LIGHTS OUT 9
Whoa,
Black Betty!
O
ne of the most underplayed
storylines from Lights Out
9 was the consistently quick
performance out of Paolo
Giust and his supercharged
’69 Camaro nicknamed
“Black Betty”.
With a Roots-blown engine
from MSR Performance, driven
in directly to Valdosta from New
York by none other than Jim
Salemi, who built and tunes the
car, Giust powered to seven con-
secutive 3-second passes over the
course of qualifying and elimina-
tions. The Canadian driver started
with a 3.99 and ended with a
3.787 at 198 mph against Keith
Haney in the semifinals.
“At the end of the day it’s all
just about adapting to the track
conditions and figuring out what
the car will do, what the track
will give you,” Giust told Compe-
titionPlus.com’s Bobby Bennett.
“Everybody’s got more power than
they need, at the beginning for
sure. And the quicker we can get
the power back in, the better off
we are, the quicker it will go.”
– NATE VAN WAGNEN
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DOUBLE
DUTY
Running his
“Goliath 2.0” ‘63
Nova in grudge
races and the
N/T Shootout
apparently
wasn’t enough
for “Daddy
Dave” Comstock,
who also brought
his ‘78 Chevy
Malibu down
from Oklahoma
to compete in
Limited Drag
Radial. He also
entered Radial
vs. the World in
attempt to get
as many passes
as possible in the
new ProCharged-
boosted G-body.
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KEEPER OF
THE PEACE
X275 founder John Sears was on
hand to manage the massive field
of X275 racers who turned out to
fight for the $10,000 payout.
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