Originally Posted by Pvt Parts (Post 342347)

Is anyone here besides me having a problem with the pieces of Eckman's situation fitting together?? I am assuming here that Jerry's story is true and correct.

Maybe I missed something but according to the cp article, Jerry shows up at the race track and is present in the pits of a race team he doesn't own, tinkering with a car he doesn't own.

The vehicle has not been teched in and Jerry has not signed a tech card or declared to NHRA that he intends to compete in Pro Stock, a race he has entered as a driver, with that car.

It is not "illegal" to possess a nitrous bottle at an NHRA track. That car, with a complete working nitrous system, could have been raced at a match race promo the night before. It had not yet been presented to NHRA as a legal Pro Stocker with a licensed driver.

There are plenty of plausible, "legal" explanations for what happened. If all this is true, I think I would have given a lot of thought as to how and where I was going to spend the money he gave to NHRA.

That being said, I'm glad to see him in the driver's seat again.

Originally Posted by Chuck Garey (Post 342378)

If I recall the Dodge boys shop at the time was in Newark Ohio. My ex Brother in law had a shop right next to them, that's where the break in occurred?

Originally Posted by bigshow2966 (Post 342392)

Fairfield, IL.

Originally Posted by Frito (Post 342495)

Eckman and his car owner had a shop in Newark. Eckman has Newark listed as his home town on his 2012 Indy pro stock entry.