The weather has cleared out and we are racing this morning under blue skies. The index cars are running now with heads up cars soon to be on track. Stay tuned to Dragzine for same day updates till we are done with the baddest small tires racing on the planet.
Martin Connelley is sporting new graphics from Trick Flow for 2013 and some new Trick Flow A460 heads. The team hails from Salyersville, Kentucky The BES 580 big block Ford is topped off with Induction Solutions nitrous kit tuned by Kevin Neal sending power to the rear through a Bradco two speed 440 trans and converter.
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Tim Acton has owned this 1970 Monte Carlo since 1973 which is driven by his daughter Audri McGrane from Greenwood, Indiana and has been driving the car for about 13 years. They have not raced since 2007 when they last raced NMCA Extreme Street. For 2013 they have switched up to X275 with a 582 cubic inch big block Chevy from BES backed by Bradco transmission and converter. Nitrous set up is from Induction Solutions. Audri and Jason McGrane pictured.
Jere Etheridge and Frank Soldridge were paired up in round one of PTC Radial vs the World with Soldridge going straight down the track and Etheridge lifting the front tires early in the run, pedaling it then getting the front back up to unbelievable heights and nearly blowing over and riding the chute mount through the lights to a 4.89 @ 118. Jere is ok and very little oil was lost in the indecent. Check out the sequence of Jere flying here at SGMP.
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Round 1 Eliminations Results
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David DeMarco qualified number on in Carcraft Outlaw 10.5 and had a single in round one setting low ET for the round with a 4.31 @ 177 MPH.Eddie Harrison brought this beautiful Camaro from Aewoth, Georgia qualifying 5th in Outlaw 10.5. He left before the tree activated handing the round to James Hancock.David Pearson faced off with number seven qualifier Blake Catalanotto in MacFab Outlaw 275 getting the upset win despite his late reaction time as Catalanotto slowed to a 12.10.
Kevin Neal was paired up with Robby Keziah's 68 Nova but spit flames out the scoop as Keziah went on to take the round with a 4.69 @ 146.Former event winner here Marty Stinnett waits for some starting line clean up in his Kuttawa, Kentucky based Cobra Mustang.
Jason Richards qualified 9th in Outlaw Drag Radial and faced off with John Kolivas who sat in a disapointing 24 spot on the ladder. Richards was out first catching Kolivas sleeping at the tree and taking the win with a 4.69 @ 156 MPH over Kolivas who struck the tires early in the run.
Tony Ridenour spent a good portion of Thursday and Friday making repairs to the engine after losing a head gasket testing. he was in fine shape for his round one match with Scotty Ray putting up a 4.42 @ 176 to number 5 qualifier Ray's 4.97 @ 141.Isa Gomez qualified 16th in Billet Atomizer Ultra Street facing off with Eric Nguyen. Gomez put up a .075 reaction, leaving first and pulling the front wheels out past the 60' clock earning the win running a 5.54 @130.59.Eric Kenward launches the TRZ Motorsports sponsored Mustang to a round win over Darin Edwards running a 5.19 as Robert Rogers looks on.Ft. Meyers racer Brian Keep set low ET in Ultimate Street round one with a 5.15 @ 131 MPH.Jason Michalak came to Georgia only to line up with fellow Texas racer Trevor Stripling taking the win running a 4.79 @ 152 in Leaf Spring.
Dean Marinis had low ET in X275 in his win over Sam Vincent running a 4.70.0 @ 153 for the Whitestone, New York based racer.Mark Woodruff put his Corvette on the rear wheels and crossed the center line after Brad Bennett went red but got back in after Bennett failed to cross the scales after having issues after stopping the car making him unable to make the next round.Jason Enos's crews hard work payed off with a 4.28 @ 188 MPH in the first round of Radial vs the World, setting low ET and making the quickest run in competition here at SGMP.
Keith Berry ripped off a 1.20 60', 3.06 4.48 @ 175 MPH giving him the LS world drag radial record.
Round Two Results
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Justin "Lil Country" Swanstrom piloted the Fat Boy Racing to the first small block X275 nitrous car to a 4.68 @ 150 for the first small block in the 4.60's in eliminations in a win over Richard Stanbro. Team Fatboy Racing/Speed 365, Seidle Racing Engines, Category 5 Race Cars, Induction Solution, Neal Chance Racing Converters.Keith Berry reset his own LS drag radial record as well as captured the small block drag radial record with a 4.40 @ 174 MPH recording a 1.13 60' as well on the run in a loss to Brad Edwards twin turbo big block Mustang, Edwards ran a 4.402 @ 182 taking the holeshot win.Bad9er Kyle Huetell had a single in round two of PTC Radial vs the World recording a 1.08 60' on his way to a 4.25 @ 173 MPH. As far as we know this is the quickest 60' on a 315 radial here at SGMP.
