Drag Illustrated Issue 150, November 2019

OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS at Donald Long’s No Mercy 10 showdown at Cecil, Georgia. “VENENUM” SHATTERS GLOBAL SIX-CYLINDER MARK WITH 5.57! The war zone known as the Drag Illustrated Top 8 Six-Cylinder Records has seen most of its international action in the Speed category with a recent jump over 260 miles per hour. However, the same the 34th annual Superchargers Showdown extravaganza at Budds Creek (MD) produced an astonishing 5.557 record, (at 254.38 mph), by the Puerto Rico-based “Venenum”, (Latin for “Poison”), 2018 Scion FRS using the weapon of choice, an inline six-cylinder Toyota 2JZ-GTE engine with a single turbocharger. Driven by Dr. Arnaldo Rodriguez Santiago, an orthopedic surgeon from Caguas, PR, the Team Laczano Racing Scion hit 5.70s at over 250 a year ago. When famer tuner Jorge Juarbe was greeted by the staggering condi- tions at MDIR, however, the team let loose the powerplant and PMS chassis. Incredibly, the team failed to qualify for the eight-car NEOPM field which featured fifteen combatants and a bump spot of 5.81. The group did make several test passes in front of the packed house including the aforemen- tioned 5.55/254.38. The team also annexed the eighth-mile speed record with a jaw-dropping 210.21 mph eighth-mile speed, a remarkable 5.79 mph faster than Australian Rod Harvey’s recent 204.42 mark. Dr. Arnaldo also secured the six-cylinder eighth-mile elapsed time mark, (3.693), although the quarter-mile speed record remains at 260.91 set by fellow PR countryman Jomar Gomez and the Team 21 Toyota Avalon. UNLIMITED PRO MOD ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) RANK E.T. 1 3.485 DRIVER Frankie Taylor SITE STATE DATE Rockingham NC 4/5/2014 2 3.486 Brandon Snider Tulsa OK 3/18/2016 The Supercharger Showdown ranked high among the best races of the year. Along with the nitrous, Roots-blown and six-cylinder records, the meet also gave the world the two quickest centrifugally-supercharged doorslammers in quarter-mile history in the early Camaros of Tyler Hard, (5.62/256.36), and event winner Kevin McCurdy who made four straight runs under 5.57 with a amazing best of 5.521/259.46! “NO WHEELIE BARS” PRO STREET BIKE RECORD DOWN TO 6.38! In what continued to be the greatest year-long advertisement yet for Maryland International Raceway, the track held the Xtreme Dragbike Association’s season-ending Fall Nationals. The 2019 season started with Joey Gladstone’s 6.46-second elapsed time record for a “no bar” motorcycle untouched for nearly four years. That mark was finally broken in June at MDIR by Jeremy Teasley. However, nobody was ready for Teasley’s single turbo’d, narrow tire-equipped Suzuki GSX-R1000 to lead the thirty-two bike field with a 6.38-second, 230.65 mph aggregate. Teasely ran 6.40s all the way to the final round where he fell by 0.032 seconds to Richard Gadson in the quickest (and most ter- rifying) side-by-side Pro Street bike race ever when both entrants ran 6.403 seconds, Teasley at 226.51 and Gadson at 221.78 mph. As an astonishing comparison, Mark Rendeluk of Oklahoma City recently used his Suzuki Hayabusa to reset the turbocharged Pro Extreme Motorcycle record at Tulsa (OK) Raceway Park to 6.34 seconds at 214.72…with a “big tire” and “wheelie bars”! - BRET KEPNER EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) RANK E.T. 1 3.527 DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Jose Gonzalez Dinwiddie VA 10/23/2015 2 3.540 Kevin Fiscus Benson NC 4/5/2016 X275 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) (eighth-mile) RANK E.T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE RANK E.T. 3.575 Marcus Birt Dinwiddie VA 9/20/2019 1 4.235 Rich Bruder Cecil GA 3/23/2019 3.578 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA 3/22/2019 2 4.237 Rob Goss Cecil GA 3/22/2019 3 3.582 Kevin Rivenbark Cecil GA 3/21/2019 3 4.245 Jamie Johnson Cecil GA 10/20/2019 4 3.594 Steve Jackson Dinwiddie VA 9/21/2019 4 4.270 Manny Buginga Cecil GA 3/22/2019 5 3.598 Jeff Miller Darlington SC 8/25/2019 5 4.279 Dean Marinis Cecil GA 3/22/2019 6 3.612 Jamie Hancock Dinwiddie VA 9/20/2019 6 4.286 Brian Brooks Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 3.621 Tim Slavens Cecil GA 2/14/2019 7 4.289 Ryan Milliken Cecil GA 3/22/2019 8 3.623 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/23/2018 8 4.293 Tim Dutton Cecil GA 10/20/2019 OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS X275 ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) (eighth-mile) RANK M.P.H. SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE 1 221.20 Mark Micke DRIVER Cecil GA 3/22/2018 1 174.55 Gary White Cecil GA 3/22/2019 2 218.44 Tim Slavens Cecil GA 10/18/2019 