Drag Illustrated Issue 143, April 2019 | Page 108

■ DANIEL PHARRIS DANIEL PHARRIS’ MOVE TO MUSTANG OPENS NEW DOORS ■ IT COULD HAVE BEEN a crushing loss for Daniel Pharris and surely there was dis- appointment after losing in razor-thin fashion to Alex Laughlin in the Radial vs. the World final round at Lights Out 10. But what Pharris found out about his turbocharged Mustang at South Georgia Motorsports Park was invaluable, 108 | D r a g I l l u s t r a t e d | DragIllustrated.com adding a whole new level of all-purpose potential thanks to his standout performance. The Mustang had already performed at a high level in the Pro Mod and drag radial ranks, but it continues to make vast improvements on radials, summed up by Pharris’ runner-up performance in Valdosta that opens up even more doors of new possibilities. “What we’ve done, we’ve basically made a box of radial stuff, and everything in this box you have to put in this car to run in Radial vs. the World,” Pharris says. “When we get back and want to run Pro Mod, we can go in the closet and get our Pro Mod box back out. The shocks haven’t been touched, we know where the weight goes and we know where the wheels go. It’s like a bolt-on kit for your truck.” Only this kit goes more than 210 mph to the eighth-mile, as Pharris did multiple times at SGMP. He qualified sixth in the loaded class with a 3.670 at 211.43, staying in that impressive range in eliminations. It started with a 3.681 at 210.54 to open elim- inations and Pharris was remarkably consistent throughout, going 3.698 a round later and 3.684 at 209.92 in the quarterfinals. Pharris knocked Issue 143