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Saturday is starting off with overcast skies and a nice cool morning. Several racers are scoring personal best runs including Kevin Fiscus, who will be looking to back up his 5,72 at 260 for an official track record. As always, and with the support of the folks at Fuel Air Spark Technology, Dragzine will be in the house to bring you all the action, the news, notes, results, and photos!
The Fast Chassis Race Shop tire rotator is fairly new here at Orlando and one of two for the Ozzy Moya stable of Florida tracks.
Charles Hull is looking for 4.20’s this weekend in Street Outlaw trim, a Change from his usual X275 set up. He is sporting a 98 MM turbo and 100 less pounds in the car and qualified number one in class. We caught up with him this morning adding a few pounds to the front of the car.
Tim Baptista is out with a new twin turbo combo after campaigning the car with blown alcohol engine and has been sitting out for just about 5 years. His son Tim Jr. is installing new tires on the car this morning. The turbo piping was done at Jason Enos’ Victory Racecraft. Jeff Lutz is assisting with dialing in the tuneup.
Christian Damgaar is here all the way from Denmark with his 1971 Impala. The came to compete in Drag Week with a 630 ci nitrous huffing big Chevy. Engine management is from an Electromitive with a 4L80e trans. So far in the us Christian has put five thousand miles on the car and drove to Orlando with is from Ohio.
Round 2 Qualifying Results
Mike Janis was unable to improve on last night 5.81 at 244 and sits second in Pro Mod.
Jeff Lutz lowered the fastest street car record to a 5.85 at 250 in round two of Pro Mod.
Rick Prospiero leads Heavy Street after two rounds with a 7.29 at 189 MPH using a big Chevy fed by twin turbos in the little RX7.
Bruce Thrift arrived here late last night and went straight to number one in Top Sportsman with a 4.14 at 173 MPH. Several other racers improved as well with the top five cars unchanged but a little shuffle of the order.
Harry Martinez was pushed down to sixth in Top Sportsman. He did improve his perforamnce slightly from a 4.58 to a 4.53.
Limited Drag Radial grew to seven cars today with Don Lamana going A to B in the Pro Fab Performance Plus Mustang. This is the second race for the team’s new car with. Lamana managed a 4.74 at 162.
Quite a few cars in Ultra Street struggled with the surface as the sun came out heating the surface. Mike Shake N Bake Wacaser made his first pass today landing ninth in class.
Bradenton Ultra Street 2016 Champion Troy Pirez Jr. arrived today but was unable to stick the car and sits outside the field at twenty second.
Alex Padilla sits third in OutlawX 632 with an improved 4.54 at 156 for the Miam, Florida based racer.
Ensslin Racing brought several cars here this weekend with Bobby Hollingsworth landing fifth with a nice 4.55.
Robert Sellers is in yet another Ensslin Racing Trans AM scoring third place in OLX 632 with a 4.49 at 158 MPH.
Jeff Miller joined the OL 0.5 vs Pro Radial class today landing fifth with a 4.13 at 186.
John Carinci and the crew got the Corvette all back together and ready for round two qualifying. They waited most of Friday for new rings to arrive. He put down a 4.14 to earn sixth spot rolling on 10.5 slicks.
Final Qualifying Results
Joseph Hatfill moved up from third spot to number one qualifier in Heavy Street in the final session from a 7.328 to a 7.250 at 196.33 MPH.
The qualifying order of Pro Mod remained unchanged except for Adam Flamholc who advanced from fourth to second with another personal best run dipping into the 4.70’s with a 4.786 at 238 MPH, just short of his earlier 244 MPH in round three.
Scott Wingust took over the Top Sportsman number one qualifier in his supercharged1970 Camaro from Bruce Thrift with both racers improving their numbers. Wingust from his 4.26 at 177 to a 4.09 at 181 while Thrift improved .041 to a 4.108.
Stanley Albritton in running his 2002 in Top Sportsman in normally aspirated trim this weekend getting a new combo worked out in preparation for Outlaw 632 in 2017 He qualified seventeenth.
Johnny Lee Hollis Sr improved his ET to a 4.78, also running an NA combo, this one from Reher Morrison. Johnny is partners in the car with his brother Mike. The car was formerly in the El General racing Stable and The Shaft Boys had teh car about a year before Johnny scored a Wally in Reynolds, Georgia three years ago. The team this weekend from left to right: JC, Harry Brown, Driver Johnny Hollis and Mike Hollis.
