Grainys return to PMRA with new G-Force car and renewed effort
“We will be more competitive. We have to be.”
 NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK (March 15, 2008) – After a year out of Pro Modified Racing Association competition, the Grainy Brothers will be returning to the PMRA Tour with a new car and renewed enthusiasm.
“We’re big-time excited,” said Jack Grainy recently about the team’s return to racing. “The new car is 99 percent done. It’s ready for powder coating and assembly. We’re going through the engine and will have that buttoned up soon. We’re really looking forward to getting back into action.”
With crew chief Sonny Grainy and brother Jack driving, the team has always been a big supporter of the PMRA, but after a dismal season in 2006 with their car, the team wanted to take a year off to get a new car built.
“Our Beretta was way outdated,” added Grainy. “We just couldn’t compete at the level we wanted to. It was time to step up our effort.”
The new car is a state-of-the-art 1967 Camaro bodied Pro Modified from the Western New York shops of prominent builder G-Force Race Cars. Another Buffalo-area PMRA racer, Mike Stawicki, has built up a Keith Black 526-cubic inch Supercharged Big Chief powerplant for the team, and this combination should give the veteran Grainys a solid car for 2008.
 “This new car gives us the newest in technology,” Grainy said. “You know Jimmy (Salemi). He’s built us a great car.”
“We will be more competitive,” Grainy continued. “We have to be. Just look at the competitors in the PMRA these days. Not only are there some strong new teams in the tour, some of the regulars have really stepped up their efforts.”
“It should be a heck of a show.”
Sponsored by Niagara Auto and Grainy’s Automotive, the team took fourth place in the 2006 PMRA season, and placed runner-up in 2005. The team has been racing since the mid 1970s, and Jack said this new car may be the final one in the team’s career.
“We’re going to give it one last hurrah with this car,” Grainy said. “We’ll see what happens. But whatever happens, the PMRA is a good series with good guys in it. It’s a lot of fun and that’s what counts.”
PMRA tour stops in 2008 include two dates at Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario, New York International Raceway Park and Dunn Tire Raceway Park in New York, Sanair in Quebec, and the Southwestern Ontario track of Grand Bend Motorplex.
Negotiations are underway with several US race tracks based in Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania with the plan of presenting a seven-event PMRA drag racing series this season.
For more information, contact Bruce F. Mehlenbacher mehlenbacher@ProModifiedRacing.com |
