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May 4. 2008 Mission Raceway got the day in for all the brackets (single event) as well as the CW Doorslammer series. A first time winner and and the r/u was also in the final for the first time. Two Washington competitors, Greg Anderson defeated Lloyd Flatum in the final round. The Mission site has all the bracket results. In the NHRA , another John Force car is in the final round for the fourth consecutive race. This time it was rookie Mike Neff. Todd Hoerner losses a very close one to KJ in round one of Pro Stock. Both drivers run career bests ( KJ and TH) Final results from St. Louis are here. Finally we are back on line. After 8 days of trying to get telus to hook up ADSL on the street where my new home is located in an older subdivision, they struggled with issues for a few days to get it right. Hopefully it will work at full capacity. St. Louis NHRA results are here. Lots to talk about including big news for TODD HOERNER who has qualiffied for the second straight NHRA event in Pro Stock. He sits well into the field this week at St. Louis in the #12 spot with a career best 6.635@ 207 "courtesy DRC". 12 6157 Todd Hoerner, Deer Park WA, '06 Stratus 6.634 207.75 He will race Kurt Johnson who went four hun quicker with a 6.598@209 Way to go Todd! Kick some today. The track here in Mission will be a very busy place today, as the weather cleared and it looks to be a great day. The Canada Werst Doorslammers highlight the day and the race is sponsored by TCS Performance Products. Spargo will be very tough as he went an aweome 6.76@206.9 . His new ride is specatular. It will easily go into the low 6.60's and maybe even the 50's, all with an automatic.Chris Murphy is working out the bugs in his blown Camaro and had a real eye opener Friday during the test session. Pfister has the video. Atlanta NHRA results from last weekend are here. Ashley Force extends her point lead with a historic win in the nitro coupe class. She defeated her father in the final round at Atlanta.
April 23, 2008 Will be off line for the next couple days due to moving on Thursday and Friday. Will not have internet activated until Sunday at the earliest. The Eagle Motorplex is about to get their season started. This weekend's weather looks pretty good as well. Here is a bit of a preview to their season courtesy ERA president Joe Sye.. Will have an updated schedule and a couple features on three pretty big new events for 2008, including a second Nostalgia event, a new blown Alcohol series and a fast doorcar series. Here ais a bit of a preview courtesy Joe Sye. April 21, 2008 A gallery from Mission Raceway's Doorslammer event is here A Sunday Mission gallery courtesy Bill Jeffery is here April 20, 2008 Under very cool conditions Mission Raceway got un Saturday qualifying and the National Dragster challenge event from 2007 got completed. The Canada West Doorslammers got in three round s of qualifying go here for all the info. The Super Shifter sereis also got in their first day of compettion.Go to the MRP site for all the bracket action. Rockingham's IHRA event has completed qualifying at the first real IHRA race (1/4 mile racing not 1/8 mile like the San Antonio event). Will have coverage starting tomorrow. April 14, 2008 Sunday gallery from Vegas is posted April 13, 2008 Ashley Force takes the point lead in nitro Funny Car, with her second runner-up finish in a row. She is the first woman to lead in the class in history. Way to go Ashley.! Great TAD rounds at Vegas and the Dallas Divisional, as the blown cars are definately going rounds. In the semis at Vegas, Shawn Cowie and Jim Whitely have an epic race, as Whitely prevails with a 5.34 to 5.37 side by side bout. The best ever finish for Cowie. Whitely unfortunately can not repeat in the final round as he blows the tires off and first time winner Jeff Isbell who switched to an A/Fueler prevails. Jay Payne is looking strong in TAFC with a win over Von Smith. In Comp, Jim Marshall looks to be one of the top B/AA competitors in the class with a strong .61 under qualifying effort, he went to round two. All the rest of the results are here. On another note, Congrat's to the Hugh Ridley team in Vegas, with Gary Ormsby Jr. in the seat. The BC based TAD team is working out their stuff, and qualified.The team ran a career best 5.57 in round one. Look for them to run in the 5.40's at Mission. Way to go to good buddy Hugh Ridley! In Dallas, Darvin Martinets in the ex- Guy Kelly (and Mark Hentges prior to that) went a career best 5.34 only to bow out to another guy with a career best, Aaron Tatum in his and Joe Monden's A/fueler, a solid 5.29. While there is not absolute parity in the class the top 6-8 blown cars in the class, will run low 30's and high 20's in average conditions or better. The Mission Divisional with no less than 3 top BAD's (Cowie, Severance, Bayer, and possibly Whitely) could see the first 5.20 pass by a BAD in divisional competition in a long long time. Thursday photos from Vegas Friday photos from Vegas Friday photos Sorry for the long delay in posting. I am in the process of moving into my new digs and have been renovating for the last month non stop and have been away on a much needed hiatus for the last few days. I am back rejuvinated and ready for the race season including up here in the great North West. Larry Pfister at HH has been keeping the locals up to date and also have the Mopars at the Strip event covered, as well as local shots form the first street legal event. Go to his site for all the info. Las Vegas in up the weekend and Rich Carlson has started to send me the photos. Will posted them later today, after daughters ball game is complete. Results from Vegas are here. Photos later today.
Gainesville NHRA results are here. The Canada West Doorslammer web site is undergoing a facelift. Click here for their look, look which is a work in progress.Their first event is up next weekend. Can't wait. The Werst Coast Pro Mod will also have a fresh look for the 2008 season. Will have that site updated in the next days. Bucky Austin and Tim Nemeth have been busy over the winter. Nemeth with the Alky Flopper as well and his new Nitro Funny Car. The Stang will be bitchin. will have pictures up here in the next day or so. Austin has a new A/Fuel dragster for TAD competion and will debut at Mission for the Divisional event. Garrett Bateman will be the pilot. Will have photos here as well and Bucky's site later today.
March 10, 2008 Judee Shoemaker's interview after John's fateful run Saturday March 9, 2008
Unbelievably sad news in the world of Drag Racing as good friend and West Coast Drag Racing legend John Shoemaker died today at Bakersfield's March Meet after a top end crash during the second qualifier. He was a great fiend to SpeedZone and both he and wife Judee always were happy to chat about just about anything. My daughter Shelby got a chance to sit in John's gorgeous new "American Eagle" Top Fueler last year at Mission. He will be greatly missed. Heart felt wishes go out to Judee. RIP John!!!