2 173.36 Jared Johnston Cecil GA 3/22/2019 3 216.20 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA 3/23/2018 3 171.99 Dom DiDinato Rising Sun MD 8/31/2019 4 215.20 Mark Woodruff Cecil GA 3/22/2019 4 171.51 Rich Bruder Bowling Green KY 4/21/2018 5 214.18 Bradenton FL 1/25/2019 5 171.47 Brad Medlock Cecil GA 3/23/2019 6 213.57 DeWayne Mills Cecil GA 3/24/2018 6 171.34 Jon Thomas Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 213.16 Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 171.10 John Keesey Cecil GA 10/20/2019 8 212.53 Josh Klugger Cecil GA 2/15/2019 8 170.97 Eric Moore Cecil GA 2/15/2019 John Carinci Ken Quartuccio RANK M.P.H. UNLIMITED NITROUS ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) RANK E.T. 1 3.575 DRIVER Marcus Birt SITE Dinwiddie VA VA 9/20/2019 Jason Scruggs Tulsa OK 3/18/2016 3 3.561 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA 10/14/2015 3 3.612 Jamie Hancock Dinwiddie VA 9/20/2019 3.496 Terry Leggett Benson NC 11/12/2016 4 3.566 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/24/2015 4 3.613 Jim Halsey Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2019 3/22/2019 5 3.615 Lizzy Musi Darlington SC 10/5/2019 6 3.627 Jay Cox Darlington SC 10/5/2019 Khalid al Refaei Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 5 3.578 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA 3.512 Mustafa Buhumaid Tulsa OK 3/18/2016 6 3.596 Khalid Mohammed Doha QAT 3/3/2018 7 3.513 Randell Reid Martin MI 6/27/2015 7 3.618 Kris Thorne Dinwiddie VA 10/17/2019 7 3.636 Chris Rini Benson NC 8 3.514 Bubba Stanton Rockingham NC 4/5/2014 8 3.621 Tim Slavens Cecil GA 2/14/2019 8 3.643 Mahana al Naemi Doha 1 DRIVER 231.24 Jose Gonzalez SITE STATE DATE Rockingham NC 4/10/2016 RANK M.P.H. 1 DRIVER SITE 231.44 Kevin Fiscus Benson NC 4/5/2016 2 231.24 Jose Gonzalez Rockingham NC 4/10/2016 5/1/2015 3 230.10 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/14/2015 4 225.33 Turki al Zafiri Gilliam LA 224.92 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA 2 230.10 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/24/2015 3 225.33 Turki al Zafiri Gilliam LA 4 224.92 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA RANK M.P.H. 1 DRIVER 209.23 Lizzy Musi SITE Dinwiddie VA 10/18/2019 181.20 Jeff Dobbins Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2018 OUTLAW 275 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Justin Swanstrom Bithlo FL 12/8/2018 Bithlo FL 1/20/2018 4/7/2019 1 3.738 QAT 2/7/2017 1 198.85 Joshua Klugger UNLIMITED NITROUS ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) STATE DATE STATE DATE Dinwiddie 1 Dinwiddie 3.510 SITE Chris Powers 9/20/2019 Tommy Franklin 5 DRIVER 4.007 3.612 6 (eighth-mile) 1 2 DRIVER EXTREME PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS RANK PERF STATE DATE 3.492 RANK M.P.H. STATE DATE 1 3 EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) SITE 2 4 UNLIMITED PRO MOD ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) DRIVER RANK PERF STATE DATE VA OUTLAW 10.5 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE Richard Sexton Budds Creek MD 11/7/2014 Commerce 4/13/2013 10/22/2018 1 6.081 1 241.50 David Hance 2 208.82 Jim Halsey Darlington SC 10/5/2019 10/24/2015 3 208.72 Jay Cox Darlington SC 10/5/2019 5/1/2015 4 208.52 Tommy Franklin Dinwiddie VA 9/20/2019 10/14/2015 9/20/2019 5 223.54 Jason Scruggs Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 5 206.67 Chris Rini Dinwiddie VA 6 221.56 Brandon Snider Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 6 221.20 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/22/2018 6 206.29 Marcus Birt Dinwiddie VA 9/20/2019 7 221.20 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/22/2018 7 221.02 Kris Thorne Dinwiddie VA 10/17/2019 7 205.69 Mike Achenbach Rising Sun MD 8/31/2019 1 3.778 8 221.02 Kris Thorne Dinwiddie VA 10/17/2019 8 220.58 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 1/12/2017 8 205.63 Jason Harris Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2019 1 210.77 Jesse Lambert Outlaw 10.5 Eliminator: 10.5W rear tires; 3000 pound weight minimum. Outlaw Drag Radial Eliminator: Any Drag Radial tires; no other rules. Outlaw 275 Eliminator: 275 mm rear tires; no other rules. November 2019 X275 Eliminator: 275 mm rear tires; X275 association. GA OUTLAW 10.5 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile) 5 “SMALL TIRE” CLASS LEGEND STATE DATE RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Blake Copson Rising Sun MD Budds Creek MD 10/5/2019 6/1/2019 FOR THE COMPLETE TOP 8 AND MORE, C H E C K O U T: RED HIGHLIGHT INDICATES NEW PERFORMANCE MARK DragIllustrated.com | D r a g I l l u s t r a t e d | 129

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