Midgett got the holeshot advantage and held on to win by about 9 inches. Bruce Cronenberger III took a pair of trophies home to Cressona, Pa., winning in both the Street Pro and the Hot Street Harley Series classes.Ģ005 National Champ Ray Sawyer, Acton, Mass., won in Super Gas over Jim Perry with a 9.901 second lap and reigning Super Comp champion Al Kenny fell to Randy Midgett, Virginia Beach, Va. Horne, Aberdeen, Md., clocked in at 6.253 at 220.76 mph to defeat Chris Streeter, Cleveland, Ohio, 6.286, 222.73 while John Vickers beat Houston event winner Dale Niles with a pass of 7.189, 167.88 mph in Pro Dragster. Local racer Kevin Houghtaling, Richmond, Va., held off Pat Ross, Avon Lake, Ohio, in the Comp Eliminator final running 8.662 seconds at 152.02 mph.ĭoug Horne made it two for two this year in the NHRA Harley-Davidson Drag Racing Series taking the win in Top Fuel Harley following his win in Houston last month. He shut off early on a semifinal single and was on his way to a mid-5.50 in the final when an air line came off the transmission, which sent a valve through a piston and damaged the body severely enough to prevent the team from running the 4-Wide Nationals. Cox, who was runner-up at this event last year. at the time with a 5.589 first-round win over D.J. 1 with an off-the-trailer 5.637 and set low e.t. and top speed (5.570, 260.06) in the final against Anderika, and Pomponio did his job in the first round in a 5.651 to 5.619 holeshot win over Todd Veney that earned him a spot on the Jegs Allstars team.Īnderika qualified No. It's like, 'Where did this come from?' "Ĭrew chief Dan Pomponio Jr. "I was already ecstatic after the first one," he said. After taking both the regional and national events at Gainesville, he defeated John Anderika in the final for his third victory of the season. Pomponio, who had won once in his Top Alcohol Funny Car career before this season, at the Maple Grove Division 1 race in 2005, still hasn't lost a round all year. until that point with a 5.403 in qualifying. by a tenth with a 5.303 in the semifinals against Page, who had low e.t. Meyer eliminated Jackie Fricke in round one, 5.88 to an up-in-smoke 9.21, and set low e.t. Mercier got around John Finke in a tire-smoking first-round match, 6.17 to 15.58, and beat former Top Alcohol Funny Car racer Wayne Morris, who is getting accustomed to driving with a clutch and reacquainted with driving a dragster, on a semifinal holeshot, 5.429 to 5.425. Fifteen drivers attempted to qualify, and the bump was a 5.58 by Trinidad's Rishi Kanick, who made his Top Alcohol Dragster debut this weekend in Sidnei Frigo's old car. "I saw the front of his wing at the 60-foot mark, and it was right there at 330 feet, half-track, and all the way through the lights," said Mercier, who took over the East Region points lead when Gainesville regional winner Richard Bourke and runner-up Rich McPhillips both surprisingly missed the cut. Meyer won by nine-thousandths of a second – the difference between his and Mercier's e.t.s – after they left with identical. "I really didn't expect him to pick up a tenth and make it that close." "I didn't get after it as hard for the final because I was afraid of smoking the tires and beating myself like I did last year," he said. Meyer set top speed in the final at 271.57 mph, eclipsing the 270.86 he had run in a semifinal win over No. "Maybe this year, we'll win the close ones." "If this was last year, I would have lost," said Meyer, who dropped all six of his final-round appearances in 2012 – three at regional events, two at national events, and one at the JEGS Allstars race. Meyer nipped Canadian Dan Mercier in the Top Alcohol Dragster final in the best race of the weekend, 5.321 to 5.330. Randy Meyer got back in the Top Alcohol Dragster winner's circle after a year of final-round futility and Dan Pomponio continued his amazing success in Top Alcohol Funny Car to take over the national points lead. The former Lucas Oil Stock national champion from Marlborough, Conn., drove his ’96 Firebird to the Super Stock win over James Antonette in 9.654 seconds then returned to the starting line to face David Ficacci for the Stock trophy where he went 10.450 seconds in his ’95 Camaro for the win and the double. – Joe Santangelo pulled the rare double-up at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Virginia Motorsports Park, taking the win in both Super Stock and Stock eliminators. For detailed results, go to Drag Race Central Results will be posted as soon as they are available.
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