Dragster NHRA FRAM

Es una sensación que sólo puede experimentarse en el deporte motor: Potencia ensordecedora atravesando el umbral de las 300 mph en menos de lo que tarda uno en sonreir; dejar atrás el terreno natural y lanzarse más de 150 pies en el aire en tan sólo un parpadeo.

Desde 1967, las marcas de Consumer Products Group (CPG) —–Prestone, FRAM, Autolite— han participado activamente en el mundo de las carreras. Como apasionados patrocinadores de la National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) y la World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR), CPG mantiene relaciones con varios pilotos que constantemente llevan los productos de la marca a las condiciones más extremas.

2009 NHRA Rookie of the Year, Spencer Massey, joins the FRAM/Prestone Top Fuel Dragster team this year! As one of the rising stars in NHRA, Spencer couldn’t have asked for a better dragster and crew. The FRAM/Prestone team ended the 2010 season in third place having won three races and went to eight final rounds. This year the FRAM/Prestone team is looking to grab the Championship with Spencer!

CPG represents about 90% of the Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro-Stock fields. To name a few in top fuel that use FRAM, Prestone, and Autolite products are seven time world Champion, Tony Schumacher, Antron Brown and Brandon Bernstein. In Funny Car legendary driver John Force, Ron Capps and Matt Hagan. And in Pro Stock Greg Anderson, Jason Line and V. Gaines.

Los expertos en carreras de CPG están constantemente a un costado de la pista, ayudando a las cuadrillas a poner a punto los coches y proporcionándoles diversos productos de alto rendimiento que cumplen con las estrictas normas actuales para la competición.

Desde los acérrimos aficionados hasta los mecánicos amateurs, desde los vendedores detrás del mostrador hasta los que trabajan en el taller, las personas que conocen de autos confían en las marcas que no sólo llevan emoción a las pistas sino que también usan la pasión y el conocimiento práctico para producir autopartes de alta calidad con la duración y el rendimiento que el mundo real del manejo cotidiano exige.

Consumer Products Group demuestra que se pueden crear productos magníficos al utilizar las carreras de autos como laboratorio de pruebas del mundo real. Desde las pistas de arrancones y de tierra, hasta los caminos de acceso y autopistas, CPG está comprometida en proporcionar tecnología que ayude a los vehículos tanto dentro como fuera de las competencias de automovilismo.

Perfiles de los pilotos

Spencer Massey

Spencer Massey, winner of the 2009 Southern California Auto Club’s Road to the Future award as the top NHRA professional rookie, enters his second full season of Top Fuel competition in the hunt for a championship. Spencer finished sixth in the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel standings on the strength of two national event wins – Joliet and the second Las Vegas race – and an Atlanta race he contested from the pole and lost a close final round in a pedal fest. He made it into two other final rounds – Reading and the fall Pomona race - on his way to a 32-20 round record for the season. One of the driving skills Spencer brings to the FRAM/Prestone Top Fuel team is superb reaction times. During his exemplary rookie campaign, the Texan was first off the line some 89 percent of the time and posted an average 0.56-second R/T, quickest in the class!

When Spencer is not blasting down the 1,000-foot NHRA strip he can be found either working on cars or fishing. Hooked on drag racing since he was four years old, he has crewed on alcohol dragsters competing in both NHRA and IHRA events (and driven in these, as well), and worked on other racecars since his teens. For years he has also applied his automotive technical skills to buying used trucks, repairing them and selling them at a profit, going as far as a partnership in a used-truck operation. The other way he unwinds between races is bass or catfish fishing with his buddies.

Fans wanting to catch a glimpse of Spencer off the track this season should be alert when traveling the nation’s highways. He will be commuting to most of the races in a 2003 Dodge Ram pulling the 33-foot travel trailer which is home away from home during the season.