SHERMAN ADCOCK KEEPS ADDING TO HIS HALL OF FAME CAREER
FOR SOME RACE FANS, SUPER GAS AND SUPER COMP MIGHT BE MORE OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT THAN A REASON TO BUY A TICKET TO AN EVENT. Yet, for the participants, it’s an all-consuming fire requiring more determination and focus than many realize. Veteran NHRA competitor Sherman Adcock is a good example of what it takes to race in this division.
“You gotta keep diggin’ if you want to win,” Adcock says. “You have to know your car, the tracks, the weather, how to tune and what makes your combination work; on top of knowing your competitors. With smart phones, Twitter, Facebook and all, everybody copies each other and thinks they know what the other guy’s gonna do. So, you have to be on your game and then be unpredictable, too.”
He should know. With two national championships, eight division titles, a dozen national event wins and former winner of the prestigious Million Dollar Race, Adcock has been there and done that. Yet, with all of his accomplishments and a national sponsor for his two cars, he started from humble beginnings.
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