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- Justin Keith brought his very clean 2002 Camaro over from nearby Kansas City, Missouri to compete in the LSX Index category. His car is powered by a forged LS3, sporting ported LS3 heads, a Victor Jr. intake, and a 300 horse nitrous setup. The combination is all new and both of Justin’s passes today resulted in some high altitude wheelstands, thus leaving him unsure of just how quick the car is capable of running. Justin typically competes in the VAMP Series at KCIR in Kansas City.
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- Dustin Powell brought his Premier Auto Sports ’98 Camaro up from the former site of the LSX Shootout, Memphis, TN, to try his hand at thew new-for-2010 Real Street heads up class. Dustin’s Camaro is motivated by a stock LS2 short block with Trick Flow 225 heads, a Virginia Speed spec camshaft, an out-of-the-box Victor Jr. intake, and Fast 40 150mm throttle body, and utilizing a 175 shot of nitrous. Dustin indicated the car has run as quick as 5.90’s in the eighth mile, which would equate to somewhere around 9.25 at the boards.
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- Keith Berry, who already held the world record for IRS-equipped Corvettes, lowered the mark in the opening session with a crushing 8.225 at 168.35 MPH and 5.30 to the eighth mile that put more than a full second on everyone else in the category.
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- Stephen Wells’ ’02 Corvette from Westfield, NJ sits at the bottom of the order after one round with a 9.950-second, 136.21 MPH effort.
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- Paul Falcon from Durham, NC holds down the fourth spot on Real Street with his ’01 Firebird Formula with a 9.686 at 143.98.
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- Robert Strong and his 398-inch LS-powered ’87 Monte Carlo holds down the third spot with a 9.931 at 136.19.
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- Chris Fowler grabbed the early lead in qualifying in the high-winding All Motor class with a 9.226 at 146.97.
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- John Ventrecca drove his sharp looking 433 cubic inch ’99 Camaro to the second spot in the order with a 9.356 at 145.69 pass.
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- Mark Koehler, who made the best run in the category during testing, struggled to get down the race track on his opening qualifying hit, winding up third with an 8.264 seconds, 151.36 MPH effort.
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- Steven Fereday came out of the gate like gangbusters and powered into a wheelstand out to near the 330-foot mark before slamming back to earth, the underside of the car making contact with the racing surface and leaving a shower of sparks behind. Fereday holds down the bottom spot in the order with the shutoff 9.95 pass.
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- Jay McCardle brought his ultra-quick Corvette out to compete in the Index class, also with sights set on claiming the overall title in Trust Street this weekend. On the cars’ very first full shakedown pass, the motor went lean and pushed out a head gasket, doing damage to the cylinder head in the opening round of qualifying on the 8.8-second lap. Jay and the East Coast Supercharging team will have a late night ahead of them to get the head repaired or replaced in time for tomorrows action.
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- Tom Kempf arrived this morning with his new Drag Radial Firebird and made a lazy testing hit this morning, rolling out about a quarter track before laying into it a little bit the rest of the way down the quarter mile.
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- One of the more intriguing cars on the property here this weekend is the Honda S2000 of Naples, Floridas’ Carlos Rios. Gone is the 2.0L inline four banger, replaced with an LS3 with polished heads and an F1C Procharger, producing around 720 horsepower, enough to push this short wheelbase ride into the 8’s.
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- Keith Berry blasted to an 8.22 last night, but Keith indicated that the car spun the tires out of the gate, recording a 1.30 60ft time that is several hundredths off the normal pace. The BMF Corvette left plenty on the table with nearly 100 horsepower of nitrous not being utilized on that pass, with an 8.12 to 8.15 pass very likely later in the day.
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- Steven Fereday displayed yet another exciting wheels-up pass, carrying the nose of the car from the 60ft mark out beyond 330 feet, keeping his right foot planted all the way to the boards and to the top of the qualifying sheet with a 7.549 at 191.21 MPH.
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- Judson Massingill took the SAM Racing Camaro straight to the top of the order in All Motor with a 9.118 at 155.63 effort that is well off his normal 8.6-8.7 second pace.
