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It didn’t take long for the defending Pro Stock world champion to reach the winner’s circle in 2020.Erica Enders rolled to the win on Sunday in Phoenix in her Melling Performance Chevrolet Camaro, putting together four dominant performances in eliminations at the NHRA Arizona Nationals, notching her first victory of the year with a run of 6.531-seconds at 210.44 mph in the final round against Bo Butner.The impressive showing also provided Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman with the ult …

Rick Jones couldn't help it; He had to see how everything worked.Jones, one of drag racing's premiere chassis builders and the driving force behind the RJ Race Cars/Quartermax brands, admits his tendencies began as a kid growing up in Illinois. At any given time he'd have his bicycle and any other toy his parents bought him torn apart in the family's garage. Even the soapbox derby car he built with his dad was in pieces again shortly after it was completed."They would take a look at it, and say …

Rick Jones is well-known as the builder of some of drag racing’s quickest, fastest, and most successful doorslammers, from Pro Stock and Top Sportsman to Radial vs The World and Pro Modified. Jones has built a chassis-building and performance parts empire that’s virtually synonymous with the sport over the last 30-plus years, and it all began with a comparably simple 1969 Chevrolet Camaro.In an improbable tale with a storybook ending, Rick was recently reunited with his first love, his 1969 SS-3 …

There are still times when it hits Rickie Jones how cool he has it.Like when he’s the first one in the Elite Motorsports crew chief lounge early in the morning, sitting in front of all the monitors in the team’s state-of-the-art set-up.Or when he’s standing behind the car of five-time Pro Stock world champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. as he wins for the 62nd time in his career last weekend in Phoenix.Sure, the former racer turned tuner has a job to do and that means building cars at RJ Race Cars and tuni …

Check out this new 2019 Chevy Camaro completed at RJ Race Cars & Quarter-Max Chassis & Racing Components for Erica Enders and the Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports NHRA Pro Stock team.The RJ Race Cars full tube 4130 chromoly chassis features a newly re-designed pro stock chassis for 2019. The exterior of the car features an all carbon fiber body from Five-Star with paint by SD Enterprises. This highly sophisticated modern day Pro Stock car is optioned out with the latest technology and high …