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Orlando World Street Nationals 2010 Same Day Coverage

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It’s all about Sunday here in Orlando for the World Street Nationals final day. Today will be a little different as an oil down in the right lane last night cut the final session short. They will run out the rest of the cars in the Drag Radial class that were in the lanes at the time. That is set to begin at 10AM and then we will move to eliminations.

Special thanks to our event coverage sponsors Mickey Thompson. You can check out their great line of street and performance tires at www.mickeythompsontires.com [2].

Round 3 Qualifying Videos

Watch all the cars go down the track in an exciting qualifying session at the 18th annual Orlando World Street Nationals.

Round 1 Eliminations Videos

Catch the round one action  here in all classes kicking off with Super Pro Street. One thing about Orlando, you never know what will happen. Underdog Gene Kerr goes all the way to the winners circle after a showing of great sportsmanship while paired up with Jeff Lutz in Super Pro Street.

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Nothing better than a cool morning sunrise over the track on eliminations day.

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here Jason Reuckert from VP helps a staff member put of the tree.

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This big talk around the pits this last night and this morning is that Tony Christian announced yesterday that this will be his last race and he is thinking of puting a new driver in the car for future events. This comes as a suprise to many fans as Tony has been an icon of street legal raceing for many years. With this news we all know Tony wants to go out on top but Chris Rini might have something to say about that as word is they are looking for some teens during eliminations today. It's still early today to round him up for a chat but I'll catch up with Tony and crew later for some more on this topic.

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Craig Pio took the number one spot in Outlaw 10.5 this weekend after getting some updates on the car at Josh McLeland's shop in Georgia. He went over the front suspension to help the weight transfer after the New York Motorsports team stuggled at last weekends race at SGMP. Pio had some consistant 60's with a string of 1.18's on a soft set up, gradually creeping up on the tune to make sure they got in the show. Then on Saturday they turned it up some to knock Lynch to second. They had several runs in the 6.70 range and then a 6.63 in the final session. Craig would like to thanks Dave Hance and Don Baily, Montana Brothers Chassis, Bobby from Outlaw Engines and the whole New York Motorsports crew for helping out.

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Stanley Albritten Jr was servicing his transmission this morning. Stanley will be paired up against Rocky Raynor in the first round of Super Pro Street.

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Orlando staple Tony the Sandman Williams team were hard at work prepping the car for eliminations. He will have lane choice over the 1963 Impala of Mike Holdridge in the first round.

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Dave Morris and team were unloading his RJ Race Cars 1968 Camaro. Dave steadily improved on nearly every run and finished up ninth on the qualifying order.

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Gary Langer was warming up his sweet 1955 Chevy this morning when we dropped by. The steel Chevy is motivated by an injected and supercharged 540 cubic inch Chevy. Gary squeaked into the field in the number 30 spot and will have an up hill battle in eliminations today.

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Rick Prospero has his nova wagon solidly into the Drag Radial field in ninth. There are still nine Drag Radial cars left to qualify this morning that were left stranded last night due to an oil down. As soon as they make their runs we will have an updated ladder.

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Number three qualifier Jerry Mitrovic hails from Toronto Canada and runs a small block Ford with twin Percision 94 MM turbos pushing air into the 450 cubic inch mill. They are happy witht he position given the smalllish engine in the class which was built in house at Mike Carrabs Mustang Alley. He founded the business in 95 and slowly got into racing since then. The team consists of Jerry Mitrovic, Mike Carrabs and engine builder Eddie Veros. He faces Orlando's own Mike Miller in round one.

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In a last ditch effort to make the field Jeff Gibbud punched his way into the radial field this morning. His 10.03 was good enough for the 32nd and final spot.

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Mike Holdridge and Tony Williams put on a show in the first round with Williams moving onto the next round.

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Steve King rattled the tires so hard he shook the drivers door open but still managed to drive around Thorne to move into the second round.

