TNT Series adds two new winners

Results courtesy TNT Super Series
Photos by Ted Barnes and Dale Boeru - www.CanadianDragRacer.ca

Competitors in the Joe’s Transmission TNT Super Series took on the 1/8th mile at St Thomas Raceway Park in Sparta, Ontario, August 20-21 for a spectacular two-day drag racing event in partnership with the Can Am Stock / Super Stock Series.

Presented by The Second City Toronto, the weekend saw two new TNTSS event winners in the highly competitive series with Andrew Stirk from Orangeville winning Saturday and Marc Vezina from Straffordville winning on Sunday.

As well, the race from May 21 was completed and Oakland's Dave Surmatchewski took not only the event win but also took over the 2011 Joe's Transmission TNT Super Series points lead. 


Saturday

Twenty-one cars qualifying in two sessions resulted in Caledonia's Ray Martino landing atop the field in the number one spot running a perfect 7.000 ET.

But five rounds later, it was Andrew Stirk as the event winner defeating TNTSS newcomer Andy Cole of St Thomas. Advantage off the line went to Stirk with a .003 light to Cole's .024. When Cole lost power at half-track, Stirk was able to coast to the win at a 7.27.

Stirk said his plan for the weekend was to set up as tight as possible on his packages. "Eighth mile racing is always really close, and knowing how good the racers in the TNT series are, everything is just that much closer."

Stirk's march through the field saw him face some very tough rounds defeating Bill Elekes, Pete Maduri Jr., Gary Saska and Dave Surmatchewski.

"This weekend we were determined to qualify one of our team drivers for The Trailer Shop/ERD Race of Champions," added Stirk. "Races like it don't come along every day and we wanted to get our invite before we ran out of chances to get in."

Cayuga Rainout

After the regular race on Saturday, there were three rounds to finish from the May 21 event at Cayuga before the racer barbeque got underway.

Making it to the final were Dave Surmatchewski and Bill Elekes. The round ended quickly as Elekes went .001 red on the tree, handing the win to the black 1983 Cutlass. Surmatchewski posted a .012 reaction and 6.998 ET.