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Robby Keziah has been runnign well in Outlaw 275 this weekend getting a win over Dan Saitz in round two with a 4.66 @ 156 MPH. He lost an engine in round three spinning into the wall on the top end after getting in his own oil. He is not injured.
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Troy Pirez' Camaro hesitated at the hit against Dean Marinis then lifted the wheels and carryed them out while making a move to the left. troy wanted the round win bad but he lost it after setting it down crossing the center line and nosed into the wall. The damage is mostly cosmetic so they should have it fixed up soon.
Final Results
PTC Radial vs. the World
We made it through four rounds in Radial vs the World before running up against the curfew at 11 PM Sunday night. With so much rain and no cars going down the track on Saturday the staff did a terrific job of getting the track back to racing condition. The final round completed saw the quickest side by side pass in drag radial history with Bad 9er Kyle Huettel earning the win over Jason Enos who raced for the first time on a radial tire here at Lights Out IV. I believe Huettel also reset his own record with his 4.214 @ 177.28 on that run. Look for Enos to be a player in the class as the Victory Racecraft team is very pleased with their performance at this event.
Brad Edwards also had his new personal best 4.284 @ 183 in his round 4 match with Frank Soldridge who slowed to a 4.53 @ 153 trailing smoke through the lights.Arnold, Missouri racer Mark Woodruff had a good run at Lights Out IV qualifying 11th with his Sonny's powered Corvette. His best run in eliminations was a 4.354 @ 182 in a round three match with "The" Kevin Mullins who was sporting his new car this weekend, he left .009 to early in the loss in what was a great side by side run never the less putting up his best run of the weekend 4.342 @ 187 MPH.
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Holley/NOS/Monte Smith Outlaw Drag Radial
Tony Ridenour was put into the Outlaw Drag Radial field via the random draw after hurting a head gasket testing prior to qualifying, also having to replace a couple of lifters. He sat 28th on the ladder and came out swinging with a 4.428 @ 178 in round one. He got faster every round meeting up with Thrillbilly Shane Stack in the final who had a personal best 4.359 @ 185 in the semi final over Jason Rueckert. Ridenour took the advantage at the start and they were side by side all the way down as both racers had identical 4.379's with the Ridenour Rocket coming out on top. Tony runs a Fast Forward Race Engines (Troy Pirez Jr. and Joe Irwin) big block chevy with twin Precision 94's reduced to 88, Proformance Transmissions two speed 4oo trans with a PTC converter.In contrast to Ridenour, Shane Stack had a mostly uneventful weekend as the car performed flawlessly requiring only cool down between runs after qualifying number two in class with a 4.439 @ 177. Sponsors include R & R Speed and Machine, PTC Transmission, VP and Mickey Thompson with Chassis work by Chris Terry. Stack runs reduced 91 mm turbos.
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AC CarCraft/Lyons Custom Motorsports Outlaw 10.5
Richard Sexton qualified 7th with a 5.41 and began to step it up after round one setting low ET in the semi final with a 4.205 @ 185 over Mike Dekor. He met with number one qualifier David Demarco running a 4.225 @ 185 for the win after Demarco struck the tires about 100 feet out inthe final. The Gil Mobley Motorsports team is based in Ijamsville, Maryland with their 2006 blown GTO.David Demarco put the Victory Racecraft Buick on the Outlaw 10.5 pole and ran well on a round one single with a 4.314 @ 177 MPH. All in all a great weekend for the team as top qualifier, a final round appearance and record setting performance while testing in NMCA 10.5 trim.
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Ultimate Converter Concepts/Bennett Racing Engines x275
Fifty seven cars made the call for round one of X275 with Deam Marinis and Ron Rhodes wading through the field to make it a small block vs big block nitrous final. Dean set low ET with a personal best and X275 record 4.631 @ 154.63 to take out number one qualifier Terry Elam in the semi final recording a 1.11 60' on that run. Ron Rhodes came away with the small block nitrous record 4.689 over Taylor Laster in round three after replacing a piston after testing. Marinis runs a BES 576 big block Chevy on one Speedtech kit tuned by Kevin Neal. Special thanks to Santhuff and Mickey Thompson. Ron Rhodes runs a 23 degree small block Chevy also from BES with Induction Solutions nitrous, TRZ Motorsports, Santhuff, Hutch trans with PTC converter and Rhodes Custom Auto. He also collected the $500 bounty from Jason Gatlin at ATF for being the first small block nitrous to run in the 4.60's at an event.