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Here are the pairings for round two of Super Pro Street

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Frank Mewshaw had a large fire at the top end of the track in his win over Patrick Adams. Frank got the car stopped quickly and was able to exit the car safely. We will check in the pits to see if he will make the second round.

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Tim Lynch went 6.72 in his new ZR1 Vette to move on to the second round.

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The ladder for Outlaw 10.5's second round.

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Kevin Fiscus went low for the first round of Drag Radial, with a 7.65. In other new Steve Morris brushed the wall just before finish line in the big wagon, steve was able to drive through and brought the car safely to a stop with only minimal damage.

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Phil Hines has his procharged mustang figured out. Hines dropped deep into the seven second zone in the first round of Heavy Street.

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Luis Rivera ripped of a 7.17 in the first round in Extreme Import at only 187mph.

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Michael Baghdadi all the way from Cordell Park, Australia ran a 7.40 with his 2000 Nissan to advance in Extreme Import 2.

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Round 2 Notes

Super Pro Street

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Halvor Hanson Jr. was late on the tree in his match with Kenny Voss but put up a 6.29 @ 224 to get around Voss' 6.73 @ 208. Number one qualifier Chris Rini lost in the upset of the day after getting some severe tire shake and moving right towards the wall, then slowing to a 6.76 @ 214 to Rocky Raynor's 6.66 @ 207.

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Gene Keer did his job on the tree in his 88 IROC Z to take out number 6 qualified Randy Jewell' twin turobcharged 68 Camaro. Jewell was way late with a .591 handing the win to Kerr's slower 7.07 @ 195 MPH.

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Outlaw 10.5

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Craig Pio ran a nice safe 6.85 @ 219 to take down Sandro Sementilli. He will me Jarvis in the next round after he made a move to the center line and lifted in a loss to Mark Kyger's Purple Nova. Lynch took out Floridian Pat Adams with a clean 6.71 @ 212.

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Mitrovic was late and had tire shake and shut it down early against Dale Collins Jr. Engle won his round early with a red light by Amma.

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Eric Kenward in his Malibu wagon beat Mackowski's mustang in the second round. Kenword will face the number one qualifier Mel Nelson next round.

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Mike Schmidt is on a roll, two rounds of racing and two mid seven second runs. Schmidt will have lane choice over Norris in the third round.

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Extreme Import Semis

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Damon Chin set low ET and the track record for imports at the event with a 7.01 @ 199 as Rivera shut down and pulled off the side.

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The other pair in Extreme Import was Herberto Santiago and Raul Reyes Buozo. Santiago left fires but moved out of the groove allowing Buozo to get around him to a winning 7.25 @ 188.

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Extreme Import 2 Semis

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Miguel Ortiz had a single as Orlando Torres wasn't able to make the call for the round. He shut is early after mooving towards the center line.

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Edwin Burgess left first against Michael Baghadi and went on to a 7.89 @ 164 to advance to the final with Ortiz' RX-7.

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Tony Christian had a big back fire in the lights and cross into the left guard rail. Tony is out of the car and ok but is done for the day. Rob is on his way to the top end for check on the situation. In the other notes Rocky Raynor made is best pass of the weekend to take out Jimmy Marino. [46]

Tony Christian had a big back fire in the lights and cross into the left guard rail. Tony is out of the car and is ok but is done for the day. Rob is on his way to the top end for check on the situation. In the other notes Rocky Raynor made his best pass of the weekend to take out Jimmy Marino.

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Jeff Lutz had a fuel leak inthe lanes and the staff allowed them a few minuites to see if they could make repairs before his match with Gene Kerr. Some great sportsmanship on the part of Kerr for waiting. The sourced the problem to leaking injector O-rings and got some replacements from Steve Petty.

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Mark Kyger and Craig Pio had a barn burner of a race in their match up in Outlaw 10.5. Kyger was out first with an .035 light but Pio came around for the win with a 6.72 to Kyger's game 6.89

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Mark Ingle was the last nitrous entry left in standing in Outlaw 10.5. Mark fell to Dale Collins Jr in the quarter finals.

