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Sixteen-time NHRA Entertaining Vehicle champion John Power says he isn’t prepared to hang up his protective cap presently, yet he had a justification for stunning the racing local area seven days prior when he blessed Austin Prock as his replacement.

“All I was expressing was here is the eventual fate of John Power Hustling, this youngster here, and I gave him the prize,” the 75-year-old Power said during arrangements for the Super Hold NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. “There is not an obvious explanation for me at my age to remain until the end of time. It wouldn’t check out for me to remain in the seat and take a youngster with his ability out.

“The fans truly respond entertaining, and a driver that sits down could make some of them distraught, so I’m simply telling them early. He’s coming since we need to continue to win and he’s the person that will actually want to do that for me.”

Prock’s family works for John Power Hustling, and Power noticed he’s known Prock since he was a “little, small youngster sitting on the rear end of my truck.”

“I hustled his granddad in Amusing Vehicle and his father Jimmy (Prock) has been with me perpetually,” said Power, who recorded his 157th Entertaining Vehicle vocation triumph in the NHRA Mission Food sources Series occasion at Epping, N.H. “In this way, they’re family and he (Austin Prock) has a place here.”

The 28-year-old Prock, who drove the NHRA Entertaining Vehicle standings heading into the Bristol occasion, said he was astounded at Power’s remarks.

“We’ve been discussing this for quite a while, however it’s never been public,” says Prock, who is in his freshman season in Entertaining Vehicle. “At the point when he said it, I was like ‘Poop, John! You shouldn’t say that!’

“Every one of the fans took it so well. You realize that can be a two sided deal. I think our exhibition this year has truly acquired a gigantic fan base in this game. The remarks via web-based entertainment have been all certain. I was apprehensive I planned to get beat into the ground on there, yet all the same it’s undeniably been great.”