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 After a record-shattering Street Car Super Nationals in 2012, the drag racing world has been waiting all year for an encore performance at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the ninth running of the popular west coast doorslammer extravaganza is finally upon us. Dragzine will be on hand all weekend bringing you the stories, photos, and results of SCSN IX. Will we see the all-time doorslammer records fall this weekend? Keep it tuned here to find out!
Friday’s qualifying sessions are upon us, with excellent weather forecast and a quality track surface we expect to see some killer times.
A special thanks to Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels, the presenting sponsor of our live same day coverage.
Last night we told you John Stanley seemed to have the 5.60 zone well in hand – and he came out and proved it during this morning’s first qualifying session. An absolutely sick 5.644 at 253 MPH showed up on the board- and the crowd went absolutely crazy, The first-ever 5.60-anything in Pro Mod – and we were here to witness it. Simply amazing. Congratulations to the whole Stanley and Weiss racing team on an incredible accomplishment!
We caught up with Camp Stanley in the pits just after his record run to get the scoop on what made it possible. “If you can believe it, we didn’t even have a quarter-mile tuneup when we left. I have a lot of experience with Roots blowers but not a whole lot with a screw blower,” he said. Regardless, the team strapped it on, Camp tickled the keys on the laptop, and the record fell. Even more amazing is that they are running on the tiny tire instead of the big meats most of their competition has. Camp explained, “We’re on the SKI vacation – Spending my Kid’s Inheritance.” Somehow we don’t think John minds a whole lot.
Check out this awesome street-driven ’66 Nova owned by Montana’s Kevin Delap. There’s a Dart conventional-headed 602-cube BBC onboard fed by three kits of Nitrous Works giggle gas.
Kevin's Nova still has roll-up windows, a functional interior, and is street-driven on a relatively-regular basis. 'The car is way too heavy - we can weigh 2200 pounds in our class and we crossed the scales at 3140.' They've been a 7.65 best, but they normally compete at 8-10,000 feet of air at home.
Dal Sangha went for quite the wild ride this morning thanks to some evacuated fluid on the track. No damage done to the car – he’ll be back for the next round.
Ken Sihota made the trek down from Langley, British Columbia with his 2000 Firebird, and so far the trip has been worth it – the team is qualified second behind Billy Glidden in Outlaw 10.5 with a quick 6.42 at 215 MPH.
Sihota's machine is stuffed full of a self-built 'tiny' 833-cube big-block Chevy and four kits of nitrous. The team was happy to have only received one speeding ticket on the way down.
He didn’t get his recently-wrecked Wild Street Nova repaired in time to compete here, but Artis Houston (left) still made the trip out from California to watch. He was thrilled to be able to hang out with NMRA Street Outlaw racer Sean Ashe (right) this morning.
Scott Oksas topped the Pro Mod ladder this morning in his 1970 Camaro. The Hemi-powered machine was one of three in the 5-second range in the ‘baby’ Pro Mod class with a 5.94 at 248 MPH.
After seeing Doug Harvey blast down the track yesterday in this wild Volkswagen Bug, we had to go find out the details.
The VW is competing in Outlaw 10.5 this weekend - with a humongous true VW engine displacing a whopping 155 cubic inches. Yes, you read that correctly. The engine is pumped up by a Garrett GTX42 turbocharger and was built by partner Jim Larsen of JCL Racecars. The car has been an 8.01 best but the team is still working on it, as they have never raced on a 10.5 tire before.
Nick Agostino made the trek down from Canada for the race. He normally competes on the East Coast at Cecil County in the Outlaw 10.5 class, which is eighth-mile. A rear-gear swap and a couple of other changes to get ready for the event, and the Camaro was stuck in the box to make the trip.
Agostino's car is about as clean as they come - no detail has been overlooked on this bad-boy. He ran a 6.61 during this morning's qualifying session but feels the .30's are within reach as the hit was a soft one. We've got a feature planned on Nick's car for over the winter.
Jermaine Boddie’s Outlaw 10.5 machine is qualified 19th in a stout field. The car runs a big-block Chevy with three kits. We almost walked past his car when we caught sight of crewmember Candace Williams changing the plugs. She’s been working on cars most of her life as her dad is a mechanic and had her in the shop contributing at the young age of six, and she told us there’s nowhere she’d rather be on the weekend. Crew Chief Cole Dowell and Perry Brown also help to prepare the car.
