Team ProTorque was well represented in the winners circle at the Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Ky. on Sunday, site of the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals Series tours’ fourth stop on the 2013 tour, as customers Jeff Lutz and John Kolivas carried the ProTorque banner to victory in Pro Street and Street Outlaw, respectively.

In Pro Street, Lutz accomplished what he was unable to do at the previous event in Joliet — parlay his class-leading No.1 qualifying effort into a win on race day. Lutz was the class of the field in qualifying, running a 5.99 at 250 mph out of the gate in Friday’s first session before improving to an even quicker 5.97 in Saturday’s qualifying. As eliminations opened, Lutz put together a stout 6.07 on his first round single, then added another “five” to his weekend resume — a 5.993 at 247.61 mph — to oust Jim Widener in the semifinals. In the final, Lutz met the turbocharged GTO of Clint Hairston, and despite both racers wandering around the racing surface, Lutz got the finish line first with a 6.13 to Hairston’s 6.40. Not only was Lutz quicker on the racetrack, but he was a killer .006 out of the gate.

Just a few pit spaces down from Lutz was fellow ProTorque racer John Kolivas, a three-time NMRA champion who has had a lot of celebratory moments at the Bowling Green quarter-mile in his racing career. Kolivas had once dominated the Drag Radial category and was a former race winner in the defunct Super Street Outlaw category, but he’d yet to add his name to the short winners list of the new Street Outlaw class. With his record-shattering outlaw combination swapped over to a NMCA-legal quarter-mile setup, Kolivas arrived at Beech Bend ready for battle with his familiar white Mustang. Kolivas qualified third in the field with a 7.46, but between qualifying and eliminations, the Ashland, Miss. native got his setup dialed in, opening eliminations with another 7.46 to down George Toll before picking up the performance considerably to take out points leader and national record holder Sean Ashe in the semis with a 7.38. In the final, Kolivas was not to be denied, as opponent Jason Lee powered into a massive wheelstand while the white ‘Stang charged to a stout 7.322 at 194.04 mph for the win.

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