Brian & Leyda Square Off to Crown First Time OFAA Winner

Words by Chris Graves
Photos by MaxCacklePhotos.com

The Painless Performance Outlaw Fuel Altered association thundered into Texas Raceway in Kennedale, Texas for a Friday night under the lights “OFAA Summer Nationals” fuel altered showdown. Sixteen teams came to strut their stuff in the third event of the season and last event before a two month break in the schedule. The top five in points were separated by only fourteen points heading into Kennedale with Jimmy Jones’ “Texas Tremor” leading the pack.

The unusually warm streak of temperatures dancing at the 100 degree line in north Texas continued as the track temperature peaked at 120 degrees as the teams filled the staging lanes for the first qualifying session. Howard Farris and team “War Wagon” were very eager to race with a new clutch combination and positive testing results, but dropped a valve on the warm-up, unfortunately ending their outing prematurely. Jim Overly also encountered issues during warm-up and was out earlier than expected.

Final Qualifying Order

1) Donnie Massey (Little Elm, Texas) – 4.01 (3.99) @ 161 - broke
2) Jimmy Jones (Dallas, Texas) – 4.02 @ 173
3) John Broussard (Lake Charles, Louisiana) – 4.03 @ 177
4) Terry Brian (New London, Texas) – 4.072 @ 175
5) Bobby Marriott (Pilot Point, Texas) – 4.079 @ 182
6) Aaron Leyda (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) – 4.14 @ 174
7) Terry Anglin (Garland, Texas) – 4.29 @ 164 - broke
8) DoDad Burton (Tyler, Texas) – 4.36 @ 161
9) Raymond Dawson (Nevada, Texas) – 4.54 @ 158
10) Rich Howell (Yorba Linda, California) – 4.55 @ 145
11) Keith Anglin (Garland, Texas) – 5.01 @ 104
12) Mary Reep (Austin, Texas) 5.24 @ 91
13) Chris Trussell (Canton, Texas) – 5.54 @ 112 - broke
14) Mike Wheeler (Paradise, Texas) – 7.22 @ 58 - broke
15) Howard Farris (Tyler, Texas) – No Time - broke
16) Jim Overly (Oyster Creek, Texas) – No Time - broke

Carnage was the end result for a handful of teams as Farris, Overly, Massey, T. Anglin (Terry Anglin’s car erupted in a large flash fire as the rods tried their best to exit the block of the “Psychotic Express” Fiat. Anglin brought the car to a safe stop but with catastrophic engine damage would be sidelined for the rest of the night), and now Mike Wheeler and Chris Trussell all experienced event ending engine troubles. The ten remaining cars including, Mary Reep and Keith Anglin, were automatically qualified as the call went out to “bring em’ to the lanes” for that all important first round of eliminations.