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- Last night’s qualifying leader Chris Fowler was unable to improve upon his 9.22 effort from last night and will certainly be looking for the 8-second zone later this afternoon.
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- Judson Massingill had little in the way of competition here this weekend, holding a near half second advantage on everyone from the very first qualifying session. In the final, Judson was never headed, earning the All Motor trophy with a 8.928 rout of number two qualifier Chris Fowler and his 9.307 pass in the other lane.
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- David Lazear made his opening attempt at qualifying here this weekend, but slowed to a 16-second elapsed time.
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- Keith Berry nearly matched his performance from last night in the much warmer conditions here this afternoon, running a great 8.25.
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- Adam Preston didn’t make a pass in last nights opening session, but came out with a bang this afternoon, running an 8.25 to give leader Keith Berry some serious competition for the weekend.
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- Steven Fereday has had troubles all weekend keeping the nose of the car from climbing skyward in the front half of the track, and in the final session, carried the wheels out more than 200 feet, before getting out near the wall, forcing Steven to lift and rest on his 7.54 from earlier in the day.
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- Tom Kempf made another fairly lazy pass, resulting in an 8.355 at 172.87, good for last in the order for the time being.
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- Things are beginning to heat up atop the charts in Real Street, as Keith Berry, who looked to be the runaway leader in the class, got some competition from 19-year old Adam Preston and his ’83 Camaro. In the final session, Adam improved a little to an 8.227 at 168.98, just .002 of a second off of Berry’s pace. Later, Berry stated “we think we’ve got something for them and we’re going to pill it up for tomorrow, but it looks like it’s going to come down to whoever gets off the starting line first.”
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- Dustin Powell ran a 9.59 at 141.68 in his ’99 Camaro, a little off his earlier 9.42 pace that placed him fifth in the order.
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- Judson Massingill stepped up considerably from his earlier qualifying attempts, laying down a stout 8.763 at 156.37 to solidify his stranglehold on the category.
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- Mark Carlyle has consistently run in the lo 8’s all weekend, and made his best pass thus far in the final session with an 8.151 at 172.85 MPH, good only for the final spot in the order.
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- While there is clearly a lot left in the brand new car, Tom Kempf improved to a 7.755 at 184.90 effort to hold down the third spot going into tomorrows eliminations.
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- Danny Niceley made his only qualifying attempt in All Motor in the final session and powered to a 9.759 at 140.39 for the fourth spot going into eliminations.
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- It’s race day here at Gateway International Raceway, and with more than 150 LSX cars here in attendance this weekend, it should make for a great day of racing action in all of our categories. Today will also see the heads-up 5th Gen Camaro Shootout, pitting the four quickest 2010 Camaro’s on the property against one another. Stay tuned to LSXTV throughout the day for all the coverage of today’s activities.
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- Adam Preston laid down the gauntlet in the opening round, running low ET of the weekend thus far with a stout 8.145 at 170.49 MPH to send Dustin Powell and his 9.65 effort back to Tennessee.
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- Chris Fowler sent Michelle Skyy back to Texas in the opening round with a 9.474 to 10.393 count.
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- The guys from Late Model Racecraft were ecstatic after Steven Fereday blasted to the quickest lap of the weekend on his competition single in the opening round, a 7.343 at a booming 197.31 MPH.
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- In what may have been the best matchup of the day in the class, Tom Kempf left before the tree was activated, receiving no time and handing the easy win to reigning LSX Shootout champ Mike Brown.
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- What do you do when your car burns up the #6 piston during qualifying? You kick back and relax on Sunday. Such is the case for number two qualifier Mark Koehler, who didn’t have the parts to make repairs overnight and was a no-show in the first round of Drag Radial eliminations.
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- The students from the School of Automotive Machinists were busy making a clutch adjustment to Judson Massingill’s Camaro after his opening round win in hopes of getting a better handle on the warm racing surface.
