Should Morgan Lucas have waited?
Every drag racer with dreams of running the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series hopes that one day his or her phone will ring and it is a team owner asking for help. Morgan Lucas got that phone call back in July but it wasn’t the circumstances he would have preferred. With the tragic passing of popular Top Fuel driver Darrell Russell, team owner Joe Amato brought in Morgan Lucas and his first race was in Brainerd, Minn. Lucas will only compete in eight races for the remainder of the season and will use this time to prepare for a title run next season. Knowing he would be stepping into a championship caliber car, should Lucas have waited until next year in order to better his chances of being named the 2005 Rookie of the Year? A strong crop of rookies are challenging for the NHRA’s rookie award, The Auto Club Road to the Future award. NHRA rules state that a driver can not have competed in more than four races in a season to be considered a rookie. The top contenders entering the 2004 NHRA
