Rain got the best of us on Sunday so the race was postponed until Monday for the racers that were able to stay. The crew worked hard this morning getting the surface scraped and prepped using the tracks new dragger. Stay tuned through the day for updates from Lights Out V.
SGMP has some new track prep equipment for 2014 to help get thing in order and put rubber down. The staff worked hard this morning drying the surface and getting it ready for racing. A daunting task after all the rain on Sunday.Kevin Scott is running OL 275 with his Proline Powered box Nova. He went A to B and will advance to round two.Trace Meyer is representing Team Z Motorsports in X275 this weekend. I popped in their pit at lunchtime to catch up with Trace.The car is tuned by long time friend Jason Lee from PTP. He qualified sixth and has run a best this weekend of 4.62 at 155. The combo is a 400 cubic inch small block Ford shortblock from Champion Performance in Detroit topped with TFS hi ports from Total Engine Airflow and intake from Mike Crucio Race Products. The car is built and suspension set up by Team Z with all their own suspension.Randy Haywood runs this Grand National in OL 275 with Patrick Barnhill tuning the 434 cubic inch small Ford from Bennett Racing topped with CFE heads. He has low ET in eliminations with a 4.65 at 164 Saturday night. Twin 88’s feed the engine, B&B Race Cars did the chassis. He got loose in eliminations today and hit the wall, he has been transported to the hospital for evaluation.Troy Pirez is still in Ultra Street and ran a 5.17 this morning on a single.Its unfortunate it rained and we tried to do what we thought was right by everybody came a long way to be able to continue to race to get a winner. We really needed a winner, we tried and came out the next day and the weather was good but we had some water seeping on the top end due to the rain. The time permitting wasn’t going to be able to finish the race so we decided to go ahead and call it and split the purse so the racers had some money to go home with.- Donald Long
Rain got the best of us on Sunday so the race was postponed until Monday for the racers that were able to stay. The crew worked hard this morning getting the surface scraped and prepped using the tracks new dragger. Stay tuned through the day for updates from Lights Out V.
The weather here this morning is perfect for racing as we wrapped up round two qualifying with the remainder of the X275 cars left over from last nights curfew shortened session. Stay tuned to Dragzine for the latest from Sought Georgia Motorsports Park for Duck X Productions’ Lights Out 5.
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Jesse Abele owns this 1987 Mustang that’s powered by a unique engine, a 4G63 Mitsubishi force fed by an 80 millimeter Borg Warner turbo. Abele has experience with the little 122 cubic inch 4 cylinder but had problem keeping a drivetrain in the Eagle Talon so they put it in a Mustang. Sponsors include Weisco, Kigley Racing and AA Performance. It’s a Bradco trans and converter with a diverter valve from Jason Gatlin from ATF which releases the converter and allows the small engine to spool the turbo, with a little help from a nitrous system. He is based out of Louisville, Kentucky and has run a 5.13 at 136 with just ten passes on the set up.The Watermelon Express is driven by Hunter Youmann in 4.70 Index with this 57 Chevy and is normally campaigned in Top Sportsman. Just a really interesting paint scheme that turns heads everywhere.
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Kevin Mullins was getting the car buttoned up this mornign after loosing a ring and pinion on his record setting 4.11 last night. Patrick Clenny is doing double duty driving two cars this weekend for Duck Johnson Racing. The Trans AM pinched a ring in last nights session and they had just wrapped up the repairs around ten this morning.Rich Bruder is running X275 and sat fourth on Friday with a 4.64 at 150 MPH. The team was doing some routine maintance this morning as well as making an adjustment to the NCRC billet bolt together converter. Rich mentioned he had moved up to second in the field with a 159 MPH run but we won’t have the final qualifying sheets for a couple of hours yet to confirm his final spot.Chris Daniel runs out of White, Georgia in Radial vs the World with a Fulton 833 backed by a Rossler trans and Pro Torque Gen II converter. Scotty Cannon has come on board to assist in tuning the car this year and it’s coming around nicely. Crew this weekend is Cannon, Ron Porter and Mr. 5.0.
