Drag Illustrated Issue 144, May 2019 | Page 120

DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Clay Millican Pomona CA 2/10/2018 Chandler AZ 2/23/2018 1 3.628 1 336.57 Tony Schumacher FUNNY CAR ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (1000-feet) RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 1 3.793 Robert Hight Brainerd MN 8/18/2017 1 339.87 Robert Hight Sonoma CA 7/28/2017 TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK PERF DRIVER SITE Bill Reichert Baytown TX 4/1/2007 Pomona CA 11/10/2016 1 5.103 1 285.83 Don St. Arnaud DRIVER SITE 1 5.352 1 275.56 John Lombardo, Jr. Sean Bellemeur STATE DATE STATE DATE 1 6.476 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 2 6.477 Bo Butner Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 3 6.490 Erica Enders Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 4 6.490 Roger Brogdon Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 5 6.491 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 6 6.491 Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 7 6.493 Shane Gray Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 8 6.501 Tanner Gray Epping NH 6/3/2017 NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (EFI, quarter-mile) RANK M.P.H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 1 214.59 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 214.31 Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 Gainesville FL 3/21/2016 3 214.28 Bo Butner Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 4 214.11 Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 5 214.08 Vince Nobile Gainesville FL 3/18/2017 6 214.01 Erica Enders Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Shane Gray DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Jason Line Concord NC 3/29/2015 7 213.87 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 215.55 Erica Enders-Stevens Englishtown NJ 5/31/2014 8 213.37 Tanner Gray Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 1 6.455 1 NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK E.T. 1 SITE 2 NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (carbureted, quarter-mile) RANK PERF DRIVER STATE DATE TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK PERF (EFI, quarter-mile) RANK E.T. 5.643 UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK E.T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Steve Jackson Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 1 5.379 SWEET SIXTEEN 2.0: ONCE IN A LIFETIME? Among the handful of drag racing statisticians on the planet, the phrase “Ontario ‘72” is code for an event which produces broken barriers, shattered records in every class and perfor- mances which stand for years. It refers to the NHRA Supernationals held at Ontario (CA) Motor Speedway which, courtesy of the sport’s first real application of traction compound, re- wrote every standard in the book. Races which earn that comparison happen only a few times per century but Donald Long’s second Sweet Sixteen showdown was one of them. With perfect weather, phenomenal track preparation, the world’s strongest cars and the opportunity to make a dozen runs or more during the week, Sweet Sixteen 2.0 shuffled every DI Top 8 Listing for radial tire classes. Marcus Birt’s astonishing 3.60-second perfor- mance made the Georgian’s Pat Musi-powered, Jerry Bickel-built Corvette the eighth-mile’s quickest nitrous oxide-injected race car of any kind in any class in any galaxy and the machine now leads two separate categories. The staggering 3.57-second blast by Daniel Pharris’ new Jeffers Race Cars Mustang made the young Missourian not only the quickest radial racer ever but put him fifth in the all- time quickest turbocharged DI Top 8. The 3.58 shot posted by Kevin Rivenbark’s Bickel-built UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 2/28/2018 1 5.424 RANK E.T. GALOT ’69 Camaro is now the quickest pass ever by a supercharged radial racer despite the shock of a ProCharger centrifugal blower atop its ProLine powerplant. However, these three examples fail to illustrate the scope of the Sweet Sixteen 2.0 performance fest at South Georgia Motorsports Park. The SS 2.0 race at Valdosta changed six of the DI Top 8 positions for the quickest Drag Radial rides but the event also claimed eigh- teen of the top twenty-six positions for the quickest DR drivers. Possibly more impressive is the fact all but three of the twenty-nine Radial drivers to ever clock below 3.75 seconds have done so at SGMP. The track has also been the site for all but three of the fifteen DR pilots who have exceed 210 mph. In X275 competition, SS 2.0 was even more remarkable. While Rich Bruder and Rob Goss shared the headlines with magnificent 4.23-second ProCharged passes and Gary White stunned the world with a 174 mph speed in the Titan Motorsports X275 turbocharged six-cylinder Toyota Supra, the meet was responsible for the shuffling of an incredible twenty-eight of the top thirty-two positions in the DI X275 ET standings. In fact, SGMP has produced all but nine of the forty-one X275 drivers who have run quicker than 4.40 seconds. Likewise, the race was responsible