Drag Illustrated Issue 132, May 2018 | Page 48

MOVERS & SHAKERS Keeping Up with the Joneses Pro Extreme Motorcycle stars Chris Garner-Jones and T.T. Jones gather in the staging lanes prior to their first-round pairing. Garner-Jones used a strong 4.06-second lap to move on. DECOMPRESSING Past PDRA Top Dragster world champion Justin Kirk un- zips his fire jacket and unwinds after a 3.9-second pass in his Autism Awareness-branded supercharged entry. PERK UP Last year’s PDRA Top Sportsman championship runner-up, Randy Perkinson, is calm, cool and collected as he awaits a qualifying session in his Buck-powered ‘16 Camaro. A YANKEE AND A SOUTHERNER SPRAY IT DOWN Chassis Engineering’s Clayton Murphy refreshes the water box in preparation for a big, smokey burnout by the Matthew Buck-driven ‘17 Camaro he built for car owner Ken Kershaw. 48 | D r a g I l l u s t r a t e d | DragIllustrated.com Chris Rini (left), who recently relocated from New York to North Carolina, catches up with longtime Carolina chassis builder and racer Tommy Mauney in the staging lanes before a Pro Nitrous qualifying hit. Issue 132