 🙌🙌🙌

Angelle is so beautiful 😍

Under ground gas fed burners along venue to combat condensation 🥷🤷‍♂️

I own harley davidson motorcycles and when you asked bostick about rain he said you drive more careful yes but we have tires on our bikes made for when it rains they have slicks and they're going for speed for good track times water and slicks don't mix

There are a lot of new racers running in the pro stock motorcycle

Hey Jack what was your thoughts on Spiderman run can he go faster

5:11, normally they let the riders make that call i thought?

The mess of that engine 😂👊🏻✊🏻

Well that's obvious it's got to be that John Force safety Safari again of totally safety conscience national Hot rod association ..everyone grow a spine get some of the new and improved rain slicks designed with octopus suction cups all the way around the tires..front and rear same ideas like the Ducati MotoGP grass track slicks when straightening out the dog legs and go from asphalt to Grass back to asphalt to grass ..with the new octopus rain slicks almost eliminate the need for wheelie bars should be a favorite for the outlaw Pro Street who love to brag they can do it faster on street tires and no wheelie bars at all... They would love the new lineup of the latest octopus rain slicks for top fuel and pro street Pro Stock racing every type of weather but a snowy blizzard and we're working on that with built in self ejecting ice spikes .. coming soon so stay tuned.. Now back to cycle drag of reality as we venture on to interview those who wish to drag race at 200 mph in the rain or those who have some brains and wish to keep the shiny side up have a beautiful day

If its not safe to run a motorcycle down the track how is it safe to run a 10k+ hp car down a damp track? If its a safety issue the track should have been shut down

Jammin Jo Jo is on his way......

They will give anybody a RU-vid channel even a poser.

VIRGINA is strange down on the bottom end always cooler

15:16 Nurse Amy!!

My Question is Could Matt Smith Change Bikes I thought you had to run what you Qualified on and Raced But I don't Know the Rules Could he have Swapped Bikes Let Us Know ??

22:07 never seen an vehicle like that before what is it ?

Pro stock bike guys need stop complaining, sincerely, Promod

Chris Bostick couldn't be any more right

I love how all the riders that were scared to run were like oh boy the call was great NHRA is great.... the actual racers will always want to run, weather its dangerous or not. It is what it is.

Matt plays games on the line but bitches about a VH crankshaft when he wasn't winning 😂😂😂

I'd rather watch paint dry than watch P/S Motorcycles. Bring back Pro Stock Truck or televise Pro Mod.

The NHRA has track driers. It's another example of the NHRA treating the bike classes as a afterthought.

Matt TATOOED Steve 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lets goooo

NHRA is a losing game not a fan anymore there cutting there own throut

It virgina better get after in fast Fast

Do people watch Pro Stock anything?

Motorcycle’s are not safe. Period. Maybe the riders worried should switch to driving a nice safe top fuel funny car. 🤪

Too many Suzukis.

No Harleys. Not worth watching anymore.

06:00 a true Competitor 🏆 06:20 a Karen 🧘

hmmm.... 10,000 HP stuff can run in the dew but Pro Stock bike can't? Seems like a time and ticket thing to me. fuel spills the bills. NHRA needs to stop these games. Of course everyone at the top was ... this is unsafe