March 2, 2008 Sunday Gallery from Phoenix Divisional All Results will be posted Monday evening. Final round photos tonight as well. Feb 29, 2008 At Phoenix...Shawn Cowie is in, Gary Ormsby (In Hugh Ridley's TAD) is not. Thompson and Hough top the field in TAFC All divisional results will be posted later today. A Saturday Phoenix gallery is here Phoenix divisional Friday gallery is up. A number of Div 6 TA competitors are in the house. Feb 25, 2008 The Eagle Motorplex Spring Fling highlights are here. Rich Carlson Phoenix gallery is here Sunday gallery # 1 is here. Feb 24, 2008 Final eliminations are posted. Saturday photo gallery is posted Feb 23, 2008 Saturday Results are here February 23, 2008 Don't forget tonight is the Eagle Motorplex spring fling party. Should be a blast. Dean and Shelby will be there with bells on. Its at the Aldergorve Legion on Fraser Highway. The CSK Nationals are covered here. Photos included Rain washed out all Pro Qualifying so two sessions are all they will get. February 16, 2008 The Pomona wrap up is posted. Next weekend's event at Phoenix will be photo laden as two Speedzone photogs will be out in force. 2008 is the only confirmed exemption year for the Canadian fuel ban at this point. There is optimism that there wqill be another 3-5 years though. Force is inducted to the Motorsports hall of fame. February 8, 2008 Winternationals coverage is here. Top Alcohol results on Sunday. Local Cowie looks good,as he goes 268mph in first round win, and he had a decent rt. January 31, 2008 Wednesday gallery from Phoenix including scoreboard numbers January 29, 2008 We are one of the few racing sites with photos from Monday and Tuesday. We will even have some up from Wednesday and Thursday (if the teams are still there). Thanks to Dwayne Harksell (Firebird Media director) amd Mark King our Phoenix correspondent. Tuesday Phoenix Gallery Monday Phoenix Gallery January 27, 2008 Saturday gallery link from Phoenix January 26, 2008 Saturday time trials are posted as well as sportsman testing highlights. A great Mark King photo sequence is up as well. A sad day today as tragedy hits Doug Herbert and his family. His two teenage sons were killed in a traffic accident. Sincere condolences go out to Doug and his family January 25, 2008 The first drag racing gallery of the year comes from this weekend's test at Firebird in Phoenix. Thanks to Mark King for the weekend photos. January 11, 2008 Unfortunately more potential bad news for in the drag racing world. This one affects Canadian racers and fans and is perhaps the biggest blow in history. Remember the leaded fuel issues 15 years ago? Well it is back and the deadline has now passed. Technically the ban is now in place (Jan 1, 2008). This is something that all of us should have been paying attention to more diligently. They are making a decision in the next month whether or not to expend the extention for only one more year. What can we do, write the government. More on this potentially shattering news here. For as much as this will affect drag racing in my home town of Mission, Three major National events (Edmonton Grand Bend and Toronto) with millions of dollars of tourist revenue are in jeopardy, as well as the sport we all love here in Canada. January 10, 2008 NHRA listened to the racers and fans and made a number of changes to the "Countdown to the Championship". Here is the release.
January 9, 2008 Perhaps the biggest blow to Drag Racing in recent history, hopefully it is not permanent.
January 3, 2008 The Sportsman photo page is posted. The Funny Car photo page is now complete with captions, as is the Pro Stock page. January 2, 2008 More photo highlights from 2007 are complete. The nostalgia photo page is posted, as is the specialty page January 1, 2008 The Top Alcohol photo page is posted. Happy New Year race fans....we continue with our photo highlights. The pages are: Pro Stock (IHRA, NHRA and bikes), People, Pro Mod. Nostalgia, Top Alcohol, Specialty, Sportsman later today.
December 31, 2007 The first three 2007 photo highlight pages are up. Page one is a bit of a preview courtesy SpeedZone's West Coast photographer Bill Jeffrey. From that page, you can link on all the highlight pages of 2007. 2008 Speedzone calendars are on this page. December 30, 2007 Starting tomorrow (New Year's Eve), we will show case photos in a SpeedZone "2007 Photos in review". A little bit of nitro as the year 2007 comes to a close. (You Tube, Mission Raceway National Open Nitro Funny Cars) December 29, 2007 The Dot com internet drag racing award votingl is up at Compettion Plus again. Speedzone is nominated again this year. Click on this link to vote for your favorite racing news web site. Make us the top one in Canada in the polls. December 25, 2007
December 20, 2007 A couple of releases for teams heading into the 08 season. The Pro Mod calendar samples are now posted Larry at HH has all the Division 6 winners from the banquet last weekend (did not get a release from the Div 6 office, nor is it posted on their web site?????). Included was Shawn Cowie as the Division 6 "Rod Hoerner Memorial Rookie of the year" (well deserved), MRP winning the Division 6 "Track of the year" and the 'Plex winning the "Most improved track". Another surprise announcement was the Plex going out and improving themselves even more with the purchase, the first ever in Canada, of the Squeegie Machine, a self propelled track cleaner for oil downs. I have seen it in action at NHRA and IHRA national events and it flat out works. Kudo's to the management at the New and Improved Plex. Kudo's to MRP for their 8th track of the year award as well. Was hoping they would get the TBA divisional for all their hard work, but Acton did in fact get their race back. Maybe we should have seven races again. December 15, 2007 The calendar page is now up.
The calendar page is now up.
The calendar page is now up.
December 2, 2007 Terry Spargo's new ride is revealed.
It is a Rick Jones 2004 Chevy Cobalt. It will house a 813 in Sonny Leonard wedge that puts out close to 1500 hp. The car has all the exotic chassis stuff including a top of the line computer system for engine and chassis readings. If all the ducks are in a row after preseason testing the car should run well into the 6's at over 200 mph. The Canada West Doorslammer party and gallery is here. December 1, 2007 The CWDS Christmas party and awards banquet is up tonight in the snow of the Fraser Valley. Will have a recap of the annual general meeting as well as a few photos from the festivities and a preview to one of the new cars that just arrived at one of the hitter's garage this week. It is waayyy cool! Go to the doorslammer web site to see on Sunday. Click on their logo to the right. November 30, 2007 Calendars are less than two weeks away. Here are samples from last year. The new ones will be one display starting next weekend.
