Post by Dave Schultz on Mar 13, 2010 13:40:41 GMT -5
In this month's Fastest Street Car magazine -- Doug Duell's Drag'n Wag'n is the cover car.
Since one of my strongest goals is to promote NSS so that more drivers race in it, more fans go to the stands and watch it, more events run it, and that drivers receive better purses for winning it -- I'm personally happy to see this exposure.
Doug's father, Dave Duell, built and raced the Drrag'n Wag'n prior to his passing around Christmas of 2005. Dave is the man who really got me personally interested in wanting to compete in Nostalgia Super Stock. In Dave's last Monster Mopar Weekend (NSS' biggest race, which Dave Duell was most instrumental in organizing) in September 2005, most everyone knew it would be Dave's last. I was the next car back of Dave's for his last ever pass down the track. I can remember Doug helping his dad into the car and buckling him up (before having to run back to his own Barracuda that he ran back then), and then the class moving up as each pair of NSS cars made their pass.
It was surreal as I sat with my car in the waterbox and watched Dave launch, pulling the wheels up high on Drag'n Wag'n one last time from the best seat in the house. I knew I was watching history being made.
The very next year, the NSS part of the Monster was renamed the "Dave Duell Classic" in his memory, having Doug take over with the organizing and administering to the smooth operation of having so many NSS cars compete. I was proud to be able to win my class in the first DDC.
Doug has since continued to bring honor to Drag'n Wag'n -- most recently winning the 2009 Championship for NSS. Man I wanted to win that class bad (as I'm sure 75 others who competed in it last year also did) -- and while I had some bad luck with my car, and a couple of times too slippery a track for my 4-speed -- Doug flat out-raced us all last year.
As such, it was very fitting that NMCA put the Drag'n Wag'n on the cover of FSC this month.
Doug has a very close relationship with Indy Cylinder Heads -- so I'm sure it is not a coincidence that ICH is sponsoring the NSS class this year at NMCA. As such, I'm sure there's even more pressure on Doug winning the Championship again in 2010. I'd like to keep him honest by giving him strong competition in 2010 -- but I'm not sure if I'll be making all of the NMCA events, as there are some personal issues that could be standing in my way. I'm going to play it by ear, and hope that I both have a good start to the season -- and my circumstances allow for me to make all of the NMCA races.
Thanx to whomever at NMCA was the one who saw to it that a NSS car made the cover.
Since one of my strongest goals is to promote NSS so that more drivers race in it, more fans go to the stands and watch it, more events run it, and that drivers receive better purses for winning it -- I'm personally happy to see this exposure.
Doug's father, Dave Duell, built and raced the Drrag'n Wag'n prior to his passing around Christmas of 2005. Dave is the man who really got me personally interested in wanting to compete in Nostalgia Super Stock. In Dave's last Monster Mopar Weekend (NSS' biggest race, which Dave Duell was most instrumental in organizing) in September 2005, most everyone knew it would be Dave's last. I was the next car back of Dave's for his last ever pass down the track. I can remember Doug helping his dad into the car and buckling him up (before having to run back to his own Barracuda that he ran back then), and then the class moving up as each pair of NSS cars made their pass.
It was surreal as I sat with my car in the waterbox and watched Dave launch, pulling the wheels up high on Drag'n Wag'n one last time from the best seat in the house. I knew I was watching history being made.
The very next year, the NSS part of the Monster was renamed the "Dave Duell Classic" in his memory, having Doug take over with the organizing and administering to the smooth operation of having so many NSS cars compete. I was proud to be able to win my class in the first DDC.
Doug has since continued to bring honor to Drag'n Wag'n -- most recently winning the 2009 Championship for NSS. Man I wanted to win that class bad (as I'm sure 75 others who competed in it last year also did) -- and while I had some bad luck with my car, and a couple of times too slippery a track for my 4-speed -- Doug flat out-raced us all last year.
As such, it was very fitting that NMCA put the Drag'n Wag'n on the cover of FSC this month.
Doug has a very close relationship with Indy Cylinder Heads -- so I'm sure it is not a coincidence that ICH is sponsoring the NSS class this year at NMCA. As such, I'm sure there's even more pressure on Doug winning the Championship again in 2010. I'd like to keep him honest by giving him strong competition in 2010 -- but I'm not sure if I'll be making all of the NMCA events, as there are some personal issues that could be standing in my way. I'm going to play it by ear, and hope that I both have a good start to the season -- and my circumstances allow for me to make all of the NMCA races.
Thanx to whomever at NMCA was the one who saw to it that a NSS car made the cover.