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Precision Turbo/MacFab Beadlocks Outlaw 275
Sean Ashe qualified tenth in Outlaw 275 and made it to the final to face Marty Stinnett but ran into the curfew so could not complete the final. The sheet is incorrect about the information as round 4 had 5 cars left giving Ashe the bye to the finals. the listed final is actually the semi between Stinnett and Rogers. The round three match with number one qualifier Phil Hines was epic with Ashe getting the hole shot win as Hines set low ET of the event with a 4.405 @ 168 MPH.Outlaw 275 number two qualifier Marty Stinnett is a former class champion here at last years No Mercy III event. He had high mile per hour with the Burns Racing Engines twin turbo Cobra in round four against Paul Naquin running a 4.443 @ 169.34 moving on to take out Eddie Rogers with a 4.464 @ 168.72 before the race was called. The final was split with Ashe.
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Proformance Transmissions/Capslock Oil Company Leafspring
The Leaf Spring worked out just right with number one and two qualifiers meeting in the final. Number two qualifier Jason Michalak had the quicker, more consistent car on race day capping off his win with a low ET in eliminations of 4.668 @ 153.13 for the Bad9er crew out of Cypress Texas.Bryan Marrow put his Procharged 79 Camaro on top of Leaf Spring with a clean 4.627 @ 159.34 MPH. His round one opponent was DQ'd and Marrow went on to the final getting by Chris Bryant in round two, then facing off with Ron Rhodes small block nitrous 1968 Camaro getting the win as Rhodes spun and slowed to a 5.17 @ 111. In the final it would be Marrow who lost traction early in the run allowing Michalak to get by.
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Billet Atomizers/Media 1 Ultimate Street
Walt Drakeford has struggled recently with a a misfire issue and qualified 28th with a 6.32 @ 92 MPH. Frustrated by their recent performance and the rain the Clearwater based Real Speed Racing team packed up and headed for the sunny skies of Bradenton, Florida to try and work out the bugs. The trip payed off with Drakeford winning his round one match with Jamers Cordell with a 5.343 @ 137. Next up was Brian Keep's S-10 with Walt going a 5.188 @ 142 with Keep trailing the tell tale smoke of hurt parts. round 4 had him paired with Eric Kenward with Drakeford on point with a 5.112 @ 139 going on to meet number one qualifier Chris Lancaster's show quality 66 Mustang. His car and engine is built in house at Real Speed with an Induction Solutions nitrous system on board.Gary Price qualified 10th with 39 cars on the ladder for round one. He met up with Jody Voyles in round three earning a hole shot win with a 5.180 @ 134.64 to Voyles quicker 5.142 @ 136, next round was a 5.19 2 @ 139.45 over Matt Davis giving him a bye to the final which was split with Walt Drakeford. Gary has been partnered in this car with Lyle Smith Racing Engines for 10 years running out of Defuniak Springs, Florida. Gary is a master technician and automotive instructor in Defuniak Springs and has been running Real Street and outlaw street cars in that area. Casey Smith, Thomas Nall and Jamie Powell are part of the crew. Gary uses PTC transmission with an FTI Converter and Induction Solutions Nitrous.
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4.70 Index winner Greg Cason hails from Nicholasville, Kentucky with his Tim McCamis built 1968 Camaro and builds his own engines.
Kenny Ford put the trusty PTC Camaro in the 6.50 Index winner circle.Otis Priest 6.50 Index Runner Up.Troy Pirez Jr. was enterd in two classes with the Kirt Sanders owned notch Mustang, Open Comp and 6.50 Index. His effort payed off with a win in Open Comp and the 6.50 Index runner up. Sponsors for Troy Jr. are Brodix, PTC, VP Fuel, Pro Systems, Diamond Pistons, Fast Forward Race Engines and Kirt Sanders.
We are still in a holding pattern this morning as the wet weather edges past us here in Cecil, Georgia. We did receive word this morning that we will run the race through to the finals, we are not cancelling the race if it takes three more days to get it done. Mother nature has delayed us but will not stop the radial revolution. We will be here providing updates, news from the pits and information on various teams here this weekend.
