Results and photos courtesy Rockingham Dragway

Tim Lynch, the consensus king of Outlaw 10.5 drag racing, didn’t disappoint Sunday, April 3, at Steve Earwood’s Rockingham Dragway although his victory in the annual Holcomb Motorsports Civil Wars event did not come without challenges.

In fact, the Woodstock, Ga., veteran, back at The Rock for the first time since winning the Civil Wars in 2009, just barely was able to run down fellow Georgian Danny Lowry in a 10.5 final decided by just .006 of a second after Lowry got away to a .035 lead at the start.

En route, Lynch set both ends of the 10.5 national record by coaxing his 2010 Chevrolet Corvette through the eighth-mile course in 4.143 seconds at a speed of 197.36 miles per hour during Outlaw qualifying.

Racing in a field that included drivers from Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts as well as Georgia, Lynch advanced on a first round bye, beat Jason Enos of Rehoboth, Mass, in round two and Tom Kasper of Westville, N.J., in the semifinals.

In the final round, his 4.242-second effort at 188 mph was just enough to turn back Lowry’s 1998 Ford Mustang (4.283 seconds).

Other winners included Mark Soles of Riegelwood, who doubled-up on Saturday and Sunday in the Footbrake ET class and Shane Williams of Knoxville, Tenn., whose 1999 Ford Mustang got the workhorse award, winning Saturday in Open Comp and Sunday in the Pro Tree Doorslammer class.

Williams’ Sunday win was particularly noteworthy, not necessarily because he beat local standout E.J. Womack of Lillington in the final but because he threw a .002 package including a perfect .000 reaction time against Womack’s son, Nick, in the semifinals.

Kevin Fiscos of Jacksonville, Fla., drove his 2002 Mustang past perennial Rockingham winner Keith Szabo of Gainesville, Ga., to claim the True 10.5 title; Terry Morton of Kannapolis won in Real Street; Craig Owen of Easley, S.C., in King of the Street; and Justin Smith of LaCrosse, Va., in the 275 Drag Radial class in which he set a national ET record of 4.949 seconds in qualifying.