November 25, 2007 If you are already bored with the off season, here are the dates for the NHRA pre season tests: 1. 2008 NHRA test session Jan. 18-20 at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway 2. Jan. 25-27 in Phoenix at Firebird International Raceway. Feb 1-3 Vegas for the Last Chance Test Session and the Pontiac Pro Stock Showdown The Winternationals begin Feb. 7 at Pomona. November 25, 2007 Mission Raceway banquet was on last night. Sorry was not able to make it, to see the champions crowned. Super Pro: Martin Rachel Pro: Chris Stone Sportsman: Phil Marvetz Bike: Kevin Brennan Jr: Holly Clarke (2nd year in a row) Hot Rod: Martin Dykstra: HS: Chris Vandermeer S SH: Terry Hoogstins Stock Super Stock: Rick McKinney Super Combo: Ken Orser Will try a get a few photos in the next few days. Vegas Bracket Nationals are also up this weekend. Kyle Siepel won the ultimate gambler race ($45,000 )over California rival Peter Biondo. Jeg Coughlih Jr. was the semi finalist. No Division six drivers have won in Super Pro, (Paul Snell went tot he finals on Thursday). All the results are here.
November 19, 2007 The Coors Finals IHBA gallery is posted. If you want to see some of the most remarkable photos I have seen all year long, check out sometime Speedzone contributer Paul Grant's pit and grand stand shots from Vegas. The artistry is simply outstanding.
The rest of the Coors Finals (Drag Boats) photos will be up later today or tomorrow. Results are posted. November 17, 2007
Saturday Drag Boat gallery is here. Awesome shots, check it out!! The liquid 1/4 mile World Finals at Firebird in Phoenix is up theis weekend. 10 Top Fuel Hydros a full field of TAH and all the other classes will fill the pits in Phoenix. Mark King is there for SpeedZone to give us all the results and a bunch of photos.
November 16, 2007 We are just starting to get into calendar mode here at SpeedZone. If your Alcohol, Pro Mod, Hemi, or Top Sportsman/Doorslammer team is interested in promoting your team contact us in the next couple weeks to reserve your spot.. November 13, 2007 Sorry I had the other galllerys from Pomona ready to go and forgot to link them. Here is the Top Alcohol and the Pro Stock (and Motorcycle). A very special tribute gallery of nostalgia cars, people and faces is here. November 8, 2007 Is Seattle that po'ed about not getting to host a National Open in 08 that they cancelled their Divisional event next year as well. I doubt it will come to that, but that is the story this point November 7, 2007 The first two gallerys from Pomona are posted. Top Fuel and Funny Car. Three or four more Friday. November 6, 2007 NHRA awards banquet. The NHRA zone has the SpeedZone results and photos from every NHRA National event this year. November 5, 2007 The "Countdown" to the POWERade championship and the future of drag racing's largest sanctioning body is certainly been talked about over the last few weeks (Since Indy really). One of the most well known web sites in Drag Racing and the site that gives the most current up to date news in both sanctioning bodies is Drag Race Central. I love what they do and most of the most totally agree with their great reporters. Larry Sullivan is one of the veterans of the site and certainly is not shy when it comes to his opinions. His thoughts on the countdown are perhaps the most damaging I have seen. On the popular message board Nitromater a thread was started on, "who got screwed by the countdown". Here are his comments on the countdown. "We have a Top Fuel "Champion" who lost in the first round at more than half of the races in 2007 and lost in the first round in three of the four "Countdown to Four" races. He shouldn't have even been in the viewfinder. Bad system - I don't recall a weekend at the races when I hated being there more than I did last weekend - it was a farce". Very strong words indeed. Will there be a change to the system? If there is, I hope they go to four races instead of two to determine the winner, plus have at least 10 cars make it to the countdown. And pay the top ten. Oh ya, under the old system, Robert Hight would have won, Rod Fuller won have won by a bunch, Greg Anderson would have won and only Matt Smith would have won under the old system. Will Sullivan's comments have ramifications with DRC's contract. The debate goes on. November 4,2007 Unreal turn of events at Pomona today. "I guess the Countdown did provide the drama is was supposed to". The big question is, Will the mainstream media (or even ESPN itself) give it the props it deserves. I doubt it. It short, 'Hot" Rod Fuller losses in round one and Tony 'Shoe" comes all the way from fourth place to win the race and his fourth consecutive championship. Alan Johnson deserves to be the highest paid Crew Chief, "PERIOD". Robert Hight had a slim chance after Tony Pedregon also goes out in round one. Unfortunately for Hight he needed the win and a nat'l record. He only got the win. Greg Anderson has the most surprising result on point leaders heading into the race, He is dead late in round one and Justin Humphreys take him out. He can only watch Jeggie win the title in round two and then win the race getting the biggest single day Pro Stock payout in History. Today was the first day all season that Jeg Coughlin held the point lead. While I don't really give a crap about Pro Stock Motorcycle, what happened to Andrew Hines was only partly self inflicted, part of the drama was downright criminal. Sampey dives (so obvious after watching the show today) and Matt goes home in second place. The most controversial team of the last four or five races, the Rickie & Matthew Smith owned / Torco backed team after firing their team rider Saturday win the event and the title (Yes they were one of the strongest teams all year but to me the deal left a real sour taste in my mouth). Here are all the winners: (TF) Tony Schumacher over Bob Vandergriff, (FC) Robert Hight over new short term (likely) team mate Phil Burkart Jr., (PS) Jeg Coughlin over Justin Humphreys. (PSM) Matt Smith over Chip Ellis, (TAD) Bill Reichert over Dunae Shields, (TAFC) Jay Payne over Von Smith, (Comp) Tom Mettler over Dean Carter, (Super Stock) Dan Fletcher over Mike Iacono,(Stock) Jody Lany over Toby Lang, (Super Comp) Shawn Langdon over Gary Stinnett, and Steve Parsons over Randy Balough(Super Gas). In the Summit ET Finals, no Division six drivers made the finals. Champions are: (Super Pro) David Scigliuto. (Pro) Dennis Clark. (Sportsman) Greg Dreher. (Bike Sled) Michael Nash. Nash is the first ever repeat winner as he was the champions last year. He is a Division 4 competitor. Full results and photos on Monday. Pfister has all the results from the Vegas Street Super Nationals. Dal Sangha goes to the fourth round and losses a close one to eventual runner-up Jmmy Mock. Dal cuts "KILLER" lights all day long including two in the .00's His worst was a .012. Dale Moznik wins in Outlaw Street over a couple six second behemoths. The Lucas Oil schedule for 2008 is posted November 3, 2007 Final qualifying is posted from Pomona Street Car SuperNationals final qualifying from Vegas is here. A number of NorthWest teams are in attendance November 2, 2007 The finals are here. Bucky Austin web site is updated with the results from the Reunion and photos. Oct 30, 2007 Sunday Vegas gallery is here Photos are now included on the Vegas page The Pro Mod story from Vegas is posted, including the 'Clash". Gallery # 1 is posted (Saturday photos) Oct 29, 2007 Final rounds results from Las Vegas. Ashley Force comes oh so close to making history. Tony Pedregon (FC) is one round away from clinching his second title. Rod Fuller (TF) is any combination of three rounds from his first title. Greg Anderson (PS) is less than two rounds ahead and Andrew Hines (PSM) is close to two rounds ahead. Oct 28, 2007 Final qualifying and the Technicoat shootout results from Las Vegas. Tony Shoemaker screws up big time and gets a DQ after a semi winner win over ex-team mate Melanie Troxel. Oct. 27, 2007 Team JF shows is its FORCE Friday as Hight along with three other team cars are in the Funny Car Pits for this weekend's AC Delco Nationals. Papa John is there (albeit bandaged and in a wheelchair) The second most important race of the POWERade season is here (only the Finals are bigger under the countdown format). Friday qualifying is here. Mission Raceway's season ending banquet is November