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Jamie Hancock is entered in Radial vs the World with the former Pro Nitrous championship Corvette from 2007. It's been sitting since then and the Hancock team drug this one out and dusted it off with their newest engine between the rails. Their Pro Mod is getting repainted so they stuffed that engine in this car and came out to have some fun. His first hit was a 1.20 60' 4.45 at 171. It's been 3.80 in Pro Mod and won at Cordova ADRL last year. His second qualifying pass was a 4.33 which should put him in the top 15 cars one the ladder is complete. Heather Litrell sat on the bump after two rounds of Radial vs. the World in his 1972 Nova. He has a new cam for this year, has changed the gearing and did some weight reduction in the off season. So far the best run is his qualifying 4.85 at 154. He is shown here with his wife Tiffany. He runs a PTC converter backed by a transmission from RPM.
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Final Qualifying Results
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Round One Elimination Results
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The upsets started with the second pair of Mark Micke and Mike Hupp in an all Malibu pairing. Micke had a slight starting line advantage that would evaporate before the 60’ with Hupp getting by after Micke spun and pedaled it. Keith Berry and Kenny Hubbard would also fail to advance.Bad 9’er Kyle Huttell looked good taking the win with a 4.48 at 164 over Enzo Pecchini. This is Huttell’s first outing with the fuel injection and they are chipping away at the tune.Kevin Mullins and Kevin Neal were the next pair out with Mullins getting the win and the new radial tire record with a 4.113 @ 194.30
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Jamie Hancock was on his way to a mid 4.20 pass when the engine broke a valve spring. I just caught up with the team setting the intake back on after making repairs in the pit. Jason Richards qualified eighth in ODR meeting Richard Reaganin round one. Richards left first by a good margin and held it out running a 4.547 at 165 to advance to round two.Mark Carlyle was able to make the call for round one laying a down 4.57 at 152 over Jayson Tyson.
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Phil Hines was matched with Francis Johnson in the Mustang after lifting at half track to set down a wheel stand. Patrick Clenney was the first out in Big Stuff X275. He rode the bumper on this run and bounced off the chip with no wheels on the ground. It was a hard landing so we well have to see if he is for round two on Sunday.Rich Bruder set low ET for the round with a 4.55 at 157, earning the win despite a holeshot by Dan Saitz.Justin Sowell hails from Milton, Florida with this 1970 running Leaf Spring this weekend. The tuneup bright for his 5.14 at 136 MPH run, he got the go ahead win over John McDonough.John Schroeder was first out in TRZ Motorsports OL 632 running a 4.512 at 159 for low ET of the round.Rob Briscoe was close behind with a 4.522 at 160 MPH.
Friday here in Cecil, Georgia we are starting out wet. There was some heavy rain and wind this morning so I am working out of the hotel until the poor weather passes. We’ll get caught up some some news from the pits that didn’t get posted on Thursday along with some more things from qualifying. We expect the rain to clear out and leave us with nice weather the remainder of the weekend. Check back for the latest news from Lights Out V.
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I met the number one qualifier Shawn Pevlor and his crew chief “Cheeseburger” having breakfast at the hotel this morning and spoke with them about the car. It’s a got a BES 438 small block with Kevin Neal setting up the nitrous system. The power is transferred through a Bradco converter to a Extreme Automatics transmission with the chassis from Rogue Race Cars out of Williamsburg, Ohio. Pevlor is yet another racer that fought through snowy weather up north to get here. Shawn normally runs Outlaw 8.5 races at Kilkare. Photo courtesy: Cheeseburger.Speaking of Kevin Neal he is back at it after some repairs and updates from TRZ Motorsports. He is currently qualified ninth in Outlaw Drag Radial which is sponsored by Steve Schmidt Racing Engines, Monte Smith Performance NOS and Holley.Marty Pearcy owns this stunning 2010 Dodge Challenger based out of San Angelo, Texas built by B&B Race Cars. He runs an unusual combination of a 430 cubic inch Australian Pro Stock Hemi. Mary has the only two aluminum blocks Chrysler made for these heads. Since Mopars are different anyway he swapped from his W8 combo as he didn’t feel it would have enough to compete with cars running 4.60’s. Originally designed around an F1X Procharger then converted to a turbo after the F1X was disallowed for his combo. He currently runs a Precision large frame 88 but is considering the F1X again for later this year depending on how competitive the car is like this. The car has been a 4.78 so far with more left and he has swapped to a three speed from Dave Klayput at Proformance, PTC converter and changed the rear gear accordingly.There are some unique cars coming out for PTC Radial vs. the World as it’s popularity grows. This 1963 Impala is owned by David Adkins and powered by a twin turbo LSX 438 cubic inch monster from Baker Engineering backed by a Pro Mod Revolution Gen II converter from Pro Torque featuring their modular drive system and all steel billet construction. He spun early in qualifying running a 6.378 at 159 MPH and sits on the bump.
