CRANSTON, R.I. -- At her core, Jayne Tasca is a mother who is proud of her children -- including Bob Tasca III, driver of the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Shelby Mustang Funny Car.

 

With Mother’s Day this weekend, Jayne talked about her eldest with admiration and awe tinted with the smallest bit of exasperation you would expect from a mother whose child races an 8,000-horsepower, 300 mph beast for a living.

 

“I really did know (NHRA Drag Racing) was in his blood,” said Jayne, who married her first love in Bob Tasca Jr. “As much as I denied it. More than anyone else, he was fixated with my father-in-law’s racing history. The curious thing was that it skipped a generation.”

 

In the early days of organized racing, the late Bob Tasca Sr., whose…