Words and photos by Steven Bunker

The West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association held their third event of the 2012 season July 7-8 at Mission Raceway Park in Mission, British Columbia, Canada. It marked the first time the WCOPMA held an event outside of the States and Mike Maggio made sure it would be memorable.

Maggio led qualifying with a string of three 5-second runs, the best being a 5.826/253.73 to take to number 1 spot. Not far behind Maggio was Dan Nickelson with a career best 5.890/229.29 followed by Rod Burbage’s 6.022/239.36. Jay Syverson, Joe Delehay, Wade Sjostrom, Duane Grosart and Trevor Lowe filled out the rest of the eight-car field.

Unfortunately, Lowe had a top end crash during the second qualifying session on Saturday. He walked away from the accident with no serious injury but would not be able to return on Sunday for eliminations.

Lowe’s departure gave Maggio a single in round 1. Maggio ripped off another 5-second pass going 5.905/261.09, a world record MPH number for a Pro Mod type car that is stirring quite a debate throughout the Internet.

Maggio would end up being the only top-half qualifier going on to round 2 after Burbage went -.004 red against Sjostrom.