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Gene Kerr graciously waited for Jeff Lutz for the better part of a half hour. Gene was rewarded with a huge upset win when Lutz broke the rear about two hundred feet into the run.

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Mel Nelson trailered Eric Kenwards popular wagon with a huge 211 mph blast.

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Heavy Street rd 3

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Sam Gottier put a tree on Cape Coral racer Terry Duffy and marched on to a 7.34 @ 182. Walt Drakeford did his job as well but couldnt hold off the Procharged Mustang of Phil Hines despite his 7.63 best of the day pass. Drakeford made the switch to Heavy from Radial and was fighting tire shake on the gear change all day.

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Jeff Lutz went into tire shake and the rear window popped out about 200 feet out as he went on to win the round over Townsend. Mike Schmidt gave the tree to David Norris and drove by to a 7.41 @ 180.

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The OL 10.5 semis were Tim Lynch and Craig Pio with Pio shutting off at the line and Lynch going on to a 6.69 @ 216. He will face off with Dale Collins Jr who had a single and ran a 6.96 @ 194.

Drag Radial had some excitement as Kevin Fiscus got way loose on the top end and slowing to a 9.07 @ 119 after clicking it in a nice save over Kenny Markwich. Mel Nelson shut it down early for his win over Griffin.

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Super Pro Street Final will be Halvor Hansen Jr who had a bye run in the semis, verses Gene Kerr who has to be the Cinderella story of the event.

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Sam Gottier will face Mike Schmidt in the final. Gottier will have lane choice with his 7.15 over Schmidt's 7.27

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Gene Kerr shocked the world by laying down a .031 light combined with a 7.01 win Super Pro Street. Halvor Hansen will have to settle for runner up his quicker 6.81 was not enough to run down Kerr.

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Dale Collins Jr is taking home the trophy and the big check in Outlaw 10.5. Tim Lynch broke on the burnout and staged his car anyway, but once the tree went green is was all Dale Collins.

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Mel Nelson (far lane) won Drag Radial over Kenny Markwich in a pedal-fest. Mel managed to get his car to recover first and that was all he needed to take the stripe.

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Raul Reyes Buozo will be taking the Extreme Import trophy back to his home town of Bayamin, Puerto Rico. The Lucimia team went round after round consistanly in the low sevens when others struggled to get down in elminations.

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Sam Gottier was on a mission to avenge last years runner up finish. Not only did he do that, he did it with a 7.09 in the final, his best run of the weekend.

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Welcome to day two of the Orlando World Street Nationals in Sunny Orlando Florida. Last night there was an oil down in the left hand lane near the end of the third session and they made the decision to end the night and run the last 13 Heavy Street cars first thing this morning.

Special thanks to our event coverage sponsors Mickey Thompson.  You can check out their great line of street and performance tires at www.mickeythompsontires.com [2].

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John Vergotz had his crew hard at work changing the starter this morning in his 1968 Camaro.

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Dwayne Wolfe's team worked overnight to get his supercharged Firebird repaired from yesterdays fire.

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Frank Meshaw and team were buttoning up his engine this morning after tearing it down to the short block yesterday due to a timing belt breakage.

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Dale Collins Jr. was performing routine maintenance on the rear end of his Outlaw 10.5 Camaro. Dale currently sits tenth on the qualifying ladder with a 7.773 best.

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Yesterday John Sloan broke the transmission and made a nascar style pit stop for repairs taking the trans out and over to Steve Cannizio at CRT Transmissions and had in for the next round in one and a half hours. His next pass launched hard and got up on the bars too quickly ending the run early. He is currently on the bump with an 8.69 @ 179.

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Ruben T pulled in last night with his Fast Forward Racing Engines powered Drag Radial Mustang. He was headed towards tech first thing this morning.

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Heavy Street competitor Omar Obando is busy pulling the transmission this morning to attempt repairs.The Miami based racer runs a 79 Camaro with a BBC on nitrous and built the car and maintains it himself with the help of a couple of friends at the track.

