Ehren Litten

It was the kind of day anything could happen and did. Orient Express Pro Street racer Ehren Litten swapped out a motor in a mad thrash after round 2, but other than taking the tree under power, he never had to run the motor the rest of the night. After a semifinal bye, Litten then ran the final sans opponent also when number 1 qualifier Joey Gladstone’s DME/Vance & Hines bike was bitten once again by a broken cam or camchain.

That was Litten’s first Pro Street win, and it happened on a weekend when the North Carolina-based rider made his first 6-second pass and jumped all the way to 6.88 and 7th on the PST GOAT list aboard his Rodney Williford-built and tuned turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa.

Joey Gladstone

So, instead of having a chance at the Pro Street win, nearby Delaware native Gladstone won a class he’s never won despite competing in it for three years—DME racing Real Street. And he did it with DME’s new all-motor ‘Busa—the first time ever that a Real Street race was won without a power-adder.

Gladstone beat the turbo Kawasaki ZX14 of Atco hero Rickey Gadson in the final. Gadson’s participation in the event was uncertain as the bike got put back together just in time.

Anibal “Cannibal” Merced took over the Real Street points lead on a weekend where numbers 1 and 2 in the points—multi-time champ Jeremy Teasley and his RS Motorsports team boss Roger Starrette—didn’t show.