“Not everybody doesn’t like it,” he reminded. The tighter-budgeted teams welcome it, and Pedregon said, “It’s good to see some of those guys have a fighting chance. The day it becomes about the guy with the most money, that’s not good for NHRA. It was starting to. It’s not like that now.”


He has been around long enough to know the talk will turn soon to new controversies.

“A lot of cars are smoking the tires,” Pedregon said, “but the good ones always figure it out. And I think they’ll do the same thing here.”