In Renegade action, John Lassiter made a single when Jay Zimmerman couldn’t make the call. Lassiter’s beautiful GTO defeated Tim Siler and Jay Cox to get to the finals. Jay defeated Brian Schrader and Earl Farmer to get to the finals, only to break.

In other action, Rick Whaley won the 5 Second Doorslammer class over Shane Westmoreland. Derek Motley won the 580 class and Ricky Clark won the 7.49 class over Randall Cantrall.

Be sure to tune in for the October event when, barring anything crazy, Todd Howard and Jerry Williams will take home the Big Dog Shootout Championship for 2011. This will be followed on Saturday, October 8th with a full day including Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod, 275 Radial, 275 Real Street, a 4.90 shootout and a Stock/Super Stock event.

A closing comment. Had the opportunity to meet Ron Senecal, one of the new owners of Piedmont Dragway and the man responsible for the many improvements at the track. He told me that this was only the beginning and to look for bigger and better things for 2012.  If you have a chance, tell Ron thanks for making Piedmont, a home track for many of us and the Doorslammer Capital of the World, even better.