Yes it's wet but we have spectators here wandering the pits and manufacturers midway. We will be rolling through there this afternoon to report on whats new with the vendors here this weekend.We reported last night about Chad Opaleski haveing to send a head to Nelson Competition for repair. I stopped by this morning and they were just getting it all buttoned up.
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Braxton Hopkins is here this weekend running Precision Turbo/ MacFab Beadlocks Outlaw 275. The 1999 Mustang is a father and son project running a 572 cubic inch big block Chevy with Edelbrock Nitrous making 1577 horsepower dyno tested by Pat Musi. The team is from Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee. Just started racing young at age 12 drive a 72 Chevy pick up running 9.80s in the 1/8 mile. The cage was built by Smarts Hot Rods. The crew includes James Johnson, Faith Johnson, Brown Racing and Issac Preston. Pictured is Mr Hopkins, son Braxton, mom Charity and Lenco the family dog. Tim Mcamis Performance is sporting a new wrap on this display rig for 2013. This is the debut event for the new look.
Applied Racing Components has a new bottle bracket that incorporates a heater. The billet bracket is light weight and comes with AC, or AC/DC plugs to use 110 volt power in the pits, still keeping the ability to touch up the temp in the staging lanes when needed.JW Performance Transmissions has developed a new product for TH 350 transmissions. This billet tail shaft housing is developed for the circle track market but is welcome for drag racing as well. It incorporates a double snap ring system and roller bearing. The outer snap ring keeps the seal in place. Also under development is a shorter TH 400 tail housing which allows racers to swap from a powerglide to a TH 400 and use the same driveshaft. With the recent pupularity of people using 2 speed TH 400 transmission this is a needed part for sure that will allow racers to test between the two and save them the hassle and money on a second drive shaft.UPR has some new GM parts for 2013 for G bodies and F bodies. The company has been making Mustang parts for a few years now and is moving into the GM market. They will be displaying at the 2013 NMCA debut in Bradenton and Indy later this year.
I spoke with Kenny Ferrell from CFM, Carbon Fiber Manufacturing in the midway. He has been in business since 1993 making carbon pro mod bodies and experimental airplane parts. This new pro stock style scoop is just (2.2 pounds). They will have some G body parts coming for 2013. Tim and Joe Ballard have a dealership in Olive Branch, Mississippi.Jacob Garry is here with his father crewing with Outlaw 275 racer Billy "Ticket Taker" Driscoll. He was having fun in the rain on the big wheel. We are called for the day. The weather is supposed to clear out overnight and we will be racing at 9 AM. Open Comp will get one time trial. The other index classes will go right into round one eliminations. The qualified heads up cars will be laddered up with the rest of the cars still here on a random draw on the bottom of the ladder in an all run field scheduled to start at 10 AM.
Final Qualifying Results
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We got some cars down in qualifying this morning before the rain stopped today’s racing. We are in a holding pattern for a while till this clears up. We will be here updating as weather allows us to roam the pits until we are back to racing.
Vince Fuller had the distinction of the first car down the track this morning and the first car to crash. He got into a wheel stand early, got into the wall and breaking the oil pan. The car was built by Lyons Custom Motorsports with a LS engine by Shawn Bryson on nitrous from Induction Solutions. He is running X275 this weekend and will be back if they can get a new oil pan. The team hails from LaFayette, Georgia.
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Eddie Harrison and crew had to swap the rear in their Outlaw 10.5 Camaro. The Proline Racing powered car is qualified 5th with a 5.13 @ 121, obviously clicking it early on that run.Steve Morris was fighting some electrical issues yesterday and should have that fixed up this morning. They were swapping on a new set of radials for the weekend.Blake Catalanotto put his New Orleans based 67 Camaro in 4th position in X275 with a 4.69 @ 150 MPH. Carlo Marthis does the chassis and the car is powered by a Huntsville Racing Engines big block with Induction Solutions on board for the nitrous. He runs a Proformance TH 400 with a PTC converter. Blake is happy with the 4.69, which is a new personal best ET, they will be looking to run a little faster when we get back to qualifying.
Scott Jones owns this Outlaw 10.5 Camaro driven by Brian Neal sporting the Moonshiner wrap based out of Spartanburg, South Carolina. He runs a PAR Motorsports big block nitrous combo in a Donny Gibbs chassis. The car has been done about a year and a half and has been 4.30’s @ 178 with about 20 runs on the car to date. The sponsor wrap is from Moonshiners Reunion which has two events a year in Spartanburg at the Plum Hollow Farm. Scott owns Jones and Sons Truck Repair with five locations in the Carolinas.