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Barry Lutz took some time off after a wheel stand in 2010 that caused some real damage including tweaking the frame on his 1971 Chevelle. This is his first time back out with the car which has been updated to a 25.3 chassis by Tim Webb from Webb Racecraft in Topeka, Kansas. TRZ Motorsports supplied their entire A Body catalog for the rebuild. The engine is the same conventional head 540 big Chevy from Driskell Enterprises in Wellsville, Kansas and tuned by Cal Hartline. It’s backed by a two speed 400 and converter from M&M Transmissions. Other sponsors include Mac Fab, Menscer Motorsports, TRZ Motorsports, Accufab Inc., 187 Graphics, Jakes Performance and Fabrication, CFM Performance, Component Drive Services, Mickey Thompson and a special thanks to Jason Ruekert at VP Race Fuels. He sits nineteenth in Mac Fab Outlaw 275 with a 4.85 at 147 MPH, a personal best ET. Bart Tobener switched his car to the Holley Dominator fuel injection for 2014 and will be running the full season of NMRA Renegade. The combo is a 5.4 Mod Motor with a Vortech YSI supercharger with an ATF Glide and converter transferring the power. The wing and door panels are from Hyperformance Motorsports with the rest of the car and engine built in house at MV Performance.Teem Deez in the house from Texas with Todd Moyer and Chase Driscoll. The crew was going over Driscoll’s car earlier and found a broken rocker. He is running X275 this weekend with a 582 from NRC with Holley Dominator fuel injection and Induction Solutions nitrous backed by a trans from M&M and NCRC converter.Jordan Mellette from Full Moon Race Cars in Tampa, Florida is another business here displaying for the first time in the growing manufacturer midway. They off a full service shop for race and street performance builds.
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Atillio DeRosa from AAPerformance is one of the many vendors here. A new product from the shop is a quick release fuel cell. Perfect for racers who run methanol and service and drain their fuel systems on a regular basis. He also offers K members and various suspension parts. Long time Radial Revolution support Team Z Motorsports is set up behind the tower. They offer an arrar of suspension components and K members. Their Outlaw K member allows oil pan removal and a forward placement for the rack and pinion. They also offer body components in fiberglass and carbon fiber of their own design from Motor City Solutions.
Round Two Qualifying Notes
Sean Ashe managed a 5.19 at 123 in the second session of Mac Fab Outlaw 275.David Boger is running two classes this weekend and put down a new personal best in OL 275 running a 4.76 at 149 MPH. Scotty G got him fixed up after cracking a crankshaft at the US Street Nationals with a new crank.
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Lil Country hurt his engine in testing and they were sitting out in Ultra Street. Yesterday afternoon he put in a call to Chris Nelson to see if he could get one of the other fat Boy racing engines together to make the race. Justin left here at 1 AM to pick it up for an all night thrash session and he sits in fifteenth with a 5.23 at 135. Dewayne Mills was the first one out again in round two of Radial vs the World and has been improving every run this weekend. This round was no different as he went down straight with a 4.17 at 190.92 earning second in class.Mark Micke pulled one out just a few minutes later breaking into the teens with a 4.18 at 188. The engine is a billet 5.4 bore space 548 from Nelson Competition with twin 88 Garrett’s. Team M&M has been a consistent 4.20 car and they are more than happy and looking for more this weekend.The man of the hour is “The” Kevin Mullins who already proved his record setting performance with his 4.16 on Thursday. Everyone here was anticipating him to back it up and he did that and more with a 4.117 at 193.90. Though his 4.165 isn’t enough to back up the 4.11 everyone knows it’s coming soon with the track and weather conditions this weekend.
David Measel recently purchased one of Ricky Fox’s Mustangs and is running Outlaw Drag Radial here this weekend. He was on a run and climbed the ring gear hard when the power came on towards 100 feet out making him another racer to “fly” here at SGMP riding the wing before coming down hard past the 330 and keeping it off the wall. Thanks again to Hans from Free Life Films for letting us use the video in our coverage. We will have more coming of Dwayne Mills, Kevin Mullins and Mark Micke.