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Mike Schmidt also pulled in last night and will be running Heavy Street sporting a new sponsor. The Rock and Roll Ribs restaurant in Coral Springs, Florida is co owned by Nico McBrain, the drummer for Heavy Metal band Iron Maiden, and guitarist Rick Baum.

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Archie Marasco had a heck of a ride on his last pass in Drag Radial. After getting back and inspecting the ca they ound a broken axle. They pulled the rear and drove back to Clearwater to fix it and wound up upgrading to 35 spline axles, new spool and got back here at 5 AM, they were just buttoning things up this morning.

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Drag Radial competitor Steve Entwistle was going through his carb this morning. He has been running in a the Real Street class which is designed for small block cars and runs a 275 radial. In fact there are quite a few cars on the small tires here this weekend including the number two qualifier Kevin Fiscus with a 7.59 @ 196.

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I ran across these folks with the ol school event T Shirt. Mike Petsche and his family currently live in Pasco County Florida and Mike has attended most of the events since the beginning.

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Rick Fleck just went for a wild ride in the Lumina that was formally owned by Mike Moran. The car went into tire shake and made a hard right hand turn and nealy collected Kenny Voss. Rick got out of the car under his own power and is ok.

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Tony Christian had the second lowest et of this round with a 6.61 at only 159 mph.

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Jeff Lutz made what looked like a very soft pass but lit the scoreboards up with a 6.47 at 228 mph for the quickest et of the round.

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Jason Reuckert stopped by the tower this morning for an interview with Announcer Patrick Budd. The track has been trickey this weekend especially for radial tires cars.

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Canadian Ray Sanchez improved from his earlier 7.65 @ 164 to a nice 7.15 @ 208 in todays first session.

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Rick Fleck is driving the car formerly owned by Mike Moran here this weekend and had some bad luck. He is ok but the car is cleary worse for wear.

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Herberto Santiago took over the number one spot in Extreme Import from Damon Chin with a 7.10 @ 191 MPH blast.

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Jaime Rodriguez was also able to improve his time today, froma 7.46 to a 7.41 @ 183 however he did not improve position.

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Cahanito Vazquez jusped froma 10.15 to a 7.90 today but was trailing smoke through the lights. We will have to see if they are able to continue for the next round.

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Steve Morris improved from his 8.71 yesterday to a nice 8.31 @191 today and was one of the few Radial cars to get a good pass.

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Rick Prospero was another improving racer with a nice 8.29 @ 177 in his 65 Nova wagon. This is a real street cars folks, no doubt about it.

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Kenny Markwich wasn't able to get down the track yesterday, today he jumped right in all the wayto third position in the Drag Radial field. That run along with Tom Kempf's 7.99 has four cars in the sevens so far.

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Number one qualifier Sam Gottier backed up yesterdays 7.14 with a 7.13 in the heat.

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Walter Drakeford switched to Heavy Street over from Radial. His first pass this weekend in Heavy Street trim was a solid 7.89

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Round 2 Notes

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Rini is still on top of the Super Pro Street field with his earlier 6.24 @230 run. This run was a 6.37 after driving through tire shake about 100 feet out. Hill improved to a 6.31 @ 224 and made the move from seventh to fourth.

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Randy Jewell bettered his time to a 6.40 @ 228 on his last hit but was bumped to sixth by Mike Hill. The twin turbo entry has third best MPH so far.

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Rob Mansfield is driving the Dingman Group's Black Widow here this weekend. They had a thrash in the lanes to replace a fuel punp and jumped into the field at the number 12 spot with a 6.76 @180.


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Team North racer Craig Pio moved up to second in Outlaw 10.5 after his 6.71 @ 220.

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Frank Meshaw has overcome a broken timing belt, rebuilding the top and and some bad runs to land in eighth in class with a 7.08 @ 193 MPH.