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The "IQC" I Quick Crew hails from Illinois and Wisconsin and made the trip down to Georgia to watch the baddest race of the year. They are involved in the grudge scene at Great Lakes Dragway and No Limit Raceway rolling ten cars deep. Sponsors are Fast Motorsports, Clocks Off Racing and Nitrous Pig Racing. The race has been called for the day. We will be adding some coverage from the pits as weather allows. Photo courtesy KDubs Photos.The Mark Woodruff crew last night after doing some regular maintanance. He uses a M&M TH 400 two speed transmission. Mark Micke used his car for a test bed last year with excellent results using the ATI case.Jim Plimpton aka "Dr. Ford" brought the Fearmont down from Wisconsin to compete in X275. His son Jimmy Jr. is behind the wheel this weekend. Photo courtesy Kelly Leslie.
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Jimmy Plimpton Jr. ate a piston in qualifying last night. He did qualify 11th with a 4.79 @ 149. He was hurt before the run and still earned a personal best ET4.79.88. They tore the engine down last night and had to hone one cylinder. Tommy from Mac Fab Beadlocks is over there now lending a hand getting it back together. Photos courtesy Kelly Leslie.
Night Pit Notes
Dr. Ford and crew got the engine buttoned back up and were installing the headers when I left their pit tonight. It was a long wet day for Team Plimpton but they are ready to run now.Tommy is welding the ring on a set of wheels in the Mac Fab trailer. They have done many sets of wheels this weekend, gotta love same day on site service.I stopped by the ATF pits to find Shawn Ashe and Danny getting honing their reaction times. I stepped in to try my hand at it for a few round before Jason Gatlin pulled me aside to shoot some new products.Jason has developed a pressure relief valve to help control the pressure inside the converter. With today's converter technology many racers have had issues controlling internal transmission pressures. This is the second generation valve which has been under development for about six months and is in use on several cars this weekend.
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Jason is also developing TH 400 billet valve bodies for various applications. This is the first prototype with Shawn set to test a working model at the teams next outlaw event. The new design will feature an internal solenoid in an effort to improve the release time on the TH 400 trans brake.
ATF will also be marketing these supercharger bells designed to inprove the efficiancy or the various units on the market. This is the F1-R version.Chad Opaleski dropped a valve seat on his qualifying attempt in Outlaw Drag Radial. Dan Neumann and Rob Zarcone drove the head to Nelson Competition in Pinellas Park, Florida to get it fixed up. They were on their way back and should have got to the track around midnight. Luckily for them and several other teams the rain delay has allowed them to make repairs, lets hope mother nature shines on us to get the race in as well.
Once the rain let off enough Donald Long had the hospitality up and cooking for the racers and whoever else was on hand to grab some complimentary food.
It’s the one race that heads-up drag racing fans have been waiting for all winter long, as the fabled “The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia” returns to the South Georgia Motorsports Park for what’s shaping up to be another epic barn burner. Competitors and fans from all corners have descended upon the Peach State for what is annually one of the biggest small-tire doorslammer races in the world. From the moment the gates open until all the winners have been crowned, Dragzine will be on the property bringing you the best in editorial and photo coverage, so bookmark us and stay tuned!
Ron Rhodes ran a 4.681 yesterday making him the first small block nitrous X275 car in the 4.60's. He runs a 23 degree small block Chevy with Induction Solutions nitrous system. PTC Converters, Santhuff shocks and TRZ Motorsports are on board. The team hails from Delaware with a 68 Camaro with Don Barnett, Jeff Kinsler and son Ronny. Rhodes will be racing Ultimate Converter Concepts/Bennett Racing Engines X275 and Proformance transmission/Capslock Oil Leafspring. His first run today was a 4.69.Steve Morris has the big wagon here this weekend with his own modified F3R 139 Procharger with a Pro Volute and 5 inch piping to the inter cooler and a new Neal Chance converter.Will Stevenson ran his last event with a borrowed F3R135, he has his F3R 139 back from Steve Morris for this race and should be improving on the 4.40 ran at the US Street Nationals. Sponsors include Steve Morris Racing Engines, KSR Performance and Dan Neumann Race Cars for his Outlaw Drag Radial Camaro. Class sponsors are NOS, Monte Smith and Holley.
