OUTLAW 8.5

The VIVA/SPEEDWIRE sponsored class is proving to be very competitive with many different combos running within hundredths and even thousandths of each other! We saw two racers in Vegas that didn’t compete at the season opener, both took full advantage of the double points event and plan on chasing the points championship in 2014 as well as the EDELBROCK Shootout cash bonus! Dan Hale and Mike Saiki battled it out all day for the DLRE #1 Qualifier Bonus. Both Racers ran identical e.t.s of 5.333 and it was Dan Hale taking the #1 in his Mechanix Wear MMR TTCoyote Powered Fox Body with the higher mph of 138.53, beating Saiki out by just 1 mph! In the #2 spot was Mike Saiki’s 5.333 @ 137 in his Motivational Eng. SBC N2o powered ‘72 Corvette. #3 Chad McGee 5.430 @ 132 in his CMRacing Hot Rod Performance Powered BBC N2O Fox Body. #4 Ben Davidow’s 5.574 @ 138 in the “Team Temporary” Turbocharged SBF Powered Mustang. #5 Freddy “It’s all” Bueno  6.262 @ 124 in his DLRE N/A BBC Powered 63 Chevy II. #6 Brian Greenberg’s  6.437 @ 109 in his LPC Racing SBF N2o Powered ‘64 Ford Fairlane street car.

Eliminations 

Round 1: Chad McGee would advance to round 2 with a .088  5.462 @ 130 mph over Springnationals Winner Ben Davidow’s .162 5.491 @ 140 mph. Second pair would be #1 Qualifier Dan Hale advancing over Brian Greenberg, .238 5.376 @ 136 to .245 6.299  @ 110. The final pair would be Mike Saiki and Freddy Bueno. Unfortunately Freddy had valve train failure and couldn’t make the round, so Saiki advanced to round two with a .161  6.255 @ 89 mph.

SEMIS: Chad McGee and Mike Saiki would pair up first. Chad took the advantage at the tree, .073 to .107 and advanced to the final round over Mike who had a nice 200 foot wheelstand, 5.442 @ 130 to a losing 5.663 @ 130 mph. Dan Hale got the competition bye into the final and cruised down with a  .155  7.101 @ 91 mph.

FINALS: Chad McGee and Dan Hale, turbo vs BB nitrous and pit buddies for the weekend. Who would be buying? Chad took the R/T advantage, .061 to .085 and he was looking good early in the pass, but then his car seemed to overpower the tire just enough to slow him down. Meanwhile in the other lane, Dan was having no troubles and he would take the win over Chad with a nice 5.372 @ 138.29  to  6.101 @ 126.42.

LIMITED 10.5

Qualifying: In qualifying, it was Toby Jackson in his R.E.S. N2o SBC Powered ‘65 Chevy II taking the DLRE #1 qualifier cash with a 5.572 @ 129. #2 Jim DiMaggio’s 5.608 @ 125 in his N2o Pontiac powered ‘71 Firebird, #3 Levi Hanna’s 5.694 @ 123 in his N2o BBC Powered Fox Body, #4 Adam Noyes 5.853 @ 117 in his R.E.S. BBC N2o powered ‘71 Camaro, #5 Greg Wright’s 5.931 @ 119 in his supercharged SBF powered Mustang, #6 Richie Jensen 6.430 @ 110 in his BBC Powered ‘78 Camaro, #7 Danny Topol  6.874 @ 106 in his Heads Up Motorsports SBC N2o Powered ‘69 Chevelle, #8 Daniel Thompson 7.091 @ 96 in his SBC Powered ‘62 Chevy II, and #9 Robert Bridges 7.154 @ 96 in his BBC Powered ‘79 Malibu.

Eliminations

Round 1: Greg Wright over Richie Jensen, .145 5.87@120 to .347  6.33@112. Levi Hanna over Daniel Thompson, .351 5.91@122 to .223  7.25@94. Adam Noyes over Danny Topol, .140 5.44@130 over .190 6.74@105. Jim DiMaggio, .154 5.55@128 over Bridges who couldn’t make the call. The laddered bye would go to #1 Qualifier Toby Jackson and he would move to the next round with a .542 5.45@129 mph.
Round 2:  Levi would take out Noyes .166 5.63@125 to .170 ‘no time due to breakage’ for Adam. Toby Jackson over Greg Wright, 165 5.41@129 to -.046 5.94@119. DiMaggio would draw the laddered bye for Round 2 and move on to the semi finals with a .249 5.59@128 mph.
Semis: Three Cars in the Semis with Levi Hanna getting the bye to the final with a 10.60@70 mph. Next up would be Jackson and DiMaggio to see who would face Levi in the final. Toby Jackson would take the win, .127 5.43@126 over Jim’s 5.58@ 128 mph.
Finals: It would be season opener finalist Toby Jackson vs long time West Coast racer Levi Hanna. Jackson got away first with a nice R/T advantage, .156  to .244, but gave that advantage up when he struck the tires. Levi took advantage and the WCHRA Limited 10.5 win, 5.609 @ 125.87  to 6.340 @ 125.12.