{"id":101857,"date":"2025-08-02T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/fletcher-cox-talks-record-setting-run-in-pdra-pro-street-at-u-s-131-motorsports-park\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:18:32","slug":"fletcher-cox-talks-record-setting-run-in-pdra-pro-street-at-u-s-131-motorsports-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/fletcher-cox-talks-record-setting-run-in-pdra-pro-street-at-u-s-131-motorsports-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher Cox Talks Record-Setting Run in PDRA Pro Street at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion Fletcher Cox made his biggest statement yet in his young drag racing career Friday night at the PDRA Northern Nationals, throwing down a jaw-dropping 3.829-second, 192.31 mph blast in his nitrous-fed \u201cTraining Day\u201d \u201969 Camaro. The run didn\u2019t just put Cox on top of the Liberty\u2019s Gears Pro Street qualifying order \u2013 it obliterated the previous PDRA Pro Street elapsed time record by four-hundredths of a second and officially put the category on notice.<\/p>\n

But if you ask Cox whether this record-setting moment was part of some master plan, he\u2019ll hit you with the same kind of cool confidence that earned him six Pro Bowl nods during his 12-year NFL career.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh man, I don\u2019t make those calls,\u201d Cox said, standing beside his Camaro after the run. \u201cI got a small little office between the seat and the steering wheel. That\u2019s what I do. Phil [Shuler, crew chief] makes all the calls and the team gets together on decision making. Like I said, I was just told to hold on and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The run came in the final qualifying session under the lights at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, where the air was dense, the track was tight, and the Pro Street field was swinging for the fences. Cox and crew responded with a thunderous statement \u2013 one that launched the former Philadelphia Eagles star to the No. 1 spot for the second race in a row.<\/p>\n

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\u201cQualifying No. 1, yeah, that\u2019s fun and that\u2019s fancy, right?\u201d Cox said with a grin. \u201cBut that gets you lane choice for round one, and we\u2019re looking to move. Obviously we went out in E2 at the last race, so we\u2019re looking to better that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox\u2019s Pro Street program \u2013 guided by the experienced hand of Shuler and fellow team tuning mind Jeffrey Barker \u2013 has come together quickly and dangerously. After making his PDRA debut earlier this year at Virginia Motorsports Park, Cox has proven that he\u2019s not just a celebrity dabbling in drag racing. He\u2019s a legitimate contender.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes the team confident, myself as a driver confident,\u201d Cox said of back-to-back No. 1 qualifiers. \u201cThe guys have been trying a bunch of different things this weekend on the car to make sure that I have a safe and fast race car that goes straight down the racetrack every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what the Camaro did. The 3.829 run not only surpassed Brian Weddle\u2019s previous Pro Street record of 3.864 from the 2023 PDRA World Finals \u2013 it turned heads across the entire U.S. 131 facility and beyond.<\/p>\n

Cox, who retired from the NFL in March 2024, has been building toward this moment for years. From his early days racing with his brother back home in Mississippi to owning cars in Pro Mod and radial classes, the competitive fire has always been there. But with football in the rearview mirror, he\u2019s now fully focused on building a legacy in drag racing \u2013 this time behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just so competitive \u2013 as a team, and as my personality,\u201d Cox said. \u201cEverybody on this team is competitive. We\u2019re looking forward to tomorrow, and hopefully we\u2019ll go some rounds. We think we\u2019ve got a hot rod this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the record run in the books, Cox enters Saturday eliminations with momentum, confidence, and perhaps most importantly, humility. It\u2019s clear he\u2019s not in this for the cameras or the headlines \u2013 he\u2019s in it to race.<\/p>\n

As the PDRA Pro Street class continues to evolve and tighten up at the top, Fletcher Cox is proving that raw talent, a relentless work ethic, and the right people in the right places can make magic happen \u2013 whether it\u2019s on the gridiron or the drag strip.<\/p>\n

And while he may joke about his \u201csmall little office\u201d between the seat and the steering wheel, it\u2019s clear he\u2019s exactly where he belongs in this second chapter of his sporting career.<\/p>\n

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Former NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion Fletcher Cox made his biggest statement yet in his young drag racing career Friday night at the PDRA Northern Nationals, throwing down a jaw-dropping 3.829-second, 192.31 mph blast in his nitrous-fed \u201cTraining Day\u201d \u201969 Camaro. The run didn\u2019t just put Cox on top of the Liberty\u2019s Gears Pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}