FuelTech Racers Put Together Stellar Weekend Around The Country

T’was a good weekend to be running a FuelTech engine control unit, as the Brazilian manufacturers’ (with a stateside home base in Georgia) customers made waves from Georgia to Kansas to Maryland, earning event victories and top-qualifying efforts and scoring career best elapsed times.

Following up their 1-2 finish at the NMCA World Street Finals two weeks prior, DeWayne Mills and Josh Klugger kept on rolling at No Mercy 8 at the South Georgia Motorsports Park, as Mills defended his 2016 crown in Radial vs The World with a $50,000 defeat of Steve Jackson, knocking down a career best 3.74 in the process. Klugger, meanwhile, bolted a set of 275 radials on his familiar Fox-body Mustang and proceeded to qualify No. 1 with a 4.08 and motored all the way to victory circle to run the table in Pro 275.

FuelTech customer Marty Stinnett shocked the radial racing world during qualifying, as he drove his small-block powered Ford Mustang to the pole in Radial vs The World with a stunning 3.75 — just behind was Daniel Pharris in Andrew Alepa’s FuelTech-motivated C7 Corvette, also at 3.75. Kentucky’s Frank Soldridge also placed himself well in the field with a personal best 3.88 at 184 mph in his Mustang.

FuelTech rep Michael Bunton, driving his street legal Fox-body, scored a personal best 4.45 in Pro 275, while Josh Mizenmayer paced the Limited 275 field with a stout 4.69.

Up North at the Cecil County Dragway, Rich and Nick Bruder won the Street car Shootout series finale and the X275 championship in the process with their supercharged Mustang, while Jerry Morgano parked his small-block Ford in uncharted territory with the first such combination in Outlaw 10.5 in the threes with a 3.98. And out in Kansas, street legal legend Larry Larson powered his Chevrolet S-10 to the Operation Outlaw no prep crown at the Kansas Speedway.