NHRA Pro Stock driver Ray Franks passes away
Ray Franks, who competed in NHRA’s Pro Stock class for nearly 15 years, from 1990 through 2004, has passed away.
Although Franks, from New Carlisle, Ohio, never reached the winner’s circle, he appeared in two final rounds, both in 1996. He was runner-up to Mike Edwards in Houston and to Jim Yates in Topeka.
Franks was also a member of both of Pro Stock’s great performance clubs, the Holley 6-Second Pro Stock Club and the Speed-Pro 200-MPH Pro Stock Club.
Franks, who was a renowned clutch builder in the class, became the 14th member of the Holley 6-Second Pro Stock Club with a 6.997-second pass at the 1997 Gatornationals and then, surprisingly, was just the fourth driver to exceed 200 mph with a 200.22-mph clocking in Houston in 1998.
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