Back in the early and mid-2000’s, ‘Uncle’ Robin Lawrence was making his bones battling it out with longtime nemeses Justin Burcham, Mike Washington, and Shawn Johnson in the NMRA’s Factory Stock and Real Street classes. His 2005 Mustang was the rolling testbed for many performance parts developed for the S197 chassis, and Lawrence was actually the first NMRA Real Street racer to make it into the nine-second zone back in the day. Then he disappeared from the Ford scene as he spent a few years racing a GM Performance Parts factory-backed LSX-powered Nova in the NMCA’s Nostalgia Pro Street class. 

Now Robin is back, thanks to a little bit of help from friends Bruce and Debbie Hemminger, who have given him license to use their record-setting, championship-winning ’86 Coupe to race in the NMRA’s Strange Engineering Coyote Stock class.  

Hemminger is himself a former champion that is taking some time off from racing, and the two longtime friends struck up a deal to put Hemminger’s hotrod together with Lawrence’s powerplant and come up with a winning formula. Lawrence rep0rts that he has already signed up longtime sponsors Fidanza, Motive Gear, and Tremec Transmissions to be onboard with the venture.

Lawrence’s day job as the National Sales Director at Holley keeps him pretty busy, but he’ll be able to take all of those lessons he learned so many years ago in Factory Stock and Real Street and put them to work in Coyote Stock. The NMRA’s revolutionary spec-engine class has been the talk of the offseason with a number of racers confirmed to be putting together efforts for the 2013 season with more rumored to be on the fence. Look for Lawrence to excel after the team gets some testing time under its belt.