We love Dana Westover’s ’93 Supra. It’s his first time competing in the Outlaw 8.5 class with the Virtual Works-built car.
The Supra relies on a built 3.4L engine and an 88mm turbocharger. He's put a 5.56 up on the board, which is off the pace of top qualifier Ryan Jones, but feels confident that the car can run 5.30's once he gets it sorted out. He's still trying to figure out how to get the power down on the tiny tire.
One of the great things about coming to The Strip here in Las Vegas is the fact that Nellis Air Force Base is next door. The pilots provide a great distraction during oildowns.
The Mickey Thompson crew has been hard at work since yesterday morning providing tire services to all of the competitors on-site.
Second Round Heads-Up Qualifying Results/First Round Pro Mod Qualifying Results
John Stanley did it again in the second round of qualifying today, solidifying his claim on the quickest Pro Mod pass ever by duplicating his first-round run – a 5.644 at 253.04 MPH puts him at the top of the sheet heading into tomorrow.
Just behind him on the list is Eric Dillard, driving Jose Gonzalez’ ‘El General’ machine. Dillard lit the clocks with a 5.72 at a whopping 261-plus MPH to earn that spot.
Nick Agostino put an easy pass down in round one, but promptly stomped to the top of the Outlaw 10.5 field in the second session today with an unreal 6.262 at 216.31 MPH. In the pair just behind him, Ken Sihota figured out his nitrous machine to stop the timers with a 6.268. Mike Murillo sits in third with a 6.31 and the top MPH of anyone, 234.25 – outclassing the field by 14 MPH. Murillo had to pedal it on the 6.31 pass – we’ll see if he’s got more tomorrow.
Armen Magdhessian went for a wild ride in Wild Street tonight. The track was hooking well and he was just one of many to shoot for the sky.
Also riding high was Simi Valley, California’s Chris Kephart. The ’67 Chevy II has a Vortech 123mm supercharger on board powering the 509BBC engine.
We'll be shooting a feature on Kephart's car tomorrow to appear on Dragzine in the near future. Yellowbullet readers may know of Kephart as AJ's dad - AJ is a youngster who's been battling cancer and chemo and the Yellowbullet family has rallied 'round to support him in his fight. Kephart competes in Xtreme Drag Radial with the 'Rat Drag Nova'.
Bert Heck also went for a wild ride in his XDR/TT5 Camaro. He attempted to ride this one out but didn’t have much success, carding a 9.92 shutdown pass.
Roger Holder snatched the XDR/TT5 top spot by a wide margin in tonight’s session, cranking off a 6.59 at 230-plus – nearly two tenths and 8 MPH better than his closest competition, Mike Keenan.
Just moments after Tony Aneian put up an 8.126 in Hot Street, Mike DeMayo, Jr. decided he had had enough, and took the top spot right back with an 8.124 at 165.09.
Ryan ‘Toaster’ Jones bettered yesterday’s top qualifier for Outlaw 8.5, going oh-so-close to the 4’s with a 5.028 at 149.22 MPH. George Raygoza improved immensely, carding a 5.178 in his ’68 Nova to take over the second position in the class of 29 racers.
Eric Gustafson continued rocking in tonight’s session, taking his LSX-powered, ProCharged Mustang to a 4.60 at over 156 MPH. He’s got over a tenth on second-place Lamar Swindoll, Jr.
We’ve had lots of carnage this weekend. As it’s the last real doorslammer race of the season, everyone’s set on kill. This is one of multiple blower belts that we found on the side of the track.
Outlaw 10.5 racer Kelly Harvey hails from Colorado and runs a badass ’41 Willys,with the only roots-blown machine in the class. Harvey’s been struggling to figure out the combo with the decreased altitude compared to what hes used to running, and tuliped a pair of valves today, He was hard at work in the pits getting everything repaired tonight.
Also taking time away from partying on the Strip was Doug Paddock, who’s managed to burn up a number of pushrods thanks to an oiling issue in his turbocharged small-block Ford engine. The team added some oil clearance via a notch in the pushrods thanks to advice from legendary engine builder Jason Pettis of Pettis Performance, and were repairing the engine for tomorrow.
Chris Groves and his team were also hard at work in the pits performing some necessary maintenance. The Vortech-supercharged small block Ford engine powered him to a 4.85 in Wild Street today.
Results for Second Round Pro Mod/Third Round All Other Classes
