For the first time ever, the NMRA and NMCA roll into Auto Club Dragway in Fontana California for their west coast event. While there won’t be many NMRA and NMCA east coast racers at this event, and it’s being ran under mainly PSCA rules, we look forward to a good race on this warm weekend. Stay tuned to Street Legal TV and Stang TV all weekend for coverage from Fontana.
Special thanks to our event coverage sponsor SCT Performance, check out their fine line of tuning devices at www.sctflash.com.
During the Mickey Thompson Extreme Drag Radial's first round, #2 qualifier Terry Barkley would stage his car, but before the green light flashed the engine would die. Terry told us he just forgot about the nitrous that was turned on, and when he put the pedal to the floor to re-fire the engine we saw a large nitrous backfire that caused a lot of cosmetic damage to the '70 Nova.
Luckily for Terry he had a first round bye and because he staged his car he will still be in the second round.
Saturday's crowd wasn't what they had hoped for, but the fans have really piled in for Sunday's elimination rounds
Centerforce Hot Street Round one put on a great matchup between the #2 and #3 qualifiers Anthony Valentino and Victor Brum. Valentino in his '90 Mustang bested the Chevelle running a 8.449 at 159.42mph versus 8.526 at 158.61
Hot Street #1 qualifier Daniel Bott II nearly backed up his qualifying run in the first round of eliminations. He would post a 8.430 at 160.23 mph
Mike Orban in his '68 Camaro laying down an impressive burnout during Wild Street first round competition
In the Ford Racing Mustang Madness Finals Scott Dool and his '90 mustang would best Cal Gordon. He did it by almost matching his dial in time.
In the Centerforce Hot Street finals Daniel Bott II who is shown here laying down his burnout, was pitted against Anthony Valentino and his '90 Mustang
Bott and his '98 Mustang would best Valentino by posting a 8.399 at 162.16 mph versus Valentino's 8.455 at 160.38 mph
The wild street competition finals would see Ryan Jones win in his '65 Nova when Armen Maghdessian's car would backfire and shutoff once both cars had staged
A complete shocker would occur in the Mickey Thompson extreme drag radial finals. Sandi Wold and her '00 Mustang was the car to beat all weekend, breaking into the 7's on many occasions
As Terry Barkely staged his '70 Nova the engine died once again. He refired the engine, and then after a few seconds his green light came on. Sandi had not staged the Mustang in the 7 seconds that they are allowed. Terry's Nova who ran a 12.218 at 107.27mph was the winner
Barkley's crew was a little confused about what happened, but once they got the official word they celebrated
Final Round complete results. Click to see a larger image.
For the first time ever, the NMRA and NMCA roll into Auto Club Dragway in Fontana California for their west coast event. While there won’t be many NMRA and NMCA east coast racers at this event, and it’s being ran under mainly PSCA rules, we look forward to a good race on this warm weekend. Stay tuned to Street Legal TV and Stang TV all weekend for coverage from Fontana.
Special thanks to our event coverage sponsor SCT Performance, check out their fine line of tuning devices at www.sctflash.com.
During the Ford Racing Mustang Madness, Cal Gordon from Hesperia, California had a near perfect RT(.007) in his '86 Mustang. He would run a 11.245 at 119.91mph
Tim Schmackpfeffer would have problems getting the 91 mustang to fire, and would have to be pushed off the starting line. After the crew went to work he would go on to set the low ET in the Ford Racing Mustang Madness with a 8.788 at 154.44 MPH
During Wild Street qualification Ryan Jones with his beautiful '65 Nova woud lay down an impressive burnout, however he would encounter problems on his run and only muster a 16.884 at 44 MPH.
In Round one qualifying for the Mickey Thompson Extreme Drag Radial class, Sandi Wold would run a blistering 7.918 at 184.77 MPH
Round One Qualifying Results - Click Pictures for a Larger Version
It took Daniel Bott II three rounds of qualifying, but he set the quickest time in the Centerforce Hot Street qualifying with a 8.394 at 161.85 mph. The team told us they kept spinning the rear wheels during the first three rounds. They finally decided to do something drastic and pulled fifteen degrees of timing out of the '98 mustang.
Bobby Frye would post a 8.498 at 146mph in his '00 Camaro. This would only be good enough for third in the Mikey Thompson Extreme Drag Radial.
Final Qualifying Results – Click preview for larger image