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Extreme Import Rd 2

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Damon Chim retook the top position in the Extreme Import class from Herberto Santiago with a stellar 7.06 @ 200.38. Santiago also improved his time to a 7.10 @ 191.

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Jesus Padilla is from Kissimmee, Florida and runs this 73 RX 3. His best pass is an 8.41 @ 162 and sits outside the field in 16th out of 25 cars trying to make the cut for the top eight.

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This 1981 Toyota Starlet belongs to Joey Bivera from Tampa, Florida. He is also outside the field with a shut off pas of 8.71 @ 125.

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Steve Morris out of Muskegan Michigan broke into the top three with a blistering 7.67 in big wagon.

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Brian Christe was one of many Drag Radial drivers that improved greatly in this round of qualifying. Brian went from an 8.504 best to a 8.08 at mph.

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The biggest surprise this round in heavy street was Mike Schmidt who bumped his way in to the top three.

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Tony Christian once again proved why he's the man in Orlando, laying down a new track record to take the number one spot back from Chris Rini in Super Pro Street.

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Bellmore, NY native Craig Pio with the help of the New York Motorsports crew took the number one spot in Outlaw 10.5 by six thousandths of a second over Tim Lynch.

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Damon Chin nearly became the first import into the six second zone here in Orlando. His 7.064 at 200.38 was good enough to put the Celica in the number one spot in Extreme Import.

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There were so many entries in the Extreme Import class that the officials decided to run a consolation race for the top eight cars not qualified in the field.

Saturday Night Pit Notes

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During routine maintanance the Rini crew found a couple of weak holes and tore it down to replace some damaged rings. There were no real problems found otherwise and they were just putting the second piston back in.

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Tim Lynch and the Pro Line crew have been racing hard for several weeks and had to take the heads off for some much needed maintance. They were putting it all back together tonight. I have to say I was wondering why they didnt make a pass today, and now we know why.

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Good eats in the New York Motorsports pits. Thanks for the food guys and congrats on the number one in OL 10.5. I have an interview with Craig Pio that will be up in the morning.

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Mark Engle had to tear all teh pistons out of their 738 ci BBC so they were hard at work getting it done. He qualified seventh and will face Peter Esposito in round one tomorrow.

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The Steve King crew was also hard at it tonight replacing pistons, repairing the Bruno transmission and the clutch.

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The biggest door car race of the entire year happens this weekend in Orlando. The World Street Nationals license plates is something you see on cars around the United States as a souvenir that they participated at this huge race. Come back to DRAGZINE all weekend as well will be bringing you comprehensive race coverage all weekend.

Special thanks to our event coverage sponsors Mickey Thompson.  You can check out their great line of street and performance tires at www.mickeythompsontires.com [2].

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Orlando Regular Tony Christian has a new sponser on the side of his Grand Am. Braille battery is helping him out this weekend.

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Frank Mewshaw is here fresh off his NMCA championship ready to do battle in Outlaw 10.5.

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Jeff Lutz made the trek to Orlando with two entries. His twin turbocharged Grand Am in Super Pro Street and the 1957 Chevy that he will drive in Heavy Street this weekend.

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All kinds of cars make the ride to Orlando for the party and great racing. This little Mustang belongs to Jeff Gibbud from the Tampa Bay area where he normally run the 6.50 index class at Sunshine dragstrip and put a little extra nitrous to it this weekend to run in the Drag Radial class and have some fun with the rest of the crew.

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Archie Marasco is another car from Real Speed and he is here after cracking into the 4's in the 1/8th at Bradenton two weeks ago. A new SBF with twin 88's will have them looking for 200 MPH this weekend. Shop owner Walt Drakeford is alo here with his T Bird and sporting a black out job to cover up a racign stripe down one side of the car.

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Rick Prospero drove up with this sweet little 65 Chevy II running Drag Radial. He ran some 8.30's during this years Drag Week so it's fully streetable. It's got a 460 ci BBC with twin 75 MM turbos and a TH 400 trans.

