Street Car Super Nationals 2012 Same Day Coverage

It’s the last major, and certainly largest, doorslammer drag race of the year this weekend in Vegas for Street Car Super Nationals. From 46 Pro Street to 26 Outlaw 8.5 cars, the classes are packed. With cool, overcast weather look for some record breaking runs this weekend.

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During yesterday's test session Troy Coughlin ripped off a stellar 5.80 at 253 mph pass in his one-race-old C6 Corvette Pro Street car. "We struggled a lot last year, but with Steve Petty helping out this season, things have really begin to turn around," said Coughlin. When we asked about last year's Camaro, he mentioned that the rolling chassis is for sale for $75,000 for anyone looking for a race proven combination.

Willard Kinzer had some sort of 175 pound of dog/horse hybrid guarding the Kinzer/Lutz pit. Despite breaking a pair of ribs and puncturing a lung only three months ago, Kinzer has been back behind the seat, actively for the last month.

Mickey Thompson Extreme 10.5 standout Billy Glidden will be running the full quarter mile this weekend in Outlaw 10.5. Glidden goes into the 2012 SCSN race as the defending champion, having defeated Mike Murillo in the finals a year ago. Over in the ADRL, Glidden finished second in points to Alan Pittman and finished the year on a positive note, defeating Dan Myers to win the World Finals VIII.

One of the smallest engines in Outlaw 10.5 this weekend will be Mark Luton and the MMR Racing crew 5.0L Coyote-powered Mustang. But don't take the small displacement for granted, as MMR managed a 7.02 pass at the NMCA West finals race, which was its first official race with that powerplant. Can MMR break another record this weekend by having the first ever six-second Coyote?

Defending Pro Street champion Jose Gonzalez has swapped out his late model GTO for a first generation Camaro. Gonzalez has shown that he will be a force to be reckoned with this weekend by winning last night's Pro Street Quickest Pass Challenge with a 5.80 at 256 mph.

Friday Qualifying Notes

Three hours into the first round of Friday qualifying and we are still only half way through Pro Street. The weather has not been very cooperative so far today with a few spurts of rain randomly occurring. One of those spurts started as John Durden began to stage his Chevy truck. After rattling the tires and coasting down the track, he made a slight correction which sent him into a spin across the track. What will probably be a controversial call to race during the drizzle, Durden ended up with a mildly bashed up truck. Other reports confirm that there was some sort of liquid coming out of the truck as well before the spin.

Defending 2011 SCSN Wild Street champion Jeff Kyle pulled a rather 'rookie' move during the evening round of qualifying by staying on the trans break for an abnormally long amount of time, thus causing a massive transmission spill 700 feet down the track. Kyle has recently upgraded his Mustang to Xtreme Drag Radial trim for 2012.

Mike Murillo ran the best pass of his career in Outlaw 10.5 with a 6.354 at 235.39 to take the number one spot. There has been some rumors that Murillo's multi-time NMRA Pro Outlaw 10.5 and NMCA Super Street Mustang is up for sale. We will investigate this rumor and get back with you.

The MMR crew has had a tough time getting their 5-liter Coyote-powered Mustang to do a burnout. Both attempts today ended in the same way with the car being backed out of the water box as the car would just sputter.

It would be a ironic fireworks ending for the final pair of heads up cars to race the Friday evening qualifier. Outlaw 8.5 racer Matt Sudyao suffered from a nitrous backfire that ended up having to be put out by a fire extinguisher. While Sudyao sits at the bottom of the list currently, George Rayguza currently sits first with a 5.132 at 142.07 mph.

With nine cars in the 5s already in Pro Street, this weekend is surely going to be a tough one for racers in the class. Don Walsh shocked the crowd by putting down a 5.748 in the first round Friday and dropped it even lower with a 5.745 in the second session at a booming 259.41 mph.

Defending champion Jose Gonzalez, coming off his fresh shootout win on Thursday sits in second with a 5.770 at 256.60 mph, which is a mere .025 behind Walsh and the only other car in the 5.70s.

Friday Qualifying Round 1 Sheets