24th at the Mission City Lodge Oct. 24, 2007 Vegas is up this weekend. One of the biggest NHRA events of the year and also the first race in the POWERade countdown to one championship. We will have results and photos up all weekend and into next week. Division Six banquet is Dec. 15 at the Double Tree Hotel Seattle Airport. The special awards are listed at the Div 6 web site. Link is here. Vote for your favorite or most deserving Driver/ Owner/ Crew member/ Volunteer/ Track. Oct 21, 2007 A huge Hot Rod Reunion gallery courtesy Mark "Sharky" King is posted. The IHRA is done for the year and there are three new Pro champions and two repeat Pro champions. Canadian Rob Atchison defeated Mark Thomas in the final of AFC, but Thomas wins the championship by less than one round over Atchison. Dale Creasy goes out in round two but wins the Nitro FC title by a huge margin. Bruce Litton gets his first ever Top Fuel championship and wins the race as well. Was hoping for TJ Zizzo to win the championship, but he went out in round one, ending his Cinderella season. Mike Janis wins in Pro Mod but losses the championship by a round and a half. He missed out on the championship (Cannon Jr. is the champ) due to his decision in skipping the Edmonton event this year. (By attending all events a 41 pt. bonus is awarded). Robert Patrick won the series championship but lost in the final to Jeff Dobbins. Full weekend results are here. Oct. 19,2007 IHRA Final event of the year from Rockingham Lots of updates (all a bit late, sorry) California Hot Rod Reunion results including Bucky Autin dominating the Nostalgia Funny Car class NHRA
Richmond results and photos, NHRA SPORTSnationals (Fontana CA) Oct. 2, 2007 The results from second to last IHRA event from Budds Creek are posted. Oct 1, 2007 Sorry for the delay in posting results from the last weekend at MRP as well as the news of NHRA founder Wally Parks passing away. Go to the NHRA site for a Wally Parks tribute. The John Force word at this moment is he will not be with the team at Richmond Virginia this weekend as driver, team leader nor cheerleader. His hopes to race at the end of the season are very doubtful as well. More on his recovery efforts are here. From MRP the rain halted all the action as Saturday was halfway through completion. Track champions are posted on the MRP website. For the RJ Enterprises "Canada West Doorslammers" Dave Ridhardson earned his first series championship by "two" Points over Mike Bedsworth. The final points standings and weekend wrap-up for the CWDS is at their site. Sept. 26, 2007 Dallas Gallerys John Force is well into his Physio Therapy. No confirmed results of the crash, and definitive answer on his return. Not likely this year, according to everyone but Force himself, who vows to return before the end of the seaosn.. Huge Calgary Bracket race the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (Oct. 6-7). $10,000 quaranteed payouts. Click here for more info. Sept 24, 2007 Surprising news from the Eagle Motorplex is the Saturday event was rained out, and on Sunday they suffered through rain delays in the afternoon. They did finally get the race off Sunday though. Horsepower Heaven has the results and photos. Winners were: Darren Eby (Pro), Trevor Mathis (Sportsman), Vicki Strell (Super Pro), Geno Reda (SC), Dave Copeland (Bike/Sled) and Michael Karr (Jr). Don't know if the TCS Jacket portion of the weekend festivities was included in the Big Buck event, or if that race will be run at their final race of the year Oct 6th. Approx. 140 cars were on hand. Dallas results, Force updates and final round photos are posted. Milan results are posted. Sept. 23, 2007 (Latest Update 8:00pm) Dallas is complete. The video on the crash shows in fact that John Force's car broke apart right in the lights as the left rear end of the car (likely the tire) blows apart and the car breaks in half right at Force's legs. He was in the back half of the car that came to rest just past the finish line. The rest of his car slid into Bernstien's and then hugged the guard rail down to the sand trap. Unbelievable footage on ESPN 2 for sure. His injuries appear to be all in his extremities, but are likely severe enough to keep him out for the duration of the season, which is unfortunate, since with the win in that round, he had moved into the top four in the chase. Daughter Ashley who won her round elected not to compete in the semi finals. Too bad as she appeared to have the car to beat. The winner in Funny Car was Tony Pedregon. He defeated brother Cruz in the final. Top Fuel was won by Larry Dixon. Pro Stock winner was four in a row Dave Connolly. Peggy Llewellyn won PS Motorcycle and secured a spot in the countdown. Tom Bayer took the TAD title. Two blown cars (Darvin Marvinets) were in the final in an corner of the NHRA dominated by the A/Fuelers. Von Smith defeated Cy Chesterman in the TAFC final. Division 6's Mark Faul won Stock. Other winners included Chuck Weir in Super Street, Shawn Carter in Super Gas, Terry Pearson in Super Stock, Danny Gruninger won Comp. Josh Hernandez won Pro Mod and also cliched the series title (BAE /AMS championship) by qualifying for the event on Saturday. Crash between legends at Dallas!! 12:00 pacific Dallas update: Just heard that John Force and Kenny Bernstein were involved in a top end crash in round two at Dallas. The "King" crossed into Force's lane and hit Force's Mustang, after that the both cars hit the wall hard. Bernstien got out of his car okay and Force was medically removed. He was conscious, alert and responding to the medical staff. Force was airlifted to hospital with undetermined ailments. He did get the win due to the disqualification to Bernstien. More later when we hear more. In other action at Dallas, lots of upsets, as Hight did not qualifiy and the other three in the top four went out in round one. Full results and more updates on Force when we hear them. Milan Michigan IHRA rain event completed. Dale Cresy clinches the series championship in FC. He also wins the event. Rob Atchison wins Alky Funny Car. Dale Brand an ex IHRA competitor in the class came back trhis weekend after four years away. He ripped off the two quicxkest ets in IHRA Alcohol Funny car history. A 5.67 and then a 5.64 obliterated the old record. Scotty Cannon won in Top Fuel, Mike Janis won in Pro Mod and Jeff Dobbins won Pro Stock after getting into the race as an alternate. Full results on Monday. Was hoping to get results from the Plex Saturday night or Sunday morning but did not get results sent to me yet, results as soon as we hear them. Sept. 19, 2007 Don't forget this weekend is the huge Eagle Motorplex Big Buck TCS Fall Jacket event. $1000 bucks up for grabs in Sportsman (ya you read that right), Pro and Super Pro with double payouts in all the other bracket classes including Sports Compact. The last big race of the year at Mission is the following weekend where the VP Fuels/ RJ Enterprises Canada West Doorslammers run a rare double header. As well, the other action includes the The Muffler Tech Fall Jacket race, King of the Hill, Super Combo, Stock/SS Combo, Super Shifter and more.
