Don Eckert photo

By Jeff Burk
Photography Dennis Mothershed, Don Eckert

Veteran NHRA Stock and Super Stock racer Al Corda has won many NHRA races and even a World Championship, but he hadn’t won a Victory Performance Parts Nostalgia Super Stock Series presented by Mickey Thompson Tires event until June 11 when he defeated a stellar field of racers at Cordova Dragway Park in front of a large crowd of fans.

Twenty-three Victory Performance Parts NSS cars came to Cordova, Ill., for the first points race of the five-race series and the field included all of the past and defending series champions.

When the lane call came for the first round of eliminations, 17 of the cars came to the lane. Five cars had dropped out because of various mechanical issues, which is not uncommon at the first race of the year in any series.

Among those racers was defending series champion Clay Kossuth, who spun a bearing in his engine during qualifying. He was out of the first race, but he went home on Monday, put his spare engine in, and went to Bowling Green, Ky., the next weekend for the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion and was runner-up in the Nostalgia SS race.