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Kevin Fiscus has made the switch the the popular X275 class so the car has a 360 ci SBF with twin 800 M turbos. He hopes to got some rounds in Drag Radial and have a good time. His first pass will be at the NHRA unleashed weight.

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Mel Nelson has really come around with the program recently, winning the Shakedown and Bradenton's ODRC, then finishing runner up to David Wolfe last week. Wolfe and Hance are not here in Radial so it's looking like Mel and Paul Major are the favorites.

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Steve Morris is here again this year with the Caprice wagon with a little more power that last year. He runs a 3 speed trans @ 3600 pounds and is looking to crack into the sixes here this weekend.

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Javiar Ortiz runs this Kilo Racing RX-7 turbo entry for the Import class which should have near 20 cars here for the event. Several teams are looking to be the first car to run sixes here in Orlando for 2010.

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2009 Heavy Street runner up Sam Gottier is here after his Heavy Street win at Shakedown and has been running some low 6.90's. A weight break for this year should help his nitrous powered Chevelle out. The engine is a 762 ci piece from Scotty's Racing Technology in Spring Hill.

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David Hance hurt his radial car last week and will be running in Pro Street with the twin turbo Hemi powered 57 Chevy instead.

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The last car in the pits this morning belongs to Willard Howard from Stuart, Florida. He is running Heavy Street this weekend with a naturally aspirated 500 ci engine. They just made the call for Super Pro Street to load up. Stay tuned for updates..

Round One Qualifying

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Jeff Lutz is number one after the first round of Super Pro Street with a 6.36.

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Rocky Raynor ran into tire shake about one hundred feet into the run and had to abort his run.

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Chris Rini had an outstanding .986 sixty foot time but then rattled the tires. The ATI team look to be in top form this weekend with their Dodge Stratus.

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Gregory Dennis was the first one to be pushed back after having trouble stanging and the car kept shutting off.

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Jimmy marino picked up the West Palm Beach based law firm of Gordon and Donner to help with expences this weekend. he qualified 4th with a .83 @ 178

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Nicole Lyons from Northridge California drives a 99 Monte Carlo on the bottle. Her 7.83 was good for ninth int he first session.

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The Rat Ro look is in right now and this newish Tim McCammis 57 Chevy is owned by Larry Higginbottham and runs a Kobelco supercharger. He spun and shut off early with a 12.00.

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Many racers seem to have underestimated the track in the first session resulting in many aborted runs and tire shake. Mike Hill ran an easy 7.73 @ 130 ater shutting down early.

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Jessica Barton, JC and Taylor from left to right. Gotta love Orlando

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Canadian racer Sandro Sementilli was the first 10.5 car to make a good pass with a 7.18 @ 191.

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Tim Lynch made a nice easy pass for the top spot in OL 10.5.

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Jorge Juarbe took the top spot by a mile in Extreme Import with a 7.79 @ 158 in his 72 Datsun

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Eric Kenward made another wild pass in his wagon, which is still on a 275 radial this weekend.

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Randy Steward drove his mustang to the track this morning then clicked off a very impressive low nine second pass.

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Mel Nelson was one of the many drag radial entries that were too aggressive in this morning's session. Look for the et's to improve in the evening qualifying session.

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Gotier had the quickest run in the first session of Heavy Street with a 7.14 @ 190.

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This hard charging 75 Nova belongs to the second qualifier John Townsend from Daytona Florida. The unassuming ride had a 572 ci BBC and ran 7.92 @ 173 on a clean hit.

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Jason Reuckert from VP is here this weekend once again overseeing the track conditions. Here he sprays some compound before round 2 of the Pro Street class.

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Round 1 Pit Notes

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John Sloan broke the transmission on his second pass in Super Pro Street after pedaling the car. They are going to try and make repairs but are unsure of the damage right now.

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Rockin Rob Cherkas is running Super Pro Street this weekend and is sporting a new engine and a fresh ggator themed wrap. His second hit was a 7.80, good enough for a top ten spot. His 82 Vette has a F2-R Procharged SBC under the hood tuned by Dale Cherry at Injection Connection. The car was also recently upgrades by Montana Brothers Race Cars. This is the first race with the new combo which Robs says should run mud sixes after is worked out.

