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Mustang Racer Profiles - Bruce Hemminger


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Bruce Hemminger
Chicago, Illinois
31
10/27/1971
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1986
Mustang Coupe
NMRA - Real Street
10.18
132.75

Glidden Racing Engines

302 FMS
311 cid
SCAT Steel 3.00 stroke
Stock 5.0
Forged Stock Length
Ross Flat Top
10.0:1
TFS Twisted Wedge
1.7 TFS
Trick Flow
42lb/hr
Weldon
Holley 70mm

Nitrous Oxide - NOS Dry System

TTC Tremec TKO II - Pro-Shifted
Centerforce

8.8" Ford

Stock EEC IV
MSD Digital-7
Autometer

TRZ Race Cars

D&D Motorsports
UPR Products
Lakewood 90/10
Bogart Racing Wheels (Fluted Stars)
Mickey Thompson ET Front
Aerospace Components

TRZ adj. upper/lower
Moroso Drag Springs
Lakewood 50/50
Bogart Racing Wheels (Fluted Stars)
Mickey Thompson ET Drag - 26x10
Aerospace Components

Racing Accomplishments

 
1999 FFW Street Outlaw Champion Norwalk, Ohio  ♦  First nitrous car in FFW history to run in the 8's  ♦  2001 NMRA Real Street runner-up Byron IL  ♦  2001 NMRA Real Street top 10 in points  ♦  2002 World Ford Challenge #1 Qualifier  ♦  2002 NMRA Real Street runner-up Reynolds, GA   ♦  2002 NMRA Real Street #1 Qualifier Atco, NJ  ♦   2002 NMRA Real Street Champion, Bowling Green, KY  ♦  2002 NMRA Real Street current record holder 10.22 @ 132.  ♦  2002 NMRA Real Street points Runner-up.
 

Sponsors

 
Centerforce Clutches  ♦  Bassani Exhaust  ♦  C & L Performance  ♦  Bogart Racing Wheels  ♦  UPR Products  ♦  TTC Tremec Transmissions  ♦  Voss Performance Inductions  ♦  White's Pit Stop  ♦  Street Stuff  ♦  Glidden Racing Engines
 

Questions


How long have you been drag racing?  About 10 years.

How did you get your start?  I started street racing with a friend in the legendary scenes in Chicago IL

What’s been the biggest challenge to your racing program this season?  Compared to last season?  Putting together the car and getting used to it.

What would you consider your biggest accomplishments as a racer?  Winning the NMRA World Finals in Bowling Green, KY , setting the class record and finishing #2 in points.

What’s gotten you hooked on the Mustang drag racing scene?  The competition.

What are your plans for the future?  Racing all 8 NMRA events in 2003 and racing in the World Ford Challenge 6

What changes, if any, do you feel the sanctioning bodies need to make in order for our sport to prosper?  Stop changing the rules when they are not needed to changed.

Who are your biggest friends (or enemies) at the track?  I get along with everyone until we meet at the starting line. Then its business.

Who do you fear having to see at the starting line?  Why?  Redlight or the wall

Very briefly, tell me the dumbest mistake you've ever made at the race track?  Throwing in the "Hail Mary" nitrous jets. Thank god it didn't hurt the engine

Anyone you’d like to thank, wives you HAVE to thank, other things not mentioned you feel are important?  I would like to thank all my sponsors. Centerforce, Bassani Exhaust, UPR Products, Tremec Transmission, C & L Mass Air Flow Sensors, Bogart Racing Wheels, Voss Performance Inductions, White's Pit Stop, Street Stuff, and most of all Billy Glidden for all his help and great advice.

What music do you listen to?  Who’s your favorite?  Anything

Any nick names for you?  None

Do you have any pets?  A Ferret named Kitty

Do you have Kids?  No

What do you like to do as a hobby outside of drag racing?  Fitness

What track do you dislike the most?  N/A

Which is your favorite track to race on?  Indianapolis Raceway Park - INDY

Do you have a lucky charm?  What is it?  Glidden Racing Engine t-shirts

If you could meet anybody you wanted living or not who would it be?  Why?  N/A


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