Pritchett Brothers Racing once again hosted a killer heads-up event at the Milan Dragway which included the always popular Ultra Street, X275, and Outlaw Limited Street classes. With most of the fields filled with local Eastern/Midwest cars there were a few beefs that were left on the line while the cars did the talking. The action was tight and the racing was awesome through every class, and there were some big names in each class that showed up and were definitely the talk of the pits.

Starting with the old school Mickey Thompson 275 radial class of Ultra Street, Butch Kemp put everyone on notice in his naturally aspirated SN95 Mustang when the boards lit up a 5.08 at 137.68. But it was no sure bet by any means with Dave Ginter running a 5.16 at 138.96, John Snyder going 5.17 at 134.76 and John Keesy laying down a 5.18 at 135.90.

Ginters Vortech-blown Mod motor Fox body had top speed of the class running just under 139 every round, which was close to 1.5 MPH over the next fastest car. The 10-car field all ran in the five-second zone and provided tons of huge wheel standing action all day.

The final round paired up Kemp’s N/A Mustang against Bob Corujo’s boosted drop top Fox body. Corujo was killing the tree all day and had a holeshot lead of .06-seconds, but it wasn’t enough to hold off the hard charge Kemp put on. Running a 5.09, Kemp only had a .076-second margin of victory over Corujo’s 5.23. Curujo took home runner-up honors and had the best reaction time of eliminations with an .0178 light. 

X275 always has a crazy buzz around it with all the different cars and combos that come out. Early on it was apparent it was going to be a tough battle with half of the 18 cars in the four’s and the bottom half of the field all with less than a half second separating them. New Jersey’s Bruder Brothers rolled in and took top qualifying honors with the best R/T, ET, and MPH all on the same pass going .0009 on the tree and 4.71 at 158.04. First round was a tough one, but easily the closest race of the night in the class was between Illinois racer Steven Wardlow and Wisconsin racer Jimmy Plimpton Jr. Wardlow won the race on the tree with a holeshot lead of .033 and posted a 4.94 at 142.75, which was enough to hold off Plimptons 4.92 at 148.14.

Second round brought another victory for Wardlow who had Trace Meyer’s 4.83 at 150.60 to contend against from the previous round. Meyer spun and Wardlows 4.93 at 142.32 was more than enough to advance him to the next round. Jason Lee put up back to back 4.76’s in the second and third round after knocking out a head gasket on Friday during testing and patching it back up.

Ray Litz showed up with a new version of his turbo LSX combo and put it deep in the 4.80’s at over 150 MPH during competition and went a 4.77 testing later on. Lee later went to the finals against Bruder, but just didn’t have enough to hold off the quickest pass of the night when Bruder laid down a 4.64 at 152.45.

The largest and fastest class was that of the Outlaw Limited Street cars which produced 21 cars and sub 4.50 and 175+mph passes. New York’s Scotty G held the quickest ET of 4.47 in qualifying and  Ray Royer had the fastest with 175.21mph. First round brought up a huge upset win for Ken Stone in his 72 vega which ran a 5.39 at 130.41 to knock out Mustang Mike’s 5.84 at 166.76. This was after Mike had qualified his twin Procharged Mustang number six with a 4.61 at 161.80. The Ohio boys, Mike Brown and Mark Koehler, laid out a string of 4.5x-4.8x passes nearly every pass with their twin turbo LSX powered Trans Am’s.

Local racer Dave Hinzman took the number two qualifying spot in his Procharged mustang with a 4.53 at 166.75 but was knocked out by Brown in the third round. The finals saw the big block nitrous fed camaro of Scotty G against Koehler in which the twin turbo small block just didn’t have enough for his 4.50 at 162.92. Scotty G came back to defend last year’s win and doubled it up taking home the trophy and the cash to the east coast. 

In talking with Nate and Adam Prichett, they had a few things they wanted to say about the race and its supporters.

“Pritchett Brothers Racing would like to thank Mickey Thompson Tires, without whom there would be no Ultimate Outlaws. We are so proud to have their support. It means the world to us to be associated with a company that first and foremost cares about the racers who make our sport what it is. We would also like to thank our staff: Dan Zebroski (Z), Mike Groomes, Seth Cohen, and Chris Matters. As well, Monty Mikho and his Yellowbullet.com website are our home and without it no one would know we exist. 

“Dave Hance and New York Motorsports’ Shakedown at E-town was a huge part of our inspiration to do what we do and Dave’s support means the world to us. We have been coming to Milan Dragway every year for I think the last seven years and the entire staff, lead by Krysti and Deneen Baxter have been like family to us. Lastly and most importantly we would like to thank every racer that has ever raced with us, their families, and our wonderful families who allow us to do what we do. They are the most important part of whatever success we ever have. Putting these events on is a partnership of everyone involved and without that support we have nothing.”

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