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- Mary Carlyle was the benefactor of Mark Koehlers’ parts breakage in qualifying, earning a break single in round one. Carlyle and his Corvette have had everyone talking this weekend, as he grabbed the all-time IRS record away from Keith Berry in qualifying with his 8.151-second pass.
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- The final round of Real Street will shape up just as it should on paper, as Keith Berry downed Jeff Lowry with an 8.235 at 167.36, while Adam Preston earned lane choice in the money round with a quicker 8.174 defeat of Paul Falcon’s wheelstanding 12.63 that culminated in a massive oildown.
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- Judson Massingill continued his torrid pace over the rest of the All Motor field on his semifinal solo pass, getting off the starting line clean and taking it out the back gate to an 8.74 at 156.94 MPH.
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- Steven Fereday has shown all day that if anyone wants to walk away with the Drag Radial crown, they’ll have to go through him. In his semifinal matchup with Mike Brown, Fereday cracked off the second quickest LS-powered run ever, with a 7.247 at an unreal 209.30 MPH. In the final, he’ll meet Mark Carlyle, who took an easy solo into the final with an 11.42.
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- Steven Fereday was the class of the field all weekend, grabbing the number one qualifying spot, running low ET and top speed of the meet, and cemented it in the final round with a win over Mark Carlyle, running a little off his earlier torrid pace with a 7.817 at 179.11 to Carlyle’s trailing 8.256 at 169.15.
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- Adam Preston made his presence known on Saturday morning after missing the opening session on Friday, running right with Keith Berry before laying down a succession of 8.1-second laps in eliminations. In a great final round matchup, Berry had a big backfire, possibly burning a piston in the process as he watched Preston sail to the finish stripe with an 8.178 at 169.34 for the win.
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- Corey Duckett ran closer to his index in the final round, recording a 13.045 on the 13.00 index to defeat Thomas Calabrese, who was nearly two tenths off with a 12.183 on his 12.00 index.
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- The LSX Rumble category saw a huge field of 104 cars competing on several different indexes between 9.00 and 15.00. After the field was whittled down, it was the ’01 Camaro of Nicholas Massengale facing Kurt Anderson and his ’69 Camaro. Anderson ran right on the money with a 10.502 on his 10.50 index, breaking out Massengale, who went 11.960 on his 12.00 number.
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- The 5th Gen Camaro Shootout pitted the four quickest 2010 Camaro’s against one another, and in the final it came down to Jon Ebert and his Lingenfelter Performance ride versus Paul Murphy. Ebert got a sizable advantage out of the gate and that was bad news for the Murphy, as Ebert got the win with a 9.467 at 151.12 to a 9.842 at 144.69.
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- Mark Carlyle powered his gorgeous Drag Radial ZO6 to an 8.754 at 167 MPH.
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- On his second hit of the day, Steven Fereday laid down a great 7.691 at 184.67.
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- While certaiinly well off the pace that he expected, especially given the excellent late evening conditions ripe for record-setting performances, Mike Brown went to the top of the leaderboard after the first round with a 7.934 at 182.87 pass.
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- The Late Model Racecraft team brought their supercharged 2010 Camaro out for the Camaro Shootout. This car has been in the 9.50’s and went a 9.77 t 135 MPH early in the going during testing.
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- Chris Fowler, from Keller, Texas, is back competing in the All Motor category after missing last years event in Memphis. His ’90 Camaro sports a 430-inch powerplant with LS7 cylinder heads making in the neighborhood of 850 horsepower. Chris and the Xtreme Horsepower team have put a new Neal Chance torque converter in the car and will be making their first pass this afternoon with the new drivetrain setup in hopes of some high 8-second laps.
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- This may be the only view that the Drag Radial field gets of defending event winner Mike Brown and his ’98 Trans Am this weekend. The car, powered by an LS2 fed by a 114mm turbocharger and backed with a Rossler TH-210 transmission is the second quickest LS-powered Radial car in history at 7.27 seconds and 202 MPH.
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- The Late model Racecraft crew, with driver Steve Fereday, is always a force to be reckoned with in the Drag Radial category with their twin turbocharged LS2 Trans Am, pumping out upwards of 50 pounds of boost.