Final results from Memphis are posted. We will have full overage from Dallas this weekend including photos with huge TA entrys for both classes. Sept. 15, 2007 Memphis National event is up this weekend. At MRP the CMDRA is here for their final event of the year. A few exhibition cars will be out as filler as well, including the Cowie TAD, Time Nemeth's TAFC, Leo Grocock's TAD which went a career best 5.76/240 in its first full lap in over two years yesterday. Congrat's to Leo, Sharon, Rob and Mike. Don Murray in the turbo'd Vette and the 'Kokomotion' will fill in the dead time between bike rounds. Go check it out. Sept. 14, 2007 A couple events not posted earlier includes the Medincine Hat National Open results. Standings are also posted on the page. And the finally complete Seattle Divisional wrapped up two weeks ago. Sept. 10, 2007 A gallery from the All Ford weekend at MRP is here The first batch of photos from the All Ford Weekend at Mission is this record shattering sequence of Mark Wolfe in a turbo charged Thunderbird. It is a hi res sequence so it may be a bit slow to load for dial up users. Sept. 9, 2007 ET Finals at Woodburn Team Mission comes close to sending another driver to the World Finals on Saturday as Phil Marvetz was looking to be the first repeat returnee to Pomona. He lost in the Sportsman final Saturday. Justin Gibson goes to the semi on Saturday and Jim Benhke goes to the 1/4's. Both driver were representing the "Plex. On Sunday the effort was there but not the final result either team was hoping for. Andy Closky has a chance for a semi final birth in Super Pro, but he broke out by .04 despite having .13 advantage at the tree. Was there a huge tail wind or something. He cut a bunch of mph at the finish line line still went under his dial. Jan Cook went to the bike final for the plex but lost to Leeland King. Jim Crawford had the best Team Mission showing with a round five final in Pro. Full results when point totals are tallied. At Mission Raceway, the Mega Ford Weekend is complete, and I would say the overall event was graded a C+. The turnout was less than the organizers hoped, but a lot of optimism around the event could make it an annual thing, that could grow into a respectable race. Car count was just under 100 on the track with the show n shine slightly less than 50. The feature cars (mostly pro mod types put on an okay show, with career best performances by both Keith Korecki and Mark Wolfe in the ex-Hurley Blakenly turbo'ed Thunderbird). He went an amazing 221 mph at 6.71 seconds. Korecki dropped his career best mark to a 6.64@ 212 mph. in his new wedge combination 714 cu.in GT 500. For the Nostalgia Super Stocks, "AKA" A/FX's, the very cool wheelstanding Ford Mustang driven by Dave Carman defeated David Joyner in the ex-Van Cleve Fairlane. Phil Featherstone the big name in the class, broke out against a wheelstanding Jim Isherwood in round two. Featherstone went career best #'s all weekend long and was very impressed by the facility. Photos will be posted Monday night.
At Cayuga in Toronto, the IHRA event was rained out on Sunday. Elimination's will try and be completed Monday. At Bakersfield, Shawn Cowie lost on a holeshot in round one. With the loss Tom Bayer is guaranteed the Division 6 TAD title. Joey Severance lost in the semis. Cody Perkins defeated Chris Demke in the final round.. In TAFC, Sean Bellemeur defeated Brett Williamson in the final. Only Oregon's Russ Parker was there representing Division 6. He lost in the semi finals both fields were extremely tough at the fabled historic race track. Surprised Shawn and Ron did not stay back East, as there was a much weaker race in Iowa. But the team does want to measure themselves against all the other tough blown hitters. They did a remarkable job in their first yerr. To finish in second place in the division as a rookie is very commendable. Division 1 results are here. Division 4 results are here. Division 5 results are here. Division 7 results are here. Sept 6, 2007 A Top Alcohol gallery is posted. A Final round page with photos from each final at Indy is posted. A Gallery with the Cackle Fest, Sportsman classes and Hemi Shootout is posted Good luck this weekend to all the competitors at the Division 6 ET Finals at Woodburn. Sept. 5, 2007 The first of three Indy gallerys is posted. This one includes a shot of every Pro driver and rider on the fabled Indy grounds. Sept. 4, 2007 Just sorting out Indy photos, will start the gallerys Wednesday. School is in. (For Canadians). All you commuters, watch out for the kids. The West Coast Pro Mod assoc. completed their season this past weekend. The series champion by less than one round is........... A few awesome photos are included. Sept. 3, 2007 Indy is complete and not too many surprises in the Pro ranks. Results are here. Most notable in the Sportsman classes were Marty Thacker getting the biggest win of his career in TAD. He bested all the top A/Fuel hitters, way to go Marty. In Super Comp, Calgary's Ken Mostowich came close to getting his biggest ever win. He went to the semis and unfortunately went . 002 red. Another Div 6 competitor Mark Faul went to the semi finals in Stock, but broke out after a .00 light, Photos will be posted Tuesday and Wednesday Sept. 2, 2007 Indy qualifying and specialty race (Funny Car shootout, PS bike shootout and the Hemi shootout) results are here. The Mission wrap-up (including photos) from last weekend's event for the bracket classes is posted. Included is the Team Mission ET fianls line-up and the Eagle Motorplex line-up as well. Bracket gallery is posted. The Top Fuel and Jet car story (and Pro Street) from last weekend's Mission event is posted. Gallerys are posted below. August 29, 2007 The US Nationals coverage is here. Hemi shootout qualifying is posted.
