By Jack Smith
The big buzz in the IHRA in the last few weeks is the news that Scotty Cannon Sr. is returning to his real love in drag racing, that being the Pro Modifieds. Scotty joins his son in 2008 with both behind the wheel of identical 1968 Firebirds in the IHRA Pro Modifieds.
“I’m probably going to push for a suggestion of maybe my flames being just a little bit different, so maybe we won’t try to get in different cars or something of that nature”, Cannon said on the “Straightlining With Stevie” show Wednesday. He also pointed out that team owner Evan Knoll wanted the cars identical, “He said if you want to run a father-son team, when you pull up to the starting line, he wants it to where you basically can’t tell the difference.”
Stevie Letempt talked with Cannon for about 20 minutes on the weekly drag racing show and covered a lot of ground with one of the sports most popular racers. It doesn’t take long to take a liking to the straight talking Cannon, who tells it like it is, and gets right to the point. “I call the tech department in the IHRA the police, and we are the gangsters”, pausing for effect, “because we’re always trying to get away with everything we can and you know Mike Baker and them do a good job and they’re trying to keep the classes as even as they can.”
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Cannon has won six Pro Modified titles in the IHRA and with his son Scott Cannon Jr. taking the IHRA Pro Modified Championship in 2007, the team will certainly be making headlines all year in 2008.
