Veteran sportsman racer Tommy Phillips has been red-hot this summer on the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series trail in the Super Comp and Super Gas ranks, and along with his talent behind the wheel, he’s also relied on his Hughes Performance transmissions and torque converters to help propel him to victory on three occasions over the last couple of months.
Phillips, hailing from Forney, Texas, scored his 28th career NHRA national event victory and his first of the 2014 season in late May at the NHRA Kansas Nationals in Topeka in the 8.90 Super Comp category, in which he defeated Jeremy Demers in the final with an .016 reaction time and a dead-on 8.909 in the final to collect the hardware.
A month later as the NHRA’s South Central Division rolled into the Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma, Phillips turned it up a notch — in both classes — as he double-up on the weekend, winning in both the 8.90 and 9.90 categories. Phillips defeated Rusty Mayse in the Super Comp finale with 8.918-second lap, and then bested Jeff Lopez on a double-breakout in the Super Gas final, running closer to the index with 9.899 to the quicker 9.892.
Phillips relies on Hughes Performance for the reliability and consistency needed for such success on the race track, with Hughes’ Pro Series Powerglide transmission and Pro-V series custom-built GM95 torque converter residing in both his dragster and Camaro roadster.
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