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7.85 from his big-block-powered, 1969 Firebird.
Theisen squared off against Bradenton winner
Robbie Blankenship in the finals, but Blanken-
ship had mechanical problems at the hit, and
Theisen scored the class win with a 7.78-second
elapsed time.
Coming off a victory at the season opener, Jesse
Wilson set the pace in Chevrolet Performance
Stock presented by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Cen-
ter qualifying with a stellar 10.09 performance.
Wilson would meet Haley Rounsavall in the final
round of competition and take the win with a
bracket-like 10.09 to Rounsavall’s 10.31 run.
Lots of new competitors arrived for Coan En-
gineering’s Stock/Super Stock Combo, and Den-
nis Breeden topped the qualifying sheets with a
-1.712-second under run on his 11.00 index with a
9.68. Breeden reached the finals, but gave the win
to Darren Morris after red-lighting.
The always entertaining, wheels-up ATI Perfor-
mance Products Nostalgia Super Stock class saw
Doug Poskevich put his 1969 Ford Fairlane at the
top of the qualifying sheet after running a 12.000
on his 12.00 index. However, it was Corky Bumpus
who took the final-round victory over Bruce Lang.
The second of two Ford Falcons topping
qualifying sheets belonged to Cindee Hall of
Deland, Florida. She drove her ’63 model Fal-
con to a 13.007 on her 13.00 index in Detroit
Trutrac Nostalgia Muscle Car, but it was Steve
Wilson who was the class winner after defeating
Jacob Weigl.
With 24 racers and the top three qualifiers
all grabbing triple zero reaction times, Magna-
Fuel Open Comp is full of top-notch talent. Joe
Hutchins topped qualifying, but in the final round,
Will Spearman took the starting line advantage
and used it to defeat Kelly Pierce.
As the event title implies, there are a several
all-star shootouts that take place within this
race. The eight racers in each showdown include
the top two point finishers from each sanction,
two randomly drawn racers, and two who are
picked by the previous year’s champions. In the
new-for-2108 Street Outlaw shootout, NMRA
racer Andy Manson got the better of the NMCA’s
Daniel Pharris. In a 180-degree turn, the Sealed
Stock shootout saw two Chevrolet Performance
Stock entries in this year’s final, with 2017 class
champion Jesse Wilson taking the win over Haley
Rounsavall. Finally, in the Open Comp shootout,
it was a real barn burner that pitted 2017 LME
Street King champion Kurt Anderson against
the NMCA’s 2017 Open Comp and Stock/Super
Stock champion Ricky Pennington, the latter of
which secured the victory.
In Gear Vendors True Street competition,
Randy Thomas averaged 8.98 seconds over his
three-runs to take the top honors in the class. Jeff
Brady grabbed runner-up honors with a 10.02
performance, while Alan Hill took the 11-sec-
ond win with an 11.17. DeWayne Massengale was
awarded the 12-second prize for his 12.10 average,
while aaErick Pedersen rounded up the 13-second
award for his 13.007 average. Rounding out the
field were Nicholas Massengale with the 14-sec-
ond win at 14.01 and Allen Smith for the 15-second
win with a 15.61.
The All-Stars offered a bracket program and
Chas Ledford took the Bracket 1 win, while Mi-
chael Gardner was the victor in Bracket 2.
The NMRA and NMCA series par ated ways for
the next event with the NMCA moving on to Beech
Bend Raceway for the 17th Annual NMCA Quick
Fuel Technologies Bluegrass Nationals presented
by Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center, May 17-20.
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