IRON TEAM GET ‘IRONMAN’
Troy Williams, Jr. and the entire staff at Mullis Race Cars put in a long week leading up to the IHRA season-opening Summit Pro-Am event at Immokalee (FL) Regional Raceway last weekend. In addition to normal day-to-day shop activities, the Mullis Race Cars staff
“burned the midnight oil,” working after hours to assemble both Troy Williams, Jr.’s new Quick Rod machine, and the shop car with which Williams will compete in the Top Dragster category. Each of these competition vehicles are new Mullis Swing-Arm 4-link Dragsters.
Williams and the Mullis crew didn’t tighten the last bolts until early Friday morning, leaving no time for testing the new machines before setting out for the event. By the end of the weekend, however, Williams found himself in the winners circle. Following six rounds of competition in the Top Dragster category, Williams was the beneficiary of a red-light start from Mike Ferraro in the final round of competition to earn his first IHRA “Iron Man” of the 2007 campaign. (BME Photography) [2/14/2007]
BERTOZZI, UNDERWOOD TOP FIELDS
Also at Immokalee, 2006 IHRA Hot Rod World Champion Kenny Underwood (shown) kicked off the 2007 season with a win in his Anthony Bertozzi-owned, Nitroplate-backed Camaro. Underwood’s victory not only puts him atop the early national points standings (a position he’s now held for nearly a full calendar year), it also capped a stellar weekend that included a bracket race triumph at the wheel of the Lewis Family Dragster in Friday nights gamblers race. Underwood capped his Sunday victory with a final round win over Jon Siegel. There, he used a .010 to .017 starting line advantage and dead-on 7.009 to best Siegel’s dumping 7.037.
In addition to Underwood’s success, car owner Anthony Bertozzi had a tremendous showing, winning both Super Stock events on the weekend and adding the Saturday Stock Eliminator title! [2/14/2007]
