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Texas Chaos
Zimmerer, Pirrone, Ballew, Sanders, and Kohlmann score wins at Funny Car Chaos Classic By Rob King
The 6th Annual Spell Paving Services Funny Car Chaos Classic presented by Vertex Roofers delivered three days of Chaos April 9-11 at the Texas Motorplex, with the pits packed full of outlaw Funny Cars and nitro burners.
After two rounds of qualifying on Friday, Keith Zimmerer’ s“ Penny Pincher 2” Funny Car led the Rodak’ s Custom Roasted Coffee‘ A’ Field into eliminations with a 3.59 at 210 mph. Mary Reep and Daniel Cottrell also claimed top qualifying positions in the Alkydigger‘ B’ Field and Wulff Pumps‘ C’ Field.
In the DMP Awnings Nitro Chaos qualifying, Shawn Murphy wheeled his“ Hillbilly” nitro Funny Car to the top spot in the RBS Superchargers‘ A’ Field with a 3.61 at 216 mph, while Colin Thomas’“ Twisted Sister” Fuel Altered led the CP-Carrillo
‘ B’ Field with a 3.97 at 188 mph.
After two days of fantastic weather Thursday and Friday, Saturday brought spotty showers through the area, but with a lot of hard work from the Texas Motorplex staff, the track was dried twice during eliminations and delivered a full dose of Chaos for the fantastic crowd on hand. In Funny Car Chaos‘ A’ Field action, Keith
Brian Kohlmann
Zimmerer continued to prove he is the man to beat as he advanced past Mark Billington and Alex Barker to meet Mike Newkirk in the final round. Newkirk knocked out John Robinson and Aaron Morrow to reach the finals. Unfortunately, Newkirk went-. 066 red, as Zimmerer gave his car a quick pedal job to go 3.76 at 205 mph to score his second straight Rodak’ s Custom Coffee
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