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Frank Meshaw had some hard luck breaking a timing belt on his first pass. They have it all torn down and are waiting on a parts delivery in a couple of hours to see if they can patch it up.

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Another racer that suffered some engine damage was Eric Kenward. They are waiting on a replacement piston.

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This cool little Toyota wagon is a full street legal ride that belongs to Pedro Alguire from Palm Bay, Florida. it's got a 13B Mazda Rotary engine and has been a best of 9.50. They have yet to run today.

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In an effort to have a more fan friendly atmosphere for the import crowd they have set up a food booth on the west side of the pit area.

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Crfedit Man Haskel Mackowski is here diving a new ride owned by Maceellino Sotolongo. This is the first time Haskell has driven a turbo car. The 351 based engine is stroked to 393 ci and has a 106 mm turbo. The car was built byAll Out Race Cars

Round 2 Notes

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Super Pro Street has over 35 cars already qualified and more have been rolling through the gate all day long.

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Susan Vanderspool's crowd pleasing BMW is solidly in the field with a personal best 7.97.

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Tony Christian took the the number one spot in Super Pro Street with an amazing 6.25 in the heat. Jeff Lutz nearly regained the top spot one pair later with a 6.26.

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Current number one qualifier in heavy street Sam Gottier broke a rocker and lifter. Replacement parts are one the way and he should be good to go for tomorrow's action.

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Kevin Fiscus moved into the top spot in Radial Tire in the second round with a 7.64 second blast.

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Tom Kempf if currently third in drag radial with a best run of 8.09 through two rounds.

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Damon Chin made his first run in Extreme Import in the second session and jumping right to the number one position with a 7.23 @ 195 MPH

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Jamie Rodriguez brought his 80 Corolla up from West Palm Beach and ran a 7.69 @ 147 for sixth qualifier.

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Chris Fenn found some traction on his second run. The Orlando Florida racer improved his time from 10.04 to 9.40 @ 143 amd still managed to drop one spot.

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"Big Lo' Angelo Graham put up a fine 7.93 for the second spot on the drag radial ladder. The Miami based racer has really improved their program over the last year.

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Buck Walker was a late arrival this after noon making his first run in the second session. He probably wished he didn't after getting loose early and giving Archie Marasco a scare and nosing the Camaro into the wall.

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it's only Friday here but as always they love to line the fence to get up close to the action.

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Round 3 Notes

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Chris Rini had the crowd cheering by capturing the number one spot in Super Pro Street by less than a hundredth of a second.

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Dwanye Wolfe had a little fire on the return road, the orlando speedworld crew were quickly on the scene. Wolfe should be repaired in time for elminations on sunday.

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Nicole Lyons has her 1999 Monte Carlo solidly in the Super Pro Street field at 16th.

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Jerry Mitrovic put his Canadian based 03 Mustang in second spot after running a 6.71 @ 219 MPH.

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Conrad Scarry jumped from seventeenth all the way to third after this wheels up pass in the final session of the day with a 6.73 @ 210. Craig Pio improved as well by .009 but fell to fourth.

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Luis Rivera made his first hit in the third session of Extreme Import and went right up the number two spot with a 7.27 @ 192.

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Chanito Vazquez got crossed up right away with his 89 Mitsubishi and did a good job of avoiding the wall.

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Orlando Torres from Orlando is sitting outside the field with a 8.17 @ 164.

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Archie Marasco continues to struggle applying his new combo to the racing surface, currently with a tire spinning 8.93 best.

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Mel Nelson just took the top spot in drag radial in tonights session with a 7.47 at 217 mph.

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We are done for tonight due to an oil down at the top end of the track. Jeff Lutz is among 13 heavy street entries that did not get to make a third pass today. Those cars will get thier shot tomorrow morning before the first round of Super Pro Street.

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