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PRO NITROUS Lizzy Musi used a holeshot advantage to defeat two-time Pro Nitrous world champion Tommy Franklin for the second consecutive final round. Musi in Frank Brandao’ s“ King Kong 6”’ 15 Dodge Dart ran a 3.686-second pass at 206.13 mph alongside Franklin’ s Musi-powered“ Jungle Rat”’ 69 Camaro running 3.657 at 204.91.
“ I knew I had to do my job against Tommy,” Musi said.“ He’ s been running so well this weekend. I wasn’ t shocked when he ran a 3.65 in the final because I knew it was coming from him. It felt good to be able to get the win on a holeshot. I just breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the win light come on.”
Musi qualified No. 2 and defeated Randy Weatherford, Jim Sackuvich and John Hall on her way to the final round. The Pat Musi Racing Engines president recorded three of the fastest passes in Pro Nitrous history, tying her own national record with a 206.54 blast against Hall. Franklin was the low qualifier with his national-record 3.653, followed by a barrage of 3.6-second passes to take out James Hancock, Jason Harris and Jay Cox.
PRO BOOST After qualifying No. 1, resetting the elapsed time national record, and securing the Andy McCoy Race Cars Pro Boost world championship, Jose Gonzales and Q80 Racing / El General Racing teammate Eric Dillard will not run the final round on Sunday. Gonzales fired off the record 3.638 at 215.34 in his turbocharged“ Eleanor”’ 67 Mustang to take out Jeremy Ray in the semifinals. Dillard in the Pro Line-powered’ 69 Camaro followed Gonzales with a 3.654 at 215.89 to set the speed national record and defeat championship runner-up Ty Tutterow in the supercharged GALOT Motorsports“ Tomcat”’ 69 Camaro.
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truly didn’ t think we could run that fast. It just goes to show that when you have a person like( tuner) Steve Petty, an engine built by Pro Line, and a crew like I have, anything can happen. The car was working perfectly every run.”
Gonzales won the first two races of the year at Valdosta and GALOT, where he was also the No. 1 qualifier.
EXTREME PRO STOCK A perfect. 000-second reaction time was all John Montecalvo needed to drive around recently crowned Extreme Pro Stock world champion Cary Goforth in the final round. Coming off a record-setting 4.020 in the semifinals, Montecalvo drove his Haas-built’ 17 Camaro to a 4.052 at 179.33 over Goforth’ s 4.023 at 177.95 in his Dean’ s Casing Service / Dewayne Higgins Trucking’ 15 Camaro.
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“ What a perfect ending to the season,” Montecalvo said.“ As a driver, I’ m overjoyed to win on a holeshot. They’ re telling me now it was a. 0000 light – that’ s really cutting it close. I felt good in the car. We made some changes to the clutch linkage for the final round. Man, it certainly reacted. Winning on a holeshot in the final round? That’ s the way to do it.”
A two-time winner on the season, Montecalvo raced out of the No. 3 spot and raced past John Konigshofer, Elijah Morton and Chris Powers. Goforth, who secured his second PDRA world championship at the GALOT fall race, qualified No. 1 and bested mountain motor Pro Stock veterans Lester Cooper, John Bartunek and Jeff Dobbins on the way to his fifth final of the season.
PRO EXTREME MOTORCYCLE Cleveland, North Carolina’ s Brad McCoy earned his second consecutive Pro Extreme Motorcycle victory when he rode his Q80 Racing’ 15 Hayabusa to a 4.041 at 175.37 over Terry Schweigert’ s 4.062 at 163.97.
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of changes. We struggled in qualifying and started finding our problem first and second round. We just kept working at it and it paid off in the final.”
McCoy, who celebrated his 38th birthday along with the win, qualified fourth before beating Shane Eperjesi, Spencer Allen and No. 1 qualifier Chris Garner-Jones. Schweigert, a Canadian dairy farmer, rode out of the No. 3 spot and charged to round wins over Terry Wynn, three-time PDRA world champion Eric McKinney and T. T. Jones.
EXTREME OUTLAW 632 Racing in just the second event with a new Voss Racing Engines’ 17 Corvette, Dillon Voss qualified No. 1 and won his second consecutive race in Extreme Outlaw 632. He left first on No. 2 qualifier Ken Quartuccio and streaked to a 4.319 at 166.09 to defeat Quartuccio’ s 4.308 at 169.25 in his’ 69 Camaro. Voss previously defeated Rocky Raynor and John Lassiter, while Quartuccio bested Robert Sellers and Dominic Augustine before a bye into the final round.
OUTLAW 10.5 Baltimore, Maryland’ s Mike Decker Jr. was the man to beat in Outlaw 10.5, a class added to the World Finals lineup in the weeks leading up to the event. Decker qualified his supercharged Decker Salvage C7 Corvette in the No. 1 spot and defeated John Carinci’ s aborted 13-second run with a 4.158 at 191.05 in the final round. He received a bye run in the opening round, then drove to round wins over Ron Green and son Mike Decker III. Carinci raced around Brian Chin and Dale Collins Jr.
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“ I’ ll be honest – I was probably more surprised than our competition with the runs we were making today,” Gonzales said.“ When I saw the scoreboard after making that last run, I went on the radio and asked if the numbers were real. I |
“ To come out at the end of the year and win two in a row, it doesn’ t get any better than that,” Mc- Coy said.“ We worked hard all year and made a lot |
TOP SPORTSMAN Better at both ends of the track, Top Sportsman Elite 16 driver Henry Underwood ran 4.114 on a 4.01 dial-in to upset low qualifier Matt Smith in Henry Dogay’ s“ Cajun Nightmare”’ 68 Camaro, who slowed to a 4.077 on a 3.80 dial-in. Underwood earned round wins over Cam Clark, Jordan Wood and Billy Albert before facing the two-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion. Smith’ s route to the final round included round |
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