The Pro Street bikes never fail to deliver wheelstanding action to the fans at MANCUP races.

Yoder went on to defeat Ryan Schnitz in the final round and win the race, but Gladstone secured the points championship. In Pro Street racing, Joey Gladstone is clearly the king as he’s completed the 2014 racing season with number one plates in both the MIRock racing sanction and in MANCUP racing competition. Who’s bad in no-bar motorcycle drag racing? Remember Joey Gladstone’s name; you’ll be screaming it later.

Eighth-mile monsters racing in the APE-sponsored Pro Comp class were dominated by the precision racing of Ashley Owens who seems to be more android than human. Let there be no doubts, he is definitely one with his drag bike. Owens qualified number one with a stout 4.066 elapsed time, then proceeded to stay on the 4-Oh pace for the whole race save only one pass at 4.12 in round one when he defeated Bobby Lovingood, who could only muster a 4.59. Owens then followed up with runs of 4.09, 4.06 and 4.05.

Billy Vose

While Owens won this battle, Billy Vose won the war by qualifying fourth and topping the season-ending points for another championship title for the talented Mr. Vose.

The Shinko Tires, WPS Real Street class action at the MANCUP World Finals was highlighted by the world record-setting run of 7.699 at 193 mph by David Merks. It’s astounding to see that real street bikes are now running mid sevens at 197 mph (Teasley in R-1 AND in R-2) on a DOT street tire.

Merks did well throughout the race until he met Ricky Gadson in the final round and coughed up a .093 reaction time. Ricky’s .022 RT made the difference in a 7.84 run by Gadson to Merks’ quicker 7.77 ending David Merks’ storybook weekend. The final chapter belonged to Gadson, who bested Jeremy Teasley in points for the championship in Real Street.