for a total of five X275 wheelmen exceeding 170 mph. SCRIBA DESTROYS QUARTER- MILE N2O MARK! Longtime eastern nitrous Pro Modified cam- paigner Freddy Scriba unleashed the quickest quarter-mile elapsed time ever recorded for a nitrous-oxide injected race car at the season UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE STATE DATE DRIVER SITE John Zappia Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2017 RANK E.T. 1 5.676 Fred Scriba Budds Creek MD STATE DATE 4/13/2019 2 5.662 Todd Tutterow Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 2 5.403 Jose Gonzalez Cecil GA 3/10/2017 2 5.476 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8/23/2014 2 5.690 Rickie Smith Bithlo FL 1/17/2018 3 5.672 Jose Gonzalez Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 3 5.440 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 3 5.527 Jason Scruggs Bradenton FL 3/15/2016 3 5.710 Khalid al Balooshi Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 4 5.674 Jeremy Ray Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 4 5.461 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8/23/2014 4 5.527 Scott McLean Willowbank QLD 6/2/2018 4 5.713 Bob Rahaim Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 5 5.676 Mike Castellana Madison IL 9/22/2018 5 5.524 Rick Hord Las Vegas NV 11/15/2018 5 5.534 Mattias Wulcan Poddington ENG 5/20/2018 5 5.718 Chad Green Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 6 5.681 Rick Hord Concord NC 10/13/2018 6 5.543 Ed Thornton Las Vegas NV 11/18/2018 6 5.579 John Stanley Las Vegas NV 11/16/2017 6 5.734 Ed Burnley Crofton MD 9/9/2017 7 5.690 Michael Biehle II Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 7 5.565 Paul Mouhayet Las Vegas NV 11/21/2015 7 5.585 Paul Mouhayet Eastern Creek NSW 10/1/2017 7 5.753 Mahana al Naemi Doha QAT 1/15/2016 8 5.693 Mike Janis Concord NC 10/14/2018 8 5.591 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11/20/2016 8 5.612 Steve King Budds Creek MD 8 5.768 Mike Castellana Dinwiddie VA NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE Erica Enders Baytown TX 4/14/2019 1 278.79 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 2/28/2018 1 266.74 John Stanley Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 1 253.47 Rickie Smith Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 259.91 Mike Bowman Las Vegas NV 10/27/2017 2 275.45 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 2 265.33 John Zappia Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2017 2 252.85 Khalid al Balooshi Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 1 260.11 2 DRIVER UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) 9/23/2014 DRIVER RANK M.P.H. RANK M.P.H. 4/14/2019 RANK M.P.H. DRIVER RANK M.P.H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 3 259.66 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 10/31/2015 3 274.83 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11/21/2015 3 263.82 Mike Maggio Las Vegas NV 11/24/2014 3 251.49 Bob Rahaim Topeka KS 5/20/2017 4 259.56 Sidnei Frigo Concord NC 10/14/2018 4 274.61 Ed Thornton Las Vegas NV 11/18/2018 4 263.77 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8/23/2014 4 250.97 Jonathan Gray Baytown TX 4/21/2017 5 259.31 Troy Coughlin Norwalk OH 6/24/2017 5 274.33 Paul Mouhayet Madison IL 8/28/2015 5 262.67 Mattias Wulcan Poddington ENG 5/20/2018 5 250.92 Erica Enders Clermont IN 9/1/2018 WAU 3/3/2018 6 259.31 Jose Gonzalez Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 6 272.83 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8/23/2014 6 260.95 Paul Mouhayet Kwinana Beach 6 250.78 Chad Green Baytown TX 4/28/2018 7 258.96 Justin Bond Concord NC 10/14/2018 7 267.00 Rick Hord Las Vegas NV 11/15/2018 7 260.51 Steve King Budds Creek MD 4/14/2019 7 250.51 Lizzy Musi Dinwiddie VA 6/27/2018 8 258.86 Alex Laughlin Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 8 265.64 Rick Snavely Las Vegas NV 11/18/2018 8 258.76 Dave Norris Budds Creek MD 10/6/2018 8 250.51 Fred Scriba Budds Creek MD 4/13/2019 ATTENTION READERS & RACERS: The Drag Illustrated Top Eight lists do not include the eight quickest elapsed times or eight fastest speeds recorded in each class. The Lists also do not reflect the eight quickest or fastest vehicles. The DI Top Eight lists rank the quickest and fastest drivers in each Eliminator category. The DI Top Eight rankings do not necessarily reflect the current National or World Records of any association. For current official world records, consult the sanctioning body or racing organization. Listings are not subject to verification or confirmation by any other runs. A claim to any record may be made by submitting all pertinent information and a photo or scan of a timeslip to bret@dragillustrated.com. Performances recorded outside organized drag racing events are accepted in all classes except NHRA Pro Modified, NHRA Pro Stock, NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster, NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car, Extreme Pro Stock and X275 Eliminators. Testing results may be subject to additional scrutiny. 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