Here are three galleries from the weekend at Mission : Brackets to come on Thursday August 28, 2007 Just organizing the Mission Raceway weekend coverage presented by the Eagle Motorplex. Included are four different gallerys and post event notes and thoughts. Check back tomorrow evening for the report and gallerys. The "Big GO" is on this weekend (Indy that is), and as a bonus to the 'Plex, I am continuing their sponsorship to the to include the Indy pages. due to the loss of coverage from the Saturday portion of the Mission race. August 26, 2007 Sunday evening: Racing got underway at 1:30Pm today at MRP and was finished by 8:30pm. It included a great side by side 5.88 - 5.98 (both at 268 mph) by the WarHawk and NiteHawk Jet Funny Cars. The Top Fuel final saw Troy Green defeat John Shoemaker under the lights. Both cars had to pedal their rides at the air was at maximum hp and the track was a cool 75 degrees. 500 feet of corrected air meant the power produced by the nitro beasts was a little too much. Green was low for the day with a 5.96 best. The final was 6.37 (207) to 8.84. Garrett Richards was the Pro Street winner. He was a 6.70 machine all day but Rash Dhaliwal went low with a great 6.65 in rund one. Dal Sangha was top speed guru with a blazing 217 mph shot. More info and photos on Monday. Sunday Morning Congrats to Shawn Cowie for the win at The Topeka Kansas Division 5 event. The win should but him in a solid second place in the Division 6 standings. Good to see a long road trip come out on the good side. Way to go Shawn Ron Bucky and the whole crew!! Unfortunately on the local drag race scene, the weather was similar in the moisture department to Michigan with rains all day long. There was a two hour reprive in the morning and time trials were run for the bracket classes, and then the Jets made a 600 foot squirt that did not result in any time slips as both drivers left before the trwee was activated. What gives with that !!!! Hopefully tomorrow is a better day. The Milan IHRA race has been rescheduled for the middle of September. August 25, 2007 Drag Boats from August Georgia, final round results. Weather is a bit iffy this morning but hopefully MRP gets a break and today's night of Fire goes off. Here is a Friday gallery from Mission's Street legal. This weekend's Pro Street shootout could be the best in years. Murray's finally out with his very hot looking Turbo'ed Vette. and Jay Syvertsen has a new Pro Street/Pro Mod, and its not the new one being built, it is Danny Rowe's old 37 Chevy. In all 6-8 PS will battle. All the weekend results for Mission will be posted here. Again thanks to the Eagle Motorplex for sponsoring the event. Milan MI (IHRA National was rained out Friday). Three divisional events this weekend (Div 1, Div 3, Div 5). Two Div 6 alky cars are competing. Shawn Cowie is #1 so far at Topeka and Tom Bayer is #1 at Rising Sun. Will post results Sunday. The Outlaw Pro Mods are at Norwalk this weekend. Results are posted. August 23, 2007 The event coverage 'sponsorship' this weekend for the event at Mission is sold... to the Eagle Motorplex. They will be promoting their huge event in September, the "TCS Fall Jacket" race. It includes $1000 guaranteed payout to Super Pro, Pro and Sportsman and double winner payouts to Bike / Sled and Sports Compact. Thanks to Joe and the staff at the Plex. Their results from last weekend's Zimmer Wheaton is posted. If there are any potential sponsors for this weekend's race coverage from Mission Raceway email me today or tomorrow. The price is right and the exposure you will get is worldwide. Approximately 20-25,000 viewers and 50-70,000 page views this weekend. John Shoemaker will be at Boston Pizza in Mission tonight to fire up his "American Eagle" Top Fuel Dragster. Here is the preview and event page for this weekend's race. Click on the link here to see the huge bracket event at the 'Plex. All you bracket racers should make sure you take in this event. The WC Coast Pro Mods Calgary results are posted. Joe Delehay wins the race and takes the point lead. If your business is inerested in sponsoring coverage of any of the events Speedzone amgazine is a part of email us. Reading final results (which finished yesterday) are posted. A Reading gallery is here. Billings final round results are posted. August 19, 2007 Reading National event results are posted. Today only top fuel got first round oin as the rains hit. Acton Montana Division 6 qualifying is complete. First round of TAD is finished and Shawn Cowie got by first round. He will face Cody Perkins in the semis. The final round race between John Evanchuk and Dennis Taylor was completed Saturday night and it ended up to be a single, unfortunately for Evanchuk, as he was shut off at the starting line with a fluid leak. At Seattle for the Bucky's "Nitro Ball", the prognosis does not look good, as weather just South is as grim as Vancouver's weather, It is supposed to brighten up later today though. We will wait and see.
August 17, 2007 The Reading National (NHRA) and the Acton Montana Divisional (Div 6) are up this weekend. Will have all the results throughout the weekend. I am in Print Magazine publication mode for the next four days, so replies and postings may be a little slow. A sad note this week was announcement that the legendary "Wall to Wall" wheelstander Richard Schroeder passed away August 13 after a short bout with cancer. He was hostpitlized in June at a hospice in Cleveland while traveling with his “Focus This” exhibition jet car. Funeral services are pending. August 16, 2007 The dooslammer web site is updated. August 15, 2007 Two slightly late gallerys (courtey Guy Van Syckle) from Martin MI "Northern Nationals" are posted (IHRA) Gallery #1 (Nitro) Gallery #2 (PM PS Alky) August 13, 2007 Next weekend at Pacific Raceway is Bucky Austin's Nitro Ball. This one is very hot!!
Then in two weeks at MRP AA/FD's and Jets invade the lower mainland's track.
