FuelTech, ProCharger Racers Dominate U.S. Street Nationals

The FuelTech contingent took the quasi season-opening U.S. Street Nationals by storm this weekend, setting a handful of marks in Pro Modified and Radial versus The World.

Missouri’s Daniel Pharris paced the Pro Modified field in the first session of qualifying with a career-best (in Pro Modified) 3.678 in his twin-turbocharged, FT600-motivated Ford Mustang. The following morning, Kevin Rivernbark, making his debut behind the wheel of the GALOT Motorsports ProCharger-boosted Camaro, controlled entirely by FuelTech electronics, including an FT600 with FTSpark-8, reset the centrifugal supercharger world record in taking over the top spot in the show at 3.634 and 207.08 mph.

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But Riverbark wasn’t done there.

In the second round of eliminations, Rivenbark and tuner Steve Petty utilized a competition single and impressive atmospheric conditions to their advantage in uncorking a 3.613 at 207.37. In doing so, Rivenbark moved the centrifugal record ahead by nearly .06-seconds from where it had been prior to the weekend.

Over in the belt-driven supercharger camp, Justin Jones uncorked the quickest runs of the weekend — albeit an unofficial one, as it came during pre-race testing — with a 3.596 at 211.26 mph in his screw-blown Chevrolet Corvette. Utilizing electronic fuel injection (16 injectors) managed by an FT600 and FTSpark-8 and tuned by Brandon Pesz, Jones’ ‘Vette was turning just 70-percent overdrive and tipped the scales at 2,425-pounds as it screamed at nearly 10,000 rpm.

Also under the tutelage of Pesz, Texan Jeff Sitton set the supercharged radial-tire mark during testing with a crushing 3.646. Sitton went on to record the only 3.6-second runs (two of them) in the eliminations rounds that were contested prior to the arrival of rainshowers that cut the event short.