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Opportunity Knocks for Austin Prock

“But a professional motor-sports career is fueled by money. Lots of it.”

Austin Prock was recently named the NHRA’s 2019 Road to the Future Award winner. It’s the drag racing equivalent of the Rookie of the Year Award we see in other professional sports. Austin is only 24 years old, and the grandson of Tom Prock, a great drag racer and good buddy of mine whom I competed against during my driving career; Austin is also the son of Jimmy Prock, the future Hall of Fame crew chief who just tuned Robert Hight

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