What a huge weekend in Drag Racing this past weekend! The "Nightfire's" are complete. Local hitter Trevor Lowe takes out Dennis Radford in the Pro Mod final a classic nitrous vs blower final that was over early as Radford was late and rattled the tires sending Lowe to an easy victory. Radford was low man throughout qualifying with a track record 6.28 but was a bit lucky throughout eliminations', as he only ran in the 6.50's in the first two rounds. His 13 second time slip was seven seconds back of Lowe's 6.43. Trevor went low on Sunday with a 5.39 in round one. Other winners included Howard Haight over Adam Sorokin in Top Fuel, and Gregg Uffens in AA/FA over Greg Daebelliehn. Uffens shattered the AA/FA mark at Firebird Saturday with an awesome 5.37/270 blast under the lights. All the resultsare here. In the NHRA, John Force continued his blazing run as the end nears in the first half of the 2007 POWERade season. His win gives him a 17-3 round win record in the last five races. The countdown is down to one race and he has moved into fourth place after sitting in 14th the end of June. Bernstein, Coughlin and Hines were the other winners on the pro Side. Spencer Massey and Frank Manzo were the TA winners. All the results are here. In the IHRA, every working man's hero Bobby Lagana won Top Fuel, Dale Creasy is walking away with TF Funny Car as he extended his lead to over 200 points in the nitro coupe class. Mike Janis won Pro Mod, Mark Thomas won Alky Funny Car and Frank Gugliotta won PS. All the results are here. At MRP, the Import Race was completed after a bit of a weather delay Sunday morning. Not as large a field as expected on the first weekend dedicated solely to the import contingent. Will this become an annual event at MRP, it is hard to say. A suggestion I would make is to double up on a couple of the specialty events on the same weekend. The Mega Ford weekend coming up in September will likely see a similar car count and both events including the track could benefit from doing their event simultaneously. The advertising and promotion could still be done completely separately giving their sponsors the same bang for the buck, but the spectator count could be doubled, and even if both events got 150 cars each there is plenty of room in the pits. MRP has two great separate pit areas (one for each event) that could be utilized. Food for thought for sure. The Mission site will have the resutls posted soon. August 11, 2007 Brainerd Lucas Oil Nationals results are posted. We're back online after an excruciating four days without the 'net, and firstly the next three weekend here in Div 6 are nostalgia dreams relived. This weekend at Boise, its their annual "Pepsi" Nightfire Nationals. Click here for all the action.
This weekend at MRP Imports abound with three days of the little cars that can. Check out their site for more info. Brainerd 's National event is up in the NHRA and the IHRA's Epping event is also on this weekend. Will have results from both those races later today or tomorrow. For now I am off to the track to see the FWD guys invade MRP.
August 7, 2007 Speedzonemagazine.com will be out of service until this weekend due to our relocating. All web site work related to speedzone including affiliate sites will also be out of action. Will be back online August 11
August 5, 2007 Sonoma is complete, and Division sixes Ken Kraus goes to his first final of the year. He leaves too early (winner Von Smith) but still proves the Renegade team is now one of the forces on the West Coast. Morgan Lucas blitz's the track record with a great 5.16 to defeat Jim Whitely who went 5.30. Div. 6's Ken Heard wins in Super Gas. Martin's IHRA national event was rained out today after two rounds of competition today. Will be completed Monday. August 4,2007 Sonoma Divisional coverage is here. Congrats to TAFC driver Don Hudson for his career best lap Friday. A great 5.609/255 put him #1 on Friday. It kept him in the top half after Saturday's final session. He ended up in the #2 spot. The Renegade Racing TAFC team also posted best #'s with a 5.635/255 lap. Ken Kraus sits #4 heaing into elims. Brian Hough made the field (#3, 5.610), but Clint Thompson could not hit the 5.675 bump spot. In TAD, one Div 6 teams made the field and it was none other than SHawm COwie He is #4 with a solid 5.367. Mike and Brandon Johnson failed to make the 5.44 cut ( a 5.481 was their best). Bob Marshall's 7.145 was his best effort this weekend. He went out in round one. IHRA Martin event coverage is posted Canada's Kenny Lang won the Pro Mod Shootout and a huge $20,000 paycheck. He sits #6. Carl Spieirng is #4. Not alot of updates over the next week as the SpeedZone Family is moving four blocks from its current location. The internet connection will be up at our new location August 11, and the current one will be shut down August 7. Will do as much as possible in the next three days.
July 30, 2007 Mission Loafers final round results with photos are posted. A very cool Gasser and Feature car gallery is posted (from MRP). Gallery #2 from the Mission old time drags is posted. Mission Raceway AA/Gassers story is posted. An update on the Kate Harker TAD crash at Sonoma. Kate was releasd in the afternoon Sunday and did return to the track. Hopefully Tom, KAte and the team are back out soon. July 29, 2007 Sonoma wrap-up today with John Force looking like he has turned the corner. He gets his second win in four races and moved into sseventh place. Anderson gets his 50th win. Shoe takes out the perennial bridesmaid Vandergriff. To the horror and astonishment of all TAD fans, the Tom Conway owned and tuned TAD driven by rookie female driver Kate Harker goes into a powerstand and does an blow over pirouette style (ala Shelly Howard). Luckily Harker was released from Hospital basically unscathed. What are the odds????????? Duane Shields gets the TAD win. Bayer had a good chance at this event running a career best in round two (a 5.30) but a 5.27 by Harker took him out. Jay Payne 5.50's them to death in TAFC and looks to be a legitimate thorn in Manzo's side. Brad Plourd repeats in Super Stock. Click here for the rest of the Sonoma story. Mission Raceway gets underway after an hour and a half rain delay this morning, and suffers through numerous oil downs to get their Loafers event completed by 7:45 pm. It was an awesome event overall (sans the oil downs). The Gasser results are here. The rest of the winners are posted here. The Gasser prtion has photos posted and the rest of the photos will be up Monday. July 28, 2007 Mission Langley Loafers AA/GS qualifying and other feature car highlights are posted. Sonoma final qualifying is posted. July 27, 2007 The ReMax Langley Loafers Old time drags at Mission Raceway park are up on the local front. One of the best weekend's of the year. The AA/Gassers, front engined a/fuel, a 55 Chevy match race, a couple Pro Mods and a whole lot more. Go here for the weekend action. Don Hudson's Racing web site is updated. Sonoma's Autolite Nationals coverage is here. (Top Alcohol Team Press releases are included). What a strong day one at Sonoma, a lot different that last weekend at Seattle. The 10:00pm curfew did get hit though, as Alan Bradshaw booms it big time, forcing an early end. 16 dragsters were set to shred the track records, but could only watch in dismay as the cleanup took too long. July 25, 2007 West Coast Pro Mod results from Calgary are posted. Congrat's to Kieth Korecki. Points standings for the WCPM are included (unofficial). Also coming up at Calgary is a different look to the popular "PINKS" races on Speed. It is called "Thinks". August 17 is the date. Click here for more info. Looks very interesting. July 24, 2007 Seattle photo gallery is here. July 23, 2007 Lucas Oil results from Division 3 (Indy) are posted Seattle results with photos are posted Seattle Sportsman got completed and a couple locals (Canucks) had great results. Congrat's to Calgary's (not Edmonton as earleir stated) Ken Mostowich won got his first ever Wally in Super Comp in a door car, he defeated Dale Green. It will sit atop his mantle beside his previous Super Gas win. at Pomona. Jerry Earp went to the Super Gas final and came away with the R/U check. The "Ferd" was the victor. Brad Vinje did the same (R/U) in Super Street (ssorry Brad for that one slipping bay Yesterday). Jody Lang won (surprise) in Super Stock over Jimmy DeFrank. Eric Waldo defeated Steve Wann in Stock. David Rampy won Comp. He took out Clint Sallee.