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Round Two Qualifying Results
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Zane and George Owens are running Nitrous X and Ultra Street out of Tifton, Georgia. Owen is not here but his 434 small block is providing the power this weekend topped with AFR 245 23 degree heads and a Wilson plate system. The team was here last year in Outlaw 8.5 with a Ford combo. They are qualified thirteenth with a 5.70 at 122. Headers were done in house at Fast Flow Headers in Tifton. They get help from local business including Rainey's Alignment.
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Mark Carlye broke the studs in the center section and the crew was working hard at getting the repairs done. They are fine otherwise and will be ready Saturday. Martin Conelley was undergoing repairs away from prying eyes, roped off Summit Racing style in the pits. He currently sits eleventh with a 4,62 at 153 in OL 275.Kelly Willis made the trip from Richardson, Texas to race Induction Solutions Ultimate Street with his 2003 GMC Sonoma. He had to pedal after this long wheelstand and will stay eleventh on his previous 5.25.
After all the talk, all the planning, and long winter months of preparation, the most anticipated heads-up drag race of the season is finally upon, as small-tire door slammer racers from all across the nation have descended upon the South Georgia Motorsports Park for the fifth edition of the infamous “Night The Light Went Out In Georgia” promoted by the one and only Donald Long ad his Duck X Productions. Bigger and badder than ever, Lights Out V will feature the best of the best in Radial versus The World, X275, Nitrous X, Ultimate Street and many other hotly-contested categories. We’ll be in the house all weekend long bringing you the coverage as only the team at Dragzine can, so stay tuned right here!
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Micky Teesneer is based out of Oklahoma City and own Micky’s Chassis Works in Norman, Oklahoma. The shop has worked on several of the cars on Discovery channels Street Outlaw including Daddy Dave’s Sonoma and Doc’s Monte Carlo. Micky is running Capslock Oil Co./Proformance Racing Transmissions Leaf Spring powered by a 518 big Chevy from Mike Henson, boosted by an F2 Procharger backed with a two speed TH 400 trans from Ace Transmissions in Dallas Texas and M&M converter. This is the first event with the car and made the first runs on it here Sunday. We will have a full feature coming up on Dragzine after the race.Mike Hupp used to run Heavy Street, OSCA and in OhioValley and now is taking a shot at PTC Radial vs. the World here at Lights Out V. He took a year and a half off to update the car and recently started racing Jr. Dragsters with his son. Andy Smith at Pro Tree Race Cars partnered with Hupp to go racing this year. Steve Schmidt built the engine which is backed by a Rossler trans and converter from M&M transmissions and boosted by a F3R 135 Procharger. The crew from left to right: Joe Linsey, Mike Hupp and Bob Cantrell.Ricky Fox is sporting a new combo this weekend with a 5.2 bore space 894 cubic inch big Chevy on five guns. He has a prototype converter from Pro Torque and a Rossler transmission in the car and is looking to take back the stock suspension radial record. Crew this week is Lil Pick, Clyde and Ricky Fox.Robert Baptista is here with a newish 2002 Camaro built in house at Baptista Race Cars and tuned by Patrick Barnhill of PTP. It’s powered by a 406 cubic inch small Chevy built by Mason’s Racing Engines with an F1-X Procharger backed by a Neal Chance converter and ATI transmission. Suspension is from Racecraft. Based out of New Bedford Mass. The crew this weekend is Robert Baptista, his father and Ryan Cordeiro.J.R. Gibson gets the hardhip trip award for the day after driving through six hours of blizzard conditions in Ohio in four wheel drive to get here on Monday. He is running PTC Radial vs the World here at Lights Out V.
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Kyle Huttell has a fresh engine from Taylor Lastor Race Engines and swapped to a Holley fuel injection for 2014. They are still working on the tune at the first race with the new set up.
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Mark Kyger is here for some Radial vs. the World action with his NMCA legal Super Street 10.5 W Chevy II. He is looking for some other options to race with limited time to travel and this is the first race of the year for him. The car was originally built by Chassis Engineering with updates by AC Carcraft and a Ty Tech Performance big Chevy boosted by a pair of Precision turbos. The trans is a Bruno/Lenco with a Pro Torque converter. Jeff Gibbud runs under the Real Speed Racing banner with shop owner Walt Drakeford in Induction Solutions/Ultimate Converter Concepts Ultimate Street. Walt and crew plumbed their own water injection system with parts from Devils Own using their own design in conjunction with Steve Johnson from Induction Solutions. Jeff’s combo is a 434 with 15 degree heads and nitrous with a glide from Trans Are Us and a PTC Converter. Charlie Pixley is helping Jeff tune the car and crew this weekend.The Micky Thompson crew is already hard at work installing new tires for the racers. They will be working hard most of the weekend.