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Kenny Hubbard and Wayne Long are here from the lone star state to do battle in PTC Radial vs the World with the record setting supercharged Camaro. They broke a camshaft yesterday and had to swap out engines. There was a mishap yesterday with the push bar and had to fix the bumper this morning, they are going to paint it later after the primer dries. Car owner Wayne Long is also here with his new Chevy II to run X275, pics and info on that will be coming later today. The Kevin Mullens ran a 4.46 @ 177 with his new car in Radial vs the World trim.The El General Racing Corvette got down this afternoon with a 4.34 @ 183 making the team very happy about the run.Don Lamana has a new car and this event makes the second outing for the Pro Fab Performance Plus X275 Mustang. He got a nice 5.07 on this pass, the best so far on his first hit today.The track temp is getting the best of quite a few racers this afternoon. We will be doing a round of qualifying today for all the heads up classes due to the inclement weather predicted to come this way. The session is scheduled to begin about 6 PM today. Motormaniatv.com will have the life stream up for today's session. Also check out Duckxxx.com as well which will have the feed embedded on the front page.
Jason Enos burnt a head gasket testing yesterday after running a 4.32 @ 183 on his first full run on a radial tire. They had it back together last but are having some issues today. Hopefully they will get it straightned out soon.
Ruben T hasn't made a full good run today, after his last run the Pro Lite Batteries team swapped the trans and rear gear for qualifying this evening.LSX drag radial racer Mike Meeks ran one out the back today to the tune of 7.83 @ 175 making him the fastest 5th gen Camaro.TCI's own Jeff Reed ran a 4.79 @ 151 with his single turbocharged Mustang, a nice hit for him so far.
Eric Kenward hooked up and managed a 5.17 @ 138 driving the Mustang in Billet Atomizers/ Media 1 Ultimate Street.Keith Berry's first shakedown pass since the crash last year was a nice and straight 4.70 @ 168 MPH.
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Mike Schill from El Dorado, Kansas put his 2004 Cobra on the bumber coming down hard earlier during testing. He sits 24th in Mac Fab Outlaw 275 with a 5.03 @ 145. Sam Vincent is running Outlaw 275 this weekend and this is the result of his first ever pass on a radial tire. A wild ride for sure, hopefully the damage is repairable.
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ROUND 1 QUALIFYING RESULTS
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Terry Elan sits on top of X275 after one round with a 4.64 @153 MPH in the Panhandle Performance sponsored 03 Cobra.Taylor Lastor has his new ride running well after qualifying third in X275 with a 4.687 @154.95.Kyle Huttel came out hard with his Fulton powered 2002 Camaro running a 4.25 @ 168 in PTC Radial vs the World. The .25 is on a track record pace if he backs it up, which I have no doubt will happen. The only question is is he can reset the radial tire record lower than his previous 4.21 from Holly Springs.Mac Fab Outlaw 275 had 33 cars attempt to qualify today in the early session. Phil Hines leads so far with a very nice 4.46 @ 168, just ahead of former class winner Marty Stinnett.
Dan Saitz got here just in time to make Outlaw 275 qualifying. After pulling right to the lanes from tech, he managed a 4.87 @ 149.07 off the trailer to land 17th in the field.
Brian McGee runs this Fulton nitrous big block in Outlaw Drag Radial out of Pelion, South Carolina. His 4.426 @ 170 has him number one qualifier after today's session.Francis Johnson was another racer on the road and trying to get here for today's session. He did and ran a personal best 4.49 @ 161 putting his Samakow Racing Engines Firebird fourth in Outlaw Radial.
David DeMarco is well ahead of the Carcraft Outlaw 10.5 class with a 4.34 @ 183 in his Victory Racecraft tNMCA legal twin turbo Buick. he is sporting new graphics this weekend in his first race of 2013. DeMarco is looking to hurt some feelings this year in NMCA, and he is doing pretty good so far here facing off with various Outlaw style cars.Chris Lancaster is back this year for Billet Atomizer Ultimate Street with his beautiful single turbo mod motor powered 66 Mustang. He is nearly a tenth ahead of the class with a 5.12 @ 140 with nitrous racer Jody Voyles second so far.
Bryan Marrow's 4.62 @ 159 has him leading Capslock Oil Leaf Spring after one session. The Ft. Lauderdale, Florida racer has caused some controversy in the past and is a strong runner in the class.Ron Rhodes hurt his little 23 degree small block Chevy after being the first to run 4.6x yesterday while testing. The team had a lot of work to get it back together after replacing a piston but did not run well in his X275 qualifying attempt. leaf Spring was a different story however and he sits fourth with a 4.711 @ 149 MPH.
