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Perfect racing weather greeted a
great crowd of racers for the second
stop on the 2012 AutoFab Race Cars
Raider Challenge Series at Richmond
Dragway. After nearly 730 runs on
Saturday night, Severn, Maryland’s
Brad Keyton took the top honors in
Junior Dragster when Robert Estevez
(Waldorf, MD) red lit. To top off
his great event weekend, Keyton
lasted through the whole event again
on Sunday and laid claim to the
Sunday race win by defeating AJ
Jenkins (Mechanicsville, MD) in the
finals. Keyton’s magical weekend was
certainly a highlight of the annual
pilgrimage to Richmond but he wasn’t
the only star of the race.
In Top ET action, Winchester, VA’s
Todd Welzel took the Top ET victory
Saturday night as he watched runner
up, Jeff Verdi (Glen Allen, VA)
breakout in the finals. Verdi was
driving his 66 Pontiac GTO in a
dragster vs doorcar matchup. In
coincidence, Sunday’s final was
another dragster vs doorcar event
pitting Wyatt Colbert
(Mechanicsville, VA) against another
66 GTO this time of Glen Allen’s Ray
Loan in the finals. Colbert used a
better reaction time to take the
class win.
Modified ET was a battle royale all
weekend long. In Saturday’s action,
former Raider Champion, Rocky
Pintavalle (Amelia, VA) took out
Ronnie Jeter (Manakin Sabot, VA) to
win. It was a very close run with
both drivers scoring nearly
identical reaction times and then
both running .01 over their dial.
Sunday’s champion was Ed Talbert of
Woodbine, MD who knocked out Upper
Marlboro, MD’s Bart Spicer in a
double breakout event.
“Congratulations to all of the great
event winners and runner ups and
thanks to everyone who supported
this weekend’s AutoFab Raider
Challenge” commented track owner,
Johnny Davis. “This event is quickly
becoming a favorite of Richmond’s
race fans and my staff as we watch
some of the best racing all season
long play out over 2 exciting days.
I can’t wait to watch this great
series wrap up at MIR in September
and October and celebrate with the
2012 series champions.”
For more information about Richmond
Dragway, visit
www.richmonddragway.com.
Richmond Dragway, Unleash the
Excitement!
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