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Wesley Hull hails from Pascagoula, Mississippi and is running Nitrous Outlet Nitrous X, a new class this year based around small block nitrous cars only. He is running a small Ford topped with Edelbrock Victor heads and a Pro Systems SV1 carb. Sponsors include LGM Racing and Development, SS Motorsports and Induction Solutions. Sam Vincent helped with the engine combo with Joel Vandevener assisting with engine assembly as well as the transmission with chassis done by Kenny Gunn. Wesley ran the car out to the full quarter mile during Wednesday's test session cutting a tire down after only two passes.
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Vicksberg Mississippi racer Tommy Kelly had a little scrape with the wall testing last night after the steering wheel locked up during the run. He still uses the stock column and wheel and the lock pin stuck the steering. There was no major damage but the K member required some persuasion to straighten out. He runs a twin turbo 540 big Chevy from Huntsville Racing Engines, Sid Neal transmission with a Pro Torque converter chassis built by Hank Martin with Jimmy Blackmon doing the rear suspension. Crew chief is Victor Hoofman but he was unable to be here this weekend. Rick Wetherby own this 1996 Impala SS running PTC Radial vs. the World this weekend in it’s debut. They have two runs so far in testing. Built by Chris Terry Racing with paint and body by Scott Brothers in Signal Mountain, Tennessee it’s powered by a 540 big block Chevy with twin 91’s and backed by a PTC Powerglide and converter. This car was originally built for Dragweek competition and will also be a feature coming up on Dragzine.com.
Round One Qualifying Results
Before we get into qualifying results this video from Hans Pierre at Free Life Films has to be posted. “The” Kevin Mullins put the crowd on it’s feet in Radial vs the World qualifying with an astounding 4.16 at 193 MPH, bumping Keith Berry’s 4.19 record by about three hundredths. Hans is working hard this week and got this video loaded from trackside, and when I say trackside I mean his laptop was sitting on the wall all day just in case something like thas happened. Congrats to Kevin and the whole team. They should have no issues backing that up this weekend.
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Kevin Mullins took top honors in round one qualifying in RVW with a 4.16 at 193.21. The High Point North Carolina racer runs a 521 cubic inch Hemi fed by a pair of turbos out front.Dwayne Mills was half the first pair out in PTC Radial vs. the World taking number one spot at the time with a 4.218 at 193.40. The MPH would hold through this round with Mills earning top MPH in class so far.Jeff Colletta is running Big Stuff X 275 at Lights Out V and was wondering if he was even going to be able to run this morning and waiting on a resolution to the cold nitrous technology some racers are using. Iwill have more on that controversy Friday. He was given the ok this afternoon and landed sixteenth in the forty three car deep field running a 4.85 clicking it off early at just 120. MPH. Thirty two will qualify for the race.Tony Ridenour is running X275 this weekend with a new car, formerly driven by Amanda Howe aka “Puddin”. The combo is a fuel injected 582 big Chevy from Taylor Lastor (TRE) in Cleveland, Texas. The car had no testing prior to the race so they are creeping up on the tune with Lastor behind the keyboard. It’s backed by a turbo 4oo trans from Dave Klayput at Proformance Racing Transmissions and a PTC Converter. Crew this weekend is Wendel, Skinny Dave, Irwin Rackley and Tony.Brian McGhee put his Fulton powered 85 Mustang on the Mac Fab Outlaw 275 pole running a 4.38 at 162 MPH with a 1.10 60’. You can see the car was on the power early shooting out those pretty flames.Joe Garza runs this clean Mustang out of Richmond, Texas in Induction Solutions Ultimate Street. He runs a naturally aspirated 605 cubic inch big block. His 5.87 at 130 puts him and the Stubbs Racing Stang in the field at thirtieth. They will be looking to improve tomorrow.James Hovarth has been an early participant in the growing OL 632 class with his 68 Camaro. His 4.716 at 148 was good for fourth.TRZ Outlaw 632 has seventeen cars on the qualifying sheet so far with Troy Blake top qualifier. Alex Shows (pictured) has top MPH at 161.Mark Carlyle leads the Outlaw Drag Radial field of twenty one cars with a 4.39 at 174 MPH. The 427 cubic inch LS engine is fed by twin turbos and tuned by Patrick Barnhill.
