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The West Coast Hemi Shootout!
Above: Catfish awards Jenkin's with lifters and certificate. Dick Panter gives the $500 to Jordan. Raybourn receives $300 certificate
Support these two and all the very fine sponsors of the West Coast Hemi Shootout May 3, 2003 We are down to the semi finals after the first two rounds on Saturday. Here is the final qualifying after Saturday's final session at 8.30 am and 1st round matchups:
#2 720 SS/AA Dave Raybourn, Modesto CA, '68 Dart 8.744
......-1.256 vs #9 SS/EA Jim Isherwood, Port Alberni BC, '67 Belvedere
9.955 .......-0.695 #4 7301 SS/AA Jerry Jenkins, Modesto CA, '68 Barracuda
8.855..... -1.145 vs #7 6688 SS/AA Renald Grise, Red Deer AB, '68
Barrcuda 9.013 ..... -0.987 Michael Ogburn ran a 8.82 in his single first round match-up. Dave Raybourn got the luck in the first round as Jim Isherwood tried to cut down the tree and red lit to give Dave the easy win which he needed as he got real loose after a huge wheelstand and had to lift. Allyn Lee defeated Mike Booker in a good race that saw both guys snooze at the tree but had enough power in the stick car to advance with a 8.95 to Mike's 9.11. The final matchup proved to be the best one that was won on the starting line when Jared "Jake" Jordan had a great .011 light in held off an 8.99 but slow .120 rt by Phil Mandella. The second round saw Allyn Lee get the bye, Michael Ogburn take on "Jake", and Dave Raybourn battle with Jerry Jenkins. Lee ran an 8.80 to go to the semi finals. Ogburn ran an awesome 8.681 to defeat Jordan's very loose and slowing 14 second pass. The match-up with the most potential has Raybourn take on Jenkins. Dave had a half tenth on Jerry all weekend but he got rattled by Jerry's usual great rt's, and red lit away his best run of the weekend, a 8.73, to Jerry's close 8.78. The semi Finals gave Jenkins the bye into the final while Allyn Lee got to duke it out with the man in the 8.60's Michael Ogburn. Hopefully the weather cooperates and we can finish
this shootout tomorrow. Friday May,2 2003. It was a very good day for qualifying for the Hemi shootout here at MRP.
May 2, 2003 Today is day one the the West Coast Hemi Shootout Qualifying, After the Test N Tune Thursday, four cars made it clear they would be at the top of the heap come eliminations Saturday afternoon. Michael Ogburn and Dave Barton had the two quickest ets for the day as they both ran 8.80's in the heat Thursday afternoon. Jerry Jenkins and Allyn Lee were right behind at 8.93 and 8.91 respectively. Mike Booker was sorting out his new car and made a soft 9.20 lap and Phil Mandella drove Raybourn's Cuda to an easy 9.20 as well. Did not see if Renald Grise made a pass, and Jared Jordon (Jake as he is called by Grandpa Harry Holton) ran a very good 9.24 in his first hit in the big BA car. Did not get his second pass numbers. So qualifying will go today first thing with 4 rounds today and one more in the morning to decide the ladder for Saturday afternoon's eliminations . If all goes well the final two cars in the shootout will go as the last two cars down the track Saturday night. The Prize money is as follows in US funds: $2000.00 to win sponsored by UBS Paine Webber and California Financial Services, $1000 runnerup courtesy of Mopac Auto Supply and Mike Booker Automotive, semis $200.00each Low et of qualifying and elims $1000.00 courtesy of Harry Holton Super Stock Hemi Engines, $500.00 best rt of eliminations courtesy of Dick Panter, Winner recieves either a set of Roller Lifters form Mopac Auto Supply or a set of Hemi Valve covers Courtesy of Motorsport Product Design and Dev. (thanks Mike Laws and Dennis King) and the next choice is one of the above two prizes for the best package in eliminations. There is a 300.00 Gift certificate and two 100.00 gift certificate courtesy of Mopac Auto Supply. Thanks to All our Sponsors of this cool events: UBS Paine Webber, California Financial Services, Harry Holton Super Stock Hemis, Mopac Auto Supply, Motorsport Product design and Dev., Dick Panter, Kerrisdale Speed Centre, Mike Booker Automotive, Bad Example Racing, Muffler Tech, Rich Carlson Photography. The Poster is now complete and ready for shipping. (look below) The cost is $5.00 plus $3.00 for shipping. We will have a limited amount of Signed Posters by all the drivers here this weekend as well and they will be $12.00 plus shipping. Some of the proceeds of the signed ones go to a local charity. Canadian address is 8220 Herar Lane, Mission B.C. V2V-7G1 US address PO Box 2923 Sumas WA. 98295-2923 C/O SpeedZone Magazine
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wins the weekend! Ogburn
wins the Doe! Michael Ogburn (left)
was the class of the field all weekend. He was the quickest Hemi car
during every session. His 8.681/151 mph blast in the second round
of eliminations held up as the quickest run of the weekend by 5/100ths
over Dave Raybourn's career best 8.73/151 mph shot. Michael received
the $2000.00 winners purse courtsey of California Financial Services
and UBS Paine Webber, and the $1000.00 for the quickest et for the
weekend (8.681) courtesy of Harry Holton Super Stock Hemis.The runner
up and semi finalist split the winnings for those two rounds. Jerry
Jenkins and Allyn
Lee split the pot as well as the two top contingency prizes. Allyn
Lee (lower left with Sonja Holton) picked the
very nice Hemi Valve covers put up
by 
bested
by anyone. Jerry Jenkin's won the other big contingency prize, a set
of Roller Lifters courtesy of 
Nine
cars are here to compete in the Hemi Shoot-out presented by UBS Paine
Webber/California Financial Services and Mopac Auto Supply. 7 "A"
and "AA" cars , 1 BA and 1 EA car made laps in Fridays three
qualifying sessions with one more first thing Saturday morning. Michael
Ogburn (left) leads with a 8.73 under cool but surprising very low
barometer readings. The reading were in the 29.8 readings al day long
and that makes it about 30 point lower than hoped for. Dave Raybourn
is second (below) with an 8.80 and Allyn Lee is #3 after driving the
stick car to a 8.84. Jerry Jenkins goes 8.87 to sit in the four slot.
Jared Jordan is number five after setting the BA record at 9.17. 
Mike
Booker is slowly getting a handle on his new AA car and ran a 9.07
and Renald Grise ran 9.12 to sit seventh. Jim Isherwood is 8th right
now after running 10.05 and Phil Mandella made the most exciting run
in Raybourn's #2 car, when flames from the unburnt fuel shot out of
the car on the launch and then he went into a huge wheelstand and
came down hard enough to bang the oil pan and pop the drain plug on
the pan putting a bunch of Oil down on his lane. The pan was fixed
thanks to Steve Federlin and he will run in today's last session.
Eliminations start at Noon for the Hemis and the final run will be
the last two cars down the track tonight. Stay Tuned!