Dylan Winters Bags JEGS Super Quick Win At Beech Bend

Words and photos courtesy Alex Owens

The JEGS Super Quick Series splashed into Beech Bend Raceway Park last weekend. How was the weather you ask? Hot and humid! That’s typical for the famed drag strip and water park in Bowling Green, KY. Mid 90-degree temperatures and a slight breeze were on tap for qualifying and eliminations within NHRA’s fastest bracket racing series on Saturday.

After two qualifying sessions Jeremiah Hall of Evansville, IN placed his dragster at the top of the sheet posting a 4.504 elapsed time on the 4.50 index. The top six rounded out with Scott Carman, James Monroe, Ashley Marie Bach, James Shown and Darren Keener all running 4.51. Thirty-nine racers tried to make the field with the number 32 bump being a 4.701.

Jeremiah Hall pickpocketed his own dad, Jerry Hall of Firecracker Performance, for the $100 low qualifier money and a steakhouse gift card.

Kenny Carson picked up the Spectra 1 / Legacy Fasteners Best Appearing Car award on Saturday. The Lebanon, OH native has a strikingly nice blue, black, and white paint scheme on his 2009 American Race Cars Dragster. Unfortunately, Carson did not make the quick 32-car field this time around. Instead, he took his ride all the way to the Super Comp final round and knocked out Greg Coffman for the win.

Kenny Carson’s 2009 American Race Cars Dragster was the Spectra 1 / Legacy Fasteners Best Appearing Car.

In the semis, the first pair slated Greg Coffman against Todd Ewing. Both drivers left within 0.001-seconds after the top amber flashed with Coffman running 0.019 to his 4.50 dial. By not getting to the stripe first, Coffman took the win over Ewing who broke out running a 4.665 on a 4.67 dial in. The other semi-final pair was Dylan Winters who had a pretty substantial advantage on the tree over Tommy Mattingly. That’s all he needed to stay out front and take the stripe, thus advancing to the final.

The finals were set after a brutal day of drag racing. Kentuckians Winters and Coffman were ready to do battle — with only four hundredths of a second difference in dial-ins, they would be looking at each other all the way down the track. Winters left first with an 0.045 reaction time, but that didn’t matter as Coffman turned it red by -0.006. Shutting off down track Winters ran a 4.877 at only 110.06 mph while Coffman kept the pedal down in his dragster, running 4.481 at 154.44 mph. This is Winters’ second NHRA JEGS Super Quick Series win in his career.

Dylan Winters (far lane) over Greg Coffman in the JEGS Super Quick Final Round.

Check out all of the photos from this event here. The series will make its next stop at Kil-Kare Raceway in Xenia, OH on July 27th and 28th for a double header. This will wrap up the Firecracker Performance Quick 8 Shootout standings in preparation for the final event of the season!