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September 22, 2012 a day that will
live in history as one of the best
PRO MOD fights ever held on the east
coast. Neither the Boxing Heavy
Weight Championship of the World,
nor the Cage Fighting Championship
could hold a candle to the exciting
race presented by the NorthEast
Outlaw Pro Mods at MIR. Competition
came from as far away as Canada and
Puerto Rico to compete in this
racing version of hand to hand
combat. The only difference was that
the racer used their 3000 plus horse
power cars verses fist, knees,
elbows etc. The two fighting
/competing car classes were split
into Blower/Turbo and Nitrous. The
ring was a quarter mile of
unimaginable traction and speed. The
contenders were some of the fastest
blower, turbo and nitrous racers in
the country fighting for the total $
29,000.00 purse including
contingency awards.
The
bouts began on Friday night with
contenders/racers two rounds of
qualifying followed by a small party
and lots of trash talk. On Saturday
the qualifying rounds continued with
several cars suffering a few major
and minor injuries resulting in some
breakage before eliminations
bringing the car count down to 27.
When qualifying was completed you
knew that this was going to be some
unbelieveable match. Fred Scrba
captured the number one slot on the
Nitrous side with a 5.98 with Gary
Courtier just behind him with a 6.06
at 237 MPH. On the Blower/Turbo side
the side at the top was really
crowded with Steve Drummond 5.97,
Tim O'Hare 5.991 and Eric Latino (
Canada) 5.998 in the top three
slots. The spectators knew that they
would be seeing two great racer
walking away with the Championship
and the BIG DOLLAR PAY OUT. Wow the
anticipation and excitement in the
crowd was palpable. AND THERE IS
MORE...
SOME
NOTEABLE Blower / Turbo
HIGHLIGHTS...Angels Ray cuts some
lights (be careful she is good),
Eric Latino is a real tough
competitor running in the 5.90s and
likes racing with us, Jimmy Barker
ran his best ET 6.11 and said he was
just playing, Dwayne Wolfe is
consistently fast 6.06 to 6.11 and
expects better, Gary Walker built
and drives a P/M bracket car 6.08 to
6.13 and faster, Jim Bersani found
the combination and back in the low
6.20s ( he will go into the 6.0
range shortly). An extra special
note, GERRY CAPANO WENT TO THE SEMI
FINAL RUNNING HIS BEST EVER 6.22 and
may have done better but hurt his
engin and later broke his
hand...we're proud of you Gerry.
SOME
NOTEABLE NITROUS HIHLIGHTS...Gary
Courtier Team is catching up running
6.06 at 237 ( another five second
contender ), Jeff Rodgers went a
6.22 on his second time out, Kramer/
Woods team is getting faster running
consistent low 6.20s but
occasionally hurting stuff, Todd
Fontana one of the fastest and most
consistent cars had transmission
issues. Nick Montana and Matt
Deitsch continue to be running into
bad luck ( hurt motors ). Isaias
Rojas, Fred Scriba, Dean Marinas
read below.
ISAIAS ROJAS
PRO MOD NITROUS CLASS WINNER
Eliniations started on time...5 PM
with the track on kill, racers
anxious to kick butt, crews
performing their training/tuning
magic and spectators ( about
8-10,000) cheering the fighters on.
The rounds were filled with
excitment and some surprises...
Isaias
who
had been struggling ran a 6.01 @
233MPH and Dean Marinas ran a 6.16 @
225 in the Harry Pappas car. The
most excting races of the evening
came in the finals of both classes.
This was real mano a mano (hand to
hand ), kick um in the gut all out
fighting with some of the best drag
racing ever seen. Let me give you a
ring side seat version. In the
Nitrous Championship bout you had
Fred Scriba in one corner and Isaias
Rojas in the other. They left the
line with Isaias RT .038 vs Freds
.083. It was a close door to door,
fender to fender race with Isaias
running a 5.93 @ 234 MPH wining $
6,000.00 purse against Freds' 6.03 @
236 MPH taking runner up money. The
good news for Fred Scriba is that
his consistent year long performance
locked up the 2012 Northeast Outlaw
Pro Mods Nitrous points
championship.
STEVE DRUMMOND
PRO MOD BLOWER CLASS WINNER
On the
Blower/Turbo side the finals were
even more AMAZING. Steve Drummond's
beautiful 2008 twin turbo powered
Mustang and Tim O'Hare's consistent
and great looking 68 Camaro Blower
powered cars were staged. This
Championship round would be a good
one as both cars were just about
even. From the sarting line you
could see the spectators on their
feet. Steve ran an amazing 5.966 @
242 ( winning $ 6,000.00) with a
.014 reaction time wining to Tim's
unbelievable R/U 5.967 at 238 MPH
with a reaction time of .078. What a
race ...the spectators that were on
their feet and went wild. Tim and
Steve are very serios
compeditors/rivals.Last year Tim was
our champion and this year is the
first time that a Turbo car entry (
Steve Drummond )has won the 2012
Northeast Outlaw Pro Mods
Blower/Turbo points championship.
Thank
you to all our fans, spectators, MIR
and especially our sponsors.
Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod Sponsors:
American Racing Headers, Star
Transporters (Renegade ), Good Years
Racing tires, Moroso Racing
Products, Jesel Valve Train, Ram
Clutches, VP Rcacing Fuels, Barker
Racing, Tim O'Hare Custom Homes,
Scriba Welding, Split ROck Racing,
Gary Courtier Custom Builders
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