A FURR FLIES IN PRO FUEL
Exactly eight nitro-burning “Putts” attempted to qualify for the eight-bike Pro Fuel Eliminator at St. Louis. All of the bikes in this class had 150 cubic inch engines and no transmissions.
Defending series Champ Armon Furr put his fueler on the pole, recording a stellar 6.585/215.97! In fact Furr ran the table in the Pro Fuel division taking Top Speed and Low ET honors and then marching through the field. He whipped number five qualifier Douglas Horn in the finals with a solid 6.764/193 which was good enough to easily cover Horne’s troubled 10.283/84.41. The win was Furr’s second straight this year and he looks like he will be the Pro Fuel bike to beat at the Motorplex this coming weekend.
PIPPEN TAKES PRO STOCK TITLE
Junior Pippin, who once owned Pro Mod, is now the King of the AHDRA’s revised S&S Pro Stock class; an 8.09 qualifier was followed by a stunning series of 8.0s in eliminations initiated by a new AHDRA PS record of 8.01/162 in the opening round and capped by a 164.89 mph speed in the final over James Surber’s Buell which was too fast to be backed up! After years of trying to combine the old-school H-D power plants with the modern NHRA H-D PS motors, the AHDRA decided for 2007 to simply go with what they know; entries for the class have tripled! |
There were many more entries in the Pro Stock class than in previous years. The AHDRA has changed the rules for the class and made it a much more affordable class to race in, and as a result more racers than ever are participating in this class.
Defending series champ Junior Pippen dominated the action at St. Louis this year. He qualified number one with an 8.099 on Saturday and then crushed his opponent’s hopes when he opened the first round of competition running a stellar 8.018 bye run. Pippen had low ET and Top Speed of each round of eliminations and made a single when his opponent James Surber couldn’t answer the call for the final round. Despite the fact he was on a single Pippen went to the whip and recorded an 8.071 at 164.89 mph, which gave the Georgia racer both the Top Speed and Low ET of the meet for the class, his second straight final round win and the season championship points lead.
David Feazell, who has ridden nearly every type of drag racing H-D, scored a Rush Performance Pro Gas title with a 7.27/180 best in the AHDRA’s premier nitrous oxide-aided division. Nearly every major “hitter” in the class experienced problems in eliminations including Feazell, who barely won a 91-mph coasting battle with Rick Moore in the opening stanza when both stumbled!