Just in.... Kieth Korecki from Kelowna BC won the West Coast Pro Mod event at Calagary yesterday. His first race in a couple years, and he debuted a refit Shelby Mustang. Way to go Kieth. More info soon. Seattle Sportsman eliminations are set to complete today if the weather cooperates.
July 22, 2007 Grand Bend final results are posted. Seaatle results are ongoing (can't beleive they are getting the race off), and are posted to 9:00pm. Lots to talk about so click to see whats happening..... Ashley Force.....has the ride of her life.......
July 21, 2007 Grand Bend final qualifying is posted Seattle's final qualifying is posted after only one round. A number of qualified cars were ousted from the field due to the "top 10 rule", and only one session completed.. July 20, 2007 The Medicine Hat National Open is up in two weeks. It is the last NO in Division Six and all class championships are up for grabs. Here is trhe event poster with all the details Friday was washed out at Seattle. Hopefully it goes tomorrow, as it is the best weather day in the next three or four. Grand Bend results from Friday are posted. Just got off the phonewith SpeedZone personel covering Seattle and it like here is raining. Saturday looks to be the best day, but to get the weekend off without major delays is not a probable situation right at this time. Will let you know as the action happens. The event page for Seattle is here. July 19, 2007 Seattle and Grand Bend pre race press releases are posted. Final gallery from Edmonton (Harleys, IBAA Pro Alcohol, Sportsman) A little late Pro Mod/Pro Stock gallery from Edmonton's Rocky Mountain Nationals is here. The Rocky's Nitro Funny Car/Dragster and Top Alcohol gallery is here July 18, 2007 Division events results from Woodburn and St. Louis are posted. Previous Divisional events not posted earlier including Rusk (Div 4), Mid Michigan (Div 3), Norwalk (Div 3), and Lebanon Valley (Div 1)are up. All courtesy NHRA Marketing Seattle had four classes complete at Woodburn (Comp, Super Stock, Stock and Motorcycle, the balance this weekend at the National., July 17, 2007 The RAD Torque Systems Top Alcohol Shootout and the Ace Manufacturing 7.20 Pro Alcohol results are posted. Nitro and Top Alcohol gallery is here. The Sportsman Harley IBAA and Pro Street gallery is here. The best of the best gallery is here. The Harley, Injected Nitro, Pro Street and Sportsman results are here. Final round photos are included.
July 16, 2007 The Lucas Oil National Open Funny Car (they were awesome) story from Mission is posted. Will have the RAD Torque Top Alcohol Shootout , the Ace Manufacturing IPro Alcohol, Nitro Harleys, Pro Street and Injected Nitro stories on Tuesday. Most are completed, just have to add photos. And the galleries will be up Tuesday as well The rest of Edmonton's photos will be posted Tuesday as well as final team wrap-ups. Denver's Mopar Mile High Nationals results are posted. St. Louis Divisional coverage will be posted Tuesday On a very important note, due to the mis-printing issues of the latest SpeedZone Magazine (which was out at the track on the weekend, the entire magazine is being reprinted. It will be completed by Thursday or Friday and all our advetisers will have them at their shops starting on the weekend. We do apologise for the lousy quality of printing of the copies we handed out for free this weekend, but the printer has taken 95% responsibility for the issues and is making amends. While we have never said we are perfect, the quality of the photos in both black and white and color as well as the clarity of the photos and ads have always been good we were embarrassed by the final product. July 15, 2007 The little ol' record breaking drag strip north of the 49th, did it again today when the Lucas Oil National Open at MRP completed the first ever Nostalgia (Nitro) Funny Car Assoc. points race. The first ever side by side 5 second race occurred in Round one, and then Terry Capp who became the first ever driver to run in the 5.80's, when he and the Jenner/ Leong tuned Bubble-Up Trans am ripped off a jaw dropping 5.85//249 to defeat a game 6.10 by Mike Savage. A major oil down in the TA Shoot-out final when Ed Verenka broke the rear end ending the days festivities with eight - ten finals still to be run. All the results and photos will be posted Monday. I will be busy next week as the new issue of SpeedZone's print magazine Out at the track this morning) will have to be completely reprinted as a couple major press issues occurred. Check back Monday. Shawn Cowie won the flintstone mobile TA final when both he and Roger Bateman spit the belt off at 280 feet. Cowie had more momentum and got his second Wally in a row. Other final rounds completed included Top Fuel Harley (Steve Dorn defeating Rob Smith in what was possibly the first ever side by side 6.50 final round), Pro Street (Coin flip which Rash Dhaliwal won over Garrett Richards), 'Ace Manufacturing' Pro Funny Car had Darrell Webb defeat Tim Boychuk in a close final round. Outlaw Street upset winner winner was Bryan McDonald over Dale Moznik. Real Street winner was Kieth Vahle, Stock Super Stock combo winner was Rod Stultz, Super pro winner was Curtis Munson, Pro victor was Ted Miller Sportsman champ was Brad Porcello, Mile Hauer won Motorcycle and Sydney winner was Sydney. Check back tomorrow July 14, 2007 Mission's Open had all the markings of one of the best Open's is recent memory, but unfortunately a couple substancial oil downs in the evening cut short the major portion of the evening show. The Top Alcohol, Nitro Harleys, Injexted Nitro Dragsters and the main attraction, the Nitro Funny Cars did not complete their final qualifiers due to an 11 o'clock curfew. Not sure what will happen this morning with the feature cars, as far as getting their final hit. Overall it was a pretty |
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