Stroud Safety\u2019s Tommy Cunningham is the first to step up when it comes to driver safety in the sport of drag racing. The successful business owner, who also owns and operates Cunningham Machine in Murray, Kentucky, always has his ear to the ground, creating and innovating new products that improve the safety of racers.<\/p>\n
In this most recent case, Cunningham and Mark Micke collaborated on a Pro Mod parachute after Micke had told Tommy that he was going after a record in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the summer, we had been in contact. We wanted to make sure there were no safety concerns or anything like that and if we needed to do anything different on parachutes,\u201d explained Cunningham. \u201cSo we developed our Pro Mod chute with his record-setting attempt in mind, which is something we\u2019re promoting for PRI, which is just a fireproof back, fireproof lines, with a high-vis spring pilot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s based on our 430 chute that\u2019s been around forever \u2013 we call it a 450, which gets you some fireproofing,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
Micke did, in fact, achieve his goal of a record run, all the while with the new Stroud parachutes onboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Former NHRA Pro Mod world champion Jose Gonzalez wheeled Micke\u2019s twin-turbo Pro Mod Camaro to reset the E.T. world record for a turbocharged Pro Mod in the quarter mile with a 5.359 at 272.94 mph. Gonzalez overtook Khalid Mohammed\u2019s longstanding 5.379-second mark set in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cAttempts like that, we take them seriously,\u201d stated Cunningham. \u201c[The chute is] set up as a Pro Mod-specific application. We wanted to make sure that in the event something happened on this pass, it was as safe as possible, which led to, why can\u2019t we order that fireproofing on any Pro Mod chute?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt just evolved that way. It just kind of made sense for us to just make it a standard. Now, if somebody orders a Pro Mod chute, they get a 450 instead of a 430, and it comes with fireproofing.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only is Cunningham paying attention to what is happening in the industry, but he\u2019s also listening to his employees when they have new ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe manufacture in-house, so it lets us be flexible,\u201d said Cunningham. \u201cWe can respond quicker than, say, if we were having a cargo box load made overseas somewhere, a ship; it\u2019s kind of hard to make that flexible.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to the new Pro Mod parachute on display at the PRI Show, Cunningham explained that Stroud\u2019s new co-branded head and neck restraint will be offered for show-goers to check out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe test results are unbelievable for this thing,\u201d stated Cunningham. \u201cIt\u2019s just a different approach. We\u2019re going after the concussion forces, not necessarily just head and neck restraints. We\u2019ve been keeping people alive for a long time, but not a whole lot of companies are going after concussions and so that\u2019s the direction we\u2019re going. So we\u2019re slowing the brain down inside the skull as opposed to just keeping the head in a fixed position.\u201d<\/p>\n Stroud Safety will be located at booth number 3801 at the PRI Show. For additional information and to contact Stroud Safety, visit www.StroudSafety.com<\/span><\/a> or call 405-632-2022.<\/p>\n The post Mark Micke, Stroud Safety\u2019s Tommy Cunningham Collaborate on Pro Mod Parachute Prior to Jose Gonzalez\u2019s World Record Pass<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stroud Safety\u2019s Tommy Cunningham is the first to step up when it comes to driver safety in the sport of drag racing. The successful business owner, who also owns and operates Cunningham Machine in Murray, Kentucky, always has his ear to the ground, creating and innovating new products that improve the safety of racers. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90489","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=90489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91190,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90489\/revisions\/91190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}