Even more record-setting action occurred in the ACT Factory Stock class, with Tommy Godfrey becoming the charter member of the Factory Stock 10-Second Club, qualifying number one with an incredible 10.96 blast in the final qualifying round.  Jay Dold was hot on his heels with an 11.01, while Carlos Sobrino clicked off an 11.21, his best pass ever, to take third.  John Leslie Jr. put an 11.25 on the board for fourth, and Alan Cann ran a .27 to round out the top five.  Rick Walsh, Chalie Rankin, and Zane Reed rounded out the field of eight.  Walsh took the win, upsetting #2 qualifier Dold to move on.  Sobrino took out Rankin to move to the next round, and Godfrey improved to a simply unreal 10.89 over Cann.  In the final pairing of the round, Leslie ran an 11.52 to send Reed packing back to Georgia.  The semifinal round saw Godfrey run an 11.01 to eliminate Sobrino, and Leslie took out Walsh with a strong holeshot win.  In an all-too-familiar scenario, Godfrey took the wire-to-wire win with a killer 10.92 when Leslie spun off the line.

In the Trick Flow Open Comp class, Greg Essen qualified first with a .001 reaction time, followed by Jon Pickering’s .005, Steven Wieczorek’s .007, Jon H Pickering’s .010, and Randy Conway’s .015.  As eliminations progressed, it came down to 2009 class Champion Wesley Dalrymple and Brandon Shackelford in the final.  There, Shackelford outdrove the champ to take the win in his home state.

JDM Engineering Super Stang is always a fun class to watch, as it’s filled with S197 Mustangs with a variety of performance modifications.  Mike Sulzbach and Joe Cram dominated the competition, ending up in the final round after running through their respective competition.  As the pair powered down-track, Cram drove the finish line better than Sulzbach, earning his first NMRA win.

It seems like we always see the same names on the track towards the end of the day in Exedy Clutch Modular Muscle.  E.L. Smith qualified #1 with a perfect .000 reaction time, followed by Stacy Estel’s .001, Reggie Burnette Sr. and Susan McClenaghan’s identical .006 RT’s, and Joe Marini’s .008, finishing off the top five of an incredibly consistent field.  2009 Champion Reggie Burnette Jr. and Gary Parker, close friends from their old FFW days, ended up in the final round together in a battle of two of the toughest index-style racers in the country.  The battle was over before it started, however, as Parker lit the angry red bulb, starting Burnette’s season off right.

Twenty-two Ford trucks showed up to do battle in the Detroit Locker Truck and Lightning class, led by Gary Windsor’s .003 reaction time.  He was followed by Don Justus, who put a .012 on the board, Brent White’s .013, ’09 Champ Bob Cochran’s .014, and Johnny Lightning’s .028 to round out the top five.  During eliminations, Florida’s Jim Roberts and Johnny Lightning outlasted everyone to meet up in the final round.  There, Johnny Lightning ran closer to his dial-in to take the win.

In the Pro 5.0.com True Street Shootout, Chris Escobar repeated his performance of last year, outlasting the stout field of street cars and taking the win with an 8.80 blast over Chris Segura’s 9.24 in the final round.

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