INTERVIEW
P92
NHRA PRO STOCK WORLD CHAMPION EDDIE KRAWIEC
you shouldn't be able to win a
championship if you don't win a
race. I thought, 'Wow, if this guy
from F1 thinks that way, what do
other people think?' In my mind, I
was a champion but I'm not sure
everyone else thought so.
This year, I don't think anyone
could say I didn't earn it. Obviously, four wins and six final
rounds validate it. It's also important for me not to be a one-time
champion. When you win two,
people aren't as likely to think the
first one was a fluke either. Now
that I've got two of them, I'm in a
very good place.
You came out at the first
race and set the record at
199.26 mph and won the race.
At that point did you feel like
the favorite to win the championship?
That [199.26 run] is the highlight of my year. It was my first run
of the season. I was two milesper-hour faster than anyone had
ever run before and it held up all
season. That was just a crush-
Krawiec won four
times en route to
the title.
way. They said, 'How can someone win a championship without
winning a race?' It's not that it
bothers me, but it's always been
in the back of my mind. When
you win a championship, you
want to do it in style. You don't
want people to say it was a fluke.
I guess what really got to me was
when I was watching Wind Tunnel on Speed Channel and the
subject came up and one of the
head guys at Formula 1 said that
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That [199.26 mph run] is the
highlight of my year. It was my
first run of the season. I was two
miles-per-hour faster than anyone had ever run before and it
held up all season.
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- Eddie Krawiec
12/9/11 2:24 PM
