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Tran Sets New Personal Best Time And Is Top Qualifier In Oregon 08-26-2003 Dallas Texas- Kenny Tran's Quaker State® racing team raised the performance level of the Quaker State® Honda Civic to new levels during qualifying at the Woodburn Dragstrip in Oregon this weekend. Tran's new personal best time of 8.56@169mph pass was enough to clinch the top qualifier spot for the team and secured bonus to assist in the chase for the 2003 NHRA championship.

Unfortunately Tran's progress in the elimination rounds was halted when a differential broke as Tran launched in a second round race against Mopar's Mike Crawford.
"The car was working really well." Tran said. "We had the car glued to the track and it was just a matter of going rounds to pick up more points. I was very disappointed when the differential broke in the second round. I really felt that we could have won this race."

Despite the disappointing result in eliminations Tran remains optimistic about his chances in the charge towards the championship.
"We have got as much or more horsepower than any of our rivals. Our problems are entirely related to the durability of the stock Honda transmissions that we have to use. We have decided to head back to Houston, Texas to install and test some new parts that have arrived this week from Australia that may help us out."

He went on: "If we are successful at the tests I think we can still change our chances and give the Mopar and GM teams a real fight for the title during the last three rounds of the season." The final three races of the 2003 season will be at San Francisco, Englishtown and Pomona and team tuner Bob Norwood is confident of running down the opposition.
"We all know that we can run with anyone out there." He explained. "The automatic- equipped factory cars have an advantage in terms of durability and consistency but we have got the edge on outright performance. We need to strengthen our transmissions to eliminate the breakages and hopefully the new parts will help us out. We won't really know until we complete our test this weekend but I am optimistic."

The Quaker State® Team is currently lying in third place in the championship well within striking distance of the leaders.

Next Scheduled Event:
August 30-31 Nopi Houston, TX

Contacts:
www.jotechracing.com
www.quakerstate.com
www.